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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:1:14 @ 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:1:17 @ And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth,

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:1:26 @ 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:1:27 @ Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

geneva@Genesis:1:28 @ And God (note:)The propagation.(:note) blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:2:1 @ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the (note:)That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.(:note) host of them.

geneva@Genesis:2:2 @ And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he (note:)For he had now finished his creation, but his providence still watches over his creatures and governs them.(:note) rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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:2:19 @ 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:3:7 @ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they (note:)They began to feel their misery, but they did not seek God for a remedy.(:note) knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

geneva@Genesis:3:8 @ And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife (note:)The sinful conscience flees God's presence.(:note) hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

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:3:15 @ And I will put enmity between (note:)He chiefly means Satan, by whose action and deceit the serpent deceived the woman.(:note) thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy That is, the power of sin and death. head, and thou shalt Satan shall sting Christ and his members, but not overcome them. bruise his heel.

geneva@Genesis:3:21 @ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God (note:)Or, gave them knowledge to make themselves coats.(:note) make coats of skins, and clothed them.

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:4:4 @ And Habel also him selfe brought of the first fruites of his sheepe, and of the fat of them, and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his offering,

geneva@Genesis:5:2 @ Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name (note:)By giving them both one name, he notes the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.(:note) Adam, in the day when they were created.

geneva@Genesis:6:1 @ So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,

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:6:4 @ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of (note:)Who usurped authority over others, and degenerated from that simplicity, in which their father's lived.(:note) renown.

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:6:13 @ And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.

geneva@Genesis:6:19 @ And of euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.

geneva@Genesis:6:20 @ Of the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.

geneva@Genesis:6:21 @ And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.

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:7:13 @ In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke.

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: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:9:15 @ And I will remember my (note:)When men see my bow in the sky, they will know that I have not forgotten my covenant with them.(:note) covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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: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: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:11:8 @ So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, & they left off to build the citie.

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:11:29 @ 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:11:31 @ 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:12:3 @ I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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:13:11 @ 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: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:14:8 @ Then went out the King of Sodom, and the King of Gomorah, and the King of Admah, and the King of Zeboiim, and the King of Bela, which is Zoar: and they ioyned battell with them in the vale of Siddim:

geneva@Genesis:14:13 @ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] (note:)God removed them to join Abram, and preserves him from their idolatry and superstitions.(:note) confederate with Abram.

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:15:5 @ Moreouer he brought him forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be.

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:15:13 @ And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them (note:)Counting from the birth of Isaac to their departure of Egypt: Which declares that God will allow his to be afflicted in this world.(:note) four hundred years;

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:16:9 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, (note:)God rejects no estate of people in their misery, but sends them comfort.(:note) Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

geneva@Genesis:16:12 @ And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and (note:)That is, the Ishmaelites will be a separate people by themselves and not part of another people.(:note) he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

geneva@Genesis:18:2 @ And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three (note:)That is, three angels in the shape of men.(:note) men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

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:18:16 @ Afterwarde the men did rise vp from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

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

geneva@Genesis:19:1 @ And there came two (note:)In which we see God's provident care in preserving his: even though he does not reveal himself to all alike: for Lot had but two angels, and Abraham three.(:note) angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

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:19:5 @ Who crying vnto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them.

geneva@Genesis:19:6 @ Then Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doore after him,

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:19:10 @ But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them & shut to ye doore.

geneva@Genesis:19:13 @ For (note:)This proves that the angels are ministers, both to execute God's wrath and to declare his favour.(:note) we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

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:19:18 @ And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.

geneva@Genesis:20:8 @ Then Abimelech rising vp early in ye morning, called all his seruants, and tolde all these things vnto them, and the men were sore afraid.

geneva@Genesis:20:14 @ Then tooke Abimelech sheepe & beeues, & men seruants, & women seruants, & gaue them vnto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

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:21:27 @ Then Abraham tooke sheepe and beeues, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: and they two made a couenant.

geneva@Genesis:21:28 @ And Abraham set seuen lambes of the flocke by themselues.

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

geneva@Genesis:22:8 @ And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a (note:)The only way to overcome all temptation is to rest on God's providence.(:note) burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

geneva@Genesis:23:8 @ And he communed with them, saying, If it be your minde, that I shall bury my dead out of my sight, heare me, and intreate for me to Ephron the sonne of Zohar,

geneva@Genesis:23:12 @ And Abraham (note:)To show that he had them in good estimation and reverence.(:note) bowed down himself before the people of the land.

geneva@Genesis:24:28 @ And the maide ranne and tolde them of her mothers house according to these wordes.

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:24:37 @ 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:24:56 @ 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:24:60 @ And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the (note:)That is, let them be victorious over their enemies: a blessing that is fully accomplished through Jesus Christ.(:note) gate of those which hate them.

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:25:26 @ 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:25:32 @ 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:26:18 @ And Izhak returning, digged the welles of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and hee gaue them the same names, which his father gaue them.

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

geneva@Genesis:26:31 @ And they rose vp betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: then Izhak let them go, and they departed from him in peace.

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: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:29:5 @ Then he sayd vnto them, Know ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? Who said, We know him.

geneva@Genesis:29:6 @ And he said unto them, (note:)Or, «he is in peace?» by which the Hebrews mean prosperity.(:note) [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

geneva@Genesis:29:7 @ Then he sayd, Lo, it is yet hie day, neither is it time that the cattell shoulde be gathered together: water ye the sheepe and go feede them.

geneva@Genesis:29:9 @ While he talked with them, Rahel also came with her fathers sheepe, for she kept them.

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:30:35 @ Therefore he tooke out the same day the hee goates that were partie coloured and with great spots, and all the shee goates with litle and great spots, and all that had white in them, and all the blacke among the sheepe, and put them in the keeping of his sonnes.

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:30:40 @ And Iaakob parted these lambes, and turned the faces of the flocke towardes these lambes partie coloured and all maner of blacke, among the sheepe of Laban: so hee put his owne flockes by themselues, and put them not with Labans flocke.

geneva@Genesis:30:42 @ But when the sheepe were feeble, hee put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iaakobs.

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:31:5 @ 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:31:19 @ And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the (note:)For so the word here signifies, because Laban calls them gods, (Gen_31:30).(:note) images that [were] her father's.

geneva@Genesis:31:32 @ But with whome thou findest thy gods, let him not liue. Search thou before our brethre what I haue of thine, & take it to thee, (but Iaakob wist not that Rahel had stolen them)

geneva@Genesis:31:33 @ Then came Laban into Iaakobs tent, and into Leahs tent, and into the two maides tentes, but founde them not. So hee went out of Leahs tent, and entred into Rahels tent.

geneva@Genesis:31:34 @ (Nowe Rahel had taken the idoles, & put them in the camels litter and sate downe vpon them) and Laban searched al the tent, but found them not.

geneva@Genesis:31:55 @ And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and (note:)We see that there is always some seed of the knowledge of God in the hearts of the wicked.(:note) blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

geneva@Genesis:32:2 @ And when Jacob saw them, he said, (note:)He acknowledges God's benefits: who for the preservation of his, sends hosts of angels.(:note) This [is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

geneva@Genesis:32:4 @ And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my (note:)He reverenced his brother in worldly things, because he mainly looked to be preferred to the spiritual promise.(:note) lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

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:32:23 @ And he tooke them, and sent them ouer the riuer, and sent ouer that he had.

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: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:33:6 @ Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they (note:)Jacob and his family are the image of the Church under the yoke of tyrants who out of fear are brought to subjection.(:note) bowed themselves.

geneva@Genesis:33:13 @ Then he answered him, My lord knoweth, that the children are tender, & the ewes & kine with yong vnder mine hande: and if they should ouerdriue them one day, all the flocke would die.

geneva@Genesis:34:8 @ And Hamor communed with them, saying, the soule of my sonne Shechem longeth for your daughter: giue her him to wife, I pray you.

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:34:21 @ These men [are] (note:)Thus many pretend to speak for a public profit, when in reality they are only speaking for their own private gain and convenience.(:note) peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, [it is] large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

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: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:36:7 @ For their riches were so great, that they could not dwell together, and the lande, wherein they were strangers, coulde not receiue them because of their flockes.

geneva@Genesis:36:19 @ These are the children of Esau, and these are the Dukes of them: This Esau is Edom.

geneva@Genesis:37:6 @ For he saide vnto them, Heare, I pray you, this dreame which I haue dreamed.

geneva@Genesis:37:8 @ And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they (note:)The more God shows himself favourable to his own, the more the malice of the wicked rages against them.(:note) hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

geneva@Genesis:37:13 @ And Israel said vnto Ioseph, Doe not thy brethren keepe in Shechem? Come and I will send thee to them.

geneva@Genesis:37:17 @ And the man said, they are departed hece: for I heard them say, Let vs goe vnto Dothan. Then went Ioseph after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

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:37:22 @ 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:37:25 @ Then they sate them downe to eate bread: and they lift vp their eyes and looked, and behold, there came a companie of Ishmeelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicerie, and balme, and myrrhe, and were going to cary it downe into Egypt.

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:38:26 @ And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been (note:)That is, she ought rather to accuse me than I her.(:note) more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again for the horror of the sin condemned him. no more.

geneva@Genesis:39:14 @ That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I (note:)This declares that in which lack of restraint exists and to this is joined extreme impudency and deceit.(:note) cried with a loud voice:

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:40:6 @ And when Ioseph came in vnto them in the morning, and looked vpon them, beholde, they were sad.

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:40:17 @ 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:40:22 @ But he hanged the chiefe baker, as Ioseph had interpreted vnto them.

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

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:41:14 @ 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:41:19 @ Also loe, seuen other kine came vp after them, poore and very euilfauoured, and leanefleshed: I neuer sawe the like in all the lande of Egypt, for euilfauoured.

geneva@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:41:30 @ Againe, there shall arise after them seuen yeeres of famine, so that all the plentie shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land:

geneva@Genesis:41:35 @ Also let them gather all the foode of these good yeeres that come, and lay vp corne vnder the hand of Pharaoh for foode, in the cities, and let them keepe it.

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:42:7 @ And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but (note:)This concealing is not to be followed, nor any actions of the father's not approved by God's word.(:note) made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

geneva@Genesis:42:9 @ And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.

geneva@Genesis:42:12 @ But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

geneva@Genesis:42:14 @ Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

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:42:17 @ So he put them in warde three dayes.

geneva@Genesis:42:18 @ And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I (note:)And therefore am true and just.(:note) fear God:

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:42:23 @ (And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

geneva@Genesis:42:24 @ And he turned himself about from them, and (note:)Though he acts harshly, yet his brotherly affection remained.(:note) wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

geneva@Genesis:42:25 @ So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.

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:42:28 @ And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were (note:)Because their conscience accused them of their sin, they thought God had brought them trouble through the money.(:note) afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?

geneva@Genesis:42:29 @ And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

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:43:2 @ And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them, Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode.

geneva@Genesis:43:11 @ Then their father Israel sayd vnto them, If it must needes be so now, do thus: take of the best fruites of the lande in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a little rosen, & a little hony, spices and myrrhe, nuttes, and almondes:

geneva@Genesis:43:16 @ And whe Ioseph saw Beniamin with them, he sayde to his stewarde, Bring these men home and kill meate, and make ready: for the men shal eate with me at noone.

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:43:27 @ 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:43:32 @ And they (note:)To signify his dignity.(:note) set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an The nature of the superstitions is to condemn all others in respect to themselves. abomination unto the Egyptians.

geneva@Genesis:43:33 @ So they sate before him: the eldest according vnto his age, and the yongest according vnto his youth; the men marueiled among themselues.

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:44:4 @ And when they went out of the citie not farre off, Ioseph sayd to his stewarde, Vp, followe after the men: and when thou doest ouertake them, say vnto them, Wherefore haue ye rewarded euill for good?

geneva@Genesis:44:6 @ And when he ouertooke them, he sayde those wordes vnto them.

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:44:15 @ 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: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:45:15 @ Moreouer, he kissed all his brethren, and wept vpon them: and afterwarde his brethren talked with him.

geneva@Genesis:45:21 @ And the children of Israel did so: & Ioseph gaue them charets according to the commandement of Pharaoh: hee gaue them vitaile also for the iourney.

geneva@Genesis:45:22 @ He gaue them all, none except, change of raiment: but vnto Beniamin he gaue three hundreth pieces of siluer, and fiue sutes of raiment.

geneva@Genesis:45:24 @ So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye (note:)Seeing he had remitted the fault done to him, he did not want them to accuse one another.(:note) fall not out 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: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:47:6 @ The (note:)Joseph's great modesty appears in that he would attempt nothing without the king's commandment.(:note) land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest [any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

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:47:17 @ 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:47:21 @ 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:47:22 @ Onely the lande of the Priestes bought he not: for the Priestes had an ordinarie of Pharaoh, and they did eate their ordinarie, which Pharaoh gaue them: wherefore they solde not their grounde.

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: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:48:9 @ And Joseph said unto his father, They [are] my sons, whom (note:)The faithful acknowledge all benefits come from God's free mercy.(:note) God hath given me in this [place]. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

geneva@Genesis:48:10 @ (For the eyes of Israel were dimme for age, so that hee coulde not well see) Then he caused them to come to him, & he kissed them and embraced them.

geneva@Genesis:48:12 @ And Ioseph tooke them away from his knees, & did reuerence downe to the ground.

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:48:16 @ 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:48:20 @ 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:49:6 @ 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:49:28 @ All these are the twelue tribes of Israel, and thus their father spake vnto them, and blessed them: euery one of them blessed hee with a seuerall blessing.

geneva@Genesis:49:29 @ And he charged them & sayd vnto them, I am ready to be gathered vnto my people: burie mee with my fathers in the caue, that is in the fielde of Ephron the Hittite,

geneva@Genesis:50:2 @ And Joseph commanded his servants the (note:)He means those who embalmed the dead and buried them.(:note) physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

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

geneva@Genesis:50:19 @ And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of (note:)Who by the good success seems to remit it, and therefore it should not be revenged by me.(:note) God?

geneva@Genesis:50:21 @ Feare not nowe therefore, I will nourish you, and your children: and hee comforted them, and spake kindly vnto them.

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:1:7 @ 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:1:12 @ But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And (note:)The more God blesses his own, the more the wicked envy them.(:note) they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

geneva@Exodus:1:14 @ Thus they made them weary of their liues by sore labour in clay & in bricke, & in al worke in the fielde, with all maner of bondage, which they layde vpon them most cruelly.

geneva@Exodus:1:16 @ And sayde, When ye doe the office of a midwife to the women of the Ebrewes, and see them on their stooles, if it be a sonne, then yee shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her liue.

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:1:18 @ Then the King of Egypt called for the midwiues, and sayde vnto them, Why haue yee done thus, and haue 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:2:17 @ Then the shepherds came and droue them away: but Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered their sheepe.

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:3:8 @ And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land (note:)Most plentiful of all things.(:note) flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

geneva@Exodus:3:13 @ Then Moses said vnto God, Behold, when I shall come vnto the children of Israel, and shall say vnto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me vnto you: if they say vnto me, What is his Name? What shall I say vnto them?

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:4:20 @ 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: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:5:13 @ 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:5:21 @ And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to (note:)It is a grievous things for the servants of God to be accused of evil, especially by their brethren, when they do what their duty requires.(:note) put a sword in their hand to slay us.

geneva@Exodus:6:1 @ Then the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Nowe shalt thou see, what I will doe vnto Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them goe, and euen be constrained to driue them out of his land.

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:6:13 @ Then the Lord spake vnto Moses & vnto Aaron, & charged them to goe to the children of Israel & to Pharaoh King of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the lande of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:7:5 @ Then the Egyptians shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I stretch foorth mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

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

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

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:8:2 @ And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with (note:)There is nothing so weak that God cannot use it to overcome the greatest power of man.(:note) frogs:

geneva@Exodus:8:14 @ And they gathered the together by heaps, and the land stanke of them.

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:8:19 @ 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:9:2 @ But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,

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:9:10 @ 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:9:12 @ And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not vnto them, as the Lorde had said vnto Moses.

geneva@Exodus:9:17 @ Yet thou exaltest thy selfe against my people, and lettest them not goe.

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:9:27 @ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I (note:)The wicked confess their sins to their condemnation, but they cannot believe to obtain remission.(:note) have sinned this time: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.

geneva@Exodus:10:2 @ And that thou mayest tell in the (note:)The miracles would be so great, that they would be spoken of forever: where also we see the duty of parents toward their children.(:note) ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:10:8 @ So Moses and Aaron were brought againe vnto Pharaoh, and he saide vnto them, Goe, serue the Lorde your God, but who are they that shall goe?

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:10:14 @ 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:10:16 @ 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:10:27 @ (But the Lorde hardened Pharaohs heart, and he would not let them goe)

geneva@Exodus:11:8 @ And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that (note:)That is, under the power and government.(:note) follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.

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:12:16 @ 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:12:21 @ 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:12:33 @ 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:12:38 @ And (note:)Which were strangers, and not born from the Israelites.(:note) a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even] very much cattle.

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:12:42 @ It is a night to be kept holie to the Lord, because he brought them out of the lande of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord, which all the children of Israel must keepe throughout their generations.

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:13:21 @ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a (note:)To defend them from the heat of the sun.(:note) cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

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:14:3 @ For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are tangled in the land: the wildernesse hath shut them in.

geneva@Exodus:14:4 @ And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will (note:)By punishing his obstinate rebellion.(:note) be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.

geneva@Exodus:14:7 @ And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and (note:)Josephus writes that besides those chariots, there were 50,000 horsemen, and 80,000 footmen.(:note) all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

geneva@Exodus:14:9 @ And the Egyptians pursued after them, and all the horses and charets of Pharaoh, and his horsemen and his hoste ouertooke them camping by the Sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

geneva@Exodus:14:10 @ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore (note:)They who earlier had rejoiced in their deliverance, being now in danger, are afraid.(:note) afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:14:13 @ Then Moses sayde to the people, Feare ye not, stand still, and beholde the saluation of the Lord which he will shew to you this day. For the Egyptians, whome ye haue seene this day, ye shall neuer see them againe.

geneva@Exodus:14:17 @ And I, beholde, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may followe them, and I wil get me honour vpon Pharaoh, & vpon all his host, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen.

geneva@Exodus:14:19 @ (And the Angel of God, which went before the hoste of Israel, remoued & went behinde them: also the pillar of the cloude went from before them, and stoode behinde them,

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:14:22 @ Then the children of Israel went through the middes of the Sea vpon the drie ground, and the waters were a wall vnto them on their right hand, and on their left hand.

geneva@Exodus:14:23 @ And the Egyptians pursued and went after them to the middes of the Sea, euen all Pharaohs horses, his charets, and his horsemen.

geneva@Exodus:14:25 @ For he tooke off their charet wheeles, and they draue them with much a doe: so that the Egyptians euery one sayd, I wil flee from the face of Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

geneva@Exodus:14:28 @ So the water returned & couered the charets and the horsemen, euen all the hoste of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them: there remained not one of them.

geneva@Exodus:14:29 @ But the children of Israel walked vpon dry land thorowe the middes of the Sea, and the waters were a wall vnto them on their right hande, and on their left.

geneva@Exodus:14:31 @ And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his (note:)That is, the doctrine which he taught them in the Name of the Lord.(:note) servant Moses.

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:15:9 @ The enemie sayd, I wil pursue, I wil ouertake them, I will deuide the spoyle, my lust shall bee satisfied vpon them, I will drawe my sworde, mine hand shall destroy them.

geneva@Exodus:15:10 @ Thou blewest with thy winde, the Sea couered them, they sanke as leade in the mightie waters.

geneva@Exodus:15:12 @ Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swallowed them.

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:15:16 @ 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:15:19 @ For Pharaohs horses went with his charets and horsemen into the Sea, and the Lorde brought the waters of the Sea vpon them: but the children of Israel went on drie land in the middes of the Sea.

geneva@Exodus:15:21 @ And Miriam (note:)By singing the same song of thanksgiving.(:note) answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

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: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:16:4 @ Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every (note:)To signify that they should patiently depend on God's providence from day to day.(:note) day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

geneva@Exodus:16:7 @ And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; (note:)He did not give them Manna because they complained, but because of his promise.(:note) for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?

geneva@Exodus:16:12 @ I haue heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: tell them therefore, & say, At euen ye shal eate flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord your God)

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:16:19 @ Moses then said vnto them, Let no man reserue thereof till morning.

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:16:23 @ And he answered them, This is that, which the Lord hath sayde, To morowe is the rest of the holy Sabbath vnto the Lorde: bake that to day which ye wil bake, and seethe that which ye wil seethe, and all that remaineth, lay it vp to be kept till the morning for you.

geneva@Exodus:17:2 @ Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye (note:)Why do you distrust God? Why do you not look for comfort from him without complaining to us?(:note) tempt the LORD?

geneva@Exodus:18:8 @ Then Moses told his father in law all that the Lorde had done vnto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israels sake, and all the trauaile that had come vnto them by the way, and howe the Lord deliuered them.

geneva@Exodus:18:9 @ And Iethro reioyced at all the goodnesse, which the Lord had shewed to Israel, and because he had deliuered them out of the hande of the Egyptians.

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:18:20 @ And admonish them of the ordinances, & of the lawes, & shew them the way, wherein they must walke, and the worke that they must do.

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:18:25 @ And Moses chose men of courage out of all Israel, and made them heads ouer the people, rulers ouer thousandes, rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and rulers ouer tennes.

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:19:7 @ Moses then came & called for the Elders of the people, and proposed vnto them all these things, which the Lord commanded him.

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:19:11 @ And let them be ready on the third day: for the thirde day the Lorde will come downe in the sight of all the people vpon mount Sinai:

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:19:24 @ 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:19:25 @ So Moses went downe vnto the people, & tolde them.

geneva@Exodus:20:5 @ Thou shalt not (note:)By this outward gesture, all forms of service and worship to idols is forbidden.(:note) bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a And will have revenge on those who condemn my honour. jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

geneva@Exodus:20:6 @ And shewing mercy unto (note:)So ready is he rather to show mercy than to punish.(:note) thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

geneva@Exodus:20:11 @ For in sixe dayes the Lord made the heauen and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: therefore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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:21:1 @ Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

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:23:13 @ And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make (note:)Neither by swearing by them, nor speaking of them, (Psa_16:4; Eph_5:3).(:note) no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

geneva@Exodus:23:22 @ But if thou hearken vnto his voyce, & do all that I speake, the I wil be an enemie vnto thine enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

geneva@Exodus:23:23 @ For mine Angel shall go before thee, & bring thee vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, and I will destroy them.

geneva@Exodus:23:24 @ Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt (note:)God commands his own to not only not worship idols, but to destroy them.(:note) utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

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:23:31 @ And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea (note:)Called the Sea of Syria.(:note) of the Philistines, and from the Of Arabia called desert. desert unto the That is, Ephraim. river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

geneva@Exodus:23:32 @ Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods:

geneva@Exodus:24:11 @ And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he (note:)He did not make them afraid, nor punish them.(:note) laid not his hand: also they saw God, and That is, rejoiced. did eat and drink.

geneva@Exodus:24:12 @ And the LORD (note:)The second time.(:note) said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee Signifying the hardness of our hearts, unless God writes his laws in it by his Spirit, (Jer_31:33; Eze_11:19; 2Co_3:3; Heb_8:10, Heb_10:16) tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach That is, the people. them.

geneva@Exodus:24:14 @ And said vnto the Elders, Tary vs here, vntill we come againe vnto you: and beholde, Aaron, and Hur are with you: whosoeuer hath any matters, let him come to them.

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: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:25:8 @ And let them make me a (note:)A place both to offer sacrifice, and to hear the law.(:note) sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

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:25:13 @ And thou shalt make barres of Shittim wood, and couer them with golde.

geneva@Exodus:25:14 @ Then thou shalt put the barres in the rings by the sides of the Arke, to beare the Arke with them.

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:25:28 @ And thou shalt make the barres of Shittim wood, and shalt ouerlay them with golde, that the Table may be borne with them.

geneva@Exodus:25:29 @ And thou shalt make the (note:)To set the bread upon.(:note) dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.

geneva@Exodus:25:40 @ Looke therefore that thou make them after their facion, that was shewed thee in the mountaine.

geneva@Exodus:26:1 @ Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims of (note:)That is, of most cunning or fine work.(:note) cunning work shalt thou make them.

geneva@Exodus:26:9 @ And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the (note:)That is, five on the one side, and five on the other, and the sixth should hang over the door of the tabernacle.(:note) sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

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:26:24 @ 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:26:37 @ 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:27:6 @ Also thou shalt make barres for the altar, barres, I say, of Shittim wood, and shalt couer them with brasse.

geneva@Exodus:27:21 @ In the Tabernacle of the Congregation without the vaile, which is before the Testimony, shall Aaron and his sonnes dresse them from euening to morning before the Lorde, for a statute for euer vnto their generations, to be obserued by the children of Israel.

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:28:9 @ And thou shalt take two onix stones, and graue vpon them the names of the children of Israel:

geneva@Exodus:28:11 @ Thou shalt cause to graue the two stones according to the names of the children of Israel by a grauer of signets, that worketh and graueth in stone, and shalt make them to be set and embossed in golde.

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:28:25 @ 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:28:27 @ And two other rings of golde thou shalt make, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath in the forepart of it ouer against the coupling of it vpon the broydred garde of the Ephod.

geneva@Exodus:28:33 @ And beneath vpon the skirtes thereof thou shalt make pomegranates of blew silke, and purple, & skarlet, round about the skirts thereof, and belles of gold betweene them round about:

geneva@Exodus:28:38 @ And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may (note:)Their offerings could not be so perfect, but some fault would be in them: which sin the high priest bore and pacified God.(:note) bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:28:40 @ Also thou shalt make for Aarons sonnes coates, & thou shalt make the girdels, & bonets shalt thou make them for glorie & comelinesse.

geneva@Exodus:28:41 @ And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and (note:)Or «fill their hands», by giving them things to offer and therefore admit them to their office.(:note) consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

geneva@Exodus:28:42 @ Thou shalt also make them linen breeches to couer their priuities: from the loynes vnto the thighs shall they reache.

geneva@Exodus:29:1 @ This thing also shalt thou do vnto them whe thou consecratest them to be my Priestes, Take a yong calfe, & two rams wtout blemish,

geneva@Exodus:29:2 @ And vnleauened bread and cakes vnleauened tempered with oyle, and wafers vnleauened anoynted with oyle: (of fine wheate flowre shalt thou make them)

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:29:8 @ And thou shalt bring his sonnes, and put coates vpon them,

geneva@Exodus:29:9 @ And shalt girde them with girdles, both Aaron and his sonnes: and shalt put the bonets on them, and the Priestes office shalbe theirs for a perpetuall lawe: thou shalt also fill the hands of Aaron, and the hands of his sonnes.

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:29:13 @ Also thou shalt take all the fat that couereth the inwardes, and the kall, that is on the liuer, and the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, and shalt burne them vpon the altar.

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:29:22 @ Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, and the right shoulder; for it [is] a (note:)Which is offered for the consecration of the high priest.(:note) ram of consecration:

geneva@Exodus:29:24 @ And thou shalt put al this in the handes of Aaron, and in the handes of his sonnes, and shalt shake them to and fro before the Lorde.

geneva@Exodus:29:25 @ Againe, thou shalt receyue them of their handes, & burne them vpon the altar besides the burnt offring for a sweete sauour before ye Lord: for this is an offering made by fire vnto the Lord.

geneva@Exodus:29:30 @ That sonne that shalbe Priest in his steade, shall put them on seuen dayes, when he commeth into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to minister in the holy place.

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:29:35 @ Therefore shalt thou doe thus vnto Aaron & vnto his sonnes, according to all things, which I haue commanded thee: seuen dayes shalt thou consecrate them,

geneva@Exodus:29:46 @ And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: (note:)It is I the Lord, that am their God.(:note) I [am] the LORD their God.

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:30:5 @ The which barres thou shalt make of Shittim wood, and shalt couer them with golde.

geneva@Exodus:30:7 @ And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he (note:)Meaning, when he trims them, and refreshes the oil.(:note) dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

geneva@Exodus:30:9 @ Ye shall offer no (note:)Otherwise made them this, which is described.(:note) strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering But it must only serve to burn perfume. thereon.

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:30:20 @ 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:30:29 @ So thou shalt sanctifie them, & they shalbe most holy: all that shal touch them, shalbe holy.

geneva@Exodus:30:30 @ Thou shalt also anoint Aaron & his sonnes, & shalt consecrate them, that they may minister vnto me in the Priests office.

geneva@Exodus:30:35 @ Then thou shalt make of them perfume composed after the arte of the apothecarie, mingled together, pure and holy.

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:31:17 @ 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:32:2 @ And Aaron said unto them, (note:)Thinking that they would rather abandon idolatry, than give up their most precious jewels.(:note) Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me.

geneva@Exodus:32:3 @ And all the people brake off the (note:)Such is the rage of idolaters, that they spare no cost to satisfy their wicked desires.(:note) golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.

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:32:6 @ So they rose vp the next day in the morning, and offred burnt offerings, & brought peace offrings: also the people sate them downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

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:32:10 @ Now (note:)God shows that the prayers of the godly hold back his punishment.(:note) therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

geneva@Exodus:32:12 @ Wherefore shall the Egyptians speake, and say, He hath brought them out maliciously for to slay them in the mountaines, and to consume them from the earth? turne from thy fearce wrath, and change thy minde from this euill towarde thy people.

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:32:18 @ Who answered, It is not the noyse of them that haue the victorie, nor the noyse of them that are ouercome: but I do heare ye noyse of singing.

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:32:20 @ And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it] upon the water, and made the children of Israel (note:)Partly to despise them for their idolatry, and partly so they would have no opportunity to remember the calf later.(:note) drink [of it].

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:32:26 @ And Moses stoode in ye gate of the campe, and sayde, Who pertaineth to the Lorde? let him come to mee; all the sonnes of Leui gathered themselues vnto him.

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:32:31 @ Moses therefore went againe vnto ye Lord, and said, Oh, this people haue sinned a great sinne, and haue made them gods of golde.

geneva@Exodus:33:6 @ So the children of Israel layed their good raiment from them, after Moses came downe from the mount Horeb.

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:34:31 @ But Moses called them: and Aaron and all the chiefe of the congregatio returned vnto him: and Moses talked with them.

geneva@Exodus:34:32 @ And afterwarde all the children of Israel came neere, and he charged them with al that the Lord had said vnto him in mount Sinai.

geneva@Exodus:34:33 @ So Moses made an end of comuning with them, and had put a couering vpon his face.

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:35:23 @ Euery man also, which had blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, & fine linen, and goates heare, and rammes skinnes died red, and badgers skins, brought them.

geneva@Exodus:35:26 @ And all the women (note:)That is, who were good spinners.(:note) whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' [hair].

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:35:33 @ And in grauing stones to set them, and in karuing of wood, euen to make any maner of fine worke.

geneva@Exodus:35:35 @ Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner (note:)Belonging to graving or carving, or such like.(:note) of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

geneva@Exodus:36:8 @ And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] (note:)Which were little pictures with wings in the form of children.(:note) cherubims of cunning work made he them.

geneva@Exodus:36:14 @ Also he made curtaines of goates heare for the couering vpon the Tabernacle: he made them to the nomber of eleuen curtaines.

geneva@Exodus:36:16 @ And hee coupled fiue curtaines by themselues, and sixe curtaines by themselues:

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:37:4 @ Also he made barres of Shittim wood, and couered them with golde,

geneva@Exodus:37:7 @ And he made two Cherubims of gold, vpo the two endes of the Merciseate: euen of worke beaten with the hammer made he them.

geneva@Exodus:37:15 @ And he made the barres of Shittim wood, & couered them with golde to beare the Table.

geneva@Exodus:37:28 @ Also he made the barres of Shittim wood, and ouerlayde them with golde.

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:38:25 @ 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:38:26 @ A portion for a man, that is, halfe a shekel after ye shekel of the Sanctuarie, for all them that were numbred from twentie yeere olde & aboue, among sixe hundreth thousande, and three thousand, and fiue hundreth and fiftie men.

geneva@Exodus:38:28 @ But he made the hookes for the pillars of a thousande seuen hundreth and seuentie and fiue shekels, and ouerlayde their chapiters, and made filets about them.

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:39:19 @ 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:39:20 @ They made also two other golden rings, & put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath on the foreside of it, & ouer against his coupling aboue the broydered garde of the Ephod.

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:40:12 @ Then thou shalt bring Aaron & his sonnes vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and wash them with water.

geneva@Exodus:40:14 @ Thou shalt also bring his sonnes, & clothe them with garments,

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:40:38 @ 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:1:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the (note:)So they could offer of no other sort, but of those who were commanded.(:note) cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock.

geneva@Leviticus:1:12 @ And he shall cut it in pieces, separating his head and his kall, and the Priest shall lay them in order vpon the wood that lyeth in the fire which is on the altar:

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:3:4 @ He shall also take away the two kidneis, & the fat that is on them, and vpon the flankes, and the kall on the liuer with the kidneis.

geneva@Leviticus:3:10 @ Also hee shall take away the two kidneis, with the fat that is vpon them, & vpon the flankes, and the kall vpon the liuer with the kidneis.

geneva@Leviticus:3:15 @ Also hee shall take away the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, and vpon ye flankes, and the kall vpon the liuer with the kidneis.

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:4:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through (note:)That is, of negligence or ignorance, especially in the ceremonial law: for otherwise the punishment for a crime is determined according to the transgression, (Num_15:22).(:note) ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:

geneva@Leviticus:4:9 @ He shall take away also the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, and vpon the flankes, and the kall vpon the liuer with the kidneis,

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:4:20 @ 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:4:35 @ 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:5:8 @ So he shall bring them vnto the Priest, who shall offer the sinne offring first, and wring the necke of it a sunder, but not plucke it cleane off.

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:6:17 @ 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:6:18 @ All the males among the children of Aaron shall eate of it: It shalbe a statute for euer in your generations concerning the offrings of the Lord, made by fire: whatsoeuer toucheth them shall be holy.

geneva@Leviticus:7:4 @ After he shall take away the two kidneis, with the fat that is on them & vpon the flankes, and the kall on the liuer with the kidneis.

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:7:34 @ 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:7:35 @ This [is the portion] of the (note:)that is, his privilege, reward and portion.(:note) anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day [when] he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;

geneva@Leviticus:7:36 @ The which portions the Lorde commanded to giue them in the day that he anointed them from among the children of Israel, by a statute for euer in their generations.

geneva@Leviticus:8:6 @ And Moses brought Aaron and his sonnes, and washed them with water,

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:8:11 @ And sprinkled thereof vpon the altar seuen times, and anointed the altar and all his instruments, and the lauer, and his foote, to sanctifie 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:8:26 @ 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:8:28 @ After, Moses tooke the out of their hands, & burnt them vpon the altar for a burnt offring: for these were consecrations for a sweete sauour which were made by fire vnto the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:9:2 @ And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a (note:)Aaron enters into the possession of the priesthood: and offers the four principal sacrifices, the burnt offering, the sin offering, the peace offering, and the meat offering.(:note) sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer [them] before the LORD.

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:9:10 @ 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:9:13 @ Also they brought the burnt offring vnto him with the pieces thereof, and the head, and he burnt them vpon the Altar.

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:9:22 @ 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:10:2 @ Therefore a fire went out from the Lord, & deuoured them: so they dyed before the Lord.

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

geneva@Leviticus:10:4 @ And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan the sonnes of Vzziel, the vncle of Aaron, & saide vnto them, Come neere, cary your brethre from before the Sanctuarie out of the hoste.

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:10:11 @ And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lorde hath commaunded them by the hand of Moses.

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:10:17 @ Wherfore haue ye not eaten the sinne offring in the holy place, seeing it is most Holie? & God hath giuen it you, to beare the iniquitie of the Congregation, to make an atonement for them before the Lorde.

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:11:1 @ After, the Lord spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying vnto them,

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:11:9 @ 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:11:22 @ [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:11:31 @ These shall be vncleane to you among all that creepe: whosoeuer doeth touch them when they be dead, shalbe vncleane vntil the euen.

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:11:33 @ But euery earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoeuer is within it shalbe vncleane, and ye shal breake it.

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:11:43 @ Ye shall not pollute your selues with any thing that creepeth, neither make your selues vncleane with them, neither defile your selues thereby: ye shal not, I say, be defiled by them,

geneva@Leviticus:11:44 @ For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be (note:)He shows why God chose them to be his people, (1Pe_1:15).(:note) holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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:13:58 @ 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:14:6 @ After, he shall take the liue sparowe with the cedar wood, and the skarlet lace, and the hyssope, and shall dip them and the liuing sparowe in the blood of the sparowe slaine, ouer the pure water,

geneva@Leviticus:14:23 @ And he shall bring them the eight day for his clensing vnto the Priest at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before ye Lord.

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:14:30 @ 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:14:36 @ Then the Priest shall commande them to emptie the house before the Priest goe into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made vncleane, and then shall the Priest goe in to see 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:14:42 @ And they shall take other stones, and put them in the places of those stones, and shall take other mortar, to plaister the house with.

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:14:51 @ And shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssope, and the skarlet lace with the liue sparow, and dip them in the blood of the slayne sparow, and in the pure water, and sprinkle the house seuen times:

geneva@Leviticus:15:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his (note:)Whose seed either in sleeping or else of weakness of nature issues at his secret part.(:note) flesh, [because of] his issue he [is] unclean.

geneva@Leviticus:15:14 @ Then the eight day he shall take vnto him two Turtle doues or two yong pigeons, and come before the Lorde at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shall giue them vnto the Priest.

geneva@Leviticus:15:15 @ And the Priest shall make of the one of them a sinne offring, & of the other a burnt offering: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord, for his issue.

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:15:29 @ And in the eight day shee shall take vnto her two Turtles or two yong pigeons, and bring them vnto the Priest at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:15:31 @ Thus shall ye (note:)Seeing that God required purity and cleanliness of his own: we cannot be his, unless our filth and sins are purged with the blood of Jesus Christ, and so we learn to detest all sin.(:note) separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them.

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:16:7 @ And he shal take the two hee goates, and present them before the Lord at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:16:16 @ And he shall make an atonement for the holy [place], because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that (note:)Placed among them who are unclean.(:note) remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

geneva@Leviticus:16:21 @ And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them (note:)In this goat is a true figure of Jesus Christ, who bears the sins of the people, (Isa_53:9).(:note) upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

geneva@Leviticus:16:23 @ After, Aaron shal come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and put off the linnen clothes, which he put on when he went into the Holy place, and leaue them there.

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:17:2 @ Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This [is] the thing which the LORD hath (note:)Lest they should practice the idolatry they had learned among the Egyptians.(:note) commanded, saying,

geneva@Leviticus:17:5 @ To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the (note:)In that they were moved with foolish devotion to offer it.(:note) open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them [for] peace offerings unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:17:7 @ And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto (note:)Meaning, whatever is not the true God, (1Co_10:10; Psa_95:5).(:note) devils, after whom they have gone a For idolatry is spiritual whoredom, because faith toward God is broken. whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

geneva@Leviticus:17:8 @ Also thou shalt say vnto them, whosoeuer he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which soiourne among them, that offreth a burnt offring or sacrifice,

geneva@Leviticus:17:16 @ But if he wash them not, nor wash his flesh, then he shall beare his iniquitie.

geneva@Leviticus:18:2 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the Lord your God.

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:18:16 @ Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy (note:)Because the idolaters, among whom God's people had dwelt and would dwell, were given to these horrible incests, God charges his own to beware of them.(:note) brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness.

geneva@Leviticus:18:29 @ For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall (note:)Either by the civil sword or by some plague that God will send upon such.(:note) be cut off from among their people.

geneva@Leviticus:19:2 @ Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be (note:)That is, void of all pollution, idolatry and superstition both of soul and body.(:note) holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.

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

geneva@Leviticus:19:28 @ Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any (note:)By whipping your bodies or burning marks in them.(:note) marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:19:31 @ Ye shall not regarde them that worke with spirites, neither soothsayers: ye shall not seeke to them to be defiled by them: I am the Lorde your God.

geneva@Leviticus:19:37 @ Therefore shall ye obserue all mine ordinances, and all my iudgements, and doe them: I am the Lorde.

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:20:8 @ Keepe ye therefore mine ordinances, and doe them. I am the Lorde which doeth sanctifie you.

geneva@Leviticus:20:11 @ And the man that lyeth with his fathers wife, because hee hath vncouered his fathers shame, they shall both dye: their blood shalbe vpon them.

geneva@Leviticus:20:12 @ Also the man that lyeth with his daughter in lawe, they both shall dye the death, they haue wrought abomination, their blood shalbe vpon them.

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:20:16 @ 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:20:22 @ Ye shall keepe therefore all mine ordinances and all my iudgements, and doe them, that the land, whither I bring you to dwel therein, spue you not out.

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:20:27 @ And if a man or woman haue a spirite of diuination, or soothsaying in them, they shall die the death: they shall stone them to death, their blood shalbe vpon them.

geneva@Leviticus:21:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be (note:)By touching the dead, lamenting, or being at their burial.(:note) defiled for the dead among his people:

geneva@Leviticus:21:8 @ Thou shalt (note:)You shall count them holy and reverence them.(:note) sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the The showbread. bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, [am] holy.

geneva@Leviticus:21:23 @ Only he shall not go in unto the (note:)Into the sanctuary.(:note) vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

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:22:3 @ Say unto them, Whosoever [he be] of all your seed among your generations, that (note:)To eat of it.(:note) goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I [am] the LORD.

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:22:16 @ 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:22:18 @ Speake vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and to all the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Whosoeuer he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his sacrifice for all their vowes, and for all their free offrings, which they vse to offer vnto the Lorde for a burnt offring,

geneva@Leviticus:22:25 @ Neither (note:)You shall not receive any imperfect thing from a stranger, to make it the Lord's offering: which he calls the bread of the Lord.(:note) from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

geneva@Leviticus:22:31 @ Therefore shall ye keepe my commandements and do them: for I am the Lord.

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:23:10 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into ye land which I giue vnto you, and reape the haruest thereof, then ye shal bring a sheafe of the first fruites of your haruest vnto the Priest,

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:23:20 @ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the (note:)That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the priest.(:note) priest.

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

geneva@Leviticus: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:23:43 @ That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in (note:)In the wilderness, in that they would not believe Joshua and Caleb, when they returned from spying the land of Canaan.(:note) booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

geneva@Leviticus:24:6 @ And thou shalt set them in two rowes, six in a rowe vpon the pure table before the Lorde.

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:24:12 @ And they put him in warde, till he tolde them the minde of the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:25:2 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye shall come into the lande which I giue you, the lande shall keepe Sabbath vnto the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:25:18 @ Wherefore ye shall obey mine ordinances, and keepe my lawes, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safetie.

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:25:44 @ Thy bond seruant also, & thy bond maid, which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye bye seruants and maydes.

geneva@Leviticus:25:45 @ Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your (note:)For they shall not be bought out at the Jubile.(:note) possession.

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:25:51 @ 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:26:3 @ If ye walke in mine ordinances, and keepe my commandements, and doe them,

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:26:41 @ Therefore I wil walke stubburnly against them, and bring them into the land of their enemies: so then their vncircumcised hearts shalbe humbled, and then they shalt willingly beare the punishment of their iniquitie.

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:27:6 @ And if [it be] from a (note:)He speaks of those vows by which the fathers dedicated their children to God who were not of such force; but they might be redeemed from them.(:note) month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver.

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:1:3 @ From twentie yere olde and aboue, all that go forth to the warre in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them, throughout their armies.

geneva@Numbers:1:19 @ As the Lord had commanded Moses, so he nombred them in the wildernesse of Sinai.

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:1:37 @ The nomber of them also of the tribe of Beniamin was fiue and thirtie thousande and foure hundreth.

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:1:47 @ But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among (note:)Which were warriors, but were appointed to the use of the Tabernacle.(:note) them.

geneva@Numbers:1:49 @ Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the children of Israel:

geneva@Numbers:2:13 @ And his hoste, and the nomber of them, nine and fiftie thousand and three hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:2:21 @ And his hoste and the nomber of them were two and thirtie thousand and two hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:2:26 @ And his host & the number of them were two and threescore thousand and seue hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:2:28 @ And his host and the nomber of them were one and fourtie thousand and fiue hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:2:30 @ And his host and the nomber of them were three and fiftie thousand and foure hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:3:6 @ Bring the tribe of Levi near, and (note:)Offer them to Aaron for the use of the tabernacle.(:note) present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

geneva@Numbers:3:16 @ Then Moses nombred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

geneva@Numbers:3:22 @ Those that were numbered of them, (note:)Only numbering the male children.(:note) according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were numbered of them [were] seven thousand and five hundred.

geneva@Numbers:3:32 @ And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest shalbe chiefe captaine of the Leuites, hauing the ouersight of them that haue the charge of the Sanctuarie.

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:3:48 @ And thou shalt giue the money, wherwith the odde nomber of them is redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes.

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:4:6 @ And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in (note:)That is, put them on their shoulders to carry it: for the bars of the ark could never be removed.(:note) the staves thereof.

geneva@Numbers:4:8 @ And they shal spread vpon them a couering of skarlet, and couer the same with a couering of badgers skinnes, and put to the barres thereof.

geneva@Numbers:4:12 @ And they shall take all the instruments of the ministerie wherewith they minister in the Sanctuarie, and put them in a cloth of blew silke, & couer the with a couering of badgers skinnes, and put them on the barres.

geneva@Numbers:4:19 @ But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint (note:)Showing what part every man shall bear.(:note) them every one to his service and to his burden:

geneva@Numbers:4:20 @ But let them not goe in, to see when the Sanctuarie is folden vp, lest they die.

geneva@Numbers:4:23 @ From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that (note:)Which were received into the company of those who ministered in the tabernacle of the congregation.(:note) enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

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:4:27 @ At the commaundement of Aaron and his sonnes shall all the seruice of the sonnes of ye Gershonites bee done, in all their charges and in all their seruice, and ye shall appoynt them to keepe all their charges.

geneva@Numbers:4:40 @ So the nombers of them by their families, and by the houses of their fathers were two thousand sixe hundreth and thirtie.

geneva@Numbers:4:44 @ So the nombers of them by their families were three thousand, and two hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:4:48 @ So the nombers of them were eight thousand, fiue hundreth and foure score.

geneva@Numbers:5:3 @ Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the (note:)There were three types of tents: of the Lord, of the Levites, and of the Israelites.(:note) midst whereof I dwell.

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:5:12 @ 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:5:23 @ 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: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:6:19 @ 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:6:23 @ Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall (note:)That is, pray for them.(:note) bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

geneva@Numbers:6:27 @ And they shall put my (note:)They shall pray in my Name for them.(:note) name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

geneva@Numbers:7:1 @ Nowe when Moses had finished the setting vp of the Tabernacle, and anointed it & sanctified it, and all the instrumentes thereof, and the altar with al the instruments thereof, and had anoynted them and sanctified them,

geneva@Numbers:7:2 @ Then the princes of Israel, heads ouer the houses of their fathers (they were the princes of the tribes, who were ouer them that were nombred) offred,

geneva@Numbers:7:3 @ And they brought their offering before the LORD, six (note:)Like horse litters, to keep the things that were carried in them from the weather.(:note) covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

geneva@Numbers:7:5 @ Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the (note:)That is, to carry things.(:note) service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

geneva@Numbers:7:6 @ So Moses tooke the charets and the oxen, and gaue them vnto the Leuites:

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:8:6 @ Take the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and purifie them.

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:8:10 @ And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the (note:)Meaning, certain of them in the name of the whole.(:note) children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

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:8:20 @ Then Moses and Aaron and all the Cogregation of the children of Israel did with the Leuites, according vnto all that the Lorde had commanded Moses concerning the Leuites: so did the children of Israel vnto them.

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:9:8 @ Then Moses saide vnto them, Stande still, and I will heare what the Lorde will commande concerning you.

geneva@Numbers:9:11 @ The fourteenth day of the (note:)So that the unclean and those who are not at home, have a month longer granted to them.(:note) second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].

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: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:10:33 @ And they departed from the (note:)Mount Sinai, or Horeb.(:note) mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.

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:11:3 @ And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of the Lorde burnt among them.

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:11:12 @ 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:11:16 @ Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Gather vnto me seuetie men of ye Elders of Israel, whome thou knowest, that they are the Elders of the people, and gouernonrs ouer them, & bring them vnto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and let them stand there with thee,

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:11:21 @ 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:11:22 @ Shall the sheepe and the beeues be slaine for them, to finde them? Either shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them?

geneva@Numbers:11:24 @ So Moses went out, and told the people the wordes of the Lorde, and gathered seuentie men of the Elders of the people, and set them round about the Tabernacle.

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:11:29 @ But Moses saide vnto him, Enuiest thou for my sake? yea, would God that all the Lordes people were Prophets, and that the Lord woulde put his Spirit vpon them.

geneva@Numbers:11:31 @ Then there went foorth a winde from the Lorde, and brought quailes from the Sea, and let them fall vpon the campe, a dayes iourney on this side, and a dayes iourney on the other side, round about the hoste, and they were about two cubites aboue the earth.

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: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:12:9 @ Thus the Lorde was very angrie with them, and departed.

geneva@Numbers:13:3 @ {\cf2 (13:4)} Then Moses sent them out of the wildernesse of Paran at the commandement of the Lorde: all those men were heades of the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:13:17 @ {\cf2 (13:18)} So Moses sent them to spie out the lande of Canaan, & said vnto them, Go vp this way toward the South, and go vp into the moutaines,

geneva@Numbers:13:26 @ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of (note:)Called also Kadesh-barnea.(:note) Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

geneva@Numbers:13:32 @ And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that (note:)The giants were so cruel, that they spoiled and killed one another and those that came to them.(:note) eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature.

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:14:9 @ 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:14:10 @ But all the congregation bade (note:)This is the condition of those who would persuade in God's cause, to be persecuted by the multitude.(:note) stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:14:11 @ And the Lord said vnto Moses, How long will this people prouoke me, and howe long will it be, yer they beleeue me, for al the signes which I haue shewed among them?

geneva@Numbers:14:12 @ I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

geneva@Numbers:14:13 @ But Moses saide vnto the Lorde, When the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest this people by thy power from among them)

geneva@Numbers:14:14 @ Then they shall say to the inhabitants of this land, (for they haue heard that thou, Lorde, art among this people, and that thou, Lorde, art seene face to face, and that thy cloude standeth ouer them, and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of a cloude, and in a pillar of fire by night)

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:14:20 @ And the LORD said, I have pardoned (note:)In that he did not utterly destroy them, but allowed their children and certain others to enter.(:note) according to thy word:

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:14:31 @ But your children, (which ye said shoulde be a pray) them will I bring in, and they shall knowe the lande which ye haue refused:

geneva@Numbers:14:40 @ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have (note:)They confessed their sin in rebelling against God, but did not consider their offence in going up without God's commandment.(:note) sinned.

geneva@Numbers:14:45 @ Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites, which dwelt in that mountaine, came downe & smote them, & consumed them vnto Hormah.

geneva@Numbers:15:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the (note:)Into the land of Canaan.(:note) land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

geneva@Numbers:15:18 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into the lande, to the which I bring you,

geneva@Numbers:15:25 @ And the Priest shall make an atonement for al the Congregation of the children of Israel, and it shalbe forgiuen them: for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offring for an offring made by fire vnto the Lord, and their sinne offering before the Lord for their ignorance.

geneva@Numbers:15:26 @ Then it shalbe forgiuen all the Congregation of the children of Israel, & the stranger that dwelleth among them: for all the people were in ignorance.

geneva@Numbers:15:29 @ He that is borne among the children of Israel, and the stranger that dwelleth among them, shall haue both one lawe, who so doth sinne by ignorance.

geneva@Numbers:15:38 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes vpon the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and put vpon the fringes of the borders a ryband of blewe silke.

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:16:3 @ 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:16:7 @ And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be [that] the man whom the LORD doth choose, he [shall be] holy: (note:)He lays the same to their charge justly, with which they wrongfully charged him.(:note) [ye take] too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

geneva@Numbers:16:9 @ Seemeth it a smal thing vnto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel, to take you neere to himselfe, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Lord, & to stand before the Congregation and to minister vnto them?

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:16:17 @ And take euery man his censor, and put incense in them, and bring ye euery man his censor before the Lord, two hundreth and fiftie censors: thou also and Aaron, euery one his censor.

geneva@Numbers:16:18 @ So they tooke euery man his censor, and put fire in them, and laide incense thereon, and stoode in the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation with Moses and Aaron.

geneva@Numbers:16:19 @ And Korah gathered all the (note:)All that were of their faction.(:note) congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:16:21 @ Separate your selues from among this Cogregation, that I may consume them at once.

geneva@Numbers:16:26 @ And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed (note:)With them that have committed so many sins.(:note) in all their sins.

geneva@Numbers:16:27 @ So they gate them away from the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram on euerie side: and Dathan, and Abiram came out & stood in the doore of their tentes with their wiues, and their sonnes, and their little children.

geneva@Numbers:16:28 @ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own (note:)I have not invented them from my own brain.(:note) mind.

geneva@Numbers:16:30 @ But if the LORD make (note:)Or, show a strange sight.(:note) a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into Or, deep and dark places of the earth. the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

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:16:32 @ And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were with Korah, and all their goods.

geneva@Numbers:16:33 @ So they and all that they had, went down aliue into the pit, and the earth couered them: so they perished from among the Congregation.

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

geneva@Numbers: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:16:45 @ Get you vp from among this Congregation: for I wil consume them quickly: then they fell vpon their faces.

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:16:48 @ 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:16:49 @ So they died of this plague fourtene thousande and seuen hundreth, beside them that dyed in the conspiracie of Korah.

geneva@Numbers:17:2 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and take of euery one of them a rod, after the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the familie of their fathers, euen twelue rods: and thou shalt write euery mans name vpon his rod.

geneva@Numbers:17:4 @ And thou shalt put them in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Arke of the Testimonie, where I wil declare my selfe to you.

geneva@Numbers:17:9 @ Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lorde vnto all the children of Israel: and they looked vpon them, & tooke euery man his rodde.

geneva@Numbers:18:3 @ And they shall (note:)That is, the things which are committed to you, or, which you command them.(:note) keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

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:18:11 @ And this [is] thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy (note:)Read (Lev_10:14).(:note) daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

geneva@Numbers:18:12 @ All the (note:)Or, fat; chiefest.(:note) best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

geneva@Numbers:18:18 @ And the flesh of them shalbe thine, as the shake breast, and as the right shoulder shalbe thine.

geneva@Numbers:18:20 @ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their (note:)Of Canaan.(:note) land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

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:18:26 @ Speake also vnto the Leuites and say vnto them, When ye shal take of the children of Israel the tithes, which I haue giuen you of them for your inheritance, then shal ye take an heaue offring of that same for the Lorde, euen the tenth part of the tithe.

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: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:19:9 @ 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:19:15 @ And all the vessels that bee open, which haue no couering fastened vpon them, shall be vncleane.

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:20:2 @ 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:20:10 @ 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:20:12 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to (note:)That the children of Israel should believe and acknowledge my power and so honour me.(:note) sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

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:20:25 @ Take Aaron and Eleazar his sonne, and bring them vp into the mount Hor,

geneva@Numbers:20:26 @ And cause Aaron to put off his garmentes and put them vpon Eleazar his sonne: for Aaron shall be gathered to his fathers, and shall die there.

geneva@Numbers:20:28 @ And Moses put off Aarons clothes, & put them vpon Eleazar his sonne: so Aaron dyed there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came downe from off the mount.

geneva@Numbers:21:1 @ And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the (note:)By that way which their spies, that searched the dangers found to he most safe.(:note) way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took [some] of them prisoners.

geneva@Numbers:21:3 @ And the Lord heard the voyce of Israel, and deliuered them the Canaanites: and they vtterly destroied them and their cities, and called ye name of the place Hormah.

geneva@Numbers:21:6 @ And the LORD sent (note:)For they that were bitten by them were so inflamed by the poison of them, that they died.(:note) fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

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:21:30 @ Their empire also is lost from Heshbon vnto Dibon, and wee haue destroyed them vnto Nophah, which reacheth vnto Medeba.

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:22:6 @ Come now therefore, I pray thee, and curse me this people (for they are stronger then I) so it may be that I shall be able to smite them, and to driue them out of the land: for I knowe that hee, whome thou blessest, is blessed, and he whom thou cursest, shall be cursed.

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:22:11 @ Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt and couereth the face of the earth: come nowe, curse them for my sake: so it may be that I shalbe able to ouercome them in battell, and to driue them out.

geneva@Numbers:22:12 @ And God (note:)He warned him by a dream, that he should not consent to the kings wicked request.(:note) said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed.

geneva@Numbers:22:16 @ And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, (note:)The wicked seek by all means to further their naughty enterprises, though they know that God is against them.(:note) Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

geneva@Numbers:22:20 @ And God came vnto Balaam by night, and sayd vnto him, If the men come to call thee, rise vp, and goe with them: but onely what thing I say vnto thee, that shalt thou doe.

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:23:11 @ 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:23:13 @ And Balak sayde vnto him, Come, I pray thee, with mee vnto another place, whence thou mayest see them, & thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: therefore curse them out of that place for my sake.

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:23:25 @ Then Balak sayde vnto Balaam, Neither curse, nor blesse them at all.

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: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:24:10 @ 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:24:14 @ And now, behold, I go unto my people: come [therefore, and] I will (note:)He gave also wicked counsel to cause the Israelites to sin, that God might forsake them, (Num_31:16).(:note) advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

geneva@Numbers:25:4 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD (note:)Openly in the sight of all.(:note) against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

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:25:17 @ Vexe the Midianites, and smite them:

geneva@Numbers:26:3 @ And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan (note:)Where the river is near to Jericho.(:note) [near] Jericho, saying,

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:26:34 @ These are the families of Manasseh, & the nomber of them, two and fiftie thousand and seuen hundreth.

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:27:3 @ 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:27:7 @ The daughters of Zelophehad speake right: thou shalt giue them a possession to inherite among their fathers brethren, and shalt turne the inheritance of their father vnto them.

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: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:28:3 @ Also thou shalt say vnto them, This is the offring made by fire which ye shall offer vnto the Lorde, two lambes of a yeere olde without spot, daily, for a continuall burnt offring.

geneva@Numbers:30:1 @ And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes (note:)Because they might declare them to the Israelites.(:note) concerning the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

geneva@Numbers:30:12 @ {\cf2 (30:13)} But if her husband disanulled them, the same day that he heard them, nothing that proceeded out of her lippes concerning her vowes or concerning her bondes, shall stand in effect: for her husband hath disanulled them: and the Lord will forgiue her.

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:30:15 @ But if he shall any ways (note:)Not the same day he heard them, but some day after, the sin will be imputed to him and not to her.(:note) make them void after that he hath heard [them]; then he shall bear her iniquity.

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:31:8 @ And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: (note:)The false prophet who gave counsel how to cause the Israelites to offend their God.(:note) Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

geneva@Numbers:31:13 @ Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them.

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:31:30 @ 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:31:36 @ 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:31:42 @ 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:31:47 @ 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:31:51 @ And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the golde of them, and all wrought iewels,

geneva@Numbers:32:7 @ Wherefore now discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel, to goe ouer into the lande, which the Lorde hath giuen them?

geneva@Numbers:32:8 @ Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the lande.

geneva@Numbers:32:9 @ For when they went vp euen vnto the riuer of Eshcol, and sawe the land: they discouraged the heart of the childre of Israel, that they woulde not goe into the lande, which the Lorde had giuen them.

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:32:15 @ 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:32:17 @ But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their (note:)In the land of Canaan.(:note) place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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:32:20 @ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go (note:)Before the Ark of the Lord.(:note) armed before the LORD to war,

geneva@Numbers:32:28 @ So concerning them Moses (note:)Moses gave charge that his promise made to the Reubenites, and other, would be performed after his death so that they would not break theirs.(:note) commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:

geneva@Numbers:32:29 @ And Moses said vnto them, If the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, will go with you ouer Iorden, all armed to fight before the Lord, then when the land is subdued before you, ye shall giue the the lad of Gilead for a possessio:

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:32:41 @ 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:33:4 @ For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their (note:)Either meaning their idols, or their men of authority.(:note) gods also the LORD executed judgments.

geneva@Numbers:33:51 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye are come ouer Iorden to enter into the land of Canaan,

geneva@Numbers:33:55 @ But if ye will not driue out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those which yee let ramaine of them, shalbe prickes in your eyes, and thornes in your sides, and shall vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell.

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: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:35:5 @ 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:35:6 @ And of the cities which yee shall giue vnto the Leuites, there shalbe sixe cities for refuge, which ye shal appoint, that he which killeth, may flee thither: and to them yee shall adde two and fourtie cities mo.

geneva@Numbers:35:7 @ All the cities which yee shall giue to the Leuites, shalbe eight and fourtie cities: them shal ye giue with their suburbes.

geneva@Numbers:35:10 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come ouer Iorden into the land of Canaan,

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:1:3 @ 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:1:8 @ Beholde, I haue set the land before you: go in and possesse that land which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue vnto them and to their seede after them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:13 @ Take you wise men, and understanding, and (note:)Whose godliness and uprightness is known.(:note) known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:15 @ So I took the chief of your tribes, (note:)Declaring what sort of men ought to have a public charge, read (Exo_18:21).(:note) wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

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:1:29 @ But I sayd vnto you, Dread not, nor be afrayd of them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:39 @ Moreover your (note:)Who were under twenty years of age, (Num_14:31).(:note) little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

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: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:2:5 @ 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:2:6 @ Ye shall buy meate of them for money to eate, and ye shall also procure water of them for money to drinke.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:9 @ And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children (note:)Which were the Moabites and Ammonites.(:note) of Lot [for] a possession.

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:2:19 @ And thou shalt come neere ouer against the children of Ammon: but shalt not lay siege vnto them, nor moue warre against them: for I will not giue thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession: for I haue giuen it vnto the children of Lot for a possession.

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:2:23 @ And the Auims which dwelt in Hazarim euen vnto Azzah, the Caphtorims which came out of Caphtor destroyed them, and dwelt in their steade.

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:3:6 @ 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:3:14 @ 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:3:20 @ 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:3:22 @ Ye shall not feare them: for the Lord your God, he shall fight for you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:28 @ But charge Ioshua, and incourage him, and bolden him: for hee shall goe before this people, and he shall deuide for inheritance vnto them, the land which thou shalt see.

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

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

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:6 @ Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your (note:)Because all men naturally desire wisdom, he shows how to attain it.(:note) wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.

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:4:9 @ Only take heed to thyself, and (note:)He adds all these words, to show that we can never be careful enough to keep the law of God and to teach it to our posterity.(:note) keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:10 @ Forget not the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said vnto me, Gather me the people together, and I wil cause them heare my wordes, that they may learne to feare me all the dayes that they shal liue vpon the earth, and that they may teache their children:

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:13 @ And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to (note:)God joins this condition to his covenant.(:note) perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

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:4:31 @ (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:4:37 @ And because (note:)Freely, and not because they deserved it.(:note) he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

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:5:1 @ Then Moses called all Israiel, and saide vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the ordinances and the lawes which I propose to you this day, that yee may learne them, and take heede to obserue them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:9 @ Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a (note:)That is, of his honour, not permitting it to be given to others.(:note) jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:10 @ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that (note:)The first degree to keep the commandments, is to love God.(:note) love me and keep my commandments.

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:5:29 @ O (note:)He requires nothing but obedience from us, showing also that we ourselves are the unveiling of it.(:note) that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:30 @ Go, say vnto them, Returne you into your tentes.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:31 @ But stand thou here with me, and I wil tell thee all the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which thou shalt teach them: that they may doe them in the land which I giue them to possesse it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:1 @ These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lorde your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:7 @ And thou shalt (note:)Some read, «You shall whet them upon your children»: that is, that they may imprint them more deeply in their memory.(:note) teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {(teach: Hebrews. whet, or, sharpen)}

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:6:9 @ And thou shalt write them upon the (note:)That when you enter in you may remember them.(:note) posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:2 @ And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them (note:)Into thy power.(:note) before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:3 @ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:5 @ But thus shall ye deal with them; (note:)God would have his service pure without idolatrous ceremonies and superstitions. (Deu_12:3).(:note) ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ Know therefore (note:)And so put difference between him and idols.(:note) that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:10 @ And repayeth (note:)Meaning revealed, or in this life.(:note) them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:11 @ Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

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:7:15 @ 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:7:16 @ And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; (note:)We should not be merciful when God commands severity.(:note) thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto 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:7:18 @ Thou shalt not feare them, but remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all Egypt:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:20 @ Moreover the LORD thy God will send the (note:)There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to fight on your side against them.(:note) hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:21 @ Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lorde thy God is among you, a God mightie & dreadful.

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:7:23 @ But the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.

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:7:25 @ The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou (note:)And be enticed to idolatry.(:note) be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

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:8:19 @ 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: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:9:10 @ 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:9:17 @ Therefore I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two handes, and brake them before your eyes.

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:10:2 @ And I will write vpon the Tables ye wordes that were vpon the first Tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke.

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:10:11 @ But the Lord said vnto me, Arise, goe forth in the iourney before the people, that they may goe in and possesse the land, which I sware vnto their fathers to giue vnto them.

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:11:6 @ And what he did vnto Dathan & Abiram the sonnes of Eliab ye sonne of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth, & swallowed them with their housholds and their tents, and all their substance that they had in the middes of al Israel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:9 @ Also that ye may prolong your daies in the land, which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, to giue vnto them and to their seede, euen a lande that floweth with milke and honie.

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:11:19 @ And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them, whe thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:20 @ And thou shalt write them vpon the postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates,

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:12:3 @ And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their (note:)In which they sacrificed to their idols.(:note) groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

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:12:22 @ 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:12:29 @ When the Lorde thy God shall destroy the nations before thee, whither thou goest to possesse them, and thou shalt possesse them and dwell in their lande,

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:30 @ Take heed to thyself that thou be not (note:)By following their superstitions and idolatries, and thinking to serve me by it.(:note) snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

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:14:7 @ But these ye shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, and of them that deuide and cleaue the hoofe onely: ye camell, nor the hare, nor the cony: for they chewe the cudde, but deuide not ye hoofe: therefore they shall be vncleane vnto you:

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: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: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: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:17:5 @ Then shalt thou bring foorth that man, or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thing) vnto thy gates, whether it be man or woman, & shalt stone them with stones, til they die.

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:17:18 @ And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this (note:)Meaning, Deuteronomy.(:note) law in a book out of [that which is] before the He shall cause it to be written by them, or he shall write it by their example. priests the Levites:

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ And it shall be with him, and he shall reade therein all daies of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lord his God, & to keepe all ye words of this Lawe, and these ordinances for to doe them:

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:18:3 @ And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the (note:)The right shoulder, (Num_18:18).(:note) shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

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:18:18 @ I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his (note:)A promise not only made to Christ, but to all that teach in his name, (Isa_59:21).(:note) mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:1 @ When the Lorde thy God shall roote out the nations, whose lande the Lorde thy God giueth thee, and thou shalt possesse them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:9 @ (If thou keepe all these commaundements to doe them, which I commaund thee this day: to wit, that thou loue the Lord thy God, and walke in his waies for euer) then shalt thou adde three cities moe for thee besides those three,

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:20:17 @ 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:20:19 @ When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the (note:)Some read: For man shall be instead of the tree of the field, to come out in the siege against you.(:note) tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:

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:21:8 @ 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:21:10 @ Whe thou shalt go to warre against thine enemies, & the Lord thy God shal deliuer them into thine hands, & thou shalt take the captiues,

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: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:22:4 @ 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:22:19 @ 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:22:24 @ Then shall yee bring them both out vnto the gates of the same citie, and shall stone them with stones to death: the mayde because she cried not, being in the citie, & the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away euill from among you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:6 @ Thou (note:)You shall have nothing to do with them.(:note) shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:8 @ The children that are begotten (note:)If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received circumcision.(:note) of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

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:24:17 @ 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:24:22 @ 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:25:1 @ If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, (note:)Whether there is a plaintiff or not, the magistrates should try our faults, and punish according to the crime.(:note) that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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

geneva@Deuteronomy: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:27:5 @ And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] (note:)The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it would continue but for a time: for God would have only one altar in Judah.(:note) iron [tool] upon them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:26 @ Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the wordes of this Law, to do them: And all the people shal say: So be it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:13 @ And the Lord shal make thee the head, & not the tayle, & thou shalt be aboue onely, and shalt not bee beneath, if thou obey the commandements of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to keepe and to do them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:14 @ But thou shalt not decline from any of the wordes, which I command you this day, either to the right hand or to the left, to goe after other gods to serue them.

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:28:31 @ 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:28:32 @ Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes (note:)When they will return from their captivity.(:note) shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:41 @ Thou shalt beget sonnes, and daughters, but shalt not haue them: for they shall goe into captiuitie.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:55 @ For feare of giuing vnto any of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eate, because he hath nothing left him in that siege, and straitnesse, wherewith thine enemie shall besiege thee in all thy cities.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:57 @ And toward her (note:)Hunger will so bite her, that she will be ready to eat her child before it is delivered.(:note) young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

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:28:68 @ 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:29:2 @ And Moses called all Israel, and said vnto them, Ye haue seene all that the Lorde did before your eyes in the lande of Egypt vnto Pharaoh and vnto all his seruantes, and vnto all his lande,

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:29:9 @ Keepe therefore the wordes of this couenant and doe them, that ye may prosper in all that ye shall doe.

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:29:17 @ And ye haue seene their abominations and their idoles (wood, and stone, siluer and golde) which were among them,

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:25 @ And they shall answere, Because they haue forsaken the couenant of the Lorde God of their fathers, which he had made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:26 @ And went and serued other gods and worshipped them: euen gods which they knewe not, and which had giuen them nothing,

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:30:7 @ And the Lorde thy God will lay all these curses vpon thine enemies, and on them, that hate thee, and that persecute thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:17 @ But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not obey, but shalt be seduced and worship other gods, and serue them,

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:20 @ By louing the Lorde thy God, by obeying his voyce, and by cleauing vnto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy dayes: that thou mayest dwell in the lande which the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:2 @ And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old this day; I (note:)I can no longer execute my office.(:note) can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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:31:5 @ And the LORD shall give them up (note:)Into your hands.(:note) before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:6 @ Plucke vp your hearts therefore, and be strong: dread not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lorde thy God him selfe doeth goe with thee: he will not faile thee, nor forsake thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:7 @ And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and (note:)For he that must govern the people, must be valiant to repress evil, and constant to maintain virtue.(:note) of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

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:31:16 @ And the Lorde said vnto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people will rise vp, and goe a whoring after the gods of a strange land (whither they goe to dwell therein) and will forsake me, and breake my couenant which I haue made with them.

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:31:20 @ For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; (note:)For this is the nature of flesh, no longer to obey God, than it is under the rod.(:note) then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

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:31:23 @ And God gaue Ioshua the sonne of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the lande, which I sware vnto them, and I will be with thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:24 @ And when Moses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this Lawe in a booke vntill he had finished them,

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:31:30 @ Thus Moses spake in the audience of all the congregation of Israel the wordes of this song, vntill he had ended them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:5 @ They haue corrupted them selues towarde him by their vice, not being his children, but a frowarde and crooked generation.

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:32:19 @ And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his (note:)He calls them God's children, not to honour them, but to show them from what dignity they are fallen.(:note) sons, and of his daughters.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:21 @ They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a (note:)Which I have not favoured, nor given my law to them.(:note) people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:23 @ I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them.

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:32:27 @ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should (note:)Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing to themselves that which is wrought by God's hand.(:note) behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:28 @ For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.

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:32:35 @ 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:32:38 @ Which did eate the fat of their sacrifices, & did drinke the wine of their drinke offring? let them rise vp, & help you: let him be your refuge.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:41 @ If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:46 @ Then hee said vnto them, Set your heartes vnto all the wordes which I testifie against you this day, that ye may commande them vnto your children, that they may obserue and doo all the wordes of this Lawe.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:2 @ And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten (note:)Meaning, infinite angels.(:note) thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:11 @ Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite (note:)He declares that the ministers of God have many enemies, and therefore need to be prayed for.(:note) through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

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:33:27 @ 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@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:1:2 @ Moses my seruant is dead: nowe therefore arise, go ouer this Iorden, thou, and all this people, vnto the lande which I giue them, that is, to ye children of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:1:6 @ Be strong and of a good courage: for vnto this people shalt thou deuide the lande for an inheritance, which I sware vnto their fathers to giue them.

geneva@Joshua:1:14 @ Your wiues, your children, and your cattell shall remaine in the land which Moses gaue you on this side Iorden: but ye shall goe ouer before your brethren armed, all that be men of warre, and shall helpe them,

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:2:3 @ And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, (note:)Though the wicked see the hand of God on them, they do not repent, but seek how they may by their power and policy resist his working.(:note) Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.

geneva@Joshua:2:4 @ (But ye woman had taken the two men, and hid them) Therefore saide she thus, There came men vnto me, but I wist not whence they were.

geneva@Joshua:2:5 @ And when they shut the gate in the darke, the men went out, whither the men went I wote not: followe ye after them quickly, for ye shall ouertake them.

geneva@Joshua:2:6 @ But she had brought them up to the (note:)Meaning, on the house: for then their houses were flat above, so that they might do their business on it.(:note) roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

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:2:8 @ And before they were a sleepe, she came vp vnto them vpon the roofe,

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:2:21 @ And she answered, According vnto your wordes, so be it: then she sent them away, & they departed, & she bound the red cord in ye window.

geneva@Joshua:2:22 @ And they departed, and came into the mountaine, and there abode three dayes, vntil the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but founde them not.

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: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:4:5 @ And Ioshua said vnto them, Go ouer before the Arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Iorden, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder acccording vnto the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel,

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:4:12 @ 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: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:5:5 @ 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:5:6 @ For the children of Israel walked fourtie yeres in the wildernes, till all the people of the men of warre that came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voyce of the Lord: vnto whome the Lord sware, that he would not shewe them the lande, which the Lorde had sworne vnto their fathers, that he would giue vs, euen a land that floweth with milke and hony.

geneva@Joshua:5:7 @ So their sonnes whome he raysed vp in their steade, Ioshua circumcised: for they were vncircumcised, because they circumcised them not by the way.

geneva@Joshua:6:6 @ Then, Ioshua the sonne of Nun called the Priests & said vnto them, Take vp the Arke of the couenant, and let seuen Priests beare seuen trumpets of rams hornes before the Arke of the Lord.

geneva@Joshua:6:8 @ And when Ioshua had spoken vnto the people, the seuen Priestes bare the seuen trumpets of rams hornes, and went foorth before the Arke of the Lorde, and blew with the trumpets, & the Arke of the couenant of ye Lord followed them.

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:6:23 @ 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:6:26 @ 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: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:7:5 @ 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:7:9 @ 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:7:11 @ Israel hath sinned, and they haue transgressed my couenant, which I commanded them: for they haue euen taken of the excomunicate thing, and haue also stollen, and dissembled also, and haue put it euen with their owne stuffe.

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:7:23 @ Therefore they tooke them out of the tent, and brought them vnto Ioshua, and vnto all the children of Israel, and layd them before the Lord.

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:8:3 @ Then Ioshua arose, and all the men of warre to goe vp against Ai: and Ioshua chose out thirtie thousand strong men, and valiant, and sent them away by night.

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:8:9 @ Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night (note:)With the rest of the army.(:note) among the people.

geneva@Joshua:8:10 @ And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and (note:)That is, viewed or mustered them and set them in array.(:note) numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

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:8:12 @ And he took about five thousand men, (note:)He sent these few, that the others who lay in ambush might not be discovered.(:note) and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

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:8:16 @ And all the people of the citie were called together, to pursue after them: and they pursued after Ioshua, & were drawen away out of the city,

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:8:22 @ And the (note:)Who came out of the ambush.(:note) other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

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:8:27 @ Onely the cattell and the spoyle of this citie, Israel tooke for a praye vnto themselues, according vnto the worde of the Lorde, which hee commaunded Ioshua.

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:9:2 @ They gathered themselues together, to fight against Ioshua, & against Israel with one accord.

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:9:8 @ And they said vnto Ioshua, We are thy seruants. Then Ioshua saide vnto them, Who are ye? And whence come ye?

geneva@Joshua:9:11 @ Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our countrey spake to vs, saying, Take vitailes with you for the iourney, and go to meete them, and say vnto them, Wee are your seruants: now therefore make ye a league with vs.

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:9:15 @ So Ioshua made peace with them, & made a league with them, that he would suffer them to liue: also the Princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.

geneva@Joshua:9:16 @ But at the end of three dayes, after they had made a league with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

geneva@Joshua:9:18 @ And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation (note:)Fearing lest for their sin the plague of God would have come on them all.(:note) murmured against the princes.

geneva@Joshua:9:19 @ Then all the Princes said vnto all the Congregation, We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: nowe therefore we may not touch them.

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:9:22 @ Ioshua then called them, and talked with them, and sayd, Wherefore haue ye beguiled vs, saying, We are very farre from you, when ye dwel among vs?

geneva@Joshua:9:26 @ And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the (note:)Who were minded to put them to death for fear of God's wrath.(:note) hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

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:10:3 @ Wherefore (note:)That is, «Lord of justice», so tyrants take for themselves glorious names, when indeed they are the very enemies of God and all justice.(:note) Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

geneva@Joshua:10:5 @ Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made (note:)So envious the wicked are, when any depart from their hand.(:note) war against it.

geneva@Joshua:10:8 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua, (note:)Lest Joshua should have thought that God had sent this great power against him for his unlawful league with the Gibeonites, the Lord here strengthens him.(:note) Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.

geneva@Joshua:10:9 @ Ioshua therefore came vnto them suddenly: for he went vp from Gilgal all the night.

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:10:18 @ Then Ioshua said, Roule great stones vpon the mouth of the caue, and set men by it for to keepe them.

geneva@Joshua:10:19 @ But stand ye not still: followe after your enemies, and smite all the hindmost, suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lorde your God hath giuen them into your hand.

geneva@Joshua:10:20 @ And when Ioshua and the children of Israel had made an ende of slaying them with an exceeding great slaughter till they were consumed, and the rest that remained of them were entred into walled cities,

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:10:25 @ And Ioshua sayd vnto them, Feare not, nor be faint hearted, but be strong and of a good courage: for thus will the Lord doe to all your enemies, against whome ye fight.

geneva@Joshua:10:26 @ So then Ioshua smote them, and slewe them, and hanged them on fiue trees, and they hanged still vpon the trees vntill the euening.

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:10:39 @ 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:10:41 @ And Ioshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea euen vnto Azzah, and all the countrey of Goshen, euen vnto Gibeon.

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:11:6 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt (note:)That neither they should serve to the use of war, nor the Israelites should put their trust in them.(:note) hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

geneva@Joshua:11:7 @ Then came Ioshua and al the men of warre with him against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell vpon them.

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:11:11 @ 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:11:14 @ And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every (note:)All mankind.(:note) man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

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:11:20 @ 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: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: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:13:8 @ 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:13:12 @ 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:13:33 @ 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:14:1 @ These also are the places which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun and the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

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:14:12 @ 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: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:17:4 @ And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our (note:)Among them of our tribe.(:note) brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

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:17:15 @ 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: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:18:4 @ Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to (note:)That is, into seven portions, one to every tribe.(:note) the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.

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:18:10 @ 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: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:19:27 @ 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:19:47 @ 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:20:4 @ And he that doeth flee vnto one of those cities, shall stand at the entring of the gate of the citie, and shall shewe his cause to the Elders of the citie: and they shall receiue him into the citie vnto them, and giue him a place, that hee may dwell with them.

geneva@Joshua:20:9 @ These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth [any] person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the (note:)Before the Judges.(:note) congregation.

geneva@Joshua:21:2 @ And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded (note:)By Moses, by whose ministry God showed his power.(:note) by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

geneva@Joshua:21:11 @ So they gaue them Kiriath-arba of the father of Anok (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah, with the suburbes of the same round about it.

geneva@Joshua:21:21 @ For they gave them (note:)Hebron and Shechem were the two cities of refuge under the Kohathites.(:note) Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

geneva@Joshua:21:41 @ All the cities of the Levites (note:)Thus according to Jacob's prophecy they were scattered throughout the country, which God used so that his people might be instructed in the true religion by them.(:note) within the possession of the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

geneva@Joshua:21:42 @ These cities lay euery one seuerallie with their suburbes round about them: so were all these cities.

geneva@Joshua:21:44 @ Also the Lorde gaue them rest rounde about according to all that hee had sworne vnto their fathers: and there stoode not a ma of all their enemies before them: for the Lorde deliuered all their enemies into their hand.

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:22:4 @ 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:22:6 @ So Joshua (note:)He commended them to God, and prayed for them.(:note) blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

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:22:12 @ 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:22:15 @ 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:22:32 @ 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:23:2 @ Then Ioshua called all Israel, and their Elders, and their heads, and their iudges, and their officers, and said vnto them, I am old, 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:23:7 @ That ye come not among these nations, these that (note:)And not yet subdued.(:note) remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, Let not the judges admit an oath which any shall swear by their idols. nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

geneva@Joshua:23:12 @ Els, if ye goe backe, and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations: that is, of them that remaine with you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe vnto them, and they to you,

geneva@Joshua:23:16 @ When ye have (note:)He shows that no evil can come to man, except he offend God by disobedience.(:note) transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto 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:24:5 @ I sent Moses also & Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out.

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:24:8 @ After, I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt beyond Iorden, and they fought with you: but I gaue them into your hand, and ye possessed their countrey, and I destroyed them out of your sight.

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:24:13 @ And I haue giuen you a land, wherein ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and yee dwell in them, and eate of the vineyards and oliue trees, which yee planted not.

geneva@Joshua:24:25 @ So Joshua (note:)By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings out of the Law.(:note) made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

geneva@Joshua:24:32 @ And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcell of ground which Iaakob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundreth pieces of siluer, and the children of Ioseph had them in their inheritance.

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:1:4 @ Then Iudah went vp, and the Lorde deliuered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

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:1:25 @ And when hee had shewed them the waie into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sworde, but they let the man and all his housholde depart.

geneva@Judges:1:28 @ Neuerthelesse when Israel was strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and expelled them not wholly.

geneva@Judges:1:29 @ Likewise Ephraim expelled not the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

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:1:32 @ 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:1:33 @ Neither did Naphtali driue out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the lande: neuerthelesse the inhabitantes of Beth-shemesh, and of Beth-anath became tributaries vnto them.

geneva@Judges:1:34 @ And the Amorites droue the children of Dan into the mountaine: so that they suffered them not to come downe to the valley.

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:2:10 @ 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:2:12 @ And forsooke ye Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, & followed other gods, euen the gods of the people that were round about them, & bowed vnto them, and prouoked the Lord to anger.

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:2:16 @ Notwithstanding, the Lorde raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hands of their oppressours.

geneva@Judges:2:17 @ And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the (note:)Meaning, from the true religion.(:note) way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.

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:2:21 @ 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:2:23 @ So the Lorde left those nations, and droue them not out immediately, neither deliuered them into the hand of Ioshua.

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:3:4 @ And these remayned to proue Israel by them, to wit, whether they would obey the commandements of the Lorde, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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:3:9 @ And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde, the Lord stirred vp a sauiour to ye children of Israel, & he saued them, euen Othniel the sonne of Kenaz, Calebs yonger brother.

geneva@Judges:3:12 @ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD (note:)So that the enemies of God's people have no power over them, but by God's appointment.(:note) strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@Judges:3:15 @ But when the children of Israel cried vnto the Lorde, the Lorde stirred them vp a sauiour, Ehud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Iemini, a man lame of his right hande: and the children of Israel sent a present by him vnto Eglon King of Moab.

geneva@Judges:3:23 @ Then Ehud gate him out into the porch, and shut the doores of the parler vpon him, and locked them.

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:3:27 @ And when he came home, he blew a trumpet in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel went downe with him from the mountaine, and he went before them.

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: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:5:2 @ Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the (note:)That is, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.(:note) people willingly offered themselves.

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:5:9 @ Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.

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:5:30 @ 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:6:1 @ Afterwarde the children of Israel committed wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and the Lorde gaue them into the handes of Midian seuen yeres.

geneva@Judges:6:2 @ And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: (note:)For fear of the Midianites, they fled into the dens of the mountains.(:note) [and] because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

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:6:8 @ The Lord sent vnto the children of Israel a Prophet, who sayd vuto them, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, I haue brought you vp from Egypt, and haue brought you out of the house of bondage,

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:6:20 @ And the Angell of God saide vnto him, Take the flesh and the vnleauened bread, and lay them vpon this stone, and powre out the broth: and he did so.

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: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:7:2 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel (note:)God will not that any creature deprive him of his glory.(:note) vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

geneva@Judges:7:4 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will (note:)I will give you a proof to know those who will go with you.(:note) try them for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

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:7:6 @ And the nomber of them that lapped by putting their handes to their mouthes, were three hundreth men: but all the remnant of the people kneeled downe vpo their knees to drinke water.

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:7:17 @ 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:7:24 @ 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:8:2 @ 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:8:4 @ 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:8:12 @ And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, hee followed after them, and tooke the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the hoste.

geneva@Judges:8:16 @ Then he tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes & breers, & did teare the men of Succoth with them.

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:8:23 @ And Gideon sayde vnto them, I will not reigne ouer you, neither shal my childe reigne ouer you, but the Lord shal reigne ouer you.

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:8:33 @ 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:9:1 @ And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his (note:)To practice with his kinsfolk for attaining the kingdom.(:note) mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

geneva@Judges:9:7 @ And when they told it to Iotham, he went and stoode in the top of mount Gerizim, & lift vp his voyce, and cryed, & sayd vnto them, Hearken vnto mee, you men of Shechem, that God may hearken vnto you.

geneva@Judges:9:9 @ But the oliue tree said vnto them, Should I leaue my fatnes, wherewith by me they honour God & man, & go to aduance me aboue ye trees?

geneva@Judges:9:11 @ But the fig tree answered them, Should I forsake my sweetenesse, and my good fruite, and goe to aduance me aboue the trees?

geneva@Judges:9:13 @ But the Vine sayde vnto them, Should I leaue my wine, whereby I cheare God and man, and goe to aduance me aboue the trees?

geneva@Judges:9:24 @ That the crueltie toward the seuentie sonnes of Ierubbaal and their blood might come & be laide vpon Abimelech their brother, which had slayne them, and vpon the men of Shechem, which had ayded him to kill his brethren.

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:9:38 @ 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:9:43 @ And he took the (note:)Which were in his company.(:note) people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.

geneva@Judges:9:44 @ And Abimelech, and the bandes that were with him, russhed forwarde, and stoode in the entring of the gate of the citie: and the two other bandes ran vpon all the people that were in the fielde and slewe them.

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:9:57 @ And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the (note:)For making a tyrant their king.(:note) curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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:10:11 @ 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:10:14 @ Goe, and cry vnto the gods which ye haue chosen: let them saue you in the time of your tribulation.

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:11:6 @ 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:11:9 @ And Iphtah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children of Ammon, if the Lord giue them before me, shall I be your head?

geneva@Judges:11:11 @ Then Iphtah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captaine ouer them: and Iphtah rehearsed all his wordes before the Lorde in Mizpeh.

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:11:21 @ And the Lorde God of Israel gaue Sihon and all his folke into the handes of Israel, & they smote them: so Israel possessed all the lande of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that countrey:

geneva@Judges:11:24 @ Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the (note:)For we should believe and obey God more than you your idols.(:note) LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

geneva@Judges:11:25 @ And art thou nowe farre better then Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab? did he not striue with Israel and fight against them,

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:11:32 @ And so Iphtah went vnto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord deliuered them into his handes.

geneva@Judges:11:33 @ And he smote them from Aroer euen till thou come to Minnith, twentie cities, and so foorth to Abel of the vineyardes, with an exceeding great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were humbled before the children of Israel.

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: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:12:2 @ And Iphtah said vnto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon, and when I called you, ye deliuered me not out of their handes.

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:13:1 @ Bvt the children of Israel continued to commit wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and the Lorde deliuerd them into the handes of the Philistims fourtie yeere.

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:14:9 @ And he tooke therof in his handes, and went eating, and came to his father and to his mother, and gaue vnto them, and they did eate: but hee told not them, that he had taken the hony out of the body of the lyon.

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:14:14 @ And he sayd vnto them, Out of the eater came meate, and out of the strong came sweetenesse: and they could not in three dayes expound the riddle.

geneva@Judges:14:18 @ And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is] stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, (note:)If you had not used the help of my wife.(:note) If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

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: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:15:4 @ And Samson went out, and tooke three hundreth foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned them taile to taile, and put a firebrand in ye middes betweene two tailes.

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:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the (note:)Or, the citizen of Timnath.(:note) Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and So the wicked do not punish vice for love of justice, but for fear of danger, which also might come to them. burnt her and her father with fire.

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:15:8 @ So hee smote them hippe and thigh with a mightie plague: then hee went and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.

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:15:12 @ Againe they sayd vnto him, Wee are come to binde thee, and to deliuer thee into the hande of the Philistims; Samson sayde vnto them, Sweare vnto me, that yee will not fall vpon me your selues.

geneva@Judges:16:3 @ And Samson slept till midnight, and arose at midnight, and tooke the doores of the gates of the citie, and the two postes and lift them away with the barres, and put them vpon his shoulders, and caried them vp to the top of the mountaine that is before Hebron.

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:16:23 @ Then the Princes of the Philistims gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice vnto Dagon their god, and to reioyce: for they said, Our god hath deliuered Samson our enemie into our handes.

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:16:26 @ Then Samson saide vnto the seruant that led him by the hande, Lead me, that I may touch the pillars that the house standeth vpon, and that I may leane to them.

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:17:13 @ Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me (note:)Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favour, when indeed he detests them.(:note) good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.

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:18:4 @ And he answered them, Thus and thus dealeth Michah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his Priest.

geneva@Judges:18:6 @ And the priest said unto them, (note:)Thus sometimes God grants the idolaters requests to the destruction of those who delight in errors.(:note) Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go.

geneva@Judges:18:8 @ So they came againe vnto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren saide vnto them, What haue ye done?

geneva@Judges:18:9 @ And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and (note:)Would you lose this good opportunity because of your laziness?(:note) [are] ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the land.

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:18:18 @ And the other went into Michahs house and fet the grauen image, the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image. Then saide the Priest vnto them, What doe ye?

geneva@Judges:18:21 @ So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage (note:)Suspecting them that pursued them.(:note) before them.

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:18:30 @ 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:19:6 @ And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the (note:)That is, his concubines father.(:note) damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.

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:19:12 @ 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:19:14 @ So they went forward vpon their way, and the sunne went downe vpon them neere to Gibeah, which is in Beniamin.

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:19:23 @ 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:19:25 @ But the men woulde not hearken to him: therefore ye man tooke his concubine, & brought her out vnto them: and they knewe her and abused her all the night vnto the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.

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:20:13 @ Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin (note:)Because they would not allow the wicked to be punished, they declared themselves in agreement with their evil, and therefore all were justly punished.(:note) would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

geneva@Judges:20:14 @ But ye children of Beniamin gathered them selues together out of the cities vnto Gibeah, to come out and fight against the children of Israel.

geneva@Judges:20:20 @ And the men of Israel went out to battell against Beniamin, & the men of Israel put themselues in aray to fight against the beside Gibeah.

geneva@Judges:20:22 @ And the people, the men of Israel plucked vp their hearts, and set their battel againe in aray in the place where they put them in aray the first day.

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:20:25 @ Also the second day Beniamin came forth to meete them out of Gibeah, and slewe downe to the grounde of the children of Israel againe eighteene thousand men: all they could handle the sword.

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:20:32 @ 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:20:33 @ And all the men of Israel rose vp out of their place, and put themselues in aray at Baal-tamar: and the men that lay in wayte of the Israelites came forth of their place, euen out of the medowes of Gibeah,

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:20:36 @ So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel (note:)Retired to draw them after.(:note) gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

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:20:41 @ 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:20:42 @ Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed (note:)For they were surrounded from every side.(:note) in the midst of 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:21:6 @ 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:21:7 @ How shal we do for wiues to them that remaine, seeing we haue sworne by the Lorde, that we will not giue them of our daughters to wiues?

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:21:10 @ Therefore the Congregation sent thither twelue thousande men of the most valiant, and commaunded them, saying, Goe, and smite the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, both women, and children.

geneva@Judges:21:12 @ And they found among the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead foure hundreth maides, virgins that had knowne no man by lying with any male: and they brought them vnto the hoste to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

geneva@Judges:21:13 @ And the whole congregation (note:)That is, about four months after the punishment, (Jdg_20:47).(:note) sent [some] to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

geneva@Judges:21:14 @ And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet (note:)For they were short two hundred.(:note) so they sufficed them not.

geneva@Judges:21:17 @ And they said, [There must be] (note:)Benjamin must be preserved to have the twelfth portion in the inheritance of Jacob.(:note) an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

geneva@Judges:21:18 @ Howbeit we may not giue them wiues of our daughters: for the childre of Israel had sworne, saying, Cursed be he that giueth a wise to Beniamin.

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:21:23 @ And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives, according to their (note:)Meaning, two hundred.(:note) number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

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:1:6 @ Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had (note:)By sending them plenty again.(:note) visited his people in giving them bread.

geneva@Ruth:1:9 @ The LORD grant you that ye may find (note:)By this it appears that Naomi by dwelling among idolaters, had become cold to the true zeal of God, having more respect for the comfort of the body than the comfort of the soul.(:note) rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

geneva@Ruth:1:13 @ Would yee tarie for them, till they were of age? would ye be deferred for them from taking of husbands? nay my daughters: for it grieueth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lorde is gone out against 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:1:19 @ 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:1:20 @ And she answered them, Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara: for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternes.

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@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:2:1 @ And Hannah (note:)After she had obtained a son by prayer she gave thanks.(:note) prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine I have recovered strength and glory by the benefit of the Lord. horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is I can answer them that criticize my barrenness. enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

geneva@1Samuel:2:4 @ The bow and the mightie men are broken, and the weake haue girded themselues with strength.

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

geneva@1Samuel: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:2:16 @ 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:2:23 @ And hee saide vnto them, Why doe ye such things? For of all this people I heare euill reportes of you.

geneva@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD (note:)So that to obey good admonition is God's mercy, and to disobey them is his just judgment for sin.(:note) would slay them.

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:2:30 @ Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, (note:)God's promises are only effective to those he gives faith to fear and obey him.(:note) Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

geneva@1Samuel:3:13 @ And I haue tolde him that I will iudge his house for euer, for the iniquitie which hee knoweth, because his sonnes ranne into a slaunder, and he stayed them not.

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: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:5:8 @ They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, (note:)Though they had felt God's power and were afraid of it, yet they tried him even further, which God turned to their destruction and his glory.(:note) What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about [thither].

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:6:6 @ 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:6:7 @ Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on whome there hath come no yoke: and tye the kine to the cart, and bring the calues home from them.

geneva@1Samuel:6:10 @ And the men did so: for they tooke two kine that gaue milke, and tied them to the cart, and shut the calues at home.

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:6:15 @ 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: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:7:11 @ And the men of Israel went from Mizpeh and pursued the Philistims, and smote them vntill they came vnder Beth-car.

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:8:8 @ 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:8:9 @ Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet (note:)To prove if they will forsake their wicked purpose.(:note) protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

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:8:12 @ Also he will make them his captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer fifties, and to eare his ground, and to reape his haruest, and to make instruments of warre, and the thinges that serue for his charets.

geneva@1Samuel:8:13 @ He will also take your daughters and make them apoticaries, and cookes, and bakers.

geneva@1Samuel:8:14 @ And he will take your fieldes, & your vineyardes, and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his seruants.

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:8:22 @ And the Lord saide to Samuel, Hearken vnto their voyce, and make them a King; Samuel said vnto the men of Israel, Goe euery man vnto his citie.

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:9:11 @ 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:9:14 @ Then they went vp into the citie, & when they were come into the middes of the citie, Samuel came out against them, to goe vp to the hie place.

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:9:22 @ 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:9:26 @ 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: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:10:6 @ Then the Spirit of the Lord will come vpon thee, and thou shalt prophecie with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

geneva@1Samuel:10:10 @ And when they came thither to the hill, beholde, the companie of Prophets meete him, and the Spirit of God came vpon him, & he prophecied among them.

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:10:27 @ But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he (note:)Both to avoid disputing and also to win them by patience.(:note) held his peace.

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:11:7 @ 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:11:8 @ And when he nombred them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundreth thousande men: and the men of Iudah thirtie thousand.

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:11:12 @ And the people said unto Samuel, (note:)By this victory the Lord won the hearts of the people to Saul.(:note) Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

geneva@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his (note:)Your King, who is anointed by the commandment of the Lord.(:note) anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.

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:12:9 @ And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, (note:)Captain of Jabin's host, king of Hazor.(:note) captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

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:13:5 @ 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:13:6 @ And when the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were in distresse ) the people hid themselues in caues, and in holdes, and in rockes, and in towres, and in pittes.

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:13:16 @ 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:14:8 @ Then said Ionathan, Beholde, we goe ouer vnto those men, and will shewe our selues vnto them.

geneva@1Samuel:14:10 @ But if they say, Come vp vnto vs, then we will goe vp: for the Lorde hath deliuered them into our hande: and this shall be a signe vnto vs.

geneva@1Samuel:14:11 @ And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the (note:)Thus they spoke contemptuously and by derision.(:note) holes where they had hid themselves.

geneva@1Samuel:14:12 @ And the men of the garison answered Ionathan, and his armour bearer, and said, Come vp to vs: for we will shewe you a thing. Then Ionathan said vnto his armour bearer, Come vp after me: for the Lorde hath deliuered them into the hand of Israel.

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:14:21 @ 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:14:22 @ Also all the men of Israel which had hid themselues in mount Ephraim, when they heard, that the Philistims were fled, they followed after them in the battell.

geneva@1Samuel:14:32 @ So the people turned to the spoile, & tooke sheepe, and oxen, and calues, and slewe them on the ground, and the people did eate them with the blood.

geneva@1Samuel:14:34 @ Againe Saul said, Goe abroade among the people, and bid them bring me euery man his oxe, and euery man his sheepe, and slay them here, and eate and sinne not against the Lord in eating with the blood; ye people brought euery man his oxe in his hand that night, & slew them there.

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:14:47 @ 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: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:15:6 @ And Saul said unto the (note:)Which were the posterity of Jethro, Moses father in law.(:note) Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed For Jethro came to visit them, and gave them good counsel, (Exo_18:19). kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the (note:)This is the nature of hypocrites to be impudent against the truth, to condemn others, and justify themselves.(:note) commandment of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:15:15 @ And Saul answered, They haue brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen to sacrifice them vnto the Lorde thy God, and the remnant haue we destroyed.

geneva@1Samuel:15:18 @ And the Lord sent thee on a iourney, and saide, Goe, and destroy those sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them, vntill thou destroy them.

geneva@1Samuel:16:5 @ And he answeared, Yea: I am come to doe sacrifice vnto the Lorde: sanctifie your selues, and come with me to the sacrifice; he sanctified Ishai & his sonnes, & called them to the sacrifice.

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: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:17:8 @ And he stoode, and cried against the hoste of Israel, and saide vnto them, Why are yee come to set your battell in aray? Am not I a Philistim, and you seruaunts to Saul? Chuse you a man for you, and let him come downe to me.

geneva@1Samuel:17:21 @ For Israel & the Philistims had put themselues in araie, armie against armie.

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:17:31 @ And they that heard the wordes which Dauid spake, rehearsed them before Saul, which caused him to be brought.

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:17:39 @ Then girded Dauid his sword vpon his rayment, and began to go: for he neuer proued it: and Dauid sayde vnto Saul, I can not goe with these: for I am not accustomed. wherefore Dauid put them off 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:18:16 @ For all Israel and Iudah loued Dauid, because he went out and in before them.

geneva@1Samuel:18:17 @ And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and (note:)Fight against them that war against God's people.(:note) fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

geneva@1Samuel:18:27 @ Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and (note:)Meaning, David and his soldiers.(:note) they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

geneva@1Samuel:19:8 @ Againe the warre began, & Dauid went out & fought with the Philistims, and slew them with a great slaughter, and they fled from him.

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:19:23 @ 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: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:20:40 @ 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: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:21:13 @ And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and (note:)By making marks and toys.(:note) scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

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:22:8 @ 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:22:11 @ Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, (note:)Which were the remnant of the house of Eli, whose house God threatened to punish.(:note) the priests that [were] in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

geneva@1Samuel:23:5 @ So Dauid and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistims, & brought away their cattel, & smote them with a great slaughter: thus Dauid saued the inhabitants of Keilah.

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:23:28 @ Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place (note:)That is, stone of division, because there they divided themselves one from another.(:note) Selahammahlekoth.

geneva@1Samuel:24:7 @ {\cf2 (24:8)} So Dauid ouercame his seruants with these words, & suffered them not to arise against Saul: so Saul rose vp out of the caue and went away.

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:25:18 @ 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:25:29 @ 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: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:26:13 @ Then Dauid went vnto the other side, and stoode on the toppe of an hill a farre off, a great space being betweene them.

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:27:3 @ And David (note:)Thus God by his providence changes the enemies hearts, and makes them favour his in their need.(:note) dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

geneva@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, (note:)Let your officers appoint me a place.(:note) let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

geneva@1Samuel:27:11 @ And Dauid saued neither man nor woman aliue, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tel on vs, and say, So did Dauid, and so will be his maner all the while that he dwelleth in the countrey of the Philistims.

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:28:11 @ 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:28:25 @ Then she brought them before Saul, and before his seruants: and when they had eaten, they stoode, and went away the same night.

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:30:2 @ And had taken the women that were therein, prisoners, both small and great, and slewe not a man, but caryed them away, & went their wayes.

geneva@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail (note:)Though God seem to leave us for a time, yet if we trust in him, we will be sure to find comfort.(:note) recover [all].

geneva@1Samuel:30:9 @ So Dauid and the sixe hundreth men that were with him, went, and came to the riuer Besor, where a part of them abode:

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:30:17 @ And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening (note:)Some read, and to the morrow of the two evenings, that is, three days.(:note) of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

geneva@1Samuel:30:19 @ And they lacked nothing, small or great, sonne or daughter, or of the spoyle of all that they had taken away: Dauid recouered them all.

geneva@1Samuel:30:20 @ And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's (note:)Which the Amalekites had taken from others, and David from them, besides the goods of Ziklag.(:note) spoil.

geneva@1Samuel:30:21 @ And Dauid came to the two hundreth men that were too wearie for to followe Dauid: whome they had made also to abide at the riuer Besor: and they came to meete Dauid, and to meete the people that were with him: so when Dauid came neere to the people, hee saluted them.

geneva@1Samuel:30:22 @ Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [ought] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his (note:)Under these are understood the cattle and goods, which belonged to every man.(:note) wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away, and depart.

geneva@1Samuel:30:27 @ Hee sent to them of Beth-el, and to them of South Ramoth, and to them of Iattir,

geneva@1Samuel:30:28 @ And to them of Aroer, and to them of Siphmoth, and to them of Eshtemoa,

geneva@1Samuel:30:29 @ And to them of Rachal, and to them of the cities of the Ierahmeelites, and to them of the cities of the Kenites,

geneva@1Samuel:30:30 @ And to them of Hormah, and to them of Chor-ashan, and to them of Athach,

geneva@1Samuel:30:31 @ And to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and (note:)Showing himself mindful of their benefits towards him.(:note) to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

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:31:8 @ And on the morowe when the Philistims were come to spoyle them that were slaine, they founde Saul and his three sonnes lying in mount Gilboa,

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:1:10 @ 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:1:11 @ Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, & rent them, and likewise al the men that were with him.

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:2:5 @ And Dauid sent messengers vnto the men of Iabesh Gilead, and said vnto them, Blessed are ye of the Lord, that yee haue shewed such kindenes vnto your lord Saul, that you haue buried him.

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:2:14 @ And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and (note:)Let us see how they can handle their weapons.(:note) play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

geneva@2Samuel:2:25 @ And the children of Beniamin gathered them selues together after Abner, and were on an heape and stoode on the top of an hill.

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: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:3:36 @ 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: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:4:7 @ For when they came into the house, he slept on his bed in his bed chamber, & they smote him, and slewe him, and beheaded him, and tooke his head, and gate them away through the plaine all the night.

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:4:11 @ 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:4:12 @ Then Dauid commanded his yong men, & they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feete, and hanged them vp ouer the poole in Hebron: but they tooke the head of Ish-bosheth, & buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

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:5:18 @ But the Philistims came, and spred themselues in the valley of Rephaim.

geneva@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David (note:)By Abiathar the priest.(:note) enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

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:5:21 @ And there they left their images, and Dauid and his men burnt them.

geneva@2Samuel:5:22 @ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of (note:)Meaning the valley of giants, which David called Baalperazim, because of his victory.(:note) Rephaim.

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: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:7:21 @ 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: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:8:4 @ And Dauid tooke of them a thousand and seuen hundreth horsemen, and twenty thousande footemen, and Dauid destroyed all the charets, but he reserued an hundreth charets of them.

geneva@2Samuel:8:7 @ And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to (note:)For the use of the temple.(:note) Jerusalem.

geneva@2Samuel:8:11 @ And King Dauid did dedicate them vnto the Lord with the siluer & golde that he had dedicate of all the nations, which he had subdued:

geneva@2Samuel:10:3 @ And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants unto thee, (note:)Their arrogant malice would not allow them to see the simplicity of David's heart: therefore their counsel turned to the destruction of their country.(:note) to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

geneva@2Samuel:10:4 @ Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued off the halfe of their beard, & cut off their garments in the middle, euen to their buttockes, and sent them away.

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:10:8 @ 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:10:10 @ And the rest of the people hee deliuered into the hande of Abishai his brother, that hee might put them in aray against the children of Ammon.

geneva@2Samuel:10:15 @ And when the Aramites sawe that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered them together.

geneva@2Samuel:10:16 @ And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Aramites that were beyond the Riuer: and they came to Helam, and Shobach the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer went before them.

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:10:19 @ And when all the Kings, that were seruants to Hadarezer, saw that they fell before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and serued them; the Aramites feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more.

geneva@2Samuel:11:23 @ And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Certainely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, but we pursued them vnto the entring of the gate.

geneva@2Samuel:12:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this (note:)Meaning openly, at noon.(:note) sun.

geneva@2Samuel:12:17 @ And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat (note:)Thinking by his constant prayer that God would have restored his child, but God had determined otherwise.(:note) bread with them.

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:13:9 @ 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:13:10 @ Then Amnon said vnto Tamar, Bring the meate into the chamber, that I may eate of thine hand; Tamar tooke the cakes which shee had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

geneva@2Samuel:13:11 @ And when she had set them before him to eate, he tooke her, and sayd vnto her, Come, lye with me, my sister.

geneva@2Samuel:13:30 @ And while they were in the way, tydings came to Dauid, saying, Absalom hath slaine al the Kings sonnes, & there is not one of them left.

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:14:14 @ 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:14:30 @ Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it (note:)The wicked are impatient in their affections, and spare no unlawful means to accomplish them.(:note) on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

geneva@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and (note:)If I have offended by revenging my sister's dishonour: thus the wicked justify themselves in their evil.(:note) if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.

geneva@2Samuel:15:6 @ And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom (note:)By enticing them from his father to himself.(:note) stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

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:15:36 @ Beholde, there are with them their two sonnes: Ahimaaz Zadoks sonne, and Ionathan Abiathars sonne: by them also shall ye send me euery thing that ye can heare.

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:16:14 @ And the king, and all the people that [were] with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves (note:)That is, at Bahurim.(:note) there.

geneva@2Samuel:17:9 @ Behold, he is hid now in some caue, or in some place: and though some of them be ouerthrowen at the first, yet the people shall heare, and say, The people that follow Absalom, be ouerthrowen.

geneva@2Samuel:17:17 @ Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told (note:)Meaning, the message from their fathers.(:note) them; and they went and told king David.

geneva@2Samuel:17:18 @ Neuerthelesse a yong man sawe them, and tolde it to Absalom. therefore they both departed quickely, and came to a mans house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, into the which they went downe.

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:17:22 @ 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:18:1 @ And David (note:)For certain of the Reubenites, Gadites, and of the half tribe could not bear the insolence of the son against the father, and therefore joined with David.(:note) numbered the people that [were] with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

geneva@2Samuel:18:4 @ Then the King said vnto them, What seemeth you best, that I will doe. So the King stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreths and by thousands.

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: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:19:28 @ For all [of] my father's house were (note:)Worthy to die for Saul's cruelty to you.(:note) but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

geneva@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the (note:)David did evil in taking his land from him before he knew the cause, but much worse, that knowing the truth, he did not restore them.(:note) land.

geneva@2Samuel:20:3 @ When Dauid then came to his house to Ierusalem, the King tooke the ten women his concubines, that hee had left behinde him to keepe the house, and put them in warde, and fed them, but lay no more with them: but they were enclosed vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhode.

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:20:19 @ I [am (note:)She speaks in the name of the city.(:note) one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

geneva@2Samuel:21:2 @ Then ye King called the Gibeonites and said vnto them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites, vnto whom ye children of Israel had sworne: but Saul sought to slay them for his zeale toward the children of Israel and Iudah)

geneva@2Samuel:21:6 @ Let seven men of his (note:)Of Saul's kinsmen.(:note) sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up To pacify the Lord. unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].

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:21:9 @ 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:21:12 @ And Dauid went and tooke the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne from the citizens of Iabesh Gilead, which had stollen them from the streete of Beth-shan, where the Philistims had hanged them, when the Philistims had slaine Saul in Gilboa.

geneva@2Samuel:21:13 @ So hee brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

geneva@2Samuel:22:15 @ He shot arrowes also, and scattered them: to wit, lightning, and destroyed them.

geneva@2Samuel:22:18 @ He deliuered me from my strong enemie, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

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

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:22:38 @ I haue pursued mine enemies and destroyed them, and haue not turned againe vntill I had consumed them.

geneva@2Samuel:22:39 @ Yea, I haue consumed them and thrust them through, and they shall not arise, but shall fall vnder my feete.

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:22:45 @ 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:23:7 @ But the man that shall touch them, must be defensed with yron, or with the shaft of a speare: and they shall be burnt with fire in the same place.

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: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:24:9 @ And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel (note:)According to Joab's count: for in all there were eleven hundred thousand, (1Ch_21:5).(:note) eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] Including the Benjamites with them, or else they had but four hundred and seventy thousand. five hundred thousand men.

geneva@2Samuel:24:12 @ Go, & say vnto Dauid, Thus saith ye Lord, I offer thee three thinges, chuse thee which of them I shall doe vnto thee.

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:1:20 @ And thou, my lorde, O King, knowest that the eyes of all Israel are on thee, that thou shouldest tell them, who shoulde sit on the throne of my lord the King after him.

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:1:40 @ And all the people came vp after him, and the people piped with pipes, and reioyced with great ioye, so that the earth rang with the sound of them.

geneva@1Kings:2:7 @ But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: (note:)That is, they dealt mercifully with me.(:note) for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

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: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:5:3 @ Thou knowest that Dauid my father could not build an house vnto the Name of the Lorde his God, for the warres which were about him on euery side, vntill the Lord had put them vnder the soles of his feete.

geneva@1Kings:5:9 @ My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive [them]: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for (note:)While my servants are occupied with your business.(:note) my household.

geneva@1Kings:5:17 @ And the King commanded them, and they brought great stones and costly stones to make the foundation of the house, euen hewed stones.

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:6:12 @ Cocerning this house which thou buildest, if thou wilt walke in mine ordinances, & execute my iudgements, & keepe al my commadements, to walke in them, then will I performe vnto thee my promes, which I promised to Dauid thy father.

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:6:28 @ And he (note:)For the others which Moses made of beaten gold were taken away with the other jewels by their enemies, whom God permitted at various times to overcome them for their great sins.(:note) overlaid the cherubims with gold.

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: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:7:14 @ 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:7:25 @ 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:7:46 @ In the plaine of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth and Zarthan.

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:8:2 @ 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:8:8 @ And they (note:)They drew them out only far enough to be seen, for they could not pull them out completely, (Exo_25:15).(:note) drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

geneva@1Kings:8:21 @ And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein [is] the (note:)The two tables in which the articles of the covenant were written.(:note) covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Kings:8:34 @ Then heare thou in heauen, and be mercifull vnto the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the lande, which thou gauest vnto their fathers.

geneva@1Kings:8:35 @ When heaven is (note:)So that there is a drought to destroy the fruit of the land.(:note) shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

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:8:44 @ 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:8:46 @ If they sinne against thee, ( for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them vnto the enemies, so that they cary them away prisoners vnto the land of the enemies, either farre or neere,

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:8:52 @ Let thine eyes be open vnto the prayer of thy seruant, and vnto the prayer of thy people Israel, to hearken vnto them, in all that they call for vnto thee.

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: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:9:9 @ And they shall answere, Because they forsooke the Lorde their God, which brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and haue taken holde vpon other gods, & haue worshipped them, and serued them, therfore hath the Lord brought vpon them all this euill.

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:9:21 @ To wit, their children that were left after them in the lande, whome the children of Israel were not able to destroy, those did Salomo make tributaries vnto this day.

geneva@1Kings:10:17 @ And three hundreth shieldes of beaten golde, three pound of gold went to one shielde: and the King put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.

geneva@1Kings:11:2 @ Of the nations, whereof the Lord had sayd vnto the children of Israel, Goe not ye in to them, nor let them come in to you: for surely they will turne your hearts after their gods, to them, I say, did Salomon ioyne in loue.

geneva@1Kings:11:18 @ And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran, and tooke men with them out of Paran, and came to Egypt vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, which gaue him an house, and appointed him vitailes, and gaue him lande.

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:12:5 @ And he said vnto them, Depart yet for three dayes, then come againe to me; the people departed.

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:12:9 @ And he said unto them, (note:)There is nothing harder for them that are in authority than to control their desires and follow good counsel.(:note) What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

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:12:12 @ 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:12:16 @ 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:12:28 @ 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: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:13:6 @ 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:13:12 @ And their father sayde vnto them, What way went he? and his sonnes shewed him what waye the man of God went, which came from Iudah.

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: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:14:23 @ For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

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:14:27 @ 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:14:28 @ And when the King went into the house of the Lorde, the garde bare them, and brought them againe into the gard chamber.

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:15:18 @ 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:15:22 @ 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: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:17:14 @ 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:17:20 @ 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:18:4 @ For when Iezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lorde, Obadiah tooke an hundreth Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a caue, and he fed them with bread and water.)

geneva@1Kings:18:6 @ And so they deuided the lande betweene them to walke thorowe it. Ahab went one way by him selfe, and Obadiah went another way by him selfe.

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:18:23 @ Let them therefore giue vs two bullockes, and let them chuse the one, & cut him in pieces, and lay him on the wood, but put no fire vnder, and I will prepare the other bullocke, and lay him on the wood, and will put no fire vnder.

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:18:37 @ 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:18:40 @ 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: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:19:21 @ 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:20:12 @ 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:20:15 @ Then he nombred the seruantes of the princes of the prouinces, and they were two hundreth, two and thirtie: and after them he nombred the whole people of all the children of Israel, euen seuen thousand.

geneva@1Kings:20:18 @ And he sayde, Whether they be come out for peace, take them aliue: or whether they bee come out to fight, take them yet aliue.

geneva@1Kings:20:19 @ So they came out of the citie, to wit, the seruants of the princes of the prouinces, and the hoste which followed them.

geneva@1Kings:20:20 @ And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the (note:)They who were appointed for the preservation of his person.(:note) horsemen.

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:20:24 @ And this doe, Take the Kings away, euery one out of his place, & place captaines for them.

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:20:27 @ And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all (note:)All those who were in the battle of the previous years, (1Ki_20:15).(:note) present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

geneva@1Kings:21:8 @ So she wrote letters in Ahabs name, and sealed them with his seale, and sent the letters vnto the Elders, and to the nobles that were in his citie dwelling with Naboth.

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: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:22:7 @ And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the (note:)Jehoshaphat did not acknowledge the false prophets to be God's ministers, but contemned them.(:note) LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?

geneva@1Kings:22:8 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but (note:)By which we see that the wicked cannot abide to hear the truth, but hate the prophets of God and molest them.(:note) I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

geneva@1Kings:22:10 @ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their (note:)In their kingly apparel.(:note) robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

geneva@1Kings:22:11 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him (note:)The true prophets of God were accustomed to use signs for the confirmation of their doctrine, (Isa_20:2; Jer_7:2) in which the false prophets imitated them, thinking by it to make their doctrine more believable.(:note) horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.

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:22:17 @ 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:22:24 @ 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@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:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, (note:)He shows that idolaters do not have the true God, or else they would seek none but him alone.(:note) [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

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:1:12 @ 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:1:15 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be (note:)Thus the Lord gives boldness to his, that they fear not the threatenings of tyrants, who otherwise of themselves are afraid to do God's message.(:note) not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

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:2:12 @ And Elisha saw it, and he cryed, My father, my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsemen thereof: and he sawe him no more: and he tooke his owne clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

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:2:18 @ Therefore they returned to him, (for he taryed at Iericho) and he said vnto them, Did not I say vnto you, Goe not?

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:3:9 @ 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:3:13 @ And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, (note:)He knew that this wicked king would have but used his counsel to serve his turn, and therefore, he disdained to answer him.(:note) What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, The wicked do not esteem the servants of God unless they are driven by every necessity and fear of the present danger. Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

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:3:19 @ 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:3:21 @ 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:3:24 @ And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they (note:)Meaning, they followed them into the towns.(:note) went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.

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:4:31 @ 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:4:33 @ He went in therefore, and shut the doore vpon them twayne, and prayed vnto the Lord.

geneva@2Kings:4:34 @ And he went up, and (note:)Elijah did the same to the widow's son at Zarephath (1Ki_17:21) and Paul in (Act_20:10) signifying the care that should be in them, who bear the word of God and are distributors of spiritual life.(:note) lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

geneva@2Kings:4:39 @ And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a (note:)Which the apothecaries call colloquintida, and is most vehement and dangerous in purging.(:note) wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not.

geneva@2Kings:4:44 @ So he set it before them, and they did eate, and left ouer, according to the word of the Lord.

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:5:22 @ 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:5:23 @ And Naaman saide, Yea, take two talents: and he compelled him, and bound two talents of siluer in two bagges, with two change of garments, and gaue them vnto two of his seruants, that they might beare them before him.

geneva@2Kings:5:24 @ And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and (note:)Naaman's servants.(:note) they departed.

geneva@2Kings:6:4 @ So he went with them, & when they came to Iorden, they cut downe wood.

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:6:16 @ 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:6:18 @ And when (note:)Meaning the Syrians his enemies, who came down thinking themselves sure of him.(:note) they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

geneva@2Kings:6:19 @ And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led (note:)Thus he did being led by the Spirit of God, and not because he sought his own revenge, but only to set forth the glory of God.(:note) them to Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:6:21 @ And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, (note:)The wicked use reverent and grave words toward the servants of God, when they think to have any blessing from them, though in their heart they cannot abide them.(:note) My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?

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:6:33 @ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what (note:)So the wicked fall into a rage and desperation, if they do not find a quick remedy for their afflictions.(:note) should I wait for the LORD any longer?

geneva@2Kings:7:6 @ For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a (note:)Thus God needs no great preparation to destroy the wicked. Though they are many he can scatter them with a small noise, or shaking of a leaf.(:note) noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

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:7:15 @ 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: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:8:20 @ In his days Edom (note:)Which had been subject from David's time until this time of Jehoram.(:note) revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

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:9:17 @ 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:10:1 @ And Ahab had seventy (note:)The Scripture calls them sons who are either children or nephews.(:note) sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,

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:10:6 @ 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:10:8 @ Then there came a messenger and tolde him, saying, They haue brought the heads of the Kings sonnes; he sayd, Let them lay them on two heapes at the entring in of the gate vntil the morning.

geneva@2Kings:10:14 @ And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; (note:)Thus God's vengeance is on them who have any part or familiarity with the wicked.(:note) neither left he any of them.

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:10:25 @ 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:10:26 @ And they brought out the images of the temple of Baal, and burnt them.

geneva@2Kings:10:29 @ But fro the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which made Israel to sinne, Iehu departed not fro them, neither from the golden calues that were in Beth-el and that were in Daniel.

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:11:4 @ And the seventh year (note:)The chief priest, Jehosheba's husband.(:note) Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

geneva@2Kings:11:5 @ And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of (note:)Of the Levites, who had charge of the keeping of the temple, and kept watch by course.(:note) you that enter in on the sabbath shall That no one should come on them, while they were crowning the king. even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

geneva@2Kings:11:9 @ And the captains over the hundreds did according to all [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the (note:)Read (2Ki_11:5, 2Ki_11:7).(:note) sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

geneva@2Kings:11:15 @ But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that (note:)To take her part.(:note) followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:12:3 @ But (note:)So hard a thing it is for them, that are in authority, to be brought to the perfect obedience of God.(:note) the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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:12:7 @ 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:12:11 @ And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them (note:)For the king had appointed others who were fit for that purpose, (2Ki_22:5).(:note) that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

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:13:4 @ And Iehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the trouble of Israel, wherewith the King of Aram troubled them.

geneva@2Kings:13:7 @ Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of (note:)That is, Hazael and Benhadad his son, (2Ki_13:3). Of Hazael read (2Ki_13:22).(:note) Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

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:13:17 @ 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:13:23 @ 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: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:14:27 @ 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: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: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: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:17:9 @ And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower (note:)Meaning, throughout all their borders.(:note) of the watchmen to the fenced city.

geneva@2Kings:17:10 @ And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree,

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:17:12 @ And serued idoles: whereof the Lorde had sayd vnto them, Ye shal do no such thing,

geneva@2Kings:17:15 @ And they refused his statutes and his couenant, that he made with their fathers, & his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed vnto them) and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whome the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

geneva@2Kings:17:16 @ And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the (note:)That is, the sun, moon and stars, (Deu_4:19).(:note) host of heaven, and served Baal.

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:17:24 @ 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:17:28 @ So one of the Priestes, which they had caryed from Samaria, came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they shoulde feare the Lorde.

geneva@2Kings:17:29 @ Howbeit euery nation made their gods, & put them in the houses of the hie places, which the Samaritanes had made, euery nation in their cities, wherein they dwelt.

geneva@2Kings:17:32 @ Thus they feared the Lorde, and appoynted out Priestes out of them selues for the hie places, who prepared for them sacrifices in the houses of the hie places.

geneva@2Kings:17:35 @ And with whom the Lord had made a couenant, and charged them, saying, Feare none other gods, nor bowe your selues to them, nor serue them, nor sacrifice to them:

geneva@2Kings:17:37 @ Also keepe ye diligently the statutes and the ordinances, and the Lawe, and the commandement, which he wrote for you, that ye do them continually, and feare not other gods.

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:18:12 @ Because they woulde not obey the voyce of the Lord their God, but transgressed his couenant: that is, all that Moses the seruant of the Lord had commanded, and would neyther obey nor doe them.

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:18:16 @ 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:18:18 @ 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:18:23 @ 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:18:25 @ Am I now come up without the (note:)The wicked always flatter themselves in their prosperity, that God favours them. Thus he speaks to scare Hezekiah into thinking that by resisting him he would be resisting God.(:note) LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

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:18:32 @ 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: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:19:11 @ 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:19:18 @ And haue set fire on their gods: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood and stone: therefore they destroyed them.

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:19:29 @ 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: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: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:21:8 @ 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:21:14 @ And I will forsake the (note:)Meaning, Judah and Benjamin, which were the only ones left of the rest of the tribes.(:note) remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

geneva@2Kings:21:21 @ For hee walked in all the way that his father walked in, and serued the idoles that his father serued, and worshipped them.

geneva@2Kings:21:24 @ And the people of the land slewe all them that had conspired against King Amon, and the people made Iosiah his sonne King in his steade.

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:22:7 @ 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:22:15 @ And shee answered them, Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, Tel the man that sent you to mee,

geneva@2Kings:23:1 @ And the king (note:)Because he saw the great plagues of God that were threatened, he knew no more speedy way to avoid them, than to turn to God by repentance which cannot come but from faith, and faith by hearing the word of God.(:note) sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

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:23:5 @ And he put down the (note:)Or Chemarims, meaning the priests of Baal who were called Chemarims either because they wore black garments or else were smoked with burning incense to idols.(:note) idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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:23:11 @ 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:23:16 @ 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:23:19 @ Iosiah also tooke away all the houses of the hie places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the Kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord, and did to them according to all the factes that he had done in Beth-el.

geneva@2Kings:23:20 @ And he sacrificed all the Priests of the hie places, that were there vpon the altars, and burnt mens bones vpon them, & returned to Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:23:24 @ Iosiah also tooke away them that had familiar spirits, and the soothsayers, and the images, and the idoles, and al the abominations that were espied in the lande of Iudah and in Ierusalem, to performe the wordes of the Lawe, which were written in the booke that Hilkiah the Priest found in the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Kings:24:2 @ And the Lorde sent against him bandes of the Caldees, and bands of the Aramites, & bands of the Moabites, and bandes of the Ammonites, and he sent them against Iudah to destroy it, according to the worde of the Lord, which he spake by his seruants the Prophets.

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:24:20 @ 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:25:13 @ 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:25:19 @ 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:25:20 @ And Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde tooke them, and brought them to the King of Babel to Riblah.

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:25:22 @ Howbeit there remained people in the land of Iudah, whom Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel left, and made Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan ruler ouer them.

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@1Chronicles:2:6 @ And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and (note:)Of these read (1Ki_4:31).(:note) Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:23 @ And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, (note:)That is, the Geshurites and Syrians took the towns from Jair's children.(:note) from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, [even] threescore cities. All these [belonged to] the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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:2:53 @ And the families of Kiriath-iearim were the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and ye Mishraites of them came the Zarreathites, and the Eshtaulites.

geneva@1Chronicles:3:5 @ And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of (note:)Called also Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam: for they gave them various names.(:note) Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:

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:4:31 @ And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These [were] their cities unto the reign of (note:)Then David restored them to the tribe of Judah.(:note) David.

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:5:11 @ And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them in the land of Bashan, vnto Salchah.

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:5:25 @ But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the lande, whome God had destroyed before them.

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:6:55 @ 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:6:67 @ And they gaue vnto them cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, and her suburbes, and Gezer and her suburbes,

geneva@1Chronicles:7:3 @ And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, (note:)Meaning, the four sons and the father.(:note) five: all of them chief men.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:4 @ And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers were bandes of men of warre for battel, sixe and thirtie thousand: for they had many wiues and children.

geneva@1Chronicles:8:6 @ And these [are] the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and (note:)Meaning, the inhabitants of the city of Geba.(:note) they removed them to Manahath:

geneva@1Chronicles:8:7 @ And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and (note:)That is, Ehud.(:note) begat Uzza, and Ahihud.

geneva@1Chronicles:8:8 @ And Shaharaim begat [children] in the country of Moab, after he had sent them (note:)After he had put away his two wives.(:note) away; Hushim and Baara [were] his wives.

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:9:28 @ And certaine of them had the rule of the ministring vessels: for they brought them in by tale, and brought them out by tale.

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:10:7 @ And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley, sawe how they fledde, and that Saul and his sonnes were dead, they forsooke their cities, and fled away, and the Philistims came, and dwelt in them.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:8 @ And on the morrowe when the Philistims came to spoyle them that were slaine, they found Saul and his sonnes lying in mount Gilboa.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:9 @ And when they had stript him, they tooke his head and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistims round about, to publish it vnto their idoles, and to the people.

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: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:11:3 @ So came all the Elders of Israel to the King to Hebron, & Dauid made a couenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; they anoynted Dauid King ouer Israel, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.

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:11:20 @ 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: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:12:15 @ 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:12:17 @ And Dauid went out to meete them, and answered and sayde vnto them, If yee be come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart shall be knit vnto you, but if you come to betray me to mine aduersaries, seeing there is no wickednes in mine handes, the God of our fathers beholde it, and rebuke it.

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:12:29 @ And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had (note:)That is, the greatest number took Saul's side.(:note) kept the ward of the house of Saul.

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:12:34 @ And of Naphtali a thousand captaines, and with them with shielde and speare seuen and thirtie thousande.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:39 @ And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their (note:)The rest of the Israelites.(:note) brethren had prepared for them.

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: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:14:9 @ And the Philistims came, and spred them selues in the valley of Rephaim.

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:14:11 @ So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place (note:)That is, the valley of divisions, because the enemies were dispersed there like waters.(:note) Baalperazim.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:12 @ And there they had left their gods: and Dauid said, Let them euen be burnt with fire.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:13 @ Againe the Philistims came and spread them selues in the valley.

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:15:2 @ Then Dauid saide, None ought to carie the Arke of God, but the Leuites: for the Lorde hath chosen them to beare the Arke of the Lord, and to minister vnto him for euer.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:12 @ And said unto them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: (note:)Prepare yourselves and be pure, abstain from all things by which you might be polluted, and so not able to come to the tabernacle.(:note) sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto [the place that] I have prepared for it.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:14 @ So the Priestes and the Leuites sanctified them selues to bring vp the Arke of the Lorde God of Israel.

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:15:22 @ 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:15:26 @ 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:15:29 @ 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:16:7 @ 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:16:10 @ Reioyce in his holy Name: let the hearts of them that seeke the Lord reioyce.

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:16:41 @ And with (note:)With Zadok and the rest of the priests.(:note) them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever;

geneva@1Chronicles:16:42 @ Euen with them were Heman & Ioduthun, to make a sound with the cornets and with the cymbales, with excellent instruments of musicke: and the sonnes of Ieduthun were at the gate.

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:17:21 @ 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:17:24 @ Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of (note:)That is, he shows himself indeed to be their God, by delivering them from dangers, and preserving them.(:note) Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David thy servant [be] established before thee.

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:18:4 @ And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen, and destroyed all the charets, but he reserued of them an hundreth charets.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:7 @ And Dauid tooke the shieldes of gold that were of the seruants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Ierusalem.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:11 @ Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations; from (note:)Because the Edomites and the Syrians joined their power together, it is said, (2Sa_8:12) that the Amramites were spoiled.(:note) Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

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:19:6 @ And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of (note:)Which were five in all.(:note) Zobah.

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:19:9 @ And the children of Ammon came out, and set their battell in aray at the gate of the citie; the Kings that were come, were by them selues in the fielde.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:11 @ And the rest of the people he deliuered vnto the hande of Abishai his brother, and they put them selues in aray against the children of Ammon.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:16 @ And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that [were] beyond the (note:)That is, Euphrates.(:note) river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.

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:20:3 @ And he caryed away the people that were in it, and cut them with sawes, and with harowes of yron, and with axes: euen thus did Dauid with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then Dauid and all the people came againe to Ierusalem.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:2 @ And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from (note:)That is, from south to north.(:note) Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].

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:21:10 @ Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lorde, I offer thee three thinges: choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.

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:22:19 @ Now set (note:)For else he knew that God would plague them, and not prosper their labour, unless they sought with all their hearts to set forth his glory.(:note) your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:6 @ So Dauid deuided offices vnto them, to wit, to the sonnes of Leui, to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:22 @ And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their (note:)Meaning their cousins.(:note) brethren the sons of Kish took them.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:3 @ And Dauid distributed them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their offices in their ministration.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:4 @ And there were found mo of the sonnes of Eleazar by the number of men, then of the sonnes of Ithamar; they deuided them, to wit, among the sonnes of Eleazar, sixteene heads, according to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye sonnes of Ithamar, according to the housholde of their fathers, eight.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:5 @ Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of God were of the sonnes of Eleazar and of the sonnes of Ithamar.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:6 @ And Shemaiah the sonne of Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Leuites, one familie being reserued for Eleazar, and another reserued for Ithamar.

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: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:27:17 @ Ouer the Leuites, Hashabiah the sonne of Remuel: ouer them of Aharon, and Zadok:

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:27:27 @ 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:28:8 @ Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this (note:)That is, of Canaan.(:note) good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you He declares that nothing can separate them from the conveniences of this land, both for themselves and their posterity except for their sins and iniquity. for ever.

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:29:8 @ 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:29:14 @ But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things (note:)We gave you nothing of our own, but that which we have received from you: for whether the gifts are corporal or spiritual, we receive them all from God, and therefore must give him the glory.(:note) [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:24 @ And all the princes and men of power, and all the sonnes of King Dauid submitted them selues vnder King Salomon.

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: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:2:11 @ Then Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which he sent to Salomon, Because the Lorde hath loued his people, he hath made thee King ouer them.

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:2:17 @ And Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the nombring that his father Dauid had nombred them: & they were found an hundreth and three & fiftie thousand, and sixe hundreth.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:18 @ And he set seuentie thousande of them to the burden, and fourescore thousande to hewe stones in the mountaine, and three thousande and sixe hundreth ouerseers to cause the people to worke.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:10 @ And in the house of the most holy place he made two Cherubims wrought like children, and ouerlayd them with golde.

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:4:4 @ 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:4:6 @ 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:4:17 @ In the playne of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth & Zeredathah.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:20 @ Moreouer the candlestickes, with their lampes to burne them after the maner, before the oracle, of pure golde.

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:5:3 @ 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:5:12 @ 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:6:25 @ Then heare thou in heauen, and be mercifull vnto the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land which thou gauest to them and to their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:26 @ When heauen shall be shut vp, and there shalbe no rayne, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall pray in this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them,

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:6:30 @ Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose (note:)He declares that the prayers of hypocrites cannot be heard, nor of any but of them who pray to God with a true faith and in true repentance.(:note) heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

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:6:36 @ If they sinne against thee ( for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them and deliuer them vnto the enemies, and they take them and cary them away captiue vnto a land farre or neere,

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:6:41 @ Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy (note:)That is, into your temple.(:note) resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with Let them be preserved by your power, and made virtuous and holy. salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

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:7:14 @ 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:7:19 @ But if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes and my commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worshippe them,

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:7:22 @ And they shall answere, Because they forsooke the Lorde God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and haue taken holde on other gods, and haue worshipped them, and serued them, therefore hath he brought all this euill vpon them.

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:8:5 @ Also he built (note:)That is, he repaired and fortified them, for they were built long before by Sherah a noble woman of the tribe of Ephraim, (1Ch_6:68, 1Ch_7:24).(:note) Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

geneva@2Chronicles:8:8 @ But of their children which were left after them in the lande, whome the children of Israel had not consumed, euen them did Salomon make tributaries vntill this day.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:10 @ And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] (note:)For in all there were 3300 but here he means of them who had the principal charge, (1Ki_9:23).(:note) two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:18 @ And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence (note:)Which is thought to amount to 3,600,000 crowns, for here mention is made of 30 more than are spoken of, (1Ki_9:28).(:note) four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his (note:)Meaning, that the Israelites were God's peculiar people, and that kings are the lieutenants of God, who ought to grant to him the superiority and administer justice to all.(:note) throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:16 @ And three hundreth shieldes of beaten golde: three hundreth shekels of golde went to one shielde, and the King put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:5 @ And he sayde to them, Depart yet three dayes, then come againe vnto me; the people departed.

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:10:9 @ And he sayd vnto them, What counsel giue ye, that we may answere this people, which haue spoken to mee, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put vpon vs, lighter?

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:10:13 @ And the King answered them sharply: and King Rehoboam left the counsel of the ancient men,

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:10:16 @ So when all Isarael sawe that the King would not heare them, the people answered the King, saying, What portion haue we in Dauid? for we haue none inheritance in the sonue of Ishai. O Israel, euery man to your tents: now see to thine owne house, Dauid. So all Israel departed to their tents.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:5 @ And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and (note:)Or, repaired them and made them strong to be more able to resist Jeroboam.(:note) built cities for defence in Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:11 @ And he repaired the strong holdes and put captaines in them, and store of vitaile, and oyle and wine.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:12 @ And in all cities he put shieldes & speares, and made them exceeding strong: so Iudah and Beniamin were his.

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:11:23 @ And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he (note:)He gave himself to have many wives.(:note) desired many wives.

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:12:6 @ Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] (note:)Therefore he justly punishes you for your sins.(:note) righteous.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:7 @ And when the Lorde sawe that they humbled themselues, the worde of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They haue humbled theselues, therefore I will not destroy them, but I will sende them deliuerance shortly, and my wrath shall not bee powred out vpon Ierusalem by 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:12:10 @ 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:12:11 @ And when the King entred into the house of the Lorde, the garde came and bare them and brought them againe vnto the garde chamber.

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:13:13 @ 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:13:16 @ And the children of Israel fledde before Iudah, & God deliuered them into their hande.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:17 @ And Abiiah and his people slewe a great slaughter of them, so that there fel downe wounded of Israel fiue hundreth thousand chosen men.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:7 @ Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet (note:)While we have the full government of it.(:note) before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

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:14:11 @ 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:14:13 @ 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:15:4 @ 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:15:6 @ For nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduersitie.

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: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:16:8 @ The Ethiopians and the Lubims, were they not a great hoste with charets & horsemen, exceeding many? Yet because thou diddest rest vpon the Lord, he deliuered them into thine had.

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: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:17:9 @ And they taught in Iudah, and had the booke of the Lawe of the Lorde with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Iudah, and taught the people.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:10 @ And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they (note:)Thus God prospers all who with a pure heart seek his glory, and keeps their enemies in fear, so that they are not able to execute their rage against them.(:note) made no war against Jehoshaphat.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:14 @ And these are the nombers of them after the house of their fathers, In Iudah were captaines of thousands, Adnah the captaine, & with him of valiant men three hundreth thousande.

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:18:9 @ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] (note:)That is, in their majesty and royal apparel.(:note) robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

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:18:31 @ 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:19:2 @ And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, (note:)He declares that the wrath of God is over everyone who supports the wicked and does not show in their actions that they are enemies to everyone that hates the Lord.(:note) Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:4 @ And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again (note:)He visited all his country and brought his people from idolatry to the knowledge of the true God.(:note) through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:9 @ And he charged them, saying, Thus shall yee doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully and with a perfite heart.

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:20:10 @ 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:20:12 @ O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes (note:)We only put our trust in you, and wait for our deliverance from heaven.(:note) [are] upon thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:16 @ To morowe goe yee downe against them: beholde, they come vp by the cleft of Ziz, and ye shall finde them at the ende of the brooke before the wildernesse of Ieruel.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:17 @ Ye shall not neede to fight in this battell: stand still, moue not, and behold the saluation of the Lord towardes you: O Iudah, and Ierusalem, feare ye not, neither be afraid: to morow goe out against them, and the Lord wilbe with you.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:23 @ For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to (note:)Thus the Lord according to Jehoshaphat's prayer declared his power, when he delivered his by causing their enemies to kill one another.(:note) destroy another.

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:20:27 @ Then euery man of Iudah and Ierusalem returned with Iehoshaphat their head, to goe againe to Ierusalem with ioy: for the Lorde had made them to reioyce ouer their enemies.

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:21:8 @ In his dayes Edom rebelled from vnder the hand of Iudah, and made a King ouer them.

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:22:8 @ Therefore when Iehu executed iudgemet vpon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Iudah and the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziah that waited on Ahaziah, he slew them also.

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:22:12 @ 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:23:3 @ 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:23:8 @ So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that (note:)Who had finished their course on the Sabbath and so the other part entered to keep their turn.(:note) were to go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:14 @ Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso (note:)To join with her party and to maintain her authority.(:note) followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in 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:24:14 @ And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made (note:)For the wicked kings, his predecessors and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the temple, or turned them to the use of their idols.(:note) vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

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:24:19 @ Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they (note:)They took heaven and earth and all creatures to witness that unless they returned to the Lord, he would most grievously punish their infidelity and rebellion, (Neh_9:26).(:note) testified against them: but they would not give ear.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood (note:)In a place above the people, to the intent that he might be heard.(:note) above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

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:24:23 @ 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: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:25:6 @ He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour (note:)That is, out of the ten tribes who had separated themselves before both from God and their true king.(:note) out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

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:25:10 @ 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:25:13 @ But the soldiers of the (note:)That is, the 100,000 of Israel.(:note) army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

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:25:20 @ But Amaziah would not hear; for (note:)Thus God often plagues by those means on which men must rely, to teach them to seek help only from him, and to show his judgments, he moves their hearts to follow that which will lead to their destruction.(:note) it [came] of God, that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:9 @ Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the (note:)Where the wall or tower turns.(:note) turning [of the wall], and fortified them.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:14 @ And Vzziah prepared them throughout all the hoste, shieldes, and speares, and helmets, and brigandines, and bowes, and stones to sling.

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: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: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:28:5 @ 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:28:8 @ And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren (note:)Thus by the just judgment of God, Israel destroyed Judah.(:note) two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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:28:12 @ 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:28:23 @ 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:29:3 @ He in the first year of his reign, in the (note:)This is a notable example for all princes, first to establish the pure religion of God and to procure that the Lord may be honoured and served correctly.(:note) first month, opened the Which Ahaz had shut up, (2Ch_28:24). doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

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

geneva@2Chronicles:29:15 @ And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselues and came according to the commaundement of the King, & by the words of the Lord, for to clense the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:21 @ And they brought seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes, and seuen lambes, and seuen hee goates, for a sinne offring for the kingdome, & for the sanctuarie, and for Iudah; he commanded the Priests the sonnes of Aaron, to offer them on 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:29:24 @ And the Priests slewe them, and with the blood of them they clensed the altar to reconcile all Israel: for the King had commanded for all Israel the burnt offring and the sinne offring.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:29 @ And when they had made an ende of offring, the King and all that were present with him, bowed themselues, and worshipped.

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: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:30:9 @ 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:30:14 @ 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:30:18 @ 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:30:24 @ 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: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:31:6 @ 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:31:7 @ In the thirde moneth they beganne to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:11 @ And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lorde: and they prepared them,

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:31:18 @ And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their (note:)Meaning, that either by the faithful distribution of the officers, everyone had their part in the things that were offered, or else that their wives and children were relieved, because the Levites were faithful in their office, and so depended on them.(:note) set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

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:32:4 @ 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:32:6 @ 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:32:8 @ With him [is] an (note:)That is, the power of man.(:note) arm of flesh; but with us [is] the This declares that Hezekiah always put his trust in God, and yet made himself strong and used lawful means, lest he should seem to tempt God. LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:18 @ Then they (note:)Their words are written, (2Ki_18:19).(:note) cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

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:32:25 @ 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:32:31 @ 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:33:3 @ For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had broken downe: and he set vp altars for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoste of the heauen, and serued them.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:8 @ Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the (note:)By the charge given to Moses.(:note) hand of Moses.

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:33:15 @ 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:33:22 @ 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:33:25 @ But the people of the land slewe all them that had conspired against King Amon: and the people of the land made Iosiah his sonne King in his steade.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:4 @ And they brake down (note:)Which shows that he would see the reformation with his own eyes.(:note) the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

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:34:12 @ And the men did the work (note:)Meaning that they were in such credit for their fidelity that they made no accounts of that which they received, (2Ki_22:7, 2Ki_22:9).(:note) faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:13 @ And they were ouer the bearers of burdens, and them that set forwarde all the workemen in euery worke: and of the Leuites were scribes, and officers and porters.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:21 @ Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our (note:)Thus the godly not only lament their own sins, but also that their fathers and predecessors have offended God.(:note) fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:23 @ And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye (note:)That is, to the king.(:note) the man that sent you to me,

geneva@2Chronicles:34:28 @ Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this (note:)It may appear that very few were touched with true repentance, seeing that God spared them for a time only for the king's sake.(:note) place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:2 @ And he appointed the Priestes to their charges, and incouraged them to the seruice of the house of the Lord,

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:35:11 @ 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:35:13 @ 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:35:14 @ Afterwarde also they prepared for them selues and for the Priestes: for the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron were occupied in offering of burnt offrings, and the fat vntill night: therefore the Leuites prepared for them selues, and for the Priests the sonnes of Aaron.

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:35:25 @ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the (note:)Which some think Jeremiah wrote, in which he laments the state of the church after this king's death.(:note) lamentations.

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:36:7 @ Nebuchadnezzar also caryed of the vessels of the house of the Lorde to Babel, and put them in his Temple at Babel.

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:36:20 @ And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of (note:)When Gyrus king of Persia had made the Babylonians subject.(:note) Persia:

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:1:4 @ 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:1:5 @ Then the chiefe fathers of Iudah & Beniamin, & the Priests & Leuites rose vp, with al them whose spirit God had raysed to goe vp, to builde the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem.

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:1:7 @ Also the King Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of Ierusalem, and had put them in the house of his god.

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:1:11 @ All the vessels of gold and of silver [were] five thousand and four hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar bring up (note:)With the Jews who had been kept captive in Babylon.(:note) with [them of] the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

geneva@Ezra:2:55 @ The children of Solomon's (note:)Which came of them that Solomon had appointed for the work of the temple.(:note) servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,

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:2:65 @ Beside their seruants and their maydes: of whome were seuen thousande, three hundreth & seuen and thirtie: and among them were two hundreth singing men and singing women.

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:3:3 @ 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:3:7 @ 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:3:9 @ Then stood Jeshua (note:)They gave them exhortations and encouraged every man forward in the work.(:note) [with] his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, [with] their sons and their brethren the Levites.

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: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:4:4 @ Wherefore the people of the land discouraged the people of Iudah, and troubled them in buylding,

geneva@Ezra:4:5 @ And (note:)They bribed the governors under the king to hinder their work, thus they that hinder cannot understand that God would be purely served.(:note) hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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:4:23 @ 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:5:1 @ Then Haggai a Prophet & Zechariah the sonne of Iddo a Prophet prophecied vnto the Iewes that were in Iudah, and Ierusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, euen vnto them.

geneva@Ezra:5:2 @ Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God (note:)Who encouraged them to go forward, and cursed them because they were more careful to build their own houses, than zealous to build the temple of God.(:note) helping them.

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:5:9 @ 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:5:12 @ But after that our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath, he gaue them ouer into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel the Caldean, & he destroyed this house, & caryed the people away captiue vnto Babel.

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:5:15 @ And he sayde vnto him, Take these vessels and goe thy way, and put them in the Temple that is in Ierusalem, and let the house of God be buylt in his place.

geneva@Ezra:6:5 @ And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and (note:)Meaning Zerubbabel to whom he gives charge.(:note) brought again unto the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, [every one] to his place, and place [them] in the house of God.

geneva@Ezra:6:6 @ Now [therefore], Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which [are] beyond the river, be ye far (note:)Meddle not with them neither hinder them.(:note) from thence:

geneva@Ezra:6:9 @ And that which they shall haue neede of, let it be giuen vnto them day by day, whether it be yong bullockes, or rammes, or lambes for the burnt offrings of the God of heauen, wheate, salt, wine, and oyle, according to the appoyntment of the Priestes that are in Ierusalem, that there bee no fault,

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:6:20 @ (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:7:17 @ That thou mayest bye speedily with this siluer, bullocks, rammes, lambes, with their meate offrings and their drinke offrings: and thou shalt offer them vpon the altar of the house of your God, which is in Ierusalem.

geneva@Ezra:7:24 @ And we certifie you, that vpon any of the Priestes, Leuites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or Ministers in this house of God, there shall no gouernour laye vpon them tolle, tribute nor custome.

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:8:1 @ These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of (note:)Read (Ezr. strkjv@7:1-28).(:note) Artaxerxes the king.

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:8:14 @ And of the sonnes of Biguai, Vthai, and Zabbud, and with them seuentie males.

geneva@Ezra:8:15 @ And I gathered them together to the (note:)To that place of Euphrates, where the Ahava river enters it.(:note) river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

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:8:22 @ 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:8:24 @ Then I separated twelue of the chiefe of the Priests, Sherebiah, and Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

geneva@Ezra:8:25 @ And weighed them the siluer and the gold, and the vessels, euen the offring of ye house of our God, which the King and his counselers, and his Princes, & all Israel that were present had offred.

geneva@Ezra:8:28 @ And I said vnto them, Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, and the vessels are consecrate, and the gold and the siluer are freely offred vnto the Lord God of your fathers.

geneva@Ezra:8:29 @ Watch ye, and keepe them vntill ye weigh them before the chiefe Priestes and the Leuites, and the chiefe fathers of Israel in Ierusalem in the chambers of the house of the Lord.

geneva@Ezra:8:30 @ So the Priests and the Leuites receiued the weight of the siluer and of the golde, and of the vessels to bring them to Ierusalem, vnto the house of our God.

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: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:9:4 @ 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:9:8 @ And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a (note:)In giving us a resting place it is a comparison taken from them that still remain in a place who strike nails to hang things on, (Isa_22:23).(:note) nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

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:10:8 @ And whosoeuer woulde not come within three dayes according to the counsel of the Princes & Elders, all his substance should be forfait, & he should be separate from the Congregation of them of the captiuitie.

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:10:14 @ Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, (note:)Let them be appointed to examine this matter.(:note) and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

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:10:16 @ And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, (note:)They went to the chief cities to sit on this matter which took three months to finish.(:note) were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

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:1:5 @ And sayde, O Lorde God of heauen, the great and terrible God, that keepeth couenant and mercy for them that loue him, and obserue his commandements,

geneva@Nehemiah:1:9 @ But if ye turne vnto me, & keepe my commandements, and doe them, though your scattering were to the vttermost part of the heauen, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you vnto the place that I haue chosen to place my Name there.

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:2:9 @ Then came I to the captaines beyonde the Riuer, and gaue them the Kings letters; the King had sent captaines of the armie and horsemen with 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:2:17 @ 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:3:4 @ And next vnto them fortified Merimoth, the sonne of Vrijah, the sonne of Hakkoz: and next vnto them fortified Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah, the sonne of Meshezabeel: and next vnto them fortified Zadok, the sonne of Baana:

geneva@Nehemiah:3:5 @ And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles (note:)The rich and mighty would not obey those who were appointed officers in this work, neither would they help them.(:note) put not their necks to the work of their Lord.

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:3:9 @ Also next vnto them fortified Rephaiah, the sonne of Hur, the ruler of the halfe part of Ierusalem.

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:3:29 @ 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: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:4:5 @ And cover not their (note:)Let the plagues declare to the world that they set themselves against you and your Church: that he prays only having respect for God's glory and not for any private affection, or grudge.(:note) iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:8 @ And conspired all together to come & to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:9 @ The we prayed vnto our God, & set watchmen by them, day and night, because of them.

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:4:14 @ And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: (note:)Who is always on hand to deliver his out of danger: and therefore seeing they should fight for the maintenance of God's glory, and for the preservation of their own lives and of theirs, he encourages them to play the valiant men.(:note) remember the Lord, [which is] great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

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:4:21 @ So we laboured in the worke, and halfe of them helde the speares, from the appearing of the morning, till the starres came foorth.

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:5:2 @ For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up (note:)This is the complaint of the people, showing the extremity they were brought to.(:note) corn [for them], that we may eat, and live.

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:5:7 @ 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:5:10 @ For euen I, my brethren, and my seruants doe lende them money and corne: I pray you, let vs leaue off this burden.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:11 @ Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, (note:)Which you take from them for the loan.(:note) that ye exact of them.

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:5:15 @ For the former gouernours that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides fourtie shekels of siluer: yea, and their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.

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:6:4 @ Yet they sent vnto me foure times after this sort; I answered them after the same maner.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:8 @ Then I sent vnto him, saying, It is not done according to these wordes that thou sayest: for thou feynest them of thine owne heart.

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:7:3 @ And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while (note:)That is, they who are mentioned, (Neh_7:2).(:note) they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar [them]: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one [to be] over against his house.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:5 @ And my God put into mine heart, and I gathered the princes, and the rulers, and the people, to count their genealogies: and I found a booke of the genealogie of them, which came vp at the first, and found written therein,

geneva@Nehemiah:7:65 @ And (note:)Meaning, Nehemiah: for Tirshatha in the Chaldee tongue means a butler.(:note) the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood [up] a priest with Urim and Thummim.

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:8:6 @ And Ezra praysed the Lorde the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting vp their handes: & they bowed themselues, and worshipped the Lord with their faces toward the grounde.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:8 @ And they read in the booke of the Lawe of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, & caused them to vnderstand the reading.

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

geneva@Nehemiah:8:12 @ Then all the people went to eate and to drinke, and to send away part, and to make great ioy, because they had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught them.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:13 @ And on the second day the chiefe fathers of all the people, the Priests and the Leuites were gathered vnto Ezra the scribe, that he also might instruct them in the wordes of the Lawe.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:16 @ So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made themselves booths, every one upon the (note:)For their houses were made with flat roofs, read (Deu_22:8).(:note) roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

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: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:9:10 @ 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:9:12 @ And leddest them in the day with a pillar of a cloude, and in the night with a pillar of fire to giue them light in the way that they went.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:13 @ Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, ordinances and good commandements,

geneva@Nehemiah:9:14 @ And declaredst vnto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and lawes, by the hande of Moses thy seruant:

geneva@Nehemiah:9:15 @ And gauest them bread from heauen for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rocke for their thirst: and promisedst them that they shoulde goe in, and take possession of the land: for the which thou haddest lift vp thine hand for to giue them.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:16 @ But they and our fathers behaued them selues proudely, and hardened their neck, so that they hearkened not vnto thy commandements,

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:9:19 @ Yet thou for thy great mercies forsookest them not in the wildernesse: the pillar of the cloude departed not from them by day to leade them the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way whereby they should goe.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:20 @ Thou gauest also thy good Spirite to instruct them, & withheldest not thy MAN from their mouth, & gauest them water for their thirst.

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:9:23 @ And thou diddest multiplie their children, like the starres of the heauen, and broughtest them into the lande, whereof thou haddest spoken vnto their fathers, that they should goe, and possesse it.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:24 @ So the children went in, and possessed the lande, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the lande, euen the Canaanites, and gauest them into their handes, with their Kings and the people of the lande, that they might do with them what they would.

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:9:27 @ Therefore thou deliueredst them into the hande of their enemies that vexed them: yet in the time of their affliction, when they cryed vnto thee, thou heardest them from the heauen, & through thy great mercies thou gauest them sauiours, who saued them out of the hande of their aduersaries.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:28 @ But after they had (note:)He declares how God's mercies always contended with the wickedness of the people, who always in their prosperity forgot God.(:note) rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest [them] from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

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

geneva@Nehemiah:9:30 @ Yet thou diddest forbeare them many yeeres, and protestedst among them by thy Spirite, euen by the hande of thy Prophets, but they woulde not heare: therefore gauest thou them into the hande of the people of the lands.

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:9:33 @ 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:9:35 @ And they haue not serued thee in their kingdome, and in thy great goodnesse that thou shewedst vnto them, & in the large and fat lande which thou diddest set before them, and haue not conuerted from their euill workes.

geneva@Nehemiah:10:28 @ And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the (note:)Read (Ezr_2:43).(:note) Nethinims, and all they that had Who being idolaters forsook their wickedness and gave themselves to serve God. separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

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:10:31 @ And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, (note:)Which nonetheless they broke soon after, (Neh_13:15).(:note) [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

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: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:11:9 @ And Ioel the sonne of Zichri was gouernour ouer them: and Iudah, the sonne of Senuah was the second ouer the citie:

geneva@Nehemiah:11:20 @ And the (note:)Of them who dwelt not in Jerusalem.(:note) residue of Israel, of the priests, [and] the Levites, [were] in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:23 @ For it was the Kings commandement cocerning them, that faithfull prouision shoulde bee for the singers euery day.

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:12:9 @ Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, [were] over against them in the (note:)They kept the wards and watches according to their turns, (2Ch_23:6).(:note) watches.

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:12:27 @ And in the dedication of the wall at Ierusalem they sought the Leuites out of all their places to bring them to Ierusalem to keepe the dedication and gladnes, both with thanksgiuings & with songs, cymbales, violes and with harpes.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:28 @ And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of (note:)Who were a certain family and had their possessions in the fields, (1Ch_2:54).(:note) Netophathi;

geneva@Nehemiah:12:29 @ And from the house of Gilgal, and out of the countreis of Geba, and Azmaueth: for the singers had built them villages round about Ierusalem.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:31 @ Then (note:)Meaning, Nehemiah.(:note) I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great [companies of them that gave] thanks, [whereof one] went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

geneva@Nehemiah:12:32 @ And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the princes of Iudah,

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:12:40 @ So stood the two companies (of them that gaue thankes) in the house of God, and I and the halfe of the rulers with me.

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:12:47 @ And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified [holy things] unto the Levites; and the Levites (note:)That is, the tenth part of the tithes.(:note) sanctified [them] unto the children of Aaron.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:2 @ Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: and our God turned the curse into a blessing.

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:13:9 @ And I commanded them to clense ye chambers: and thither brought I againe the vessels of the house of God with the meate offring and the incense.

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:13:15 @ 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:13:17 @ Then reprooued I the rulers of Iudah, and sayd vnto them, What euil thing is this that yee doe, and breake the Sabbath day?

geneva@Nehemiah:13:21 @ And I protested among them, and said vnto them, Why tary ye all night about the wall? If ye do it once againe, I will lay hands vpon you. from that time came they no more on the Sabbath.

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:13:25 @ And I contended with them, and (note:)That is, I excommunicated them and drove them out of the congregation.(:note) cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:29 @ Remember them, O my God, because they have (note:)Punish them according to their sin and the evil example they have given to the rest of the people contrary to their calling.(:note) defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:30 @ Then cleansed I them from all strangers, and appoynted the wardes of the Priestes and of the Leuites, euery one in his office,

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:1:7 @ 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:2:2 @ And the Kings seruants that ministred vnto him, sayd, Let them seeke for the King beautifull yong virgins,

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:2:15 @ 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: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:3:8 @ 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:3:13 @ 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: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:4:17 @ 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:5:8 @ 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:5:11 @ And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had (note:)Thus the wicked when they are promoted instead of acknowledging their charge and humbling themselves, wax ambitious, disdainful and cruel.(:note) promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

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:6:9 @ And let the raiment and the horse be deliuered by the hand of one of the Kings most noble princes, & let them apparel the man (whome the King will honour) and cause him to ride vpon the horse thorow the streete of the citie, and proclayme before him, Thus shall it be done vnto the man, whome the King will honour.

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: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:8:13 @ 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:8:17 @ 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:9:3 @ And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, (note:)Honoured them and befriended them.(:note) helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

geneva@Esther:9:5 @ Thus the Jews smote all their (note:)Who had conspired their death by the permission of the wicked Haman.(:note) enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

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:9:18 @ 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:9:21 @ Inioyning them that they shoulde keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, euery yeere.

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:9:26 @ Therfore they called these dayes Purim, by the name of Pur, & because of all the wordes of this letter, & of that which they had seene besides this, and of that which had come vnto 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:9:28 @ And that these dayes shoulde be remembred, and kept throughout euery generation and euery familie, and euery prouince, and euery citie: euen these daies of Purim should not faile among the Iewes, and the memoriall of them should not perish from their seede.

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: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:1:4 @ And his sonnes went & banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, & called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.

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:1:15 @ And the (note:)That is, the Arabians.(:note) Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

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: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:2:9 @ 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:3:5 @ Let darkness and the (note:)That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they are in it.(:note) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

geneva@Job:3:8 @ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are (note:)Who curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse on this night.(:note) ready to raise up their mourning.

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:4:10 @ The roaring of the (note:)Though men according to their office do not punish tyrants (whom for their cruelty he compares to lions, and their children to their whelps) yet God is able and his justice will punish them.(:note) lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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:4:20 @ They are destroyed from (note:)They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them.(:note) morning to evening: they perish for ever No man for all this considers it. without any regarding [it].

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:5:4 @ 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:5:11 @ And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

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: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:6:19 @ 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:6:21 @ 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: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:9:5 @ He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

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: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:12:7 @ 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:12:15 @ Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.

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:12:24 @ He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.

geneva@Job:14:17 @ My transgression [is] sealed up in a (note:)You lay them all together and do not allow any of my sins to go unpunished.(:note) bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

geneva@Job:14:21 @ And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,

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: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:17:2 @ [Are there] not (note:)Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.(:note) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in I see still that they seek but to vex me. their provocation?

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:17:14 @ I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my (note:)I have no more hope in father, mother, sister, or any worldly thing: for the dust and worms will be to me instead of them.(:note) father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.

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

geneva@Job: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:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked (note:)Job proves against his adversaries that God does not punish the wicked immediately, but often gives them long life and prosperity, so we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eyes.(:note) live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

geneva@Job:21:8 @ Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

geneva@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

geneva@Job:21:16 @ Lo, their good [is] not in their (note:)It is not their own, but God only lends it to them.(:note) hand: the counsel of the wicked God keep me from their prosperity. is far from me.

geneva@Job:21:17 @ How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

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:21:29 @ 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: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:22:15 @ Hast thou marked the old way (note:)How God has punished them from the beginning?(:note) which wicked men have trodden?

geneva@Job:22:17 @ 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:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves (note:)And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces.(:note) together.

geneva@Job:24:5 @ 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:24:12 @ Men (note:)For the great oppression and extortion.(:note) groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God Cry out and call for vengeance. layeth not folly [to them].

geneva@Job:24:16 @ They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

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:25:5 @ Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, (note:)If God shows his power, the moon and stars cannot have the light which is given to them, much less can man have any excellency but from God.(:note) the stars are not pure in his sight.

geneva@Job:26:8 @ He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them.

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

geneva@Job:27:14 @ If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

geneva@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

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:29:22 @ After my words they spake not again; and my speech (note:)That is, was pleasant to them.(:note) dropped upon them.

geneva@Job:29:24 @ [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:30:5 @ 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:30:7 @ They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

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:30:13 @ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (note:)They need no one to help them.(:note) helper.

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:30:28 @ 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:30:31 @ Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

geneva@Job:31:13 @ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they (note:)When they thought themselves evil intreated by me.(:note) contended with me;

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: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:33:16 @ Then he openeth the ears of men, and (note:)That is, determined to send on them.(:note) sealeth their instruction,

geneva@Job:33:22 @ Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life (note:)To them that will bury him.(:note) to the destroyers.

geneva@Job:33:24 @ Then he is (note:)He shows that it is a sure token of God's mercy toward sinners, when he causes his word to be preached to them.(:note) gracious unto him, and saith, That is, the minister will by the preaching of the word pronounce to him the forgiveness of his sins. Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

geneva@Job:34:25 @ Therefore he knoweth their (note:)Make it known that they are wicked.(:note) works, and he overturneth [them] in the Declare the things that were hid. night, so that they are destroyed.

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: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:36:7 @ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with (note:)He prefers the godly to honour.(:note) kings [are they] on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

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:36:10 @ He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne fro iniquity.

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:36:19 @ Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

geneva@Job:36:25 @ Every man may see it; man may behold [it] (note:)The works of God are revealed, that a man may see them afar off, and know God by the same.(:note) afar off.

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

geneva@Job:37:2 @ Hear attentively the (note:)That is the thunder, by which he speaks to men to waken their dullness, and to bring them to the consideration of his works.(:note) noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.

geneva@Job:37:4 @ After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay (note:)Meaning, the rains and thunders.(:note) them when his voice is heard.

geneva@Job:37:7 @ He (note:)By rains and thunders God causes men to keep themselves within their houses.(:note) sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

geneva@Job:37:12 @ And it is turned about by his gouernment, that they may doe whatsoeuer he commandeth them vpon the whole worlde:

geneva@Job:37:15 @ Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the (note:)That is, the lightning to break forth in the clouds?(:note) light of his cloud to shine?

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:38:13 @ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be (note:)Who having in the night been given to wickedness, cannot abide the light, but hide themselves.(:note) shaken out of it?

geneva@Job:38:23 @ Which I have reserved (note:)To punish my enemies with them, (Exo_9:18; Jos_10:11).(:note) against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

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:39:4 @ {\cf2 (39:7)} Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

geneva@Job:39:14 @ Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and (note:)They write that the ostrich covers her eggs in the sand, and because the country is hot and the sun still keeps them warm, they are hatched.(:note) warmeth them in dust,

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: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:40:13 @ Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind (note:)Cause them to die if you can.(:note) their faces in secret.

geneva@Job:41:16 @ {\cf2 (41:7)} One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.

geneva@Job:41:23 @ {\cf2 (41:14)} The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.

geneva@Job:41:25 @ {\cf2 (41:16)} The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.

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:42:15 @ 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:2:4 @ But he that dwelleth in the heauen, shall laugh: the Lord shall haue them in derision.

geneva@Psalms:2:9 @ Thou shalt krush them with a scepter of yron, and breake them in pieces like a potters vessell.

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: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:5:6 @ Thou shalt destroy them that speake lyes: the Lorde will abhorre the bloodie man and deceitfull.

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:5:11 @ But (note:)Your favour toward me will confirm the faith of all others.(:note) let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

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:7:13 @ Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.

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:9:13 @ Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee, thou that liftest me vp from the gates of death,

geneva@Psalms:9:20 @ Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] (note:)Which they cannot learn without the fear of your judgment.(:note) men. Selah.

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

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

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

geneva@Psalms:11:2 @ For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:12:4 @ Who have said, (note:)They think themselves able to persuade whatever they take in hand.(:note) With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?

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:14:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.» The fool hath said in his heart, (note:)He shows that the cause of all wickedness if forgetting God.(:note) [There is] no God. They are There is nothing but disorder and wickedness among them. corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.

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

geneva@Psalms:16:3 @ But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.

geneva@Psalms:17:7 @ Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that (note:)For all rebel against you, who trouble your Church.(:note) rise up [against them].

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:18:14 @ Yea, he sent out (note:)His lightening.(:note) his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

geneva@Psalms:18:17 @ He delivered me from my (note:)That is, Saul.(:note) strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were Therefore God sent me help. too strong for me.

geneva@Psalms:18:38 @ I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

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:18:44 @ 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:18:45 @ The strangers shall (note:)Fear will cause them to be afraid and come forth from their secret holes and holds to seek pardon.(:note) fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

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:19:11 @ Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great (note:)For God accepts our endeavour though it is far from perfect.(:note) reward.

geneva@Psalms:19:13 @ Keep back thy servant also from (note:)Which are done purposely and from malice.(:note) presumptuous [sins]; let them not have dominion over me: If you suppress my wicked affections by your Holy Spirit. then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

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:21:12 @ 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:22:4 @ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.

geneva@Psalms:22:18 @ They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.

geneva@Psalms:22:25 @ My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my (note:)Which were sacrifices of thanksgiving which they offered by God's commandment, when they were delivered out of any great danger.(:note) vows before them that fear him.

geneva@Psalms:22:27 @ All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

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:24:6 @ This [is] the (note:)Though circumcision separates the carnal seed of Jacob, from the Gentiles, yet he who seeks God, is the true Jacob and an Israelite.(:note) generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

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:25:8 @ Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he (note:)That is, call them to repentance.(:note) teach sinners in the way.

geneva@Psalms:25:9 @ The meek will he (note:)He will govern and comfort them that are truly humbled for their sins.(:note) guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

geneva@Psalms:25:14 @ The (note:)His counsel contained in his word, by which he declares that he is the protector of the faithful.(:note) secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

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:28:1 @ A Psalme of Dauid. Vnto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.

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:28:9 @ Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance: feede them also, and exalt them for euer.

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:29:6 @ He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and (note:)Called also Hermon.(:note) Sirion like a young unicorn.

geneva@Psalms:29:9 @ The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to (note:)For fear makes them deliver their calves.(:note) calve, and Makes the trees bare, or pierces the most secret places. discovereth the forests: and in his Though the wicked are not moved by these lights, yet the faithful praise God. temple doth every one speak of [his] glory.

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:30:4 @ Sing unto the LORD, O ye (note:)The word signifies them who have received mercy, and show mercy liberally to others.(:note) saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

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:31:15 @ My (note:)Whatever changes come, you govern them by your providence.(:note) times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

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:31:20 @ Thou shalt hide them in the (note:)That is, in a place where they will have your comfort, and be hid safely from the enemies pride.(:note) secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

geneva@Psalms:32:8 @ I will (note:)David promises to make the rest of God's children partakers of the benefits which he felt, and that he will diligently look and take care to direct them in the way of salvation.(:note) instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

geneva@Psalms:33:1 @ Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is (note:)It is the duty of the godly to set forth the praises of God for his mercy and power showed to them.(:note) comely for the upright.

geneva@Psalms:33:6 @ By the worde of the Lorde were the heauens made, & all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.

geneva@Psalms:33:8 @ Let all the earth feare the Lord: let al them that dwell in the world, feare him.

geneva@Psalms:33:14 @ From the habitation of his dwelling he beholdeth all them that dwell in the earth.

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:33:19 @ To deliuer their soules from death, and to preserue them in famine.

geneva@Psalms:34:7 @ The (note:)Though God's power is sufficient to govern us, yet for man's infirmity he appoints his angels to watch over us.(:note) angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

geneva@Psalms:34:9 @ Feare the Lord, ye his Saintes: for nothing wanteth to them that feare him.

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:34:16 @ The (note:)The anger of God not only destroys the wicked, but also abolishes their name forever.(:note) face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

geneva@Psalms:34:17 @ The righteous crie, and the Lorde heareth them, and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.

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:34:19 @ Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.

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:35:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Plead [my (note:)He desires God to undertake his cause against them who persecute him and slander him.(:note) cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

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:35:4 @ Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.

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:35:6 @ Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute 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:35:15 @ 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:35:19 @ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them (note:)In token of contempt and mocking.(:note) wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

geneva@Psalms:35:24 @ Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy (note:)It is the justice of God to give to the oppressors affliction and torment, and to the oppressed aid and relief, (2Th_1:6).(:note) righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

geneva@Psalms:35:25 @ Let them not say in their hearts, (note:)Because we have that which we sought for, seeing he is destroyed.(:note) Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

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:36:10 @ O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that (note:)He shows who God's children are, that is, they who know him, and live their lives uprightly.(:note) know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:37:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Fret not (note:)He admonishes us neither to vex ourselves for the prosperous estate of the wicked, or to desire to be like them to make our estate better.(:note) thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:37:18 @ The LORD (note:)God knows what dangers hang over his, and by what means to deliver them.(:note) knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

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:37:39 @ 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:37:40 @ For the Lord shall helpe them, and deliuer them: he shall deliuer them from the wicked, and shall saue them, because they trust in him.

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:39:6 @ Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

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:39:13 @ 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:40:5 @ 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:40:14 @ 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:40:15 @ Let them be (note:)Let the same shame and confusion come on them, which they intended to have brought on me.(:note) desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

geneva@Psalms:41:10 @ Therefore, O Lord, haue mercy vpon mee, and raise me vp: so I shall reward them.

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:42:4 @ When I remember (note:)That is, how I led the people to serve you in your tabernacle, and now seeing my contrary estate, I die for sorrow.(:note) these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

geneva@Psalms:43:3 @ O send out thy (note:)That is, your favour which appears by the performance of your promises.(:note) light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

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:44:3 @ For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a (note:)God's free mercy and love is the only fountain and beginning of the Church, (Deu_4:37).(:note) favour unto them.

geneva@Psalms:44:7 @ But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs.

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:44:13 @ Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.

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:44:22 @ 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:45:4 @ And in thy majesty (note:)He alludes to them, who ride in chariots in their triumphs, showing that the quiet state of a kingdom stands in truth, meekness and justice, and not in worldly pomp and vanity.(:note) ride prosperously because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

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: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:48:6 @ Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

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:49:18 @ 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:50:18 @ 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:51:4 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou (note:)When you give sentence against sinners, they must confess you to be just, and themselves sinners.(:note) speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.

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:54:3 @ 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:54:5 @ He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy (note:)According to your faithful promise for my defence.(:note) truth.

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:55:19 @ God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they (note:)But their prosperous estate still continues.(:note) have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

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:55:23 @ But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out (note:)Though they sometimes live longer, yet their life is cursed by God, unquiet, and worse than any death.(:note) half their days; but I will trust in thee.

geneva@Psalms:57:4 @ My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] (note:)He means their slanderous and false reports.(:note) spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

geneva@Psalms:57:6 @ They have prepared a net for my steps; (note:)For fear, seeing the great dangers on all sides.(:note) my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

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:58:8 @ Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.

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:59:3 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my (note:)For I am innocent toward them, and have not offended them.(:note) transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:59:4 @ They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.

geneva@Psalms:59:8 @ But thou, O Lord, shalt haue them in derision, and thou shalt laugh at all the heathen.

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

geneva@Psalms: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: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:60:9 @ 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:62:9 @ Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

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:63:11 @ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that (note:)All who swear by God correctly or profess him will rejoice in this worthy king.(:note) sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

geneva@Psalms:64:5 @ They (note:)The more the wicked set God's children in misery, the more bold and impudent are they in oppressing them.(:note) encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

geneva@Psalms:64:6 @ They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one (note:)There is no way so secret and subtle to do hurt, which they did not invent for his destruction.(:note) [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

geneva@Psalms:64:7 @ But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

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:65:5 @ [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:65:9 @ 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: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:66:7 @ 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:66:9 @ Which (note:)He signifies some special benefit that God had showed to his Church of the Jews, in delivering them from some great danger: of which he promises that the Gentiles will also be partakers.(:note) holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

geneva@Psalms:67:2 @ That (note:)That both Jews and Gentiles may know God's covenant made with them.(:note) thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

geneva@Psalms:67:7 @ God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth (note:)When they feel his great benefits both spiritual and corporal toward them.(:note) shall fear him.

geneva@Psalms:68:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David.» Let God (note:)The prophet shows that even though God permits the wicked tyrants to oppress his Church for a time, yet eventually he will take revenge on them.(:note) arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

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:68:17 @ 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:68:24 @ They have seen (note:)That is, how you who are chief King goes out with your people to war, and gives them the victory.(:note) thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

geneva@Psalms:68:25 @ The (note:)He describes the order of the people, when they went to the temple to give thanks for the victory.(:note) singers went before, the players on instruments [followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.

geneva@Psalms:68:30 @ Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one] (note:)He desires that the pride of the mighty may be destroyed, who were accustomed to garnishing their shoes with silver, and therefore for their glittering pomp thought themselves above all men.(:note) submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war.

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:69:5 @ O God, thou knowest my (note:)Though I am guilty toward you, yet I am innocent toward them.(:note) foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

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:69:11 @ I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.

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:69:14 @ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the (note:)He shows a living faith, in that he believes that God is favourable towards him when he seems to be angry and at hand when he seems to be far off.(:note) deep waters.

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

geneva@Psalms:69:23 @ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their (note:)Take both judgment and power from them, (Act_1:20).(:note) loins continually to shake.

geneva@Psalms:69:24 @ Powre out thine anger vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take them.

geneva@Psalms:69:25 @ Let their (note:)Punish not only them, but their posterity, who will be like them.(:note) habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.

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:69:34 @ Let heauen and earth praise him: the seas and all that moueth in them.

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:70:3 @ Let them be turned back for a reward of their (note:)By this we are taught not to mock at others in their misery, lest the same fall on our own necks.(:note) shame that say, Aha, aha.

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:71:13 @ Let them be confounded & consumed that are against my soule: let them be couered with reproofe and confusion, that seeke mine hurt.

geneva@Psalms:71:15 @ My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; (note:)Because your benefits toward me are innumerable, I cannot but continually meditate and rehearse them.(:note) for I know not the numbers [thereof].

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:73:9 @ 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:73:10 @ Therefore his (note:)Not only the reprobate, but also the people of God often fall back seeing the prosperous estate of the wicked, and are overwhelmed with sorrows, thinking that God does not correctly consider the estate of the godly.(:note) people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.

geneva@Psalms:73:18 @ Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

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:74:8 @ They said in their (note:)They encouraged one another to cruelty, that not only God's people might be destroyed, but also his religion utterly in all places suppressed.(:note) hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

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:74:14 @ 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:74:23 @ 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:75:3 @ The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars (note:)Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can restore and preserve them.(:note) of it. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:75:5 @ Lift not up your (note:)The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who rule wickedly.(:note) horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.

geneva@Psalms:75:8 @ For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a (note:)God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate wine, with which the wicked are made so drunk that by drinking till they come to the very dregs they are utterly destroyed.(:note) cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].

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: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:77:19 @ 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:78:4 @ Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, & his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:

geneva@Psalms:78:5 @ For he established a (note:)By the testimony and law, he means your law written, which they were commanded to teach their children, (Deu_6:7).(:note) testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

geneva@Psalms:78:6 @ That the (note:)He shows how the children would be like their father's: that is, in maintaining God's pure religion.(:note) generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:

geneva@Psalms:78:11 @ And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.

geneva@Psalms:78:13 @ He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

geneva@Psalms:78:14 @ In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.

geneva@Psalms:78:15 @ He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

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:78:24 @ And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.

geneva@Psalms:78:25 @ Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.

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:78:29 @ So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.

geneva@Psalms:78:31 @ The wrath of God came upon them, and slew (note:)Though others were not spared, yet chiefly they suffered, who trusted in their strength against God.(:note) the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.

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:78:38 @ 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:78:42 @ They (note:)The forgetfulness of God's benefits is the root of rebellion and all vice.(:note) remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

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:78:49 @ 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:78:52 @ But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, & led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

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:78:60 @ 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:78:61 @ And delivered his (note:)The Ark is called his power and beauty because by this he defended his people, and beautifully appeared to them.(:note) strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

geneva@Psalms:78:66 @ And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

geneva@Psalms:78:69 @ And he (note:)By building the temple, and establishing the kingdom, he declares that the signs of his favour were among them.(:note) built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.

geneva@Psalms:78:72 @ So (note:)He shows where a kings charge stands: that is, to provide faithfully for his people, to guide them by counsel, and defend them by power.(:note) he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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:79:4 @ We are become a reproach to our (note:)Of which some came from Abraham but were degenerate: and others were open enemies to your religion, but they both laughed at our miseries.(:note) neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

geneva@Psalms:80:5 @ Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.

geneva@Psalms:80:6 @ Thou makest us a (note:)Our neighbours have continual strife and war against us.(:note) strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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: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:81:12 @ So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnes of their heart, & they haue walked in their owne cousels.

geneva@Psalms:81:15 @ The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time (note:)If the Israelites had not broken covenant with God, he would have given them victory against their enemies.(:note) should have endured for ever.

geneva@Psalms:81:16 @ He should have fed them also with the (note:)That is, with most fine wheat and abundance of honey.(:note) finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

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

geneva@Psalms:83:2 @ For, lo, thine (note:)He calls them God's enemies, who are enemies of his Church.(:note) enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

geneva@Psalms:83:3 @ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy (note:)The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserves them from all dangers.(:note) hidden ones.

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:83:8 @ 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:83:11 @ Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.

geneva@Psalms:83:12 @ Who said, Let us take to ourselves the (note:)That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there he dwells among them.(:note) houses of God in possession.

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:83:15 @ So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.

geneva@Psalms:83:17 @ Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,

geneva@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed [is] the man whose (note:)Who trusts nothing in himself but in you only, and learns from you to rule his life.(:note) strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them].

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:85:2 @ 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:85:5 @ 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:85:9 @ Surely his saluation is neere to them that feare him, that glory may dwell in our land.

geneva@Psalms:86:2 @ Preserve my soul; for I [am] (note:)I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me.(:note) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

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

geneva@Psalms: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: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:87:6 @ 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:88:4 @ I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

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:88:10 @ Wilt thou shew (note:)He shows that the time is more convenient for God to help when men call to him in their dangers, than to tarry till they are dead, and then raise them up again.(:note) wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

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:89:7 @ 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:89:12 @ 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:89:16 @ They shall reioyce continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousnes shall they exalt them selues.

geneva@Psalms:89:23 @ And I will (note:)Though there will always be enemies against God's kingdom yet he promises to overcome them.(:note) beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

geneva@Psalms:89:51 @ Wherewith (note:)So he calls them who persecute the Church.(:note) thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the They laugh at us who patiently wait for the coming of your Christ. footsteps of thine anointed.

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:92:2 @ To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the (note:)For God's mercy and fidelity in his promises toward his, bind them to praise him continually both day and night.(:note) morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

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

geneva@Psalms:94:3 @ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked (note:)That is, brag of their cruelty and oppression, or esteem themselves above all others.(:note) triumph?

geneva@Psalms:94:4 @ They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.

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:94:21 @ They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

geneva@Psalms:94:23 @ And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall (note:)It is a great token of God's judgment when the purpose of the wicked is broken, but most, when they are destroyed in their own malice.(:note) cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD our God shall cut them off.

geneva@Psalms:95:6 @ O come, let us (note:)By these three words he signifies one thing: meaning that they must wholly give themselves to serve God.(:note) worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

geneva@Psalms:95:11 @ Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into (note:)That is, into the land of Canaan, where he promised them rest.(:note) my rest.

geneva@Psalms:96:10 @ Say among the (note:)He prophecies that the Gentiles will be partakers with the Jews of God's promise.(:note) heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people He will regenerate them anew with his Spirit, and restore them to the image of God. righteously.

geneva@Psalms:97:4 @ His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and (note:)This fear does not bring the wicked to true obedience, but makes them run away from God.(:note) trembled.

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:97:10 @ Ye that (note:)He requires two things from his children: the one that they detest vice, the other, that they put their trust in God for their deliverance.(:note) love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:99:3 @ Let them (note:)Though the wicked rage against God, the godly will praise his Name and mighty power.(:note) praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.

geneva@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron among his priests, (note:)Under these three he comprehends the whole people of Israel, with whom God made his promise.(:note) and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

geneva@Psalms:99:7 @ Hee spake vnto them in the cloudie pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the Lawe that he gaue them.

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: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:101:5 @ Whoso privily (note:)In promising to punish these vices, which are most pernicious in them that are about Kings, he declares that he will punish all.(:note) slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

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:103:13 @ As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him.

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: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:104:12 @ By (note:)There is no part of the world so barren where most evident signs of God's blessing do not appear.(:note) them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, [which] sing among the branches.

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:104:28 @ Thou giuest it to them, and they gather it: thou openest thine hand, and they are filled with good things.

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:105:3 @ Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:105:14 @ He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved (note:)That is, the king of Egypt and the king of Gerar, (Gen_12:17, Gen_20:3)(:note) kings for their sakes;

geneva@Psalms:105:17 @ But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.

geneva@Psalms:105:24 @ And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.

geneva@Psalms:105:27 @ They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.

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:105:37 @ 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:105:44 @ And gaue them the lands of the heathen, and they tooke the labours of the people in possession,

geneva@Psalms:106:6 @ We have (note:)By earnest confession of their sins and of their father's, they show that they hoped that God according to his promise would pity them.(:note) sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

geneva@Psalms:106:8 @ Nevertheless he (note:)The inestimable goodness of God appears in this, that he would rather change the order of nature than have his people not be delivered, even though they were wicked.(:note) saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

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:106:10 @ And he saued them from ye aduersaries hand, and deliuered them from ye hand of the enemie.

geneva@Psalms:106:11 @ And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.

geneva@Psalms:106:12 @ Then (note:)The wonderful words of God caused them to believe for a time, and to praise him.(:note) believed they his words; they sang his praise.

geneva@Psalms:106:15 @ And he gave them their request; but sent (note:)The abundance that God gave them did not profit, but made them pine away, because God cursed it.(:note) leanness into their soul.

geneva@Psalms:106:23 @ Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had (note:)If Moses, by his intercession, had not obtained God's favour against their rebellion.(:note) not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].

geneva@Psalms:106:26 @ Therefore (note:)That is, he swore. Sometimes also it means to punish.(:note) he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

geneva@Psalms:106:27 @ And to destroy their seede among the nations, & to scatter them throughout the countries.

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:106:29 @ Thus they (note:)Signifying that whatever man invents of himself to serve God by, is detestable and provokes his anger.(:note) provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

geneva@Psalms:106:34 @ Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commaunded them,

geneva@Psalms:106:41 @ And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lordes ouer them.

geneva@Psalms:106:42 @ Their enemies also oppressed them, & they were humbled vnder their hand.

geneva@Psalms:106:43 @ Many (note:)The prophet shows that neither by menace nor promise we can come to God, unless we are altogether newly reformed, and his mercy covers and hides our malice.(:note) times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:106:45 @ And he remembered for them his covenant, and (note:)Not that God is changeable in himself, but that then he seems to us to repent when he alters his punishment, and forgives us.(:note) repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

geneva@Psalms:106:46 @ And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.

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:107:6 @ Then they cried vnto the Lorde in their trouble, & he deliuered them from their distresse,

geneva@Psalms:107:7 @ And led them forth by the right way, that they might goe to a citie of habitation.

geneva@Psalms:107:8 @ Let them therefore confesse before ye Lorde his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

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:107:13 @ 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:107:15 @ Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

geneva@Psalms:107:19 @ Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliuereth them from their distresse.

geneva@Psalms:107:21 @ Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, & his wonderful workes before the sonnes of men,

geneva@Psalms:107:22 @ And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of (note:)Praise and confession of God's benefits are the true sacrifices of the godly.(:note) thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

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:107:27 @ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and (note:)When their art and means fail them, they are compelled to confess that only God's providence preserves them.(:note) are at their wits' end.

geneva@Psalms:107:28 @ Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresse.

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:107:31 @ Let them therfore confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

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:107:34 @ And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:107:38 @ For he blesseth them, & they multiplie exceedingly, and he diminisheth not their cattell.

geneva@Psalms:107:40 @ He poureth (note:)For their wickedness and tyranny he causes the people and subjects to contemn them.(:note) contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.

geneva@Psalms:109:15 @ But let them alway be before the Lorde, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.

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

geneva@Psalms:109:20 @ [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries (note:)For being destitute of man's help, he fully trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him.(:note) from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

geneva@Psalms:109:25 @ I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

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

geneva@Psalms: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:111:5 @ 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:111:6 @ He hath shewed to his people the power of his workes in giuing vnto them the heritage of the heathen.

geneva@Psalms:112:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] (note:)He means that reverent fear which is in the children of God, which causes them to delight only in the word of God.(:note) feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.

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: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:115:1 @ Not (note:)Because God promised to deliver them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, (Isa_48:11), therefore they ground their prayer on this promise.(:note) unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.

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:115:13 @ He will blesse them that feare the Lorde, both small and great.

geneva@Psalms:116:5 @ Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God [is] (note:)He shows forth the fruit of his love in calling on him, confessing him to be just and merciful and to help them who are destitute of aid and counsel.(:note) merciful.

geneva@Psalms:118:4 @ Let them, that feare the Lorde, nowe say, That his mercie endureth for euer.

geneva@Psalms:118:7 @ The Lorde is with mee among them that helpe me: therefore shall I see my desire vpon mine enemies.

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:118:19 @ Open to me the (note:)He wills the doors of the tabernacle to be opened, that he may declare his thankful mind.(:note) gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:

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:119:1 @ ALEPH. Blessed [are] (note:)Here they are not called blessed who think themselves wise in their own judgment, nor who imagine to themselves a certain holiness, but they whose conversation is without hypocrisy.(:note) the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:119:9 @ BETH. Wherewithal shall a (note:)Because youth is most given to licentiousness, he chiefly warns them to frame their lives after God's word.(:note) young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto] according to thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:45 @ And I will (note:)They who simply walk after God's word have no nets to entangle them, while they who do contrary are ever in nets and snares.(:note) walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

geneva@Psalms:119:63 @ I [am] a (note:)Not only in mutual consent, but also with aid and help.(:note) companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

geneva@Psalms:119:74 @ They that (note:)When God shows his grace toward any, he testifies to others that he does not fail them who trust in him.(:note) fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:84 @ How many [are] the (note:)How long will you afflict your servant.(:note) days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

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:119:91 @ They (note:)Seeing the earth and all creatures remain in that estate in which you have created them, much more your truth remains constant and unchangeable.(:note) continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all [are] thy servants.

geneva@Psalms:119:93 @ I wil neuer forget thy precepts: for by them thou hast quickened me.

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

geneva@Psalms:119:118 @ 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:119:129 @ PE. Thy testimonies [are] (note:)Containing high and secret mysteries, so that I am moved with admiration and reverence.(:note) wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

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:119:165 @ 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:119:167 @ My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.

geneva@Psalms:122:6 @ Pray for the peace of Ierusalem: let them prosper that loue thee.

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:124:7 @ 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:125:3 @ For the (note:)Though God permits his to be under the cross lest they embrace wickedness, yet this cross will not so rest on them, that it should drive them from hope.(:note) rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

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: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:127:5 @ 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:128:2 @ For thou shalt eat the labour of thine (note:)The world esteems them happy who live in wealth and idleness but the Holy Spirit approves them best who live of the mean profit of their labours.(:note) hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.

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: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:135:18 @ They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

geneva@Psalms:136:11 @ And (note:)God's merciful providence toward man appears in all his creatures, but chiefly in that he delivered his Church from the clutches of their enemies.(:note) brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

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:138:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the (note:)Even in the presence of angels and of them who have authority among men.(:note) gods will I sing praise unto thee.

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:139:17 @ How (note:)How should we esteem the excellent declaration of your wisdom in the creation of man?(:note) precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

geneva@Psalms:139:18 @ [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, (note:)I continually see new opportunity to meditate in your wisdom, and to praise you.(:note) I am still with thee.

geneva@Psalms:139:21 @ Do not I (note:)He teaches us boldly to contemn all the hatred of the wicked and friendship of the world, when they would prevent us from serving God sincerely.(:note) hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

geneva@Psalms:139:22 @ I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

geneva@Psalms:140:3 @ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; (note:)He shows the weapons the wicked use, when power and force fail them.(:note) adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:140:8 @ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: (note:)For it is in God's hand to overthrow the counsels and enterprises of the wicked.(:note) further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.

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:141:10 @ Let the wicked fall into (note:)Into God's nets, by which he catches the wicked in their own malice.(:note) their own nets, So that none of them escape. whilst that I withal escape.

geneva@Psalms:143:7 @ Heare me speedily, O Lorde, for my spirit fayleth: hide not thy face from me, els I shall be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.

geneva@Psalms:143:12 @ And of thy mercy (note:)Which will be a sign of your fatherly kindness toward me.(:note) cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I [am] thy Resigning myself wholly to you, and trusting in your protection. servant.

geneva@Psalms:144:3 @ LORD, what [is] man, that thou (note:)To give to God just praise, is to confess ourselves to be unworthy of so excellent benefits, and that he bestows them on us of his free mercy.(:note) takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

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:144:15 @ 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:145:14 @ The LORD upholdeth all that (note:)Who being in misery and affliction would faint and fall away if God did not uphold them, and therefore they should revere him who reigns in heaven and suffer themselves to be governed by him.(:note) fall, and raiseth up all [those that be] bowed down.

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:145:17 @ The LORD [is] (note:)He praises God, not only because he is beneficial to all his creatures, but also in that he justly punishes the wicked, and mercifully examines his by the cross, giving them strength and delivering them.(:note) righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

geneva@Psalms:145:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in (note:)Which only belongs to the faithful: and this virtue is contrary to infidelity, doubting, impatience and murmuring.(:note) truth.

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:145:20 @ The Lorde preserueth all them that loue him: but he will destroy all the wicked.

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:146:8 @ The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD (note:)Though he visits them with affliction, hunger, imprisonment and such like, yet his fatherly love and pity never fails them, yea rather to his these are signs of his love.(:note) loveth the righteous:

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:147:9 @ 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:147:11 @ But the Lorde deliteth in them that feare him, and attende vpon his mercie.

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:147:18 @ He sendeth his worde and melteth them: he causeth his winde to blowe, and the waters flowe.

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:148:2 @ Praise ye him, all (note:)Because they are members of the same body, he sets them before our eyes, who are most willing and by their prompt obedience teach us to do our duty.(:note) his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

geneva@Psalms:148:5 @ Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commauded, and they were created.

geneva@Psalms:148:6 @ And he hath established them for euer and euer: he hath made an ordinance, which shall not passe.

geneva@Psalms:148:13 @ Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for his Name onely is to be exalted, and his prayse aboue the earth and the heauens.

geneva@Psalms:149:3 @ Let them prayse his Name with the flute: let them sing prayses vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.

geneva@Psalms:149:5 @ Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their (note:)He alludes to that continual rest and quietness which they should have if they would suffer God to rule them.(:note) beds.

geneva@Psalms:149:9 @ To execute upon them the judgment (note:)By this God binds the hands and minds of all his to enterprise no farther than he appoints.(:note) written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

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:1:12 @ 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:1:15 @ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their (note:)That is, have nothing at all to do with them.(:note) path:

geneva@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore shall they eat of the (note:)They will feel what convenience their wicked life will give them.(:note) fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

geneva@Proverbs:1:32 @ For (note:)That is, the prosperity and sensuality in which they delight.(:note) the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

geneva@Proverbs:2:1 @ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and (note:)That is, keep them in your heart.(:note) hide my commandments with thee;

geneva@Proverbs:2:7 @ He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,

geneva@Proverbs:2:18 @ For her (note:)Her acquaintance with her spirits and they that haunt her.(:note) house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto To them who are dead in body and soul. the dead.

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:3:18 @ She [is] a tree (note:)Which brings forth such fruit that they who eat of it have life and he alludes to the tree of life in paradise.(:note) of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

geneva@Proverbs:3:27 @ Withhold not good from (note:)Not only from them to whom the possession belongs but also you shall not keep it from them who have need of the use of it.(:note) them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].

geneva@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

geneva@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their (note:)That is, they will have health of body: under which all other blessings promised in the law are contained.(:note) flesh.

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:5:13 @ And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

geneva@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be only (note:)Distribute them not to the wicked and infidels, but reserve them for yourself, your family and them who are of the household of faith.(:note) thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:6:12 @ A naughty person, (note:)He shows to what inconvenience the idle persons and sluggards come, by calling them unthrifty, or the men of Belial, and slanderous.(:note) a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:21 @ Bind them continually upon thine (note:)(Pro_3:3).(:note) heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.

geneva@Proverbs:7:3 @ Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

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:7:26 @ 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:8:8 @ All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.

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:8:17 @ I love them that love me; and those that seek me (note:)That is, study the word of God diligently, and with a desire to profit.(:note) early shall find me.

geneva@Proverbs:8:21 @ That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.

geneva@Proverbs:9:8 @ Reprove not a (note:)Meaning them who are incorrigible, which Christ calls dogs and swine: or he speaks this in comparison, not that the wicked should not be rebuked, but he shows their malice, and the small hope of the profit.(:note) scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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: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:11:3 @ The vprightnes of the iust shal guide them: but the frowardnes of the transgressers shall destroy them.

geneva@Proverbs:11:6 @ The righteousnesse of the iust shall deliuer them: but the transgressers shall be taken in their owne wickednes.

geneva@Proverbs:11:26 @ He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse him: but blessing [shall be] upon the head of him that (note:)That provides for the use of them who are in need.(:note) selleth [it].

geneva@Proverbs:11:30 @ The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that (note:)That is, brings them to the knowledge of God.(:note) winneth souls [is] wise.

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:12:20 @ Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.

geneva@Proverbs:12:26 @ The righteous (note:)That is, more liberal in giving.(:note) [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

geneva@Proverbs:14:3 @ In the mouth of the foolish [is] a (note:)His proud tongue will cause him to be punished.(:note) rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

geneva@Proverbs:14:22 @ Doe not they erre that imagine euill? but to them that thinke on good things, shalbe mercie and trueth.

geneva@Proverbs:15:33 @ The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] (note:)Meaning, that God exalts no one but them that are truly humbled.(:note) humility.

geneva@Proverbs:16:11 @ A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his (note:)If they are true and just, they are God's work, and he delights in it, but otherwise if they are false, they are the work of the devil, and to their condemnation that use them.(:note) work.

geneva@Proverbs:16:22 @ Understanding [is] a wellspring of life to him that hath it: but the (note:)Either that which the wicked teach others, or else it is folly to teach them who are malicious.(:note) instruction of fools [is] folly.

geneva@Proverbs:18:16 @ A man's gift (note:)Gets him liberty to speak, and the favour of them that are esteemed.(:note) maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

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

geneva@Proverbs:20:10 @ Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (note:)Read (Pro_16:11).(:note) them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:20:26 @ A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the (note:)Which was a kind of punishment then used.(:note) wheel over them.

geneva@Proverbs:21:6 @ 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:21:12 @ The righteous [man] wisely (note:)Though the godly admonish them both by words and example of life, yet the wicked will not amend, till God destroys them.(:note) considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.

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

geneva@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that regardeth his soule, will depart farre from them.

geneva@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD preserve (note:)Favour them that love knowledge.(:note) knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

geneva@Proverbs:22:13 @ The slothful [man] saith, (note:)He derides them that invent vain excuses, because they would not do their duty.(:note) [There is] a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.

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:22:23 @ For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.

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:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties: (note:)For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.(:note) for they [are] deceitful food.

geneva@Proverbs:23:11 @ For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.

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:23:35 @ 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:24:1 @ Bee not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.

geneva@Proverbs:24:6 @ For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.

geneva@Proverbs:24:11 @ If thou refraineth to deliver [them that are] drawn to (note:)No one can be excused, if he does not help the innocent when he is in danger.(:note) death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;

geneva@Proverbs:24:21 @ My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.

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: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:26:23 @ Burning lips and (note:)They will soon break out and utter themselves.(:note) a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.

geneva@Proverbs:27:3 @ A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.

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:28:4 @ They that forsake the Law, prayse the wicked: but they that keepe the Law, set themselues against them.

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:28:13 @ He that hideth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth, and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.

geneva@Proverbs:28:28 @ When the wicked rise vp, men hide them selues: but when they perish, ye righteous increase.

geneva@Proverbs:30:7 @ Two (note:)He makes this request to God.(:note) [things] have I required of thee; deny [them] not to me before I die:

geneva@Proverbs:31:3 @ Give not thy strength to women, (note:)Meaning, that women are the destruction of kings, if they hunt them.(:note) nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

geneva@Proverbs:31:6 @ Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.

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:31:24 @ She maketh sheetes, and selleth them, and giueth girdels vnto the marchant.

geneva@Proverbs:31:29 @ Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.

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:1:15 @ [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:2:5 @ I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

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:2:14 @ 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: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:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

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: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:4:15 @ 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:5:11 @ {\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:5:13 @ 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: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:7:18 @ [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:7:21 @ 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:7:28 @ {\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: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: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:9:7 @ 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:9:11 @ 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: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: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:11:8 @ 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: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:12:3 @ 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:12:5 @ 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:12:9 @ 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@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: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: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:5:8 @ 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: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:7:13 @ The mandrakes haue giuen a smell, and in our gates are all sweete things, new and olde: my welbeloued, I haue kept them for thee.

geneva@Songs:8:12 @ But my vineyarde which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of siluer, and two hundreth to them that keepe the fruite thereof.

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:1:7 @ 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:1:11 @ 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:1:18 @ 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:1:23 @ Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of (note:)That is, they maintain the wicked and the extortioners: and not only do not punish them, but are themselves such.(:note) thieves: every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.

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:1:25 @ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, (note:)Lest the faithful among them should be overcome with his threatening he adds this consolation.(:note) and take away all thy tin:

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:2:5 @ 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:2:9 @ And the mean man boweth down, and the great man (note:)He notes the nature of the idolaters who are never satisfied in their superstitions.(:note) humbleth himself: therefore Thus the prophet spoke being inflamed with the zeal of God's glory, and that he might fear them with God's judgment. forgive them not.

geneva@Isaiah:2:14 @ And upon all the high (note:)By high trees and mountains are he means the proud and lofty, who think themselves most strong in this world.(:note) mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up,

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:3:1 @ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod (note:)Because they trusted in their abundance and prosperity he shows that they should be taken from them.(:note) and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,

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:3:4 @ And I will give (note:)Not only in age: but in manners, knowledge and strength.(:note) children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

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

geneva@Isaiah: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:4:1 @ And in that day (note:)When God will executes this vengeance there will not be one man found to be the head to many women, and they contrary to womanly shamefacedness will seek men, and offer themselves under any condition.(:note) seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only He our husband and let us be called your wives. let us be called by thy name, to take away our For so they thought it to be without a head and husband. reproach.

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:4:5 @ 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:5:5 @ And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I (note:)I will take no more care for it: meaning, that he would take from them his word and ministers and all other comforts, and feed them contrary plagues.(:note) will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:

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

geneva@Isaiah:5:11 @ 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:5:14 @ 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:5:18 @ 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:5:20 @ 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:5:21 @ Woe to [them that are] (note:)Who contemn all doctrine and admonition.(:note) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

geneva@Isaiah:5:22 @ Woe to [them that are] (note:)Who are never weary, but show their strength, and brag in gluttony and drunkenness.(:note) mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

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:5:26 @ And he will lift up an ensign (note:)He will make the Babylonians come against them at his beck, and to fight under his standard.(:note) to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

geneva@Isaiah:5:27 @ None shall (note:)They will be prompt and lusty to execute God's vengeance.(:note) be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor The enemy will have no impediment. the latchet of their shoes be broken:

geneva@Isaiah:5:30 @ And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if (note:)The Jews will find no comfort.(:note) [one] looketh to the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in its In the land of Judah. heavens.

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:6:3 @ And one cried to another, and said, (note:)This often repetition signifies that the angels cannot satisfy themselves in praising God, to teach us that in all our lives we should give ourselves to the continual praise of God.(:note) Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole His glory not only appears in the heavens but through all the world, and therefore all creatures are bound to praise him. earth [is] full of his glory.

geneva@Isaiah:6:10 @ Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.

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:7:19 @ And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all (note:)Signifying that no place will be free from them.(:note) bushes.

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:7:25 @ 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:8:7 @ 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:8:12 @ Say ye not, A (note:)Consent not you who are godly to the league and friendship that this people seek with strangers and idolaters.(:note) confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye Meaning, that they should not fear the thing that they who have no hope in God feared. their fear, nor be afraid.

geneva@Isaiah:8:15 @ And many among them shall stumble, and shal fall and shalbe broken and shalbe snared and shalbe taken.

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:8:19 @ And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that are mediums, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: (note:)Answer the wicked thus, should not God's people seek comfort only from him?(:note) should not a people seek to their God? for the That is, will they refuse to be taught by the prophet, who is the mouth of God, and seek help from the dead, which is the illusion of Satan? living to the dead?

geneva@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the (note:)Seek remedy in the word of God, where his will is declared.(:note) law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no They have no knowledge but are blind leaders of the blind. light in them.

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:8:22 @ And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and (note:)They will think that heaven and earth and all creatures are bent against them to trouble them.(:note) darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.

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:9:4 @ 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:9:8 @ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon (note:)This is another prophecy against them of Samaria who were mockers and contemners of God's promises and menaces.(:note) Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:9:10 @ The (note:)We were but weak, when the enemy overcame us, but we will make ourselves so strong, that we will neither care for our enemies, nor fear God's threatenings.(:note) bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.

geneva@Isaiah:9:13 @ For the people turneth not vnto him that smiteth them, neither doe they seeke the Lord of hostes.

geneva@Isaiah:9:16 @ For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them are deuoured.

geneva@Isaiah:10:1 @ Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that (note:)Who write and pronounce a wicked sentence to oppress the people: meaning, that the wicked magistrate, who were the chief cause of mischief, would be first punished.(:note) write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;

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:10:6 @ 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:10:15 @ 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:10:19 @ And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe, that a childe may tell them.

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:10:31 @ Madmenah is remoued: the inhabitants of Gebim haue gathered themselues together.

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

geneva@Isaiah: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:11:11 @ 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:11:14 @ 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: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:12:4 @ And ye shall say in that day, Prayse the Lord: call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people: make mention of them, for his Name is exalted.

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:13:2 @ Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the (note:)That is, the Medes and Persians.(:note) hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

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

geneva@Isaiah: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:13:10 @ For the (note:)They who are overcome will think that all the powers of heaven and earth are against them, (Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29).(:note) stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

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:13:17 @ Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde siluer, nor be desirous of golde.

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:14:2 @ And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for (note:)Signifying that the Jews would be superior to the Gentiles and that they would be brought under the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles, by which all are brought to the subjection of Christ, (2Co_10:5).(:note) servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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:14:20 @ 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:14:22 @ For I wil rise vp against them (sayth the Lorde of hostes) and will cut off from Babel the name and the remnant and the sonne, and the nephew, sayth the Lord:

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

geneva@Isaiah: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:15:7 @ Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the (note:)To hide themselves and their goods there.(:note) brook of the willows.

geneva@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dimon shall be full (note:)Of them who are slain.(:note) of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions So that by no means would they escape the hand of God: thus will God punish the enemies of his Church. upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

geneva@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send (note:)That is, offer a sacrifice, by which he derides their long delay, who would not repent when the Lord called them, showing them that it is now too late seeing the vengeance of God is on them.(:note) ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

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:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his (note:)Their vain confidence and proud bragging will deceive them, (Jer_48:2).(:note) lies [shall] not [be] so.

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:16:12 @ 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: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:17:4 @ 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:17:7 @ At that day shall a man look to his (note:)He shows that God's corrections always bring fruit, and cause his to turn from their sins and to humble themselves to him.(:note) Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

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:17:13 @ 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:18:2 @ 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:19:4 @ And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, & a mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.

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:19:14 @ 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:19:20 @ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them (note:)This declares that this prophecy would be accomplished in the time of Christ.(:note) a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

geneva@Isaiah:19:22 @ So ye Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heale it: for he shall returne vnto ye Lord, and he shall be intreated of them and shall heale them.

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:21:16 @ For thus hath the Lord said to me, Within a year, (note:)He appoints them respite for one year only, and then they would be destroyed.(:note) according to the years of an Read (Isa_16:14). hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

geneva@Isaiah:22:6 @ And Elam (note:)He reminds them how God delivered them once from Sennacherib, who brought the Persians and Syrians with him, that they might by returning to God avoid that great plague which they would suffer by Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

geneva@Isaiah:22:7 @ And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues in aray against the gate.

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:23:9 @ The Lorde of hostes hath decreed this, to staine the pride of all glorie, and to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth.

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:23:18 @ 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:24:2 @ 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:24:8 @ The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.

geneva@Isaiah:24:9 @ They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.

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: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:25:11 @ 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:26:5 @ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; (note:)There is no power so high that it can hinder God, when he will deliver his.(:note) the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust.

geneva@Isaiah:26:10 @ Let favour (note:)The wicked though God show them evident signs of his grace, will not be any better off.(:note) be shown to the wicked, [yet] he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

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:26:14 @ [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:26:16 @ 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:27:4 @ Fury (note:)Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loves his Church for his own mercies sake, and cannot be angry with it, but wishes that he may pour his anger on the wicked infidels, whom he means by briers and thorns.(:note) [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

geneva@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let him (note:)He marvels that Israel will not come by gentleness, unless God make them to feel his rods, and so bring them to him.(:note) take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.

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:27:10 @ 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:27:11 @ When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the (note:)God will not have need of mighty enemies: for the very women will do it to their great shame.(:note) women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

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:28:6 @ And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for (note:)He will give counsel to the governor and strength to the captain to drive the enemies in at their own gates.(:note) strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

geneva@Isaiah:28:7 @ But (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites who were among them, and were altogether corrupt in life and doctrine, which is here meant by drunkenness and vomiting.(:note) they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:28:12 @ To whom (note:)That is, the prophet, whom God would send.(:note) he said, This is the doctrine on which you ought to stay and rest. This [is] the rest [with which] ye may Show to them that are weary and have need of rest, what the true rest is. cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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:28:17 @ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and (note:)In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice will reign.(:note) righteousness to the plummet: and the God's corrections and affliction. hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow Affliction will discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves. the hiding 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:29:15 @ Woe to them that (note:)This is spoken of them who in heart despised God's word, and mocked at the admonitions but outwardly bore a good face.(:note) seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

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:30:5 @ 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:30:8 @ Now go, write (note:)That is, this prophecy.(:note) it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the That is may be a witness against them for all posterity. time to come for ever and ever:

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:30:28 @ 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: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:31:2 @ Yet he also [is] (note:)And knows their crafty enterprises, and will bring all to nought.(:note) wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

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:32:3 @ And the eyes of (note:)He promises to give the true light which is the pure doctrine of God's word, and understanding, and zeal of the same, are contrary to the threatenings against the wicked, (Isa_6:9, Isa_29:10).(:note) them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

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:32:20 @ Blessed [are] ye (note:)That is, upon fat ground and well watered, which brings forth in abundance, or in places which before were covered with waters, and now made dry for your uses.(:note) that sow beside all waters, that The fields will be so rank, that they will send out their cattle to eat up the first crop, which abundance will be signs of God's love and favour toward them. send forth [there] the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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:33:16 @ He shall dwell on (note:)Meaning, that God will be a sure defence to all them that live according to his word.(:note) high: his place of defence [shall be] the strong holds of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.

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: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:34:5 @ 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:34:7 @ 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:34:16 @ 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:35:4 @ Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] (note:)To destroy your enemies.(:note) vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.

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:35:8 @ 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: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:36:4 @ 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:36:6 @ 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:36:19 @ Where [are] the gods of (note:)That is, of Antioch in Syria, of which these two other cities also were: by which we see how every town had its peculiar idol, and how the wicked make God an idol because they do not understand that God makes them his scourge, and punishes cities for sin.(:note) Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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:37:11 @ 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:37:19 @ 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:37:30 @ 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: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:38:21 @ 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: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:40:3 @ The (note:)That is, of the prophets.(:note) voice of him that crieth in the That is, in Babylonia and other places, where they were kept in captivity and misery. wilderness, Meaning Cyrus and Darius who would deliver God's people out of captivity and make them a ready way to Jerusalem. Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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:40:11 @ He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with (note:)He will show his care and favour over them who are weak and tender.(:note) young.

geneva@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then (note:)By this he arms them against the idolatry with which they would be tempted in Babylon.(:note) will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?

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

geneva@Isaiah: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:40:24 @ 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: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:41:5 @ 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:41:12 @ 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:41:14 @ Fear not, thou (note:)Thus he calls them because they were contemned of all the world, and that they considering their own poor estate should seek him for help.(:note) worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:41:15 @ 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:41:16 @ Thou shalt fanne them, and the winde shal carie them away, and the whirlewinde shal scatter them: and thou shalt reioyce in the Lord, & shalt glory in the holy one of Israel.

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

geneva@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry (note:)God would rather change the order of nature than that they should want anything, who cry to him by true faith in their miseries: declaring to them by this that they will lack nothing by the way, when they return from Babylon.(:note) land springs of water.

geneva@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them bring foorth, and let them tell vs what shall come: let them shew the former things what they be, that wee may consider them, and knowe the latter ende of them: either declare vs things for to come.

geneva@Isaiah:41:27 @ The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold (note:)That is, the Israelites who return from the captivity.(:note) them: and I will give to Jerusalem That is, a continual succession of prophets and ministers. one that bringeth good tidings.

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:42:3 @ A (note:)He will not hurt the weak and feeble, but support and comfort them.(:note) bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking Meaning, the wick of a lamp or candle which is almost out, but he will cherish it and snuff it, that it may shine brighter. flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment to Although he favours the weak, yet will he not spare the wicked, but will judge them according to truth and equity. truth.

geneva@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)

geneva@Isaiah:42:7 @ That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.

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:42:12 @ Let them giue glorie vnto the Lorde, and declare his praise in the ylands.

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

geneva@Isaiah:42:20 @ Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he heareth not?

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:43:3 @ 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:43:7 @ [Even] every one that is called by my (note:)Meaning that he could not be unmindful of them, unless he would neglect his own Name and glory.(:note) name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; verily, I have made him.

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:43:20 @ 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:43:28 @ Therefore I have (note:)That is, rejected, abhorred, and destroyed them in the wilderness and at other times.(:note) profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

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:44:18 @ 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:44:25 @ That frustrateth the (note:)He arms them against the soothsayers of Babylon, who would have said that they knew by the stars that God would not deliver Israel, and that Babylon would stand.(:note) tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

geneva@Isaiah:44:27 @ That saith to the (note:)He shows that God's work would be no less notable in this their deliverance, than when he brought them out of Egypt, through the sea.(:note) deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

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:45:8 @ 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:45:14 @ 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:45:21 @ Tell ye and bring them, and let them take counsell together, who hath declared this from the beginning? or hath tolde it of olde? Haue not I the Lord? and there is none other God beside me, a iust God, and a Sauiour: there is none beside me.

geneva@Isaiah:45:22 @ Look to me, and be ye saved, all (note:)He calls the idolaters to repentance, willing them to look on him with the eye of faith.(:note) the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.

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:46:5 @ 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: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:47:12 @ 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:47:14 @ 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:48:5 @ 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:48:13 @ My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: [when] I call to them, (note:)To obey me, and to do whatever I command them.(:note) they stand up together.

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:48:21 @ 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: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:49:10 @ They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy (note:)Meaning, that there would be nothing in their way from Babylon that would hinder or hurt them: but this is accomplished spiritually.(:note) on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

geneva@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, The LORD hath (note:)He objects what the faithful might say in their long affliction and answers to comfort them with a most proper comparison and full of consolation.(:note) forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

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:50:4 @ 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:50:6 @ I gave my back to the (note:)I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. By which he shows that the true ministers of God can look for no other recompense of the wicked, but after this sort, and also that is their comfort.(:note) smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

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:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the (note:)Forewarns them of the horrible changes and mutations of all things, and how he will preserve his church in the midst of all these dangers.(:note) heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment, and its inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

geneva@Isaiah:51:8 @ For the mothe shall eate them vp like a garment, & the worme shall eate them like wool: but my righteousnesse shalbe for euer, and my saluation from generation to generation.

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:51:14 @ 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:51:23 @ 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:52:15 @ 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:53:10 @ 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: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: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:56:5 @ 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:56:8 @ The Lord God sayth, which gathereth the scattered of Israel, Yet wil I gather to them those that are to be gathered to them.

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:57:8 @ 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:57:13 @ 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:57:15 @ For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart.

geneva@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and will (note:)Though they were obstinate, yet I did not withdraw my mercy from them.(:note) heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

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:59:4 @ None calleth for justice, nor [any] (note:)All men wink at the injuries and oppressions and none go about to remedy them.(:note) pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and According to their wicked devices, they hurt their neighbours. bring forth iniquity.

geneva@Isaiah:59:5 @ They hatch (note:)Whatever comes from them is poison, and brings death.(:note) eggs of an adder, and weave the spider's They are profitable to no purpose. web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

geneva@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of crueltie is in their handes.

geneva@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.

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:59:20 @ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to (note:)By which he declares that the true deliverance from sin and Satan belongs to none but to the children of God, whom he justifies.(:note) them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

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:60:2 @ For, behold, the darkness shall cover the (note:)Signifying, that all men are in darkness till God gives them the light of his Spirit, and that this light shines to no one, but to those that are in his Church.(:note) earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

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:60:9 @ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships (note:)The Gentiles that are now enemies, will become friends and set forth the Church.(:note) of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

geneva@Isaiah:60:10 @ And the sons of foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their (note:)Meaning Cyrus and his successors, but chiefly this is accomplished in them that serve Christ, being converted by his gospel.(:note) kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

geneva@Isaiah:60:14 @ The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves (note:)To worship their head Christ, by obeying his doctrine.(:note) down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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:61:3 @ 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:61:7 @ 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:61:9 @ And (note:)That is, of the Church.(:note) their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.

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:63:6 @ 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: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:65:7 @ 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:65:21 @ And they shall (note:)He proposes to the faithful the blessings which are contained in the law, and so under temporal things comprehends the spiritual promises.(:note) build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

geneva@Isaiah:65:23 @ They shall not labour in vaine, nor bring forth in feare: for they are the seede of the blessed of the Lord, and their buds with them.

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:66:4 @ I also will (note:)I will discover their wickedness and hypocrisy, with which they think to blind my eyes to all the world.(:note) choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.

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:66:17 @ 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:66:21 @ 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:66:24 @ 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:1:6 @ 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:1:16 @ And I will utter my (note:)I will give them charge and power to execute my vengeance against the idolaters who have forsaken me for their idols.(:note) judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:2:3 @ 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:2:9 @ 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:2:11 @ Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their (note:)That is, God who is their glory, and who makes them glorious above all other people, reproving the Jews that they were less diligent to serve the true God, than were the idolaters to honour their vanities.(:note) glory for [that which] doth not Meaning the idols who were their destruction, (Psa_106:36). profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:13 @ For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me (note:)Signifying that when men forsake God's word, which is the fountain of life, they reject God himself, and so fall to their own inventions, and vain confidence, and procure to themselves destruction, (Jon_2:8; Zec_10:2).(:note) the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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:2:17 @ 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:2:19 @ 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:2:23 @ 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:2:25 @ Withhold thy foot from (note:)By this he warns them that they should not go into strange countries to seek help: for they should but spend their labour, and hurt themselves, which is here meant by the bare foot and thirst, (Isa_57:10).(:note) being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

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:2:28 @ 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:2:31 @ O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a (note:)Have I not given them abundance of all things?(:note) wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; But will trust in our own power and policy. we will come no more to thee?

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:3:24 @ 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:4:2 @ And thou shalt (note:)You will detest the name of idols, (Psa_16:4) and will with reverence swear by the living God, when your oath may advance God's glory, and profit others: and here by swearing he means the true religion of God.(:note) swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up (note:)He wills them to pluck up the impiety and wicked affection and worldly respects out of their heart, that the true seed of God's word may be sown in it, (Hos_10:12) and this is the true circumcision of the heart, (Deu_10:16; Rom_2:29; Col_2:11).(:note) your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion: (note:)He speaks this to admonish them of the great danger when every man will prepare to save himself, but it will be too late, (2Ki_25:4).(:note) retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

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:4:12 @ A mightie winde shall come vnto me from those places, and nowe will I also giue sentence vpon them.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:22 @ For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] silly children, and they have no understanding: (note:)Their wisdom and policy tend to their own destruction and pulls them from God.(:note) they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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:5:5 @ I will go to the (note:)He speaks this to the reproach of them who would govern and teach others, and yet are farther out of the way than the simple people.(:note) great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.

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:5:13 @ And the prophets shall become (note:)Their words will be of no effect, but vain.(:note) wind, and the word [is] They are not sent from the Lord, and therefore that which they threaten to us will come on them. not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah.(:note) thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

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: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:6:7 @ 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:6:8 @ Be thou instructed, O (note:)He warns them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance.(:note) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] (note:)They delight to hear vain things, and to shut up their ears to true doctrine.(:note) uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

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

geneva@Jeremiah: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:6:18 @ Therefore hear, ye (note:)God takes all the world to witness and the insensible creatures of the ingratitude of the Jews.(:note) nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde, Beholde, I will laie stumbling blockes before this people, and the fathers and the sonnes together shall fall vpon them: the neighbour and his friende shall perish.

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:6:30 @ They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.

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:7:16 @ 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:7:19 @ Doe they prouoke me to anger, sayeth the Lorde, and not themselues to the confusion of their owne faces?

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:7:23 @ But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voyce, and I will be your God, and yee shalbe my people: and walke yee in all the wayes which I haue commaunded you, that it may be well vnto you.

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:7:28 @ But thou shalt say vnto them, This is a nation that heareth not the voice of the Lorde their God, nor receiueth discipline: trueth is perished, and is cleane gone out of their mouth.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they (note:)Is there no hope that they will return?(:note) fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?

geneva@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Wherefore is this people of Ierusalem turned backe by a perpetuall rebellion? they gaue themselues to deceit, and would not returne.

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:8:13 @ I wil surely consume them, sayth the Lord: there shalbe no grapes on the vine, nor figges on the figtree, and the leafe shall fade, and the things that I haue giuen them, shal depart from them.

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:8:17 @ 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:8:19 @ Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a distant country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why (note:)Thus the Lord speaks.(:note) have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with foreign vanities?

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:9:5 @ And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they (note:)They have so practised deceit, that they cannot forsake it.(:note) have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (note:)With the fire of affliction.(:note) melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

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:9:12 @ 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:9:13 @ And the Lorde sayeth, Because they haue forsaken my Lawe, which I set before them, and haue not obeyed my voice, neither walked thereafter,

geneva@Jeremiah:9:14 @ But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which (note:)He shows that the children cannot excuse themselves by their fathers: for both father and child if they are wicked will perish.(:note) their fathers taught them:

geneva@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall (note:)Read (Jer_8:14).(:note) to drink.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:16 @ I wil scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers haue knowen, and I will send a sworde after them, til I haue consumed them.

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:9:22 @ 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:9:25 @ 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:9:26 @ Egypt and Iudah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all the vtmost corners of them that dwell in the wildernesse: for all these nations are vncircumcised, & al the house of Israel are vncircumcised in the heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the (note:)God forbids his people to give credit or fear the constellations and conjunctions of stars and planets which have no power of themselves but are governed by him, and their secret motions and influences are not known to man and therefore there can be no certain judgment of it, (Deu_18:9).(:note) signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

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:10:11 @ 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:10:14 @ 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:10:19 @ Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this (note:)It is my just plague, and therefore I will take it patiently: by which he teaches the people how to behave themselves toward God.(:note) [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

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:11:3 @ And say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; (note:)He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's mercy, who freely chose them, made a covenant of eternal happiness with them and how he ever performed it on his behalf and how they ever showed themselves rebellious and ingrate toward him, and broke it on their part, and so are subject to the curse of the law, (Deu_27:26).(:note) Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

geneva@Jeremiah:11:4 @ Which I commaunded vnto your fathers, when I brought them out of the lande of Egypt, from the yron fornace, saying, Obey my voyce, and doe according to all these things, which I commande you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God,

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:11:6 @ Then the Lord saide vnto me, Cry all these words in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, saying, Heare yee the words of this couenant, and doe them.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:7 @ For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day [that] I brought them out of the land of Egypt, [even] to this day, (note:)Read (Jer_7:13).(:note) rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

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:11:10 @ They are turned backe to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to heare my wordes: and they went after other gods to serue them: thus the house of Israel, & the house of Iudah haue broken my couenant, which I made with their fathers.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, (note:)Because they will not pray with true faith and repentance, but for the pain and grief which they feel, (Pro_1:28).(:note) I will not hearken to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:12 @ Then shall the cities of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem goe, and crie vnto the gods vnto whome they offer incense, but they shall not bee able to helpe them in time of their trouble.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:14 @ Therefore (note:)Read (Jer_7:16, Jer_14:11).(:note) pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time when they cry to me for their trouble.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:17 @ For the Lorde of hostes that planted thee, hath pronounced a plague against thee, for the wickednes of the house of Israel, and of the house of Iudah, which they haue done against themselues to prouoke me to anger in offering incense vnto Baal.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy (note:)Thus he spoke not out of hatred, but being moved with the Spirit of God, he desires the advancement of God's glory, and the verifying of his word, which is by the destruction of his enemies.(:note) vengeance on them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.

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:11:22 @ Thus therefore sayth the Lorde of hostes, Beholde, I will visite them: the yong men shall die by the sword: their sonnes and their daughters shall die by famine,

geneva@Jeremiah:11:23 @ And none of them shall remaine: for I will bring a plague vpon the men of Anathoth, euen the yeere of their visitation.

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:12:6 @ For euen thy brethren, and the house of thy father, euen they haue delt vnfaithfully with thee, and they haue cryed out altogether vpon thee: but beleeue them not, though they speake faire to thee.

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:12:14 @ 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: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:13:12 @ Therefore thou shalt speak to them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every (note:)Every one of you will be filled with spiritual drunkenness, and be without all knowledge to seek how to help yourselves.(:note) skin shall be filled with wine: and they shall say to thee, Do we not certainly know that every skin shall be filled with wine?

geneva@Jeremiah:13:13 @ Then shalt thou say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, euen the Kings that sit vpon the throne of Dauid, and the Priestes and the Prophets and all the inhabitantes of Ierusalem with drunkennesse.

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:13:18 @ Say to the (note:)For Jehoiachin and his mother rendered themselves by Jeremiah's counsel to the king of Babylon, (2Ki_24:12).(:note) king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:19 @ The cities of (note:)That is, of Judah, which lies south of Babylon.(:note) the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

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: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:14:10 @ Thus saith the Lord vnto this people, Thus haue they delited to wander: they haue not refrained their feete, therefore the Lorde hath no delight in them: but he will now remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.

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:14:14 @ Then the Lord said vnto me, The prophets prophecie lyes in my Name: I haue not sent them, neither did I command them, neither spake I vnto them, but they prophecie vnto you a false vision, and diuination, and vanitie, and deceitfulnes of their owne heart.

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:14:18 @ If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about (note:)Both high and low will be led captive into Babylon.(:note) into a land that they know not.

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: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:15:7 @ And I will fan them with a fan (note:)Meaning, the cities.(:note) in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.

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:15:15 @ O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my (note:)He does not speak this out of a desire for revenge, but wishing that God would deliver his Church from them who he knew to be hardened and incorrigible.(:note) persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

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:15:19 @ 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:16:3 @ For thus sayeth the Lorde concerning the sonnes, and concerning the daughters that are borne in this place, & concerning their mothers that beare them, & concerning their fathers, that beget them in this land,

geneva@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus saith the LORD, (note:)Signifying that the affliction would be so great that one would not have leisure to comfort another.(:note) Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:6 @ Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, (note:)That is, should not tear their clothes in sign of mourning.(:note) nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

geneva@Jeremiah:16:7 @ Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the (note:)For in these great extremities all consolation and comfort will be in vain.(:note) cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

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:16:10 @ 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:16:11 @ Then shalt thou say vnto them, Because your fathers haue forsaken me, sayth the Lord, & haue walked after other gods, and haue serued them, and worshipped them, & haue forsaken me, and haue not kept my Law,

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:16:16 @ Behold, I will send for many (note:)By the fishers and hunters are meant the Babylonians and Chaldeans who would destroy them in such sort, that if they escaped the one, the other would take them.(:note) fishermen, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:21 @ Therefore, behold, I will this once (note:)They will once again feel my power and mercy for their deliverance that they may learn to worship me.(:note) cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] JEHOVAH.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus saith the LORD; (note:)The Jews were given to worldly policies and thought to make themselves strong by the friendship of the Egyptians, (Isa_31:3) and strangers and in the mean time did not depend on God, and therefore he denounces God's plagues against them, showing that they prefer corruptible man to God, who is immortal, (Isa_2:22; Jer_48:6-7).(:note) Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, (note:)Read (Jer_11:20).(:note) and destroy them with double destruction.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:20 @ And say vnto them, Heare the word of the Lord, ye Kings of Iudah, and al Iudah, and all the inhabitants of Ierusale, that enter in by these gates.

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: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:18:8 @ 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:18:10 @ But if it do euill in my sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye good that I thought to do for them.

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:18:17 @ 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:18:19 @ Hearken vnto mee, O Lorde, and heare the voyce of them that contend with me.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Shall euill be recompensed for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I stood before thee, to speake good for the, and to turne away thy wrath from them.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:22 @ Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:23 @ Yet Lord thou knowest al their counsel against me tendeth to death: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither put out their sinne from thy sight, but let them be ouerthrowen before thee: deale thus with them in the time of thine anger.

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:19:9 @ And I will feede the with the flesh of their sonnes and with the flesh of their daughters, and euery one shall eate the flesh of his friende in the siege and straitnes, wherewith their enemies that seeke their liues, shall hold them strait.

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:20:4 @ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee to be a terrour to thy self, & to al thy friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall beholde it, and I will giue all Iudah into the hande of the King of Babel, and he shall cary them captiue into Babel, and shall slay them with the sworde.

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:20:8 @ 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:20:12 @ But, O Lorde of hostes, that tryest the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.

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:21:7 @ 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: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:22:9 @ Then shall they answere, Because they haue forsaken the couenant of the Lorde their God, & worshipped other gods, and serued them.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:14 @ He saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers: so he will make him selfe large windowes, and feeling with cedar, and paint them with vermilion.

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:22:25 @ And I will giue thee into the hande of them that seeke thy life, and into the hande of them, whose face thou fearest, euen into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel, and into the hande of the Caldeans.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:26 @ And I will cause them to cary thee away, and thy mother that bare thee, into another countrey, where ye were not borne, and there shall ye die.

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:23:2 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds that (note:)Whose charge is to feed the flock but they eat the fruit of it, (Eze_34:3).(:note) feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, 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:23:4 @ And I will set vp shepheardes ouer them, which shall feede them: and they shall dread no more nor be afraide, neither shall any of them be lacking, saith the Lorde.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:8 @ But the Lord liueth, which brought vp & led the seede of the house of Israel out of the North countrey and from all countryes where I had scattered them, and they shall dwell in their owne lande.

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:23:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with (note:)Read (Jer_8:14).(:note) wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say still to them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye (note:)Read (Jer_6:14, Jer_8:11).(:note) shall have peace; and they say to every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:21 @ I haue not sent these prophets, sayth the Lord, yet they ranne; I haue not spoken to them, and yet they prophecied.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in my counsel, and (note:)He shows the difference between the true prophets and the false, between the hireling and the true minister.(:note) had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:32 @ Beholde, I will come against them that prophecie false dreames, saith the Lorde, and doe tell them, and cause my people to erre by their lies, and by their flatteries, and I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they bring no profite vnto this people, 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:23:36 @ And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's (note:)The thing which they mock and contemn will come on them.(:note) word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

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:24:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this (note:)By which he approves the yielding of Jeconiah and his company because they obeyed the prophet, who exhorted them to it.(:note) place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:6 @ For I wil set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this lande, and I will build them, and not destroy them, & I will plant them, and not roote them out,

geneva@Jeremiah:24:7 @ And I will give them (note:)Which declares that man of himself can know nothing till God gives the heart and understanding.(:note) an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

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:24:10 @ And I will sende the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they bee consumed out of the land, that I gaue vnto them and to their fathers.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:4 @ And the Lord hath sent vnto you all his seruantes the Prophets, rising early & sending them, but yee would not heare, nor encline your eares to obey.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:6 @ And go not after other gods to serue them and to worshippe them, and prouoke me not to anger with the workes of your hands, and I will not punish you.

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:25:12 @ 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:25:16 @ And they shall drinke, and be moued and be mad, because of the sworde that I will sende among them.

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:25:26 @ 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:25:27 @ Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Drinke and bee drunken, and spewe and fall, and rise no more, because of the sworde, which I will sende among you.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:28 @ But if they refuse to take the cuppe at thine hande to drinke, then tell them, Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, Ye shall certainely drinke.

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:25:31 @ The sounde shall come to the endes of the earth: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the nations, and will enter into iudgement with all flesh, and he will giue them that are wicked, to the sworde, saith the Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:35 @ And the (note:)It will not help them to seek to flee.(:note) shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the chief of the flock to escape.

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:26:3 @ It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may (note:){{See Jer_7:12}}(:note) repent of the evil, which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:4 @ And thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, If ye will not heare me to walke in my Lawes, which I haue set before you,

geneva@Jeremiah:26:5 @ And to heare ye wordes of my seruants the Prophets, whome I sent vnto you, both rising vp earely, and sending them, and will not obey them,

geneva@Jeremiah:26:12 @ Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD (note:)He both shows the cause of his doings plainly and also threatens them that nothing would help, though they should put him to death, but heap greater vengeance on their heads.(:note) sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

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: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:27:3 @ And send them to the King of Edom, and to the King of Moab, & to the King of the Ammonites, and to the King of Tyrus, & to the king of Zidon, by the hande of the messengers which come to Ierusale vnto Zedekiah ye king of Iudah,

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:27:8 @ And the nation and kingdome which will not serue the same Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel, and that will not put their necke vnder the yoke of the King of Babel, the same nation will I visite, saith the Lord, with the sworde, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, vntill I haue wholy giuen them into his hands.

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:27:17 @ Heare them not, but serue the King of Babel, that ye may liue: wherefore shoulde this citie be desolate?

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:27:22 @ They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit (note:)That is, for the space of seventy years till I have caused the Medes and Persians to overcome the Chaldeans.(:note) them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:3 @ Within two yeeres space I will bring into this place all the vessels of the Lords House, that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel tooke away from this place, and caried them into Babel.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:4 @ And I will bring againe to this place Ieconiah the sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, with all them that were caried away captiue of Iudah, and went into Babel, saith the Lorde: for I will breake the yoke of the King of Babel.

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:29:5 @ Buylde you houses to dwell in, and plant you gardens, and eate the fruites of them.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:9 @ For they prophecie you a lie in my Name: I haue not sent them, saith the Lorde.

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:29:18 @ And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be (note:)Read (Jer_26:6).(:note) a curse, and an horror, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them:

geneva@Jeremiah:29:19 @ Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, (note:)Read (Jer_7:13, Jer_25:3, Jer_26:5).(:note) rising early and sending [them]; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

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:29:28 @ For, for this cause hee sent vnto vs in Babel, saying, This captiuitie is long: buyld houses to dwell in, and plant gardens, and eate the fruites of them.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:31 @ Send to all them of the captiuitie, saying, Thus saith the Lorde of Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah hath prophecied vnto you, and I sent him not, and hee caused you to trust in a lye,

geneva@Jeremiah:29:32 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man (note:)He and his seed will be destroyed so that none of them would see the blessing of this deliverance.(:note) to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:3 @ For loe, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I wil bring againe the captiuitie of my people Israel and Iudah, saith the Lord: for I will restore them vnto the lande, that I gaue to their fathers, and they shall possesse 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:30:19 @ And out of them shall proceed (note:)He shows how the people will with praise and thanksgiving acknowledge this blessing.(:note) thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

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:30:23 @ Behold, (note:)Lest the wicked hypocrites should flatter themselves with these promises the prophet shows what will be their portion.(:note) the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

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:31:8 @ 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:31:13 @ Then shall the virgin rejoice in the (note:)In the company of the faithful, who ever praise God for his benefits.(:note) dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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:31:27 @ 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:31:32 @ 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:32:13 @ And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

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:32:18 @ Thou shewest lovingkindness to thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their (note:)Because the wicked are subject to the curse of God, he shows that their posterity who by nature are under this malediction will be punished both for their own wickedness and that the iniquity of their fathers which is likewise in them, will be also avenged on their head.(:note) children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, JEHOVAH of hosts, [is] his name,

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:32:27 @ 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:32:30 @ For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done evil only before me from their (note:)From the time that I brought them out of Egypt and made them my people and called them my firstborn.(:note) youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:33 @ And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, (note:)(2Ch_36:15; Isa_65:2; Jer_7:13, Jer_13:3, Jer_26:5, Jer_29:19, Jer_35:14, Jer_44:4).(:note) rising early and teaching [them], yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

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:32:37 @ Beholde, I will gather them out of all countreys, wherein I haue scattered them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation, and I wil bring them againe vnto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.

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:32:44 @ 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:33:5 @ 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:33:6 @ Behold, I (note:)In the midst of his threatenings God remembers his, and comforts them.(:note) will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

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:33:8 @ And I will (note:)Declaring that there is no deliverance nor joy, but where we feel remission of sins.(:note) cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned, and by which they have transgressed against me.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:9 @ And it shall be to me a name of (note:)By which he shows that the Church in which is remission of sins, is God's honour and glory, so that whoever is enemy to it, labours to dishonour God.(:note) joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure to it.

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:33:13 @ 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:33:24 @ 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:34:8 @ [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:34:10 @ Now when all the princes, and all the people which had agreed to the couenant, heard that euery one should let his seruant go free, & euery one his handmaide, and that none should serue them selues of them any more, they obeyed and let them go.

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:34:13 @ Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I made a couenant with your fathers, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of seruants, saying,

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:34:20 @ 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:34:22 @ Beholde, I will commande, saith the Lord, and cause them to returne to this citie, and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burne it with fire: and I will make the cities of Iudah desolate without an inhabitant.

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:35:5 @ And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I (note:)The prophet says not. The Lord says thus, for then they ought to have obeyed, but he tends to another end: that is, to declare their obedience to man, seeing the Jews would not obey God himself.(:note) said to them, Drink ye wine.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:6 @ But they said, We will drink no wine: for (note:)Whom the king of Israel favoured for his zeal, (2Ki_10:15).(:note) Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Teaching them by this to flee all opportunity for intemperancy, ambition and greed and that they might know that they were strangers in the earth, and be ready to depart at all opportunity. Ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your sons for ever:

geneva@Jeremiah:35:15 @ I haue sent also vnto you all my seruants the Prophetes, rising vp earely, and sending, them, saying, Returne nowe euery man from his euill way, and amende your workes, and goe not after other gods to serue them, and ye shall dwel in the lande which I haue giuen vnto you, and to your fathers, but ye would not encline your eare, nor obey mee.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:16 @ Surely the sonnes of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab, haue kept the commaundement of their father, which he gaue them, but this people hath not obeyed me.

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:36:3 @ It may bee that the House of Iudah will heare of all the euill, which I determined to doe vnto them that they may returne euery man from his euil way, that I may forgiue their iniquitie and their sinnes.

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:36:13 @ Then Michaiah declared vnto them all the wordes that he had heard when Baruch read in the booke in the audience of 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:36:18 @ Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these wordes vnto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ynke in the booke.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:25 @ Neuerthelesse, Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah had besought the King, that he would not burne ye roule: but he would not heare them.

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:36:31 @ And I will visite him and his seede, and his seruants for their iniquitie, and I will bring vpon them, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and vpo the men of Iudah all the euil that I haue pronounced against them: but they would not heare.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:32 @ Then tooke Ieremiah another roule, and gaue it Baruch the scribe the sonne of Neriah, which wrote therein at the mouth of Ieremiah all the wordes of the booke which Iehoiakim King of Iudah had burnt in the fire, and there were added besides them many like wordes.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:5 @ Then Pharaoh's army had (note:)To help the Jews.(:note) come from Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:10 @ For though ye had smitten the whole hoste of the Caldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should euery man rise vp in his tent, and burne this citie with fire.

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:38:4 @ 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:38:9 @ 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:38:17 @ 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:38:26 @ 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: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:39:5 @ But the Chaldeans' army pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to (note:)Which is called Antioch in Syria.(:note) Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

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

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

geneva@Jeremiah:40:9 @ And Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan sware vnto them, and to their men, saying, Feare not to serue the Caldeans: dwell in the lande, and serue the King of Babel, and it shall be well with you.

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:40:11 @ Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in (note:)Which were fed also for fear of the Chaldeans.(:note) Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were] in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;

geneva@Jeremiah:40:14 @ And said to him, Dost thou certainly know that (note:)For under the colour of entertaining Ishmael, he sought only to make them destroy one another.(:note) Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

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:41:10 @ Then Ishmael caryed away captiue all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, euen the Kings daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the chiefe steward had committed to Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, and Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah caried them away captiue, and departed to goe ouer to the Ammonites.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:18 @ Because of the Caldeans: for they feared them, because Ishmael ye sonne of Nethaniah had slaine Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, whom the King of Babel made gouernour in the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:4 @ Then Ieremiah the Prophet said vnto them, I haue heard you: behold, I will pray vnto ye Lord your God according to your wordes, and whatsoeuer thing the Lord shall answere you, I will declare it vnto you: I will keepe nothing backe from you.

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:42:9 @ And saide vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, vnto whom ye sent me to present your prayers before him,

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:42:16 @ 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:42:17 @ And all the men that set their faces to enter into Egypt to dwell there, shall die by ye sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, and none of them shall remaine nor escape from the plague, that I will bring vpon them.

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:43:1 @ Nowe when Ieremiah had made an ende of speaking vnto ye whole people all the wordes of the Lorde their God, for the which the Lorde their God had sent him to them, euen all these wordes,

geneva@Jeremiah:43:3 @ But Baruch the son of Neriah (note:)Thus the wicked not only contemn and hurt the messengers of God, but slander and speak wickedly of all them that support or favour the godly.(:note) setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:43:9 @ Take great stones in thy hand, and (note:)Which signified that Nebuchadnezzar would come even to the gates of Pharaoh, where his brick kilns for his buildings were.(:note) hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entrance of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

geneva@Jeremiah:43:10 @ And say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (note:)Read (Jer_25:9).(:note) my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

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:44:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwell in the land of Egypt, who dwell at Migdol, and at (note:)These were all famous and strange cities in Egypt, where the Jews that fled dwelt for their safety but the prophet declares that there is no hold so strong that can preserve them from God's vengeance.(:note) Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:44:4 @ Yet I sent to you all my servants the prophets, (note:)Read (Jer_7:25, Jer_25:3, Jer_29:19, Jer_32:33).(:note) rising early and sending [them], saying, O, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:9 @ Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the (note:)He shows that we ought to keep in memory God's plagues from the beginning that considering them, we might live in his fear, and know if he did not spare our fathers, yea kings, princes, rulers and also whole countries and nations for their sins that we vile worms cannot look to escape punishment for ours.(:note) kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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:44:16 @ [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:44:27 @ Behold, I wil watch ouer them for euil and not for good, and all men of Iudah that are in the land of Egypt, shalbe consumed by the sword, and by the famine, vntill they be vtterly destroied.

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:45:4 @ Thus shalt thou say to him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, [that] which I have built I will (note:)Meaning that God could destroy this people, because he had planted them.(:note) break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

geneva@Jeremiah:45:5 @ And seekest (note:)«Do you think to have honour and credit?» in which he shows his infirmity.(:note) thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give to thee for Read (Jer_21:9). a prize in all places where thou goest.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:6 @ Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the (note:)The Babylonians will discomfit them at the river Euphrates.(:note) north by the river Euphrates.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:8 @ Egypt riseth vp like the flood, & his waters are mooued like the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them that dwell therein.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why are thy valiant men put backe? They could not stand, because the Lord did driue them.

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:46:21 @ 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:46:25 @ The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the (note:)Some take the Hebrew word Amon for the kings name of No, that is, of Alexandria.(:note) multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him:

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:47:2 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise out of the (note:)He means the army of the Chaldeans, (Isa_8:7,8).(:note) north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it; the city, and them that dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

geneva@Jeremiah:47:3 @ At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, (note:)The great fear will take away their natural affection.(:note) the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of Their heart will so fail them. hands;

geneva@Jeremiah:48:26 @ Make ye him (note:)He willed the Chaldeans to lay afflictions enough on them till they are like drunken men that fall down to their shame and are derided by all.(:note) drunk: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:39 @ They shal howle, saying, How is he destroyed? howe hath Moab turned the backe with shame? so shall Moab be a derision, and a feare to all them about him.

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:49:9 @ If (note:)Meaning that God would utterly destroy them and not spare one, though the grape gatherers leave some grapes, and thieves seek but till they have enough, (Oba_1:5).(:note) grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:11 @ Leave thy (note:)The destruction will be so great that there will be none left to take care of the widows and the fatherless.(:note) fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in 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:49:25 @ 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:49:29 @ Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their (note:)Because they used to dwell in tents, he names the things that belong to it.(:note) curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Fear [is] on every side.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:32 @ And their camels shall be a bootie, and the multitude of their cattel a spoile, and I will scatter them into all windes, and to the vtmost corners, and I will bring their destruction from al the sides thereof, sayeth the Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:35 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the (note:)Because the Persians were good archers, he shows that the thing in which they put their trust would not profit them.(:note) bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:36 @ And vpon Elam I will bring the foure windes from the foure quarters of heauen, and will scatter them towardes all these windes, and there shall bee no nation, whither the fugitiues of Elam shall not come.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:37 @ For I will cause Elam to be afraied before their enemies, and before them that seeke their liues, and will bring vpon them a plague, euen the indignation of my wrath, saieth the Lord, & I wil sende the sworde after them till I haue consumed them.

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:50:7 @ All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, (note:)For the Lord dwelt among them in his temple and would have maintained them by his justice against their enemies.(:note) the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

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:50:20 @ In those daies, and at that time, sayeth the Lorde, the iniquitie of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sinnes of Iudah, and they shall not be founde: for I will be mercifull vnto them, whome I reserue.

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:50:27 @ Slay all her (note:)Her princes and mighty men.(:note) bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their judgment.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:28 @ The voice of them that (note:)Of the Jews who would be delivered by Cyrus.(:note) flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:33 @ Thus saieth the Lord of hosts, The children of Israel, and the children of Iudah were oppressed together: and all that tooke them captiues, held them, and would not let them goe.

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:50:43 @ 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:50:44 @ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly 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 (note:){{See Jer_49:19}}(:note) shepherd that will stand before me?

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:51:17 @ Every man is senseless by [his] (note:)(Jer_10:14).(:note) knowledge; every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:19 @ The (note:)That is, the true God of Israel is not like these idols: for he can help when all things are desperate.(:note) portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the one who formed of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.

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:51:40 @ I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.

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:51:48 @ Then the heaven and (note:)All creatures in heaven and earth will rejoice and praise God for the destruction of Babylon the great enemy of his Church.(:note) the earth, and all that [is] in them, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the LORD.

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: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:52:25 @ He took also out of the city an eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and (note:)In (2Ki_25:19) is read but of five: those were the most excellent and the other two, which were not so noble are not there mentioned with them.(:note) seven men of them that were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:26 @ Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde tooke them, and brought them to the king of Babel to Riblah.

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@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:1:13 @ From above hath (note:)This declares that we should acknowledge God to be the author of all our afflictions to the intent that we might seek him for remedy.(:note) he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.

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:1:17 @ 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: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:2:14 @ 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:2:21 @ 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: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:3:8 @ Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (note:)This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not heard, which thing God uses so that they might pray more earnestly and often.(:note) prayer.

geneva@Lamentations:3:20 @ My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled (note:)He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.(:note) in me.

geneva@Lamentations:3:25 @ The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.

geneva@Lamentations:3:64 @ Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.

geneva@Lamentations:3:65 @ Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.

geneva@Lamentations:3:66 @ Persecute with wrath & destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.

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:4:14 @ 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:4:15 @ But they cried vnto them, Depart, ye polluted, depart, depart, touch not: therefore they fled away, and wandered: they haue sayd among the heathen, They shal no more dwell there.

geneva@Lamentations:4:16 @ The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no longer regard them: (note:)That is, the enemies.(:note) they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

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@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:1:8 @ And the handes of a man came out from vnder their wings in the foure parts of them, & they foure had their faces, and their wings.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:12 @ And euery one went streight forward: they went whither their spirit led them, and they returned not when they went forth.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:18 @ They had also rings, and height, and were fearefull to beholde, and their rings were full of eyes, round about them foure.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:2:4 @ For they are impudent children, and stiffe hearted: I do send thee vnto them, & thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God.

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:3:4 @ And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, goe, and enter into the house of Israel, and declare them my wordes.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:6 @ Not to many people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an harde language, whose wordes thou canst not vnderstand: yet if I should sende thee to them, they would obey thee.

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:3:10 @ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to thee (note:)He shows what is meant by the eating of the book, which is that the ministers of God may speak nothing from themselves, but only that which they have received from the Lord.(:note) receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears.

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:3:15 @ 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:3:17 @ Son of man, I have made thee a (note:)Of this read (Eze_33:2).(:note) watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:25 @ But thou, O sonne of man, beholde, they shall put bandes vpon thee, and shall binde thee with them, and thou shalt not goe out among them.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:26 @ And I will make thy tongue (note:)Which declares the terrible plague of the Lord, when God stops the mouths of his ministers and that all such are the rods of his vengeance that do it.(:note) cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they [are] a rebellious house.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:27 @ But when I shall haue spoken vnto thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, He that heareth, let him heare, and he that leaueth off, let him leaue: for they are a rebellious house.

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:4:13 @ 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: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:5:3 @ Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy (note:)Meaning, that a very few would be left, which the Lord would preserve among all these storms, but not without troubles and trial.(:note) skirts.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:5:12 @ 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:5:13 @ Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be (note:)That is, I will not be pacified till I am avenged, (Isa_1:24).(:note) comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

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:6:2 @ Sonne of man, Set thy face towardes the mountaines of Israel, and prophecie against them,

geneva@Ezekiel:6:3 @ And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the (note:)He speaks of all the places where the Israelites accustomed to commit their idolaters, threatening them with destruction.(:note) mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

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:6:9 @ 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:6:10 @ And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, and that I haue not saide in vaine, that I woulde doe this euill vnto them.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:12 @ He that is farre off, shal dye of the pestilence, and he that is neere, shal fall by the sword, and hee that remaineth and is besieged, shal dye by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath vpon them.

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:7:13 @ For the seller shall not (note:)In the year of the Jubile, meaning that none would enjoy the privilege of the law, (Lev_25:13) for they would all be carried away captives.(:note) return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the This vision signified that all would be carried away, and none would return for the Jubile. vision [is] concerning its whole multitude, [which] shall not return; No man for all this endeavours himself or takes heart to repent for his evil life. Some read, for none will be strengthened in his iniquity of his life: meaning that they would gain nothing by flattering themselves in evil. neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:16 @ But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:18 @ They shall also girde them selues with sackecloth, and feare shall couer them, and shame shalbe vpon all faces, & baldnes vpon their heads.

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:7:22 @ My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my (note:)Which signifies the most holy place, into which none might enter but the high priest.(:note) secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:27 @ The King shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the handes of the people in the land shall be troubled: I wil doe vnto them according to their waies, and according to their iudgements will I iudge them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

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:8:18 @ Therefore will I also execute my wrath: mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, and though they crie in mine eares with a loude voyce, yet will I not heare them.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:1 @ He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over (note:)The time to take vengeance.(:note) the city to draw near, even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.

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:9:7 @ And he sayde vnto them, Defile the house, and fill the courtes with the slaine, then goe foorth: and they went out, and slewe them in the citie.

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: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:10:2 @ And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thy hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] over (note:)This signified that the city would be burnt.(:note) the city. And he entered in my sight.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:16 @ And when ye Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lift vp their wings to mount vp from the earth, the same wheeles also turned not from beside them.

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: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:11:4 @ Therefore prophesie against them, sonne of man, prophesie.

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:11:19 @ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the (note:)Meaning, the heart to which nothing can enter and regenerate them anew, so that their heart may be soft and ready to receive my graces.(:note) stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

geneva@Ezekiel:11:20 @ That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:21 @ But vpon them, whose heart is towarde their idoles, and whose affection goeth after their abominations, I will lay their way vpon their owne heades, saith the Lorde God.

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:11:24 @ Afterwarde the Spirite tooke me vp, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Caldea to them that were led away captiues: so the vision that I had seene, went vp from me.

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:12:10 @ But say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, This burden concerneth the chiefe in Ierusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

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:12:12 @ And the chiefest that is among them, shall beare vpon his shoulder in the darke, and shall goe forth: they shall digge through the wall, to cary out thereby: he shall couer his face, that he see not the ground with his eies.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:14 @ And I will scatter toward euerie winde all that are about him to helpe him, and all his garisons, and I will drawe out the sworde after them.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:15 @ And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, & disperse them in the countreis.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:16 @ But I will leave a (note:)Who would bear his Name, and would be his Church.(:note) few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:19 @ And say vnto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lorde God of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and of the lande of Israel, They shall eate their bread with carefulnes, and drinke their water with desolation: for the lande shall bee desolate from her abundance because of the crueltie of them that dwell therein.

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:12:28 @ Therefore say vnto them, Thus sayth the Lorde God, All my wordes shall no longer be delayed, but that thing which I haue spoken, shall be done, saith the Lord God.

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:13:6 @ They haue seene vanitie, and lying diuination, saying, The Lord sayth it, and the Lorde hath not sent them: & they haue made others to hope that they would cofirme the word of their prophecie.

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:13:11 @ Say vnto them which daube it with vntempered morter, that it shall fall: for there shall come a great showre, and I wil sende haylestones, which shall cause it to fall, and a stormie winde shall breake it.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:15 @ Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with (note:)By which is meant whatever man of himself sets forth under the authority of God's word.(:note) untempered [mortar], and will say to you, The wall [is] no [more], neither they that daubed it;

geneva@Ezekiel:13:17 @ Likewise thou sonne of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesie out of their owne heart: and prophesie thou against them, and say,

geneva@Ezekiel:13:18 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that sew (note:)These superstitious women for money would prophecy and tell every man his fortune giving them pillows to lean on, and kerchiefs to cover their heads, to the intent they might the more allure them and bewitch them.(:note) [magic] charms upon all wrists, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] to you?

geneva@Ezekiel:13:20 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your [magic] charms, with which ye there hunt the (note:)That is, to cause them to perish, and that they should depart from the body.(:note) souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because with lies ye have made the heart of the (note:)By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the wicked.(:note) righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

geneva@Ezekiel:14:1 @ Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and (note:)He shows the hypocrisy of the idolaters, who will pretend to hear the prophets of God, though in their hearts they follow nothing less than their admonitions and also how by one means or another God discovers them.(:note) sat before me.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:3 @ Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their (note:)They are not only idolaters in heart, but also worship their filthy idols openly which lead them in blindness, and cause them to stumble, so that he will not hear them when they call to him. {{See Isa_1:15}}(:note) heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

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:14:5 @ That (note:)That is, convince them by their own conscience.(:note) I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their 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:14:11 @ 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:14:14 @ 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:14:18 @ 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:15:7 @ And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from [one] (note:)Though they escape one danger, yet another will take them.(:note) fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against them.

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:16:14 @ 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:16:16 @ 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:16:27 @ 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:16:33 @ They giue giftes to all other whores, but thou giuest giftes vnto all thy louers, and rewardest them, that they may come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

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:16:50 @ But they were hautie, and committed abomination before mee: therefore I tooke them away, as pleased me.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:53 @ When I shall bring again (note:)This he speaks in comparison seeing that he would restore Jerusalem when Sodom would be restored, that is, never: and this is meant of the greatest part of the Jews.(:note) their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [will I bring again] the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

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:16:61 @ 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:17:12 @ Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these [things mean]? tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon hath come to Jerusalem, and hath taken (note:)That is, Jeconiah, (2Ki_24:15).(:note) its king, and its princes, and led them with him to Babylon;

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:18:19 @ Yet say ye, Wherefore shall not the sonne beare the iniquitie of the father? because ye sonne hath executed iudgement & iustice, and hath kept all my statutes, and done them, 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:19:6 @ And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured (note:)He slew the prophets and them that feared God and ravished their wives.(:note) men.

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: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:20:4 @ Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]? cause (note:)This declares the great leniency and patience of God who calls sinners to repentance before he condemns them.(:note) them to know the abominations of their fathers:

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:20:10 @ Nowe I caried them out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernes.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:11 @ And I gaue them my statutes, and declared my iudgements vnto them, which if a man doe, he shall liue in them.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:12 @ Moreouer I gaue them also my Sabbaths to be a signe betwene me & them, that they might knowe that I am the Lord, that sanctifie them.

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:20:17 @ Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them, that I would not destroye them, neither would I consume them in the wildernes.

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:20:19 @ I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,

geneva@Ezekiel:20:21 @ Notwithstanding the children rebelled against mee: they walked not in my statutes, nor kept my iudgements to doe them, which if a man doe, hee shall liue in them, but they polluted my Sabbaths: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpo them, and to accomplish my wrath against them in the wildernes.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:22 @ Neuerthelesse I withdrew mine hand & had respect to my Name that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them foorth.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:23 @ Yet I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes, that I would scatter them among the heathen, & disperse them through the countreys,

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

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

geneva@Ezekiel: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:20:38 @ And I will (note:)Signifying that he will not burn the corn with the chaff, but chose out the wicked to punish them when he will spare his.(:note) purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:40 @ For in mine holy mountaine, euen in the hie mountaine of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, and all in the lande, serue me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offrings and the first fruites of your oblations, with all your holy things.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:49 @ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak (note:)The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he desires the Lord to give them a plain declaration of it.(:note) parables?

geneva@Ezekiel:21:20 @ Mark a way, that the sword may come to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and (note:)That is, to the tribe of Judah that kept themselves in Jerusalem.(:note) to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

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:21:29 @ 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:22:2 @ Now, thou son of man, wilt thou (note:)Are you ready to execute your charge, which I commit to you against Jerusalem that murders the prophets and them that are godly?(:note) judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:26 @ Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their (note:)They have neglected my service.(:note) eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:28 @ And her (note:)They who would have reproved them, flattered them in their vices and covered their doings with lies. {{See Eze_13:10}}(:note) prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:30 @ And I sought for a man among them, that should (note:)Who would show himself zealous in my cause by resisting vice, (Isa_59:16) also pray to me to withhold my plagues, (Psa_106:23).(:note) make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:31 @ Therefore haue I powred out mine indignation vpon them, and consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their owne wayes haue I rendred vpon their heads, sayth the Lord God.

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:23:7 @ 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:23:14 @ 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:23:22 @ Therefore, O Aholibah, thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will raise vp thy louers against thee, from whome thine heart is departed, and I will bring them against thee on euery side,

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:23:24 @ Euen these shal come against thee with charets, waggons, and wheeles, and with a multitude of people, which shall set against thee, buckler and shield, and helmet round about: and I will leaue the punishment vnto them, and they shall iudge thee according to their iudgements.

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:23:28 @ For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I wil deliuer thee into the hand of them, whome thou hatest: euen into the hands of them from whome thine heart is departed.

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:23:36 @ The Lord sayd moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, wilt thou iudge Aholah & Aholibah? and wilt thou declare to them their abominations?

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:23:45 @ And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of (note:)That is worthy of death, (Eze_16:38).(:note) adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:46 @ Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them vnto the tumult, and to the spoyle,

geneva@Ezekiel:23:47 @ And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them with their swordes: they shal slay their sonnes, and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.

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:24:5 @ Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the (note:)Meaning, of the innocents whom they had slain, who were the cause of the kindling of God's wrath against them.(:note) bones under it, [and] make it boil well, and let them boil its bones in it.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:17 @ Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind thy turban upon thee, (note:)For in mourning they went bare headed and barefooted and also covered their lips.(:note) and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not [thy] lips, and eat That is, which the neighbours sent to them that mourned. not the bread of men.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:20 @ Then I answered them, The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

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:24:27 @ In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speake, and be no more dumme, & thou shalt be a signe vnto them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:2 @ Sonne of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophecie against them,

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:25:12 @ Thus sayth the Lorde God, Because that Edom hath done euill by taking vengeance vpon the house of Iudah, and hath committed great offence, and reuenged himselfe vpon them,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:15 @ Thus sayth the Lord God, Because the Philistims haue executed vengeance, and reuenged themselues with a despitefull heart, to destroy it for the olde hatred,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:17 @ And I will execute great vengeance vpon them with rebukes of mine indignation, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde, when I shall lay my vengeance vpon them.

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:26:20 @ When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people (note:)Who were dead long ago.(:note) of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the Meaning in Judea when it will be restored. living;

geneva@Ezekiel:27:31 @ They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning.

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:28:18 @ 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:28:24 @ And they shalbe no more a pricking thorne vnto the house of Israel, nor any grieuous thorne of all that are round about them, and despised them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde God.

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:28:26 @ And they shal dwell safely therein, & shall builde houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell safely, when I haue executed iudgements vpon al round about them that despise them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord their God.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:12 @ And I wil make the land of Egypt desolate in the middes of the countries, that are desolate, and her cities shall be desolate among the cities that are desolate, for fourtie yeeres: and I wil scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and wil disperse them through the countreis.

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:29:15 @ It shall be the smallest of the kingdomes, neither shall it exalt it selfe any more aboue the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule the nations.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:16 @ And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth [their] (note:)Lest I should by this means punish their sins.(:note) iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:21 @ In that day will I cause the horne of the house of Israel to growe, and I will giue thee an open mouth in the middes of them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

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:30:23 @ And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countreys.

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:30:26 @ And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, & disperse them among ye countreys, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:14 @ So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

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:31:17 @ They also went downe to hell with him vnto them that be slaine with the sworde, and his arme, and they that dwelt vnder his shadowe in the middes of the heathen.

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:32:12 @ 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:32:20 @ They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: (note:)That is, Egypt.(:note) she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:21 @ The strong among the mighty shall speak to (note:)To make the matter more sensible, he brings in Pharaoh whom the dead will meet and marvel at him, read (Isa_14:9).(:note) him out of the midst of the grave with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:24 @ There [is] (note:)Meaning the Persians.(:note) Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the Whom in his life all the world feared. living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:25 @ They haue made his bed in the mids of the slaine with al his multitude: their graues are round about him: all these vncircucised are slaine by the sworde: though they haue caused their feare in the land of ye liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that goe downe to the pitte: they are laide in the middes of them, that be slaine.

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:32:28 @ Yea, thou shalt be broken in the middes of the vncircumcised, and lie with them that are slaine by the sworde.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:29 @ There is Edom, his Kings, and all his princes, which with their strength are laied by them that were slaine by the sworde: they shall sleepe with the vncircumcised, and with them that goe downe to the pit.

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:33:2 @ Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their territory, and set him for their (note:)He shows that the people ought to continually have governors and teachers who may have a care over them, and to warn them ever of the dangers which are at hand.(:note) watchman:

geneva@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman shall see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword shall come, and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his (note:)Signifying that the wicked will not escape punishment though the watchman is negligent: but if the watchman blows the trumpet, and then he will not obey, he will deserve double punishment.(:note) iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:7 @ So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my (note:)Which teaches that he that receives not his charge at the Lord's mouth is a spy and not a true watchman.(:note) mouth, and warn them from me.

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

geneva@Ezekiel: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:33:14 @ Again, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he shall turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and (note:)By this he condemns them all of hypocrisy, who pretend to forsake wickedness and yet do not declare themselves such by their fruits, that is, in obeying God's commandments and by godly life.(:note) right;

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:33:25 @ Wherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the (note:)Contrary to the law, (Lev_17:14).(:note) blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: 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:33:31 @ 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:34:2 @ Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD to the shepherds; Woe [be] to the (note:)By the shepherds he means the king, the magistrates, priests and prophets.(:note) shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

geneva@Ezekiel:34:3 @ Ye eat the (note:)You seek to enrich yourselves by their conveniences and to spoil their riches and substance.(:note) fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.

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:34:6 @ 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:34:11 @ For thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

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:34:13 @ And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countreis, and will bring them to their owne lande, and feede them vpon the mountaines of Israel, by the riuers, and in all the inhabited places of the countrey.

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:34:15 @ I will feede my sheepe, and bring them to their rest, sayth the Lord God.

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:34:20 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God vnto them, behold, I, euen I wil iudge betweene the fat sheepe and the leane sheepe.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Because ye haue thrust with side and with shoulder, & pusht al the weake with your hornes, till ye haue scattered them abroade,

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:34:24 @ And I the Lord will be their God, and my seruant Dauid shalbe the prince amog them. I the Lord haue spoken it.

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:34:29 @ And I will raise up for them a (note:)That is, the rod that will come out of the root of Jesse, (Isa_11:1).(:note) plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:30 @ Thus shall they vnderstande, that I the Lorde their God am with them, and that they, euen the house of Israel, are my people, sayth the Lord God.

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:35:11 @ 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:35:13 @ Thus with your mouthes ye haue boasted against me, & haue multiplied your words against me: I haue heard them.

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:36:6 @ Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the (note:)Because you have been a laughing stock to them.(:note) shame of the nations:

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:36:12 @ Yea, I will cause men to walk (note:)That is, on the mountains of Jerusalem.(:note) upon you, [even] my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them [of men].

geneva@Ezekiel:36:18 @ Wherfore I powred my wrath vpon them, for the blood that they had shed in the land, and for their idoles, wherewith they had polluted it.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:19 @ And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries for according to their wayes, and according to their deedes, I iudged them.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:20 @ And when they entred vnto the heathen, whither they went, they polluted mine holy Name, when they sayd of them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone out of his land.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:27 @ And I will put my spirite within you, and cause you to walke in my statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements and do them.

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: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:37:2 @ And he led me round about by them, and beholde, they were very many in the open fielde, and lo, they were very drie.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:4 @ Againe he sayde vnto me, Prophecie vpon these bones and say vnto them, O ye dry bones, heare the word of the Lord.

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:37:12 @ Therefore prophecie, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, my people, I will open your graues, and cause you to come vp out of your sepulchres, and bring you into the lande of Israel,

geneva@Ezekiel:37:19 @ Say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick (note:)That is, the house of Israel.(:note) of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:21 @ And say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and wil gather them on euery side, & bring them into their owne land.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:22 @ And I will make them one people in the lande, vpon the mountaines of Israel, and one king shalbe king to them all: and they shalbe no more two peoples, neither bee deuided any more henceforth into two kingdomes.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:23 @ Neither shall they bee polluted any more with their idoles, nor with their abominatios, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will saue them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they haue sinned, and will clense them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:24 @ And Dauid my seruant shalbe king ouer them, and they all shall haue one shepheard: they shall also walke in my iudgements, and obserue my statutes, and doe them.

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:37:27 @ My tabernacle also shalbe with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:28 @ Thus the heathen shall knowe, that I the Lord do sanctifie Israel, when my Sanctuarie shall be among them for euermore.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:4 @ And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them (note:)He shows that the enemy would bend themselves against the Church but it would be to their own destruction.(:note) handling swords:

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:38:11 @ 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:38:17 @ 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:39:6 @ And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell securely in the (note:)That is, among all nations where the enemies of my people dwell, no matter how separate they seem.(:note) isles: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:7 @ So will I make mine holy Name knowen in the middes of my people Israel, and I will not suffer them to pollute mine holy Name any more, and the heathen shal knowe that I am the Lord, the holy one of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:9 @ And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall (note:)After this destruction the Church will have great peace and tranquillity and burn all their weapons because they will no more fear the enemies. This chiefly refers to the accomplishment of Christ's kingdom when by their head Christ all enemies will be overcome.(:note) go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

geneva@Ezekiel:39:10 @ So that they shall bring no wood out of the fielde, neither cut downe any out of the forestes: for they shall burne the weapons with fire, and they shall robbe those that robbed them, and spoyle those that spoyled them, sayeth the Lorde God.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:13 @ Yea, all the people of the lande shall burie them, and they shall haue a name when I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:21 @ And I wil set my glory among the heathe, and all the heathen shall see my iudgement, that I haue executed, and mine hand, which I haue layed vpon them.

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:39:24 @ According to their vncleannes, and according to their transgressions haue I done vnto the, and hid my face from them.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:27 @ When I haue brought them againe from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies landes, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations,

geneva@Ezekiel:39:28 @ Then shal they know, that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captiuitie among the heathen: but I haue gathered them vnto their owne land, and haue left none of them any more there,

geneva@Ezekiel:39:29 @ Neither wil I hide my face any more from them: for I haue powred out my Spirit vpon the house of Israel, sayth the Lord God.

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:40:26 @ And there were seuen steps to go vp to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palme trees, one on this side, and another on that side vpon the post thereof.

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:42:9 @ And vnder these chambers was the entrie, on the East side, as one goeth into them from the outward court.

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: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:43:9 @ Now therefore let them put away their fornication, and the carkeises of their Kings farre from me, and I will dwell among them for euer.

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:43:24 @ 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:44:7 @ In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] (note:)For they had brought idolaters who were from other countries, to teach them their idolatry, (Eze_23:40).(:note) strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:11 @ And they shall serue in my Sanctuarie, and keepe the gates of the House, and minister in the House: they shall slay the burnt offring and the sacrifice for the people: and they shall stand before them to serue them.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:14 @ And I will make them keepers of ye watch of the House, for all the seruice thereof, and for all that shalbe done therein.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:18 @ They shall haue linnen bonets vpon their heades, and shall haue linnen breeches vpon their loynes: they shall not girde them selues in the sweating places.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:19 @ But when they goe foorth into the vtter court, euen to the vtter court to the people, they shall put off their garments, wherein they ministred, and lay them in the holy chambers, & they shall put on other garments: for they shall not sanctifie the people with their garments.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:23 @ And they shal teach my people the differece betweene the holy and prophane, & cause them to discerne betweene the vncleane & the cleane.

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:44:28 @ And the Priesthood shall bee their inheritance, yea, I am their inheritance: therefore shall ye giue them no possessio in Israel, for I am their possession.

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:46:10 @ And the prince shall be in the middes of them: hee shall go in when they goe in, & when they goe forth, they shal goe forth together.

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:46:23 @ And there went a wall about them, euen about those foure, and kitchins were made vnder the walles rounde about.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:7 @ Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river [were] very many (note:)Meaning, the multitude of them that would be refreshed by the spiritual waters.(:note) trees on the one side and on the other.

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:48:18 @ 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@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:1:3 @ 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:1:12 @ 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:1:14 @ So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes.

geneva@Daniel:1:16 @ Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drinke, and gaue them pulse.

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: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:2:5 @ 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:2:28 @ 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:2:34 @ 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:2:41 @ 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:2:43 @ 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:2:48 @ 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:3:4 @ Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, (note:)These are the two dangerous weapons, which Satan used to fight against the children of God, the consent of the multitude, and the cruelty of the punishment. For even though some feared God, yet the multitude who consented to the wickedness persuaded them: and here the King required not an inward consent, but an outward gesture, that the Jews might by little and little learn to forget their true religion.(:note) nations, and languages,

geneva@Daniel:3:14 @ And Nebuchad-nezzar spake, and said vnto them, What disorder? Will not you, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego serue my god, nor worship the golden image, that I haue set vp?

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:3:19 @ 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:3:23 @ 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:3:27 @ 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: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:4:19 @ 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:4:35 @ 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:5:3 @ Then were brought the golden vessels, that were taken out of the Temple of the Lords house at Ierusalem, and the King and his princes, his wiues and his concubines dranke in them.

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:5:7 @ 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:5:11 @ 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:5:14 @ 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:5:23 @ 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: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:6:4 @ 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:6:15 @ 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:6:24 @ 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: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:7:6 @ 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:7:8 @ 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:7:14 @ 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:7:16 @ 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:7:18 @ 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:7:21 @ I beheld, and the same (note:)Meaning the Roman emperors, who were most cruel against the Church of God, both of the Jews and of the Gentiles.(:note) horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

geneva@Daniel:7:24 @ And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue (note:){{See Dan_7:8}}(:note) three kings.

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: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:8:12 @ 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: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:9:16 @ O Lord, according to all thy (note:)That is, according to all your merciful promises and the performance of them.(:note) righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us.

geneva@Daniel:9:25 @ Know therefore and understand, [that] from (note:)That is, from the time that Cyrus gave them permission to depart.(:note) the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven These weeks make forty-nine years, of which forty-six are referred to the time of the building of the temple, and three to the laying of the foundation. weeks, and Counting from the sixth year of Darius, who gave the second commandment for the building of the temple are sixty-two weeks, which make 434 years, which comprehend the time from the building of the temple until the baptism of Christ. threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

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:10:7 @ And I Daniel alone sawe the vision: for the men that were with me, sawe not the vision: but a great feare fell vpon them, so that they fled away and hid themselues.

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: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:11:6 @ And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's (note:)That is, Bernice the daughter of Ptolemais Philadelphus will be given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, thinking by this affinity that Syria and Egypt would have a continual peace together.(:note) daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the That power and strength will not continue: for soon after her husband's death, Bernice and her young son were slain by her stepson Seleicus Calinieus the son of Laodice, the lawful wife of Antiochus, but put away for this woman's sake. arm; neither shall Neither Ptolemais nor Antiochus. he stand, nor his Some read «seed», meaning the child begotten by Bernice. arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he Some read, «she that begat her», and by this understand her nurse, who brought her up: so that all those who were part of this marriage were destroyed. that begat her, and he that strengthened her in [these] times.

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:11:14 @ And in those times there shall (note:)For not only Antaiochus came against him, but also Philip King of Macedonia, and these two brought great power with them.(:note) many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy For under Onies, who falsely alleged that place of (Isa_19:19), certain of the Jews retired with him into Egypt to fulfil this prophecy: also the angel shows that all these troubles which are in the Church, are by the providence and counsel of God. people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

geneva@Daniel:11:16 @ But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the (note:)He shows that he will not only afflict the Egyptians, but also the Jews, and will enter into their country, of which he admonished them before, that they may know that all these things came by God's providence.(:note) glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.

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:11:27 @ 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:11:28 @ Then shall he return into his land with great (note:)Which he will take from the Jews in spoiling Jerusalem and the temple, and this is told them before to exhort them to be patient, knowing that all things are done by God's providence.(:note) riches; and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall do [exploits], and return to his own land.

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:11:34 @ 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:11:37 @ 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:11:41 @ 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:11:45 @ 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:12:2 @ 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@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days (note:)Also called Azariah, who being a leper was disposed from his kingdom.(:note) of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, So that it may be gathered by the reign of these four kings that he preached about eighty years. kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The Argument - After the ten tribes had fallen away from God by the wicked and subtle counsel of Jeroboam, the son of Neba, and instead of his true service commanded by his word, worshipped him according to their own imaginings and traditions of men, giving themselves to most vile idolatry and superstition, the Lord from time to time sent them Prophets to call them to repentance. But they grew even worse and worse, and still abused God's benefits. Therefore now when their prosperity was at the highest under Jeroboam, the son of Joash, God sent Hosea and Amos to the Israelites (as he did at the same time send Isaiah and Micah to those of Judah) to condemn them for their ingratitude. And whereas they thought themselves to be greatly in the favour of God, and to be his people, the Prophet calls them bastards and children born in adultery: and therefore shows them that God would take away their kingdom, and give them to the Assyrians to be led away captives. Thus Hosea faithfully executed his office for the space of seventy years, though they remained still in their vices and wickedness and derided the Prophets, and condemned God's judgments. And because they would neither be discouraged with threatening only, nor should they flatter themselves by the sweetness of God's promises, he sets before them the two principal parts of the Law, which are the promise of salvation, and the doctrine of life. For the first part he directs the faithful to the Messiah, by whom alone they would have true deliverance: and for the second, he uses threatenings and menaces to bring them from their wicked manners and vices: and this is the chief scope of all the Prophets, either by God's promises to allure them to be godly, or else by threatenings of his judgments to scare them from vice. And even though the whole Law contains these two points, yet the Prophets moreover note distinctly both the time of God's judgments and the manner.

geneva@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said unto him, Call his name (note:)Meaning that they would no longer be called Israelites, which name they boasted because Israel did prevail with God: but that they were as bastards, and therefore should be called Jezreelites, that is, scattered people, alluding to Jezreel, which was the chief city of the ten tribes under Ahab, where Jehu shed so much blood; (1Ki_18:45).(:note) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of I will be avenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jezreel: for even though God stirred him up to execute his judgments, yet he did them for his own ambition, and not for the glory of God as the intended goal: for he built up that idolatry which he had destroyed. Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

geneva@Hosea: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:1:10 @ 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: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:2:2 @ 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:2:5 @ 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:2:7 @ 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:2:12 @ 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:2:18 @ 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:2:23 @ 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:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD (note:)Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophets, he accuses them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended; (Isa_7:13) (Zec_12:10; Mic_6:1,2).(:note) hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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:4:7 @ 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:4:12 @ 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:4:13 @ 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:4:15 @ 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:4:18 @ Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, (note:)They are so shameless in receiving bribes, that they command men to bring them to them.(:note) Give ye.

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:5:2 @ And the revolters are profound to make (note:)Even though they seemed to be given altogether to holiness, and to sacrifices which here he calls slaughter in contempt.(:note) slaughter, though I [have been] a Though I had admonished them continually by my Prophets. rebuker of them all.

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:5:4 @ 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:5:5 @ And the (note:)Meaning their condemning of all admonitions.(:note) pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

geneva@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall goe with their sheepe, and with their bullockes to seeke the Lorde: but they shall not finde him: for he hath withdrawne himselfe from them.

geneva@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten (note:)That is, their children are degenerate, so that there is no hope in them.(:note) strange children: now shall Their destruction is not far off. a month devour them with their portions.

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:5:10 @ 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: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: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:7:2 @ And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickednes: now their owne inuentions haue beset them about: they are in my sight.

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:7:12 @ 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:7:13 @ Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have (note:)That is, at different times redeemed them, and delivered them from death.(:note) redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

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: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: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:9:6 @ 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:9:8 @ 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:9:12 @ 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:9:14 @ 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:9:15 @ 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:9:17 @ 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:10:9 @ 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: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:11:6 @ And the sworde shall fall on his cities, and shall consume his barres, and deuoure them, because of their owne counsels.

geneva@Hosea:11:7 @ And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though (note:)That is, the Prophets.(:note) they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].

geneva@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, (note:)«Let the men that sacrifice» or «while they sacrifice men». The false prophets persuaded the idolaters to offer their children after the example of Abraham, and he shows how they would exhort one another to the same, and to kiss and worship these calves which were their idols.(:note) Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

geneva@Hosea:13:4 @ Yet I [am] the LORD thy God (note:)He calls them to repentance, and reproves their ingratitude.(:note) from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside 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:13:14 @ 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:14:1 @ 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:14:2 @ 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:14:7 @ 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@Hosea:14:9 @ Who [is] (note:)Signifying that the true wisdom and knowledge consists in this, even to rest upon God.(:note) wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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:1:2 @ 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:1:6 @ 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: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:2:8 @ 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:2:10 @ The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the (note:)Read (Joe_2:31; Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29)(:note) sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

geneva@Joel:2:17 @ Let the Priestes, the ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and giue not thine heritage into reproche that the heathen should rule ouer them. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their 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:2:20 @ 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:2:30 @ 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:2:32 @ 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:3:6 @ The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that ye might send them farre from their border.

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:3:21 @ 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:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of (note:)Which was a town five miles from Jerusalem in Judea, but he prophesied in Israel.(:note) Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of In his days the kingdom of Israel flourished the most. Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the Which as Josephus writes, was when Uzziah would have usurped the priest's office, and therefore was smitten with leprosy. earthquake. The Argument - Among many other Prophets that God raised up to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickedness and idolatry, he stirred up Amos, who was a herdman or shepherd of a poor town, and gave him both knowledge and constancy to reprove all estates and degrees, and to make known God's horrible judgments against them, unless they repented in time. And he showed them, that if God did not spare the other nations around them, who had lived as it were in ignorance of God compared to them, but for their sins punished them, then they could look for nothing, but a horrible destruction, unless they turned to the Lord in true repentance. And finally, he comforts the godly with hope of the coming of the Messiah, by whom they would have perfect deliverance and salvation.

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

geneva@Amos:1:5 @ 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:1:9 @ 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:1:13 @ 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:2:8 @ 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:2:9 @ 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: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:4:1 @ 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:4:4 @ 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: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:5:8 @ [Seek him] that (note:)He describes the power of God; (Job_9:9).(:note) maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name:

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:5:13 @ 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:5:22 @ 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: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:6:4 @ They lie vpon beddes of yuorie, & stretch themselues vpon their beddes, & eate the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall.

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:6:6 @ That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not (note:)They did not pity their brethren, of which many were now slain and carried away captive.(:note) grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

geneva@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the (note:)Some read «the sorrow of them that stretched themselves is at hand».(:note) banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

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:6:12 @ 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: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: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: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:9:6 @ [It is] he that buildeth his (note:)He declares by the wonderful power of God, by the making of the heavens and the elements, that it is not possible for man to escape his judgments when he punishes.(:note) stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.

geneva@Amos:9:15 @ And I wil plant them vpon their land, and they shall no more bee pulled vp againe out of their lande, which I haue giuen them, sayeth the Lord thy God.

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:1:11 @ 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:1:12 @ But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became (note:)When the Lord deprived them of their former dignity, and delivered them to be carried into captivity.(:note) a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

geneva@Obadiah:1:14 @ Neyther shouldest thou haue stande in the crosse wayes to cut off them, that shoulde escape, neither shouldest thou haue shut vp the remnant thereof in the day of affliction.

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:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be (note:)God attributes this power to consume his enemies to his Church, which power properly belongs only to himself; (Isa_10:17; Deu_4:24; Heb_12:29).(:note) a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it].

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:1:5 @ 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:1:7 @ 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:1:9 @ And he answered them, I am an Ebrewe, and I feare the Lord God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry lande.

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:1:12 @ 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:1:16 @ 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: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:3:7 @ 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:3:10 @ And God saw their (note:)That is, the fruits of their repentance, which proceeded from faith, which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet.(:note) works, that they turned from their evil way; and {{See Jer_18:8}} God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.

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:4:9 @ 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:1:1 @ 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:1:5 @ 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:1:7 @ 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:1:10 @ 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:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the (note:)For Rabshakeh had shut up Jerusalem, so that they could not send to help them.(:note) gate of Jerusalem.

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:2:1 @ 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:2:2 @ And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

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:2:11 @ 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:3:5 @ 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:3:8 @ 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: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:4:4 @ But they shall sit euery man vnder his vine, and vnder his figge tree, and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lorde of hostes hath spoken it.

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:4:7 @ 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:4:9 @ 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: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:5:3 @ 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: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: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:7:12 @ [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@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:1:3 @ 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:1:7 @ 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:1:9 @ 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: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:2:8 @ 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:2:11 @ Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the lions, and given to all oppression, and spared no violence or tyranny to provide for their wives and children.(:note) dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?

geneva@Nahum:3:4 @ Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured (note:)He compares Nineveh to a harlot, who by her beauty and subtilty entices young men, and brings them to destruction.(:note) harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

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@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:1:7 @ 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:1:10 @ 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:1:12 @ [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:1:16 @ Therefore they sacrifice to their (note:)Meaning that the enemies flatter themselves, and glory in their own strength, power, and intellect.(:note) net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their food plenteous.

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:2:7 @ Shall (note:)That is, the Medes and persians, that would destroy the Babylonians?(:note) they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them?

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:2:15 @ 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:2:17 @ 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:2:18 @ What profiteth the graven (note:)He shows that the Babylonian gods could not help them at all, for they were but blocks or stones. {{See Jer_10:8}}(:note) image that its maker hath engraved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth in it, to make dumb idols?

geneva@Habakkuk:3:16 @ When I (note:)He returns to that which he spoke as in, (Hab_3:2) and shows how he was afraid of God's judgments.(:note) heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in He shows that the faithful can never have true rest, except that which they feel before the weight of God's judgments. the day of trouble: when he cometh up That is, the enemy, but the godly will be quiet, knowing that all things will turn to good for them. to the people, he will invade them with his troops.

geneva@Zephaniah: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:1:5 @ 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:1:6 @ And them that are turned backe from the Lord, and those that haue not sought the Lorde, nor inquired for him.

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:1:18 @ Neither their siluer nor their golde shalbe able to deliuer them in ye day of the Lords wrath, but the whole lande shalbe deuoured by the fire of his ielousie: for hee shall make euen a speedie riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Gather (note:)He exhorts them to repentance, and wills them to descend into themselves and gather themselves, lest they be scattered like chaff.(:note) yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

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:2:7 @ 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:2:8 @ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and (note:)These nations presumed to take from the Jews that country which the Lord had given them.(:note) magnified [themselves] against their border.

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:2:10 @ This shall they haue for their pride, because they haue reproched and magnified themselues against the Lord of hostes people.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:11 @ The LORD [will be] terrible unto them: (note:)When he will deliver his people and destroy their enemies and idols, his glory will shine throughout all the world.(:note) for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall worship him, every one from his place, [even] all the isles of the heathen.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:12 @ Ye Morians also shalbe slaine by my sword with them.

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:3:7 @ I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but (note:)They were most earnest and ready to do wickedly.(:note) they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.

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:3:11 @ 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:3:13 @ The remnant of Israel shal do none iniquitie, nor speake lies: neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shalbe fed, and lie downe, and none shall make them afraide.

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:1:14 @ And the LORD stirred up (note:)Which declares that men are unable and dull to serve the Lord, neither can they obey his word or his messengers, before God reforms their hearts, and gives them new spirits; (Joh_6:44).(:note) the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

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:2:12 @ If one bear (note:)That is, the flesh of the sacrifices, by which he means that a thing which of itself is good, cannot make another thing so: and therefore they ought not to justify themselves by their sacrifices and ceremonies: but contrary to this, he that is unclean and not pure of heart, does corrupt those things and make them detestable to God, which otherwise are good and godly.(:note) holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

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:2:22 @ And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the (note:)By this he shows that there will be no stop or hindrance, when God will make this wonderful restitution of his Church.(:note) kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

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:1:5 @ Your fathers, where (note:)Though your fathers are dead, yet God's judgments in punishing them ought still to be before your eyes: and though the prophets are dead, yet their doctrine remains for ever; (2Pe_1:15).(:note) [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

geneva@Zechariah:1:12 @ 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:1:21 @ 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:2:5 @ For I, saith the LORD, will be to her a wall of (note:)To defend my Church, to strike fear in the enemies, and to destroy them if they approach near.(:note) fire on every side, and will In me they will have their full felicity and glory. be the glory in the midst of her.

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:3:5 @ 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:4:7 @ Who [art] thou, O (note:)He compares the power of the adversaries to a great mountain, who thought the Jews were nothing with regard to them, and would have hindered Zerubbabel, who represented Christ, whom the enemies daily labour to stop in the building of his spiritual Temple, but all in vain.(:note) great mountain? before Zerubbabel [thou shalt become] a plain: and Though the enemies think to stop this building, yet Zerubbabel will lay the highest stone of it, and bring it to perfection, so that all the godly will rejoice, and pray to God that he would continue his grace and favour toward the Temple. he shall bring forth its headstone [with] shoutings, [crying], Grace, grace to it.

geneva@Zechariah:4:12 @ And I spake moreouer, and said vnto him, What bee these two oliue branches, which thorowe the two golden pipes emptie themselues into the golde?

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:5:8 @ 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: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:6:6 @ The black horses which [are] in it go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the spotted go forth toward the (note:)That is, towards Egypt, and other countries there about.(:note) south country.

geneva@Zechariah:6:10 @ Take of [them of] the captivity, [even] of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, who are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of (note:)To receive from him and the other three, money to make the two crowns: who were men of great authority among the Jews, and doubted of the restitution of the kingdom, and of the priesthood, and hurt others by their example.(:note) Josiah the son of Zephaniah;

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:6:13 @ Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the (note:)Of which Joshua had but a shadow.(:note) glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between The two offices of the kingdom and priesthood, will be joined together in such a way, that they will no longer be separated. them both.

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:7:12 @ 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:7:14 @ 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:8:4 @ 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:8:8 @ And I will bring them, and they shall (note:)So that their return will not be in vain: for God will accomplish his promise, and their prosperity will be sure and stable.(:note) dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

geneva@Zechariah:8:15 @ So again have I thought in these days (note:)Which declares that man cannot turn to God until he changes man's heart by his Spirit, and so begin to do good to them, which is to pardon his sins and to give him his graces.(:note) to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye 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: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:9:7 @ 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:9:10 @ And I will cut off the (note:)No power of man or creature will be able to stop this kingdom of Christ, and he will peaceably govern them by his word.(:note) chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the nations: and his dominion [shall be] from That is, from the Red Sea, to the Sea called Syriacum: and by these places which the Jews knew, he meant an infinite space and area over the whole world. sea to sea, and from the That is, from the Euphrates. river to the ends of the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:9:12 @ Turn ye to the (note:)That is, into the holy land where the city and the temple are, where God will defend you.(:note) strong hold, ye Meaning the faithful, who seemed to be in danger of their enemies on every side, and yet lived in hope that God would restore them to liberty. prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render That is, double benefits and prosperity, in respect of that which your fathers enjoyed from David's time to the captivity. double to thee;

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:10:5 @ 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:10:8 @ 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:10:12 @ And I will strengthen them in the Lorde, and they shall walke in his Name, sayth the Lorde.

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:11:5 @ Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves (note:)Their governors destroy them without any remorse of conscience, or yet thinking that they do evil.(:note) not guilty: and they that sell them say, He notes the hypocrites, who always have the name of God in their mouths, though in their life and doings they deny God, attributing their gain to God's blessings, which comes from the wealth of their brethren. Blessed [be] the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

geneva@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, (note:)I will cause one to destroy another.(:note) I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his Their governors will execute cruelty over them. king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver [them].

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

geneva@Zechariah:11:12 @ 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:12:1 @ The burden of the word of the LORD for (note:)That is, the ten tribes, which neglected God's benefit in delivering their brethren, and had rather remain in captivity, than to return home when God called them.(:note) Israel, saith the LORD, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

geneva@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The (note:)Every captain, that had many under him before, will now think that the small power of Jerusalem will be sufficient to defend them against all enemies, because the Lord is among them.(:note) inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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:13:1 @ In that day there (note:)He shows what will be the fruit of their repentance, that is, remission of sins by the blood of Christ, which will be a continual running fountain, and purge them from all uncleanness.(:note) shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

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:13:8 @ 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:14:1 @ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be (note:)He arms the godly against the great temptations that would come, before they enjoyed this prosperous estate promised under Christ, that when these dangers came, they might know that they were warned of them before.(:note) divided in the midst of thee.

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:14:8 @ And it shall be in that day, [that] living (note:)That is, the spiritual graces of God, which would always continue in most abundance.(:note) waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

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:14:17 @ And who so will not come vp of all the families of the earth vnto Ierusalem to worship the King the Lorde of hostes, euen vpon them shall come no raine.

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@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more the (note:)But all will be pure and clean, and there will neither by hypocrites, nor any that will corrupt the true service of God.(:note) Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

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:1:3 @ 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:1:4 @ Though Edom say, wee are impouerished, but we will returne and build the desolate places, yet sayeth the Lorde of hostes, they shall builde, but I will destroy it, and they shall call them, The border of wickednes, and the people, with whome the Lord is angrie for euer.

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:2:1 @ And now, O ye (note:)He speaks mainly to them, but under them he includes the people also.(:note) priests, this commandment [is] for you.

geneva@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory (note:)To serve me according to my word.(:note) unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your That is, the abundance of God's benefits. blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.

geneva@Malachi:2:4 @ And ye shall know that I have (note:)The Priests objected against the Prophet that he could not remove them without speaking against the priesthood, and the office established by God by promise. But he shows that the office is nothing slandered, when these villains and dung are called by their own names.(:note) sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

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:2:10 @ 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:2:11 @ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the (note:)They have united themselves in marriage with those that are of another religion.(:note) daughter of a strange god.

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:2:17 @ 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:3:2 @ But who (note:)He shows that the hypocrites who wish so much for the Lord's coming will not remain when he draws near: for he will consume them, and purge his own and make them clean.(:note) may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

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:3:6 @ 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:3:7 @ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. (note:)Read (Zec_1:3).(:note) Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

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

geneva@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:4:5 @ 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: