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

geneva@Genesis:10:8 @ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a (note:)Meaning, a cruel oppressor and tyrant.(:note) mighty one in the earth.

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

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

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

geneva@Genesis: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:19:31 @ And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the (note:)Meaning in the country which the Lord had now destroyed.(:note) earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

geneva@Genesis:23:10 @ And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even] of all that (note:)Meaning all the citizens and inhabitants.(:note) went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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

geneva@Genesis:29:20 @ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but] a (note:)Meaning after the years were accomplished.(:note) few days, for the love he had to her.

geneva@Genesis:31:53 @ The God of Abraham, and the God of (note:)Behold, how the idolaters mingle the true God with their false gods.(:note) Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Meaning, by the true God whom Isaac worshipped. fear of his father Isaac.

geneva@Genesis:32:11 @ Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] the (note:)Meaning, he will put all to death. This proverb comes from those who kill the bird together with the young ones.(:note) mother with the children.

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

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

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

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

geneva@Exodus:4:22 @ And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my (note:)Meaning, most dear to him.(:note) firstborn:

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

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

geneva@Exodus:23:19 @ The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his (note:)Meaning, that no fruit should be taken before just time: and by this all cruel and wanton appetites are controlled.(:note) mother's milk.

geneva@Exodus:26:35 @ And thou shalt set the table (note:)Meaning, in the holy place.(:note) without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

geneva@Exodus:27:13 @ And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] (note:)Meaning curtains of fifty cubits.(:note) fifty cubits.

geneva@Exodus:29:20 @ Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put [it] (note:)Meaning the soft and lower part of the ear.(:note) upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

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:36:3 @ And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And (note:)Meaning, the Israelites.(:note) they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

geneva@Leviticus:1:3 @ If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the (note:)Meaning, within the court of the tabernacle.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:3:13 @ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before (note:)Meaning, at the north side of the altar, (Lev_1:1).(:note) the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

geneva@Leviticus:4:3 @ If (note:)Meaning, the high priest.(:note) the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.

geneva@Leviticus:4:7 @ And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the (note:)Which was in the court: meaning by the tabernacle the sanctuary: and in the end of this verse it is taken for the court.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:4:33 @ And he shall lay his (note:)Meaning that the punishment of his sin should be laid on the beast, or, that he had received all things from God, and offered this willingly.(:note) hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

geneva@Leviticus:6:27 @ Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any (note:)Meaning, the garment of the priest.(:note) garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

geneva@Leviticus: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:15:16 @ And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his (note:)Meaning, all his body.(:note) flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:16:29 @ And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in the (note:)Which was Tisri, part September and part October.(:note) seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall Meaning, by abstinence and fasting, (Num_29:7). afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

geneva@Leviticus: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: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:24:10 @ And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went (note:)Meaning, out of his tent.(:note) out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

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

geneva@Numbers:4:7 @ And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover (note:)Meaning, to cover the bread.(:note) withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:

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:10:6 @ When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the (note:)Meaning, the heart of Reuben.(:note) south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

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:19:7 @ Then the (note:)Meaning, Eleazar.(:note) priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

geneva@Numbers:21:5 @ And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth this light (note:)Meaning manna, which they thought did not nourish.(:note) bread.

geneva@Numbers:21:28 @ For there is a (note:)Meaning, wane.(:note) fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the lords of the high places of Arnon.

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:24:17 @ I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a (note:)Meaning Christ.(:note) Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the That is, the princes. corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of He shall subdue all that resist: for of Sheth came Noah, and of Noah all the world. Sheth.

geneva@Numbers:24:24 @ And ships [shall come] from the coast of (note:)The Grecians and Romans.(:note) Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and Meaning, Eber, or the Jews for rebelling against God. he also shall perish for ever.

geneva@Numbers:27:11 @ And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of (note:)Meaning, an ordinance to judge by.(:note) judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:29:12 @ And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy (note:)Meaning, the feast of the tabernacles.(:note) convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

geneva@Numbers:31:40 @ And (note:)Meaning, of the maids, or virgins who had not slept with a man.(:note) the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.

geneva@Numbers: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: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:35:12 @ And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the (note:)Meaning, from the next of the kindred, who ought to pursue the cause.(:note) avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

geneva@Numbers:36:2 @ And they said, The LORD commanded (note:)Meaning Moses.(:note) my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

geneva@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:4:25 @ When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall (note:)Meaning by this all superstition and corruption of the true service of God.(:note) corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:13 @ Six days (note:)Meaning, since God permits six days for our labours, we should willingly dedicate the seventh to serve him wholly.(:note) thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

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:9:1 @ Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan (note:)Meaning shortly.(:note) this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:30 @ [Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way (note:)Meaning, in Samaria.(:note) where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:6 @ And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave (note:)Meaning, the first fruits.(:note) offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:17 @ Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the (note:)Meaning, whatever was offered to the Lord, may not be eaten, except where he had appointed.(:note) tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

geneva@Deuteronomy: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:18:6 @ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with (note:)Meaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease.(:note) all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:15 @ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a (note:)Meaning, a continual succession of prophets, till Christ, the end of all prophets, comes.(:note) Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

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:22:17 @ And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the (note:)Meaning, the sheet, in which the signs of her virginity were.(:note) cloth before the elders of the city.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so (note:)Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished.(:note) [is] this matter:

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:30 @ A man shall not (note:)He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in (Leviticus. strkjv@18:1-30).(:note) take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:13 @ And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and (note:)Meaning by this that his people should be pure both in body and soul.(:note) cover that which cometh from thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A (note:)Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria.(:note) Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, Only by God's mercy, and not by their father's deserving. and populous:

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:12 @ These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and (note:)Meaning, Ephraim and Manasseh.(:note) Joseph, and Benjamin:

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:18 @ Cursed [be] he that maketh the (note:)Meaning, that does not help and counsel his neighbour.(:note) blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:23 @ Cursed [be] he that lieth with his (note:)Meaning, his wife's mother.(:note) mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:7 @ The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee (note:)Meaning many ways.(:note) seven ways.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:15 @ But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] (note:)Meaning, their posterity.(:note) that [is] not here with us this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:13 @ He made him ride on the high places of the (note:)Meaning, of the land of Canaan, which was high in respect to Egypt.(:note) earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck That is, abundance of all things even in the very rocks. honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

geneva@Deuteronomy: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:33:23 @ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou (note:)Meaning, near the sea.(:note) the west and the south.

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:12 @ And in all that mighty (note:)Meaning, the power of God working by Moses in the wilderness.(:note) hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

geneva@Joshua:1:4 @ From the (note:)Of Zin, called Kadesh and Paran.(:note) wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Meaning, the whole land of Canaan. Hittites, and unto the great Called Mediterranean. sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

geneva@Joshua:1:11 @ Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for (note:)Meaning, from the day that this was proclaimed, (Jos_3:2).(:note) within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

geneva@Joshua: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: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:4:11 @ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, (note:)Meaning, in the presence or sight of the people.(:note) in the presence of the people.

geneva@Joshua:6:9 @ And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the (note:)Meaning, the gathering host, in which was the standard of the tribe of Dan, (Num_10:25).(:note) rereward came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

geneva@Joshua:6:24 @ And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the (note:)Meaning, the tabernacle.(:note) house of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:7:13 @ Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the (note:)Meaning, the man that took of the thing forbidden.(:note) accursed thing from among you.

geneva@Joshua:8:2 @ And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city (note:)Meaning on the west side, as in (Jos_8:9).(:note) behind it.

geneva@Joshua:8:32 @ And he wrote there upon the stones a (note:)Meaning, the ten commandments, which are the sum of the whole Law.(:note) copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

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:13:31 @ And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the (note:)Meaning, his nephews and posterity.(:note) children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

geneva@Joshua:15:5 @ And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the (note:)Meaning the mouth of the river where it runs into the Salt sea.(:note) end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

geneva@Joshua:15:11 @ And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the (note:)Meaning, toward Syria.(:note) sea.

geneva@Joshua:15:47 @ Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the (note:)Meaning, the Nile (Jos_13:3).(:note) river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:

geneva@Joshua:17:8 @ [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but (note:)Meaning, the city itself.(:note) Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;

geneva@Joshua:22:17 @ [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not (note:)Meaning, God is not fully pacified, in that no punishment can be sufficient for such wickedness and idolatry.(:note) cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

geneva@Joshua:23:13 @ Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your (note:)Meaning, they will be a continual grief to you, and so the cause of your destruction.(:note) eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

geneva@Judges:1:35 @ But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the (note:)Meaning, when he was stronger than they.(:note) hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

geneva@Judges:2:7 @ And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great (note:)Meaning, the wonders and miracles.(:note) works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

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:3:30 @ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the (note:)Meaning, the Israelites.(:note) land had rest fourscore years.

geneva@Judges:4:11 @ Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent (note:)Meaning, that he possessed a great part of that country.(:note) unto the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.

geneva@Judges:6:28 @ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the (note:)Meaning, the fat bull, which was kept to be offered to Baal.(:note) second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built.

geneva@Judges:7:13 @ And when Gideon was come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a (note:)Some read, a trembling noise of barley bread: meaning, that one of no reputation would make their great army tremble.(:note) cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

geneva@Judges:7:24 @ 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:8:21 @ 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: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: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:13:5 @ For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a (note:)Meaning he should be separate from the world, and dedicated to God.(:note) Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

geneva@Judges:14:10 @ So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a (note:)Meaning when he was married.(:note) feast; for so used the young men to do.

geneva@Judges: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:18:27 @ 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: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:19:28 @ And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his (note:)Meaning, home to mount Ephraim.(:note) place.

geneva@Judges: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:20:32 @ 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: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:3:1 @ Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek (note:)Meaning that she would provide her with a husband, with whom she might live peacefully.(:note) rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

geneva@Ruth:4:1 @ Then went Boaz up to the (note:)Which was the place of judgment.(:note) gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, The Hebrews here use two words which have no proper meaning, but serve to denote a certain person, as we would say, «Ho, so-and-so». Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

geneva@Ruth:4:15 @ And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than (note:)Meaning, many sons.(:note) seven sons, hath born him.

geneva@1Samuel:1:28 @ Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he (note:)Meaning, Eli gave thanks to God for her.(:note) worshipped the LORD there.

geneva@1Samuel:2:35 @ And I will raise me up a (note:)Meaning Zadok, who succeeded Abiathar, and was the figure of Christ.(:note) faithful priest, [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

geneva@1Samuel:3:14 @ And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for (note:)Meaning that his posterity would never enjoy the chief priests office.(:note) ever.

geneva@1Samuel:4:10 @ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel (note:)David alluding to this place in (Psa_78:63) says they were consumed with fire: meaning they were suddenly destroyed.(:note) thirty thousand footmen.

geneva@1Samuel:6:8 @ And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the (note:)Meaning, the golden emerods and the golden mice.(:note) jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

geneva@1Samuel:7:14 @ And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the (note:)Meaning, the Philistines.(:note) Amorites.

geneva@1Samuel:9:19 @ And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thine (note:)Meaning, all that you desire to know.(:note) heart.

geneva@1Samuel:10:12 @ And one of the same place answered and said, But who [is] their (note:)Meaning, that prophecy comes not by succession, but is given to whom it pleases God.(:note) father? Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the Noting by it him that from low degree comes suddenly to honour. prophets?

geneva@1Samuel:11:9 @ And (note:)Meaning, Saul and Samuel.(:note) they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by [that time] the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed [it] to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

geneva@1Samuel:12:15 @ But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your (note:)Meaning, the governors.(:note) fathers.

geneva@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said, When thou [wast] (note:)Meaning, of base condition as in (1Sa_9:21).(:note) little in thine own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

geneva@1Samuel:15:29 @ And also the (note:)Meaning God, who maintains and prefers his own.(:note) Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.

geneva@1Samuel:18:13 @ Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went (note:)Meaning he was captain over the people.(:note) out and came in before the people.

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

geneva@1Samuel:18:27 @ 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:20:29 @ And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my (note:)Meaning, all his kinsfolk.(:note) brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.

geneva@1Samuel:25:22 @ So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that (note:)Meaning by this proverb that he would destroy both small and great.(:note) pisseth against the wall.

geneva@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the (note:)Meaning, he would make him sure at one stroke.(:note) second time.

geneva@1Samuel:28:6 @ And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by (note:)Meaning, the high priest, (Exo_28:30).(:note) Urim, nor by prophets.

geneva@1Samuel:29:3 @ Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, [Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, (note:)Meaning, a long time, that is, four months and certain days, (1Sa_27:7).(:note) or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?

geneva@2Samuel:1:19 @ The beauty of Israel is (note:)Meaning Saul.(:note) slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

geneva@2Samuel:2:16 @ And they caught every one his (note:)Meaning his adversary.(:note) fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.

geneva@2Samuel:3:31 @ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn (note:)Meaning before the corpse.(:note) before Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier.

geneva@2Samuel:4:1 @ And when Saul's (note:)That is, Ishbosheth.(:note) son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were Meaning, that he was discouraged. feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

geneva@2Samuel: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:6:12 @ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and (note:)Meaning, he caused the Levites to bear it according to the law.(:note) brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.

geneva@2Samuel:7:5 @ Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Meaning, he should not: yet Nathan speaking according to man's judgment and not by the spirit of prophecy permitted him.(:note) Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

geneva@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all [the places] wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a (note:)Concerning building a house: meaning without God's express word, nothing should be attempted.(:note) word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

geneva@2Samuel:9:8 @ And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such (note:)Meaning, a despised person.(:note) a dead dog as I [am]?

geneva@2Samuel: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:11:21 @ Who smote Abimelech the son of (note:)Meaning Gideon, (Jdg_9:52-53).(:note) Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

geneva@2Samuel: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:12:25 @ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the (note:)To call him Solomon.(:note) prophet; and Meaning, David. he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of (note:)Meaning, some delicate and dainty meat.(:note) cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

geneva@2Samuel:15:20 @ Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy (note:)Meaning, those of his family.(:note) brethren: mercy and God require of you your friendship and fidelity. truth [be] with thee.

geneva@2Samuel:16:12 @ It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will (note:)Meaning, that the Lord will send comfort to his, when they are oppressed.(:note) requite me good for his cursing this day.

geneva@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy (note:)Meaning, David.(:note) friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

geneva@2Samuel:17:3 @ And I will bring back all the people unto thee: (note:)Meaning David.(:note) the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.

geneva@2Samuel:17:17 @ 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:22:44 @ Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my (note:)Meaning, of the Jews, who conspired against me.(:note) people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.

geneva@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word [was] in my (note:)Meaning, he spoke nothing but by the motion of God's Spirit.(:note) tongue.

geneva@2Samuel:23:9 @ And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were (note:)Meaning, fled from the battle.(:note) gone away:

geneva@1Kings:1:27 @ Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed [it] unto thy (note:)Meaning, that in such affairs he should undertake nothing unless he had consulted with the Lord.(:note) servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

geneva@1Kings:1:33 @ 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:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the (note:)Meaning, that if he would have granted Abishag, who was so dear to his father, he would later have aspired for the kingdom.(:note) kingdom also; for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

geneva@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and (note:)Meaning, great understanding and able to comprehend all things.(:note) largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.

geneva@1Kings: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:6:22 @ And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the (note:)Meaning, the altar of incense, (Exo_30:1).(:note) whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

geneva@1Kings:7:21 @ And he set up the pillars in the (note:)Which was in the inner court between the temple and the oracle.(:note) porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof That is, he will stablish, that is, his promise toward this house. Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof That is, in strength: meaning the power of it will continue. Boaz.

geneva@1Kings:8:65 @ And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of (note:)That is, from North to South: meaning all the country.(:note) Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, Seven days for the dedication, and seven for the feast. seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen days.

geneva@1Kings: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:15:4 @ Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a (note:)Meaning, a son to reign over Judah.(:note) lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

geneva@1Kings:16:3 @ Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make (note:)Meaning, the house of Baasha.(:note) thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

geneva@1Kings:16:7 @ And also (note:)That is, the prophet did his message.(:note) by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed Meaning, Nadab Jeroboam's son. him.

geneva@1Kings:21:29 @ Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his (note:)Meaning, in Joram's time, (2Ki_9:26).(:note) son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

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:22:15 @ So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, (note:)He speaks this in derision, because the king attributed so much to the false prophets, meaning that by experience he should discern that they were liars.(:note) Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.

geneva@1Kings:22:19 @ And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the (note:)Meaning, his angels.(:note) host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

geneva@1Kings:22:43 @ And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless (note:)Meaning, that he was led with an error, thinking that they might still sacrifice to the Lord in those places, as they did before the temple was built.(:note) the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

geneva@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: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:3:24 @ 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:4:35 @ Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed (note:)Meaning, often.(:note) seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

geneva@2Kings:5:3 @ And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were] with the (note:)Meaning Elisha.(:note) prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

geneva@2Kings:5:26 @ And he said unto him, (note:)Was I not present with you in spirit?(:note) Went not mine heart [with thee], when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and That is, money to buy possessions with: meaning that it is detestable in the servants of God to have covetous minds. oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

geneva@2Kings:6:8 @ Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In (note:)Meaning, that he would lie in ambush and take the Israelites unawares.(:note) such and such a place [shall be] my camp.

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:6:27 @ And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the (note:)Meaning, any kind of food as corn and wine.(:note) barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

geneva@2Kings:6:32 @ But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a (note:)Meaning, Jehoram Ahab's son, who killed the prophets and caused Naboth to be stoned.(:note) murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

geneva@2Kings:8:10 @ And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly (note:)Meaning that he would recover of this disease: but he knew that this messenger Hazael would slay him to obtain the kingdom.(:note) recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

geneva@2Kings:9:22 @ And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] (note:)Meaning, since God is their enemy because of their sins, he will always stir up someone to avenge his cause.(:note) peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?

geneva@2Kings:10:11 @ So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his (note:)Meaning, the idolatrous priests.(:note) priests, until he left him none remaining.

geneva@2Kings:11:1 @ And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the (note:)Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom belonged: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the family of Ahab.(:note) seed royal.

geneva@2Kings:11:12 @ And he brought forth (note:)That is, Joash, who had been kept secret six years.(:note) the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] Meaning, the law of God, which is his chief charge, and by which only his throne is established. the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

geneva@2Kings:13:14 @ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, (note:)Thus they used to call the prophets and servants of God, by whom God blesses his people, as in (2Ki_2:12) meaning that they prospered their country more by their prayers than by force of arms.(:note) O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

geneva@2Kings:16:12 @ And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered (note:)Either offerings for peace or prosperity, or thanksgiving as in (Lev_3:1) or else meaning the morning and evening offering, (Exo_29:38; Num_28:3) and thus he contemned the means and the altar which God had commanded by Solomon, to serve God after his own fantasy.(:note) thereon.

geneva@2Kings: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:17:30 @ And the men of Babylon made (note:)Meaning that every country served the idol that was most esteemed in the place to which they came.(:note) Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

geneva@2Kings: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:19:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the (note:)Meaning, for Jerusalem which only remained of all the cities of Judah.(:note) remnant that are left.

geneva@2Kings:19:23 @ By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the (note:)Meaning Jerusalem, which Isaiah calls the height of his borders, that is, of Judah, (Isa_37:24).(:note) lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel.

geneva@2Kings:20:3 @ I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a (note:)Meaning, without all hypocrisy.(:note) perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah Not so much for his own death, as for fear that idolatry would be restored which he had destroyed, and so God's Name be dishonoured. wept sore.

geneva@2Kings:21:12 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall (note:)Meaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will be astonished.(:note) tingle.

geneva@2Kings:21:14 @ 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:22:13 @ Go ye, (note:)Meaning, to some prophet to whom God reveals the knowledge of things, as in (Jer_21:8), though at other times they enquired the Lord by Urim and Thummim.(:note) enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

geneva@2Kings:22:19 @ Because thine heart was (note:)Meaning, that he repented as they that do not repent are said to harden their heart, (Psa_95:8).(:note) tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:23:4 @ 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:23:18 @ And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the (note:)Meaning, the prophet who came after him, and caused him to eat contrary to the command of the Lord, who were both buried in the same grave, (1Ki_13:31).(:note) prophet that came out of Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his (note:)Meaning, the wicked kings before.(:note) fathers had done.

geneva@2Kings:25:30 @ And his (note:)Meaning, that he had standing in the court.(:note) allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:1 @ Adam, (note:)Meaning, that Seth was Adam's son, and Enoch was Seth's son.(:note) Sheth, Enosh, The Argument - The laws comprehend both these books in one, which the Grecians because of the length, divide into two: and they are called Chronicles, because they note briefly the history from Adam to the return from their captivity in Babylon. But these are not the books of Chronicles which are mentioned in the books of the kings of Judah and Israel, which set forth the story of both kingdoms, and later perished in the captivity, but an abridgement of the same, and were gathered by Ezra, as the Jews write after their return from Babylon. This first book contains a brief rehearsal of the children of Adam to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the twelve patriarchs, chiefly of Judah, and the reign of David, because Christ came from him according to the flesh. Therefore it sets forth more amply his acts both concerning civil government, and also the administration and care of things concerning religion, for the good success of which he rejoices and gives thanks to the Lord.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:24 @ And after that Hezron was dead in (note:)Which was a town named for the husband and wife, also called Bethlehem Ephratah.(:note) Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the Meaning, the chief and prince. father of Tekoa.

geneva@1Chronicles:3:19 @ And the sons of Pedaiah [were], (note:)Matthew says that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel, meaning that he was his nephew according to the Hebrew speech: for he was Pedaiah's son.(:note) Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:

geneva@1Chronicles:4:1 @ The (note:)Meaning, they came from Judah, as nephews and kinsmen: for only Pharez was his natural son.(:note) sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:22 @ For there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the (note:)Meaning, the captivity of the ten tribes under Tiglath Pileser.(:note) captivity.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:39 @ And his brother (note:)Meaning, the son of Heman, (1Ch_6:33).(:note) Asaph, who stood on his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

geneva@1Chronicles: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:7:12 @ Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of (note:)Meaning that he was not the son of Benjamin, but of Dan (Gen_46:23).(:note) Aher.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:18 @ And (note:)Meaning, the sister of Gilead.(:note) his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

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:9:2 @ Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the (note:)Meaning, the Gibeonites, who served in the temple, read (Jos_9:23).(:note) Nethinims.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:11 @ And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the (note:)Meaning, the most excellent and best esteemed for his valiantry: some read, the chief of the princes.(:note) chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain [by him] at one time.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:25 @ Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the (note:)Meaning, those three who brought the water to David.(:note) [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

geneva@1Chronicles: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:12:22 @ For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of (note:)Meaning, mighty or strong, for the Hebrews say a thing is of God when it is excellent.(:note) God.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:13 @ O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his (note:)Meaning by this that the promise of adoption only belongs to the Church.(:note) chosen ones.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:19 @ When ye were but (note:)Meaning, from the time that Abraham entered, to the time that Jacob went into Egypt for famine.(:note) few, even a few, and strangers in it.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:6 @ Wheresoever I have (note:)Meaning, wherever his ark went, which was a sign of his presence.(:note) walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

geneva@1Chronicles:17:16 @ And David the king (note:)He went into the tent where the Ark was, showing what we should do when we receive any benefits from the Lord.(:note) came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast brought me Meaning to this kingly estate. hitherto?

geneva@1Chronicles:20:6 @ And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, (note:)Meaning that he had six apiece on hands and feet.(:note) six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:2 @ And David commanded to gather together the (note:)Meaning, cunning men of other nations who dwelt among the Jews.(:note) strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

geneva@1Chronicles: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:25:3 @ Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, (note:)Of which one is not here numbered.(:note) six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who Meaning, psalms and songs to praise God. prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:6 @ Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that (note:)Or, like their father's house, meaning, worthy men and valiant.(:note) ruled throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valour.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:17 @ Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim (note:)Meaning two one day and two another.(:note) two [and] two.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:29 @ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business (note:)Meaning of things that were out of the city.(:note) over Israel, for officers and judges.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:16 @ Furthermore (note:)Meaning besides those twelve captains.(:note) over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:

geneva@1Chronicles:28:10 @ Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build (note:)Meaning, for his ark.(:note) an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and Put it in execution. do [it].

geneva@1Chronicles:28:18 @ And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of (note:)Meaning, of the mercy seat that covered the ark, which was called the chariot, because the Lord declared himself there.(:note) the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles: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:29:21 @ And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their (note:)Meaning, all kinds of liquor which they mingled with their sacrifices, as wine, oil, etc.(:note) drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

geneva@1Chronicles:29:30 @ With all his reign and his might, and the (note:)Meaning the troubles and griefs.(:note) times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:3 @ And under (note:)Meaning, under the brim of the sea, (1Ki_7:24).(:note) it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300. ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:11 @ And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the (note:)Meaning the two tables, in which is contained the effect of the covenant that God made with our fathers.(:note) covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:23 @ Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way (note:)Meaning, to give him that which he has deserved.(:note) upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:34 @ 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:8:4 @ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the (note:)Meaning of munitions and treasures for the war.(:note) store cities, which he built in Hamath.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:17 @ Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the (note:)Meaning, the Red Sea.(:note) sea side in the land of Edom.

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:9:11 @ And the king made [of] the algum trees (note:)Or pillars: meaning the garnishing and trimming of the stairs or pillars.(:note) terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

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:11:1 @ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and (note:)That is, the half tribe of Benjamin for the other half went after Jeroboam.(:note) Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Meaning the ten tribes who rebelled. Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:15 @ And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the (note:)Meaning idols, (Isa_44:15).(:note) devils, and for the calves which he had made.

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:17:3 @ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the (note:)That is, his virtues meaning before he had committed with Bathsheba, and against Uriah.(:note) first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Did not seek help from strange Gods. Baalim;

geneva@2Chronicles:17:16 @ And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, (note:)Meaning, who was a Nazarite.(:note) who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:7 @ 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:18:18 @ Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the (note:)Meaning his angels.(:note) host of heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left.

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:20:9 @ If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the (note:)Meaning war which comes by God's just judgments for our sins.(:note) sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name That is, it is here called on and you declared your presence and favour. [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:22 @ And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and (note:)Meaning, the Idumeans who dwelt in mount Seir.(:note) mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:32 @ And he walked in the way of (note:)Meaning, in his virtues, and those ways in which he followed God.(:note) Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles: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:21:11 @ Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit (note:)Meaning, idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband.(:note) fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

geneva@2Chronicles:22:1 @ And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the (note:)Meaning the Philistines.(:note) Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

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:23:2 @ And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the (note:)Meaning of Judah and Benjamin. To see why they are called Israel, {{See 2Ch_15:17}}(:note) chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:7 @ And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] cometh (note:)Meaning to make any tumult, or to hinder their enterprise.(:note) into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:10 @ And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the (note:)Meaning the most holy place where the ark stood.(:note) temple, by the king round about.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:25 @ And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the (note:)Meaning Zachariah, who was one of Jehoiada's sons and a prophet of the Lord.(:note) sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:2 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)Meaning, in respect to his predecessors, though he had his imperfections.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that (note:)Meaning the king.(:note) [the king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be So hard it is, for the carnal man to be admonished for his fault, that he condemns, mocks and threatens him who warns him: yea, imprisons him and puts him to death, (2Ch_16:10, 2Ch_18:26, 2Ch_24:21). smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:24 @ And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with (note:)Meaning, the successors of Obededom: for the house bore the name of the chief father.(:note) Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

geneva@2Chronicles: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:29:34 @ 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:30:1 @ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to (note:)Meaning, all Israel, whom Tiglath Pilesar had not taken away into captivity, (2Ki_15:29).(:note) Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles: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:32:21 @ And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and (note:)To the number of 185,000 as in (2Ki_19:35-36).(:note) captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his Meaning, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons. own bowels slew him there with the sword.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:10 @ And the LORD spake (note:)Meaning by his prophets, but their hearts were not touched to believe and repent, without which the preaching of the word has no effect.(:note) to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

geneva@2Chronicles: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:34:22 @ And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the (note:)Meaning, either of the priests apparel or the kings.(:note) wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Read (2Ki_22:15). college:) and they spake to her to that [effect].

geneva@2Chronicles: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:35:15 @ 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@Ezra:2:1 @ Now these [are] the children (note:)Meaning Judea, which was a province that is, a country which was in subjection.(:note) of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

geneva@Ezra:2:2 @ Which came with (note:)Zerubbabel was chief captain and Joshua the high priest: but Nehemiah a man of great authority did not come now, but came after 64 years.(:note) Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, This was not the Mordecai who was Esther's kinsman. Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number Meaning, of the common people. of the men of the people of Israel:

geneva@Ezra:3:2 @ Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the (note:)Meaning nephew, for he was the son of Pedaiah, (1Ch_3:19).(:note) son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as [it is] written in the law of Moses the man of God.

geneva@Ezra:3:12 @ 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:4:1 @ Now when (note:)Meaning, the inhabitants of Samaria, whom the king of Assyria had placed in the place of the ten tribes, (2Ki_17:24, 2Ki_19:37). They professed God but worshipped idols and therefore were the greatest enemies to the true servants of God.(:note) the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

geneva@Ezra:4:13 @ Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up [again, then] will they not pay toll, tribute, and (note:)Meaning, the gifts that are wont to be given to kings when they pass by any country.(:note) custom, and [so] thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.

geneva@Ezra:5:17 @ Now therefore, if [it seem] good to the king, let there be search made in the king's (note:)Meaning in the library or places where lay the register or record of times.(:note) treasure house, which [is] there at Babylon, whether it be [so], that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

geneva@Ezra:6:5 @ 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:6:22 @ 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:7:12 @ Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect [peace], and (note:)Some take this for the name of a people, some for time or continuance, meaning that the king wished him long life.(:note) at such a time.

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:10:25 @ Moreover of (note:)Meaning of the common people: for before he spoke of the priests and Levites.(:note) Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

geneva@Nehemiah:1:3 @ And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the (note:)Meaning in Judea.(:note) province [are] in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:30 @ After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the (note:)Meaning the sixth of his sons.(:note) sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:20 @ In what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the trumpet, (note:)Meaning, to resist their enemies, if need be.(:note) resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

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: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: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:9:22 @ 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:11:19 @ Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the (note:)Meaning of the temple.(:note) gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.

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:13:18 @ Did not your fathers (note:)Was this not the reason God plagued us in times past: meaning, that if they transgressed now in the same way, their plague would be greater.(:note) thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:22 @ 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@Esther:1:18 @ [Likewise] shall the (note:)Meaning, that they would take the first opportunity to do the same and the rest of the women would also do the same.(:note) ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus [shall there arise] too much contempt and wrath.

geneva@Esther:2:21 @ In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay (note:)Meaning, to kill him.(:note) hand on the king Ahasuerus.

geneva@Esther:5:3 @ Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request? it shall be even (note:)Meaning by this that whatever she asked would be granted as in (Mar_6:23).(:note) given thee to the half of the kingdom.

geneva@Esther:5:14 @ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty (note:)Meaning, the highest that could be found.(:note) cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

geneva@Esther:6:8 @ Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth] to wear, and the (note:)Meaning by this that the king should make him next to himself as Joseph was known to be next to Pharaoh in (Gen_41:43).(:note) horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

geneva@Esther:8:3 @ And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the (note:)Meaning, that he should abolish the wicked decrees, which he had made for the destruction of the Jews.(:note) mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

geneva@Esther:9:16 @ But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for (note:)Read (Est_8:11).(:note) their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their Meaning, that they laid hands on no one that was not the enemy of God. foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

geneva@Esther:9:17 @ On the (note:)Meaning, in all places saving Shushan.(:note) thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

geneva@Esther:9:27 @ 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@Job:1:3 @ His (note:)His children and riches are declared, to commend his virtue in his prosperity and his patience and constancy when God took them from him.(:note) substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of Meaning, the Arabians, Chaldeans, Idumeans etc. the east.

geneva@Job:1:5 @ And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and (note:)That is, commanded them to be sanctified: meaning, that they should consider the faults that they had committed, and reconcile themselves for the same.(:note) sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and That is, he offered for each of his children an offering of reconciliation, which declared his religion toward God, and the care that he had for his children. offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and In Hebrew it is, «blessed God», which is sometimes taken for blaspheming and cursing, as it is here and in (1Ki_21:10, 1Ki_21:13). cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job While the feast lasted. continually.

geneva@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the (note:)Meaning the angels, who are called the sons of God because they are willing to execute his will.(:note) sons of God came to present themselves Because our infirmity cannot comprehend God in his majesty, he is set forth to us as a King, that our capacity may be able to understand that which is spoken of him. before the LORD, and Satan This declares that although Satan is an adversary to God, yet he is compelled to obey him, and do him all homage, without whose permission and appointment he can do nothing. came also among them.

geneva@Job:1:10 @ Hast not thou made (note:)Meaning, the grace of God, which served Job as a rampart against all temptations.(:note) an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

geneva@Job:2:5 @ But put forth thine hand now, and touch his (note:)Meaning, his own person.(:note) bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

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:6:6 @ Can that which is (note:)Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth.(:note) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

geneva@Job:8:4 @ If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their (note:)That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the example of his children, that he not offend God.(:note) transgression;

geneva@Job:8:9 @ (For we [are but of] (note:)Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the examples of those who went before us.(:note) yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)

geneva@Job:9:15 @ Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I (note:)Meaning, in his own opinion, signifying that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous which before God is an abomination.(:note) not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.

geneva@Job:14:3 @ And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an (note:)His meaning is, that seeing that man is so frail a creature, God should not handle him so extremely, in which Job shows the wickedness of the flesh, when it is not subject to the Spirit.(:note) one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

geneva@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till (note:)Meaning, to the day of the resurrection when he would be changed and renewed.(:note) my change come.

geneva@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter (note:)That is, vain words, and without consolation?(:note) vain knowledge, and fill his belly Meaning, with matters that are of no importance, which are forgotten as soon as they are uttered, as the East wind dries up moisture as soon as it falls. with the east wind?

geneva@Job:15:29 @ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the (note:)Meaning, that his sumptuous buildings would never come to perfection.(:note) perfection thereof upon the earth.

geneva@Job:16:7 @ But now (note:)Meaning, God.(:note) he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my That is, destroyed most of my family. company.

geneva@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my (note:)Meaning, his glory was brought low.(:note) horn in the dust.

geneva@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he (note:)Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger.(:note) walketh upon a snare.

geneva@Job:19:8 @ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot (note:)Meaning, out of his afflictions.(:note) pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

geneva@Job:19:9 @ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the (note:)Meaning, his children, and whatever was dear to him in this world.(:note) crown [from] my head.

geneva@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which (note:)Meaning that he will carry nothing away with him but his sin.(:note) shall lie down with him in the dust.

geneva@Job:20:28 @ The (note:)Meaning, the children of the wicked will flow away like rivers and be dispersed in various places.(:note) increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

geneva@Job:21:23 @ One (note:)Meaning, the wicked.(:note) dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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

geneva@Job:24:11 @ [Which] make oil (note:)In such places which are appointed for that purpose; meaning, that those who labour for the wicked, are pined for hunger.(:note) within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

geneva@Job:26:6 @ Hell [is] (note:)There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it.(:note) naked before him, and Meaning, the grave in which things putrify. destruction hath no covering.

geneva@Job:28:4 @ The flood breaketh out from the (note:)Meaning, him that dwells by it.(:note) inhabitant; [even the waters] Which a man cannot wade through. forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

geneva@Job:28:21 @ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the (note:)Meaning that there is no natural means by which man can attain heavenly wisdom: which he means by the souls, that fly high.(:note) fowls of the air.

geneva@Job:30:1 @ But now [they that are] younger than I (note:)That is, my estate is changed and while before the ancient men were glad to revere me, the young men now contemn me.(:note) have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the Meaning to be my shepherds or to keep my dogs. dogs of my flock.

geneva@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (note:)Meaning, that he was not a briber or extortioner.(:note) the owners thereof to lose their life:

geneva@Job:32:7 @ I said, Days (note:)Meaning, the ancient, who have experience.(:note) should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

geneva@Job:32:22 @ For I know not to give flattering (note:)The Hebrew word signifies to change the name as to call a fool a wise man: meaning, that he would not cloak the truth to flatter men.(:note) titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.

geneva@Job:33:29 @ Lo, all these [things] worketh God (note:)Meaning, as often as a sinner repents.(:note) oftentimes with man,

geneva@Job:34:8 @ Which goeth in (note:)Meaning that Job was like the wicked, because he seemed not to glorify God and submit himself to his judgments.(:note) company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

geneva@Job:34:26 @ He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of (note:)Meaning, openly in the sight of all men.(:note) others;

geneva@Job:36:29 @ Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his (note:)Meaning, of the clouds, which he calls the tabernacle of God.(:note) tabernacle?

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:37:23 @ [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not (note:)Meaning, without cause.(:note) afflict.

geneva@Job:38:7 @ When the morning stars (note:)The stars and dumb creatures are said to praise God, because his power, wisdom and goodness is manifest and known in it.(:note) sang together, and all the Meaning the angels. sons of God shouted for joy?

geneva@Job:40:10 @ Deck thyself now [with] (note:)Meaning, that these were proper to God, and belonged to no man.(:note) majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.

geneva@Job:41:1 @ Canst thou draw out (note:)Meaning the whale.(:note) leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?

geneva@Psalms:25:12 @ What (note:)Meaning, the number is very small.(:note) man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall He will direct such with his spirit to follow the right way. choose.

geneva@Psalms:28:8 @ The LORD [is] (note:)Meaning his soldiers who were means by which God declared his power.(:note) their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.

geneva@Psalms:30:3 @ O LORD, thou hast brought up my (note:)Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly.(:note) soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

geneva@Psalms:31:9 @ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine (note:)Meaning, that his sorrow and torment had continued a great while.(:note) eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

geneva@Psalms:31:21 @ Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a (note:)Meaning, there was no city strong enough to preserve him, as the defence of God's favour.(:note) strong city.

geneva@Psalms:35:16 @ With hypocritical mockers in (note:)The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.(:note) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

geneva@Psalms:37:8 @ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: (note:)Meaning, unless he moderates his affection, he will be led to do as they do.(:note) fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

geneva@Psalms:40:6 @ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; (note:)You have opened my ears to understand the spiritual meaning of the sacrifices: and here David esteems the ceremonies of the law as nothing in respect to the spiritual service.(:note) mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

geneva@Psalms:41:12 @ And as for me, thou upholdest me (note:)Meaning, either in prosperity of life or in the true fear of God against all temptation.(:note) in mine integrity, and settest me before thy Showing me evident signs of your fatherly providence. face for ever.

geneva@Psalms:44:16 @ For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and (note:)Meaning, the proud and cruel tyrant.(:note) avenger.

geneva@Psalms:46:4 @ [There is] a (note:)The river of Shiloh, which passed through Jerusalem: meaning, though the defence seems small, yet if God has appointed it, it is sufficient.(:note) river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.

geneva@Psalms:49:8 @ (For the redemption of their soul [is] (note:)That is, so rare or not to be found, as prophecy was precious in the days of Eli, (1Sa_3:1).(:note) precious, Meaning it is impossible to live for ever: also that life and death are only in God's hands. and it ceaseth for ever:)

geneva@Psalms:72:8 @ He shall have dominion also from (note:)That is, from the Red sea to the sea called the Syriacum, and from Euphrates forward, meaning, that Christ's kingdom would be large and universal.(:note) sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:74:12 @ For God [is] my King of old, working salvation (note:)Meaning in the sight of all the world.(:note) in the midst of the earth.

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:76:12 @ He shall (note:)The Hebrew word signifies «to vintage or gather grapes» meaning that he will make the counsels and enterprises of the wicked tyrants foolish and vain.(:note) cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:77:4 @ Thou holdest mine eyes (note:)Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping.(:note) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

geneva@Psalms: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:89:6 @ For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the (note:)Meaning, the angels.(:note) sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

geneva@Psalms:90:10 @ The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] (note:)Meaning according to the common state of life.(:note) fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

geneva@Psalms:90:13 @ Return, O LORD, (note:)Meaning, will you be angry?(:note) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

geneva@Psalms:90:17 @ And let the (note:)Meaning, that is was obscured when he ceases to do good to his Church.(:note) beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and For unless you guide us with your Holy Spirit, our enterprises cannot succeed. establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

geneva@Psalms: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:105:15 @ [Saying], Touch not mine (note:)Those whom I have sanctified to be my people.(:note) anointed, and do my Meaning, the old fathers, to whom God showed himself plainly, and who set forth his word. prophets no harm.

geneva@Psalms:105:28 @ He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they (note:)Meaning, Moses and Aaron.(:note) rebelled not against his word.

geneva@Psalms:109:23 @ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the (note:)Meaning that he has no stay or assurance in this world.(:note) locust.

geneva@Psalms:119:36 @ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to (note:)By this, meaning all other vices, because covetousness is the root of all evil.(:note) covetousness.

geneva@Psalms:119:37 @ Turn away mine (note:)Meaning, all his senses.(:note) eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

geneva@Psalms:119:51 @ The (note:)Meaning the wicked who contemn God's word, and tread his religion under foot.(:note) proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.

geneva@Psalms:126:6 @ He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing (note:)That is, seed which was scarce and dear: meaning, that they who trusted in God's promise to return had their desire.(:note) precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].

geneva@Psalms:132:14 @ This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have (note:)Meaning, for his own sake and not for the plentifulness of the place: for he promises to bless it, declaring before that it was barren.(:note) desired it.

geneva@Psalms:135:2 @ Ye that (note:)You Levites who are in his sanctuary.(:note) stand in the house of the LORD, in the Meaning, the people: for the people and Levites had their courts, which were separate places of the temple. courts of the house of our God,

geneva@Psalms:136:6 @ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his (note:)This was a common kind of thanksgiving, which the whole people used, when they had received any benefit from God, as in (2Ch_7:6, 2Ch_20:21), meaning that God was not only merciful to their fathers, but also continued the same to their posterity.(:note) mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:139:4 @ For [there is] not a word in my (note:)You know my meaning before I speak.(:note) tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

geneva@Psalms:139:24 @ And see if [there be any] (note:)Or any heinous or rebellious way: meaning that though he was subject to sin, yet he was not given to wickedness, and to provoke God by rebellion.(:note) wicked way in me, and lead me in the That is, continue your favour toward me to the end. way everlasting.

geneva@Psalms:146:9 @ The LORD preserveth the (note:)Meaning, all who are destitute of worldly means and help.(:note) strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

geneva@Psalms:148:7 @ Praise the LORD from the earth, ye (note:)Meaning the great and monstrous fishes, as whales and such like.(:note) dragons, and all deeps:

geneva@Proverbs:1:2 @ To know wisdom (note:)That is, what we ought to know and follow, and what we ought to refuse.(:note) and instruction; to perceive the words Meaning, the word of God in which is the only true knowledge. of understanding;

geneva@Proverbs:2:3 @ Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] (note:)Meaning that we must seek the knowledge of God with care and diligence.(:note) liftest up thy voice for understanding;

geneva@Proverbs:2:16 @ To deliver thee from the strange (note:)Meaning, the wisdom which is the word of God, will preserve us from all vices: naming this vice of whoredom to which man is most prone.(:note) woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

geneva@Proverbs:3:16 @ Length of days [is] in her right hand; (note:)Meaning, that he seeks wisdom, that is, suffers himself to be governed by the Word of God, will have all prosperity both corporal and spiritual.(:note) [and] in her left hand riches and honour.

geneva@Proverbs:4:4 @ He (note:)Meaning, David his father.(:note) taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

geneva@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they (note:)Meaning that to do evil is more proper and natural to the wicked than to sleep, eat or drink.(:note) sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

geneva@Proverbs:6:18 @ An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, (note:)Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he cannot tell what he does.(:note) feet that be swift in running to mischief,

geneva@Proverbs:6:30 @ [Men] do not (note:)He does not reprove theft, showing that it is not as abominable as whoredom, for theft can be restored, but adultery is permanent, and death by the law of God.(:note) despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his Meaning, for necessity. soul when he is hungry;

geneva@Proverbs: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:8:22 @ The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, (note:)He declares by this the divinity and eternity of this wisdom, which he magnifies and praises through this book: meaning by this the eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ our Saviour, whom John calls the Word that was in the beginning (Joh_1:1).(:note) before his works of old.

geneva@Proverbs:9:3 @ She hath sent forth her (note:)Meaning, true preachers, who are not infected with man's wisdom.(:note) maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

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:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth (note:)Meaning that all worldly things bring care and sorrow, where as they who feel the blessings of God have none.(:note) no sorrow with it.

geneva@Proverbs:11:24 @ There is that scattereth, (note:)Meaning they who give liberally, whom God blesses.(:note) and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more That is, the miser. than is right, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

geneva@Proverbs:12:12 @ The wicked desireth the (note:)Continually imagines ways to harm others.(:note) net of evil [men]: but the Meaning, their heart within, which is upright, and does good to all. root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].

geneva@Proverbs:13:13 @ Whoever despiseth (note:)Meaning the word of God, by which he is admonished of his duty.(:note) the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

geneva@Proverbs:14:4 @ Where no (note:)By the ox is meant labour, and by the crib the barn, meaning, without labour there is no profit.(:note) oxen [are], the crib [is] clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox.

geneva@Proverbs: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:18:3 @ When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also (note:)Meaning, such a one as condemns all others.(:note) contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

geneva@Proverbs:21:20 @ [There is] a treasure to be desired and (note:)Meaning, abundance of all things.(:note) oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

geneva@Proverbs: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:26:25 @ When he speaketh kindly, believe him not: for [there are] (note:)Meaning many: he uses a certain number for the uncertain.(:note) seven abominations in his heart.

geneva@Proverbs:28:22 @ He that hasteneth to be rich [hath] an evil (note:)Meaning, he that is covetous.(:note) eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

geneva@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who hath ascended into (note:)Meaning, to know the secrets of God, as though he would say, «None».(:note) heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?

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

geneva@Proverbs: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@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I procured [me] male and female servants, and had servants born in my (note:)Meaning, of the servants or slaves which he had bought, so the children born in their servitude, were the masters.(:note) house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one For both die and are forgotten as in (Ecc_2:16) or they both alike have prosperity or adversity. event happeneth to them all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And He wonders that men forget a wise man, being dead, as soon as they do a fool. how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ For who can eat, or who else can hasten (note:)Meaning, to pleasures.(:note) [to it], more than I?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time (note:)Meaning, with God, however man neglects his duty.(:note) there for every purpose and for every work.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who (note:)Meaning, that reason cannot comprehend that which faith believes in.(:note) knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

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

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Keep thy (note:)That is, with what affection you come to hear the word of God.(:note) foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of Meaning, of the wicked, who think to please God with common uses, and have neither faith nor repentance. fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not (note:)Either in vowing or in praying, meaning, that we should use all reverence toward God.(:note) rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be He hears you not for the sake of your many words or often repetitions, but considers your faith and servant's mind. few.

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

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the (note:)Meaning, in vain and without profit.(:note) wind?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For (note:)Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.(:note) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is (note:)Meaning, God who will make him feel that he is mortal.(:note) mightier than he.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his (note:)Meaning that cruel tyrants put the godly to death and let the wicked go free.(:note) righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:24 @ That which is far off, (note:)Meaning wisdom.(:note) and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

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:10:5 @ There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as an (note:)Meaning that it is an evil thing when they who are in authority fail and do not do their duty.(:note) error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy king [is] the son (note:)Meaning, when he is noble for virtue and wisdom and with the gifts of God.(:note) of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Therefore remove (note:)That is, anger and envy.(:note) sorrow from thy heart, and Meaning, carnal lusts to which youth is given. put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ Or ever the (note:)Meaning, the marrow of the backbone and the sinews.(:note) silver cord shall be loosed, or the golden The little skin that covers the brain, which is in colour like gold. bowl be broken, or the That is, the veins. pitcher be broken at the Meaning the liver. fountain, or the Which is the head. wheel broken at the That is, the heart out of which the head draws the powers of life. cistern.

geneva@Songs:6:8 @ There are (note:)Meaning that the gifts are infinite which Christ gives to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number.(:note) sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

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:1:7 @ 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:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in (note:)Meaning, as soon as God will begin to execute his judgments.(:note) that day.

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

geneva@Isaiah:3:25 @ Thy men shall fall by the (note:)Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth which has not remedied it.(:note) sword, and thy mighty in the war.

geneva@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is (note:)He alludes to the book of life, of which read (Exo_32:32) meaning God's secret counsel, in which his elect are predestinated to life everlasting.(:note) written among the living in Jerusalem:

geneva@Isaiah:4:5 @ 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:5:1 @ Now will (note:)The prophet by this song sets before the people's eyes their ingratitude and God's mercy.(:note) I sing to my That is, to God. wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a Meaning that he had planted his Church in a place most plentiful and abundant. vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

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:5:14 @ 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: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:7:2 @ And it was told the house of (note:)Meaning, the kings house.(:note) David, saying, Syria is confederate with That is, Israel, because that tribe was the greatest, (Gen_48:19). Ephraim. And his heart was For fear. moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.

geneva@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the (note:)Not meaning Christ, but any child: for before a child can come to the years of discretion, the kings of Samaria and Syria will be destroyed.(:note) child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.

geneva@Isaiah:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the (note:)Meaning, the Egyptians: for since the country is hot and moist, it is full of flies, as Assyria is full of bees.(:note) fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:7:20 @ In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the (note:)That is, that which is from the belly downward meaning that he would destroy both great and small.(:note) feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

geneva@Isaiah:8:1 @ Moreover the LORD said to me, Take thee a (note:)That you may write in great letters to the intent that it may be more easily read.(:note) great roll, and write in it Meaning, after the common fashion, because all men might read it. with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

geneva@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went to the (note:)Meaning, to his wife and this was done in a vision.(:note) prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

geneva@Isaiah:8:6 @ Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of (note:)Which was a fountain at the foot of mount Zion, out of which ran a small river through the city: meaning, that they of Judah distrusting their own power which was small desired such power and riches as they saw in Syria and Israel.(:note) Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

geneva@Isaiah:8:12 @ 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:8:14 @ And he shall be for a (note:)He will defend you who are his elect, and reject all the rest, meaning Christ against whom the Jews would stumble and fall, (Luk_2:23; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:7,8).(:note) sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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: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: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:10:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed (note:)When he has sufficiently chastised his people (for he begins at his own house) then will he burn the rods.(:note) his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart Meaning of Sennacherib. of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

geneva@Isaiah:10:17 @ And the light of Israel shall be for a (note:)Meaning that God is a light to comfort his people and a fire to burn his enemies.(:note) fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour That is, the Assyrians. his thorns and his briers in one day;

geneva@Isaiah:11:15 @ And the LORD shall utterly destroy the (note:)Meaning a corner of the sea that enters into the land and has the form of a tongue.(:note) tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand That is, Nile, the great river of Egypt which enters into the sea with seven streams. over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.

geneva@Isaiah:13:14 @ And (note:)Meaning the power of Babylon with their hired soldiers.(:note) it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land.

geneva@Isaiah: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:14:7 @ The whole earth is at (note:)Meaning that where tyrants reign, there can be no rest or quietness and also how detestable a thing tyranny is, seeing the insensible creatures have opportunity to rejoice at their destruction.(:note) rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.

geneva@Isaiah:14:13 @ For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem of which the temple was of the north side, (Psa_48:2).(:note) north:

geneva@Isaiah: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:16:5 @ And in mercy shall the throne be established: (note:)Meaning, Christ.(:note) and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swiftly executing righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: (note:)That is, the Assyrians and other enemies.(:note) the lords of the nations have broken down her principal plants, they have come [even] to Meaning that the country of Moab was now destroyed, and all the precious things of it were carried into the borders yea into other countries and over the sea. Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.

geneva@Isaiah: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: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:18:7 @ In that time shall the (note:)Meaning that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering to himself.(:note) present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:19:3 @ And the (note:)Meaning, their policy and wisdom.(:note) spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her; and I will destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to the mediums, and to the wizards.

geneva@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt (note:)Will make one confession of faith with the people of God, by the speech of Canaan, meaning the language in which God was then served.(:note) speak the language of Canaan, and Will renounce their superstitions and protest to serve God correctly. swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of Meaning of six cities, five would serve God, and the sixth would remain in their wickedness: and so there would be but one lost. destruction.

geneva@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitant of this (note:)Meaning Judea which was encompassed by their enemies as an isle with waters.(:note) isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

geneva@Isaiah:21:7 @ And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys, [and] (note:)Meaning, chariots of men of war, and others that carried the baggage.(:note) a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

geneva@Isaiah:21:8 @ And he cried, A (note:)Meaning, Darius who overcame Babylon.(:note) lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my post whole nights:

geneva@Isaiah:21:10 @ O (note:)Meaning, Babylon.(:note) my threshing, and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.

geneva@Isaiah:22:1 @ The burden of the (note:)Meaning, Judea, which was compassed about with mountains, and was called the valley of visions, because of the prophets, who were always there, whom they named Seers.(:note) valley of vision. What He speaks to Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled up to the housetops for fear of their enemies. aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the housetops?

geneva@Isaiah:22:9 @ Ye have seen also (note:)You forfeited the ruinous places which were neglected in times of peace: meaning, the whole City, and the City of David, which was within the compass of the other.(:note) the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

geneva@Isaiah:22:16 @ What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre (note:)Meaning, that he was a stranger, and came up of nothing.(:note) here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that cut out an habitation While he thought to make his name immortal by his famous sepulchre, he died most miserably among the Assyrians. for himself in a rock?

geneva@Isaiah:22:24 @ And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, (note:)Meaning that both small and great who will come from Eliakim, will have praise and glory by his faithful officer.(:note) all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

geneva@Isaiah:23:3 @ And by great waters the (note:)Meaning, the corn of Egypt which was fed by the overflowing of the Nile.(:note) seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a merchandise of nations.

geneva@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

geneva@Isaiah:24:18 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the (note:)Meaning that God's wrath and vengeance would be over and under them, so that they would not escape no more than they did at Noah's flood.(:note) windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

geneva@Isaiah:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the (note:)Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.(:note) heat in a dry place; As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly. [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

geneva@Isaiah:25:7 @ And he will destroy on this mountain (note:)Meaning, that ignorance and blindness, by which we are kept back from Christ.(:note) the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

geneva@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (note:)Meaning that by afflictions men will learn to fear God.(:note) righteousness.

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:27:2 @ In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard (note:)Meaning, of the best wine, which this vineyard, that is, the Church would bring forth, as most agreeable to the Lord.(:note) of red wine.

geneva@Isaiah: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:28:7 @ 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:29:11 @ And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I (note:)Meaning, that it is all alike, either to read, or not to read, unless God open the heart to understand.(:note) cannot; for it [is] sealed:

geneva@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] an wonderful work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall (note:)Meaning, where God is not worshipped according to his word, both magistrates and ministers are fools and without understanding.(:note) perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.

geneva@Isaiah:30:12 @ Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in (note:)Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions of his prophets.(:note) oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:

geneva@Isaiah:30:32 @ And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, (note:)It will destroy.(:note) which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with With joy and assurance of the victory. tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight Against Babel, meaning the Assyrians and Babylonians. with it.

geneva@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!

geneva@Isaiah:31:3 @ Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that (note:)Meaning, both the Egyptians and the Israelites.(:note) helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

geneva@Isaiah:32:10 @ Many days and years shall ye be troubled, (note:)Meaning that the affliction would continue long and when one year was past, yet they should look for new plagues.(:note) ye careless women: God will take from you the means and opportunities, which made you contemn him: that is, abundance of worldly goods. for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

geneva@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to thee that (note:)Meaning, the enemies of the Church, as were the Chaldeans and Assyrians, but chiefly of Sennacherib, but not only.(:note) layest waste, and thou [wast] not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt When your appointed time will come that God will take away your power: and that which you have wrongfully gained, will be given to others, as in (Amo_5:11). cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; [and] when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, The Chaldeans will do the same to the Assyrians, as the Assyrians did to Israel, and the Medes and Persians will do the same to the Chaldeans. they shall deal treacherously with thee.

geneva@Isaiah:33:4 @ 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:33:9 @ The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: (note:)Which was a plentiful country, meaning, that Sennacherib would destroy all.(:note) Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits].

geneva@Isaiah:33:16 @ 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:37:18 @ Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and (note:)Meaning, the ten tribes.(:note) their countries,

geneva@Isaiah:37:28 @ But I know thy abode, and thy (note:)Meaning, his counsels and enterprises.(:note) going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

geneva@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak ye kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her (note:)The time of her affliction.(:note) warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand Meaning, sufficient as in (Isa_61:7) and full correction, or double grace, while she deserved double punishment. double for all her sins.

geneva@Isaiah:40:3 @ 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:40:6 @ The (note:)The voice of God which spoke to the prophet Isaiah.(:note) voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all its Meaning, all man's wisdom and natural powers, (Jam_1:10; 1Pe_1:24). beauty [is] as the flower of the field:

geneva@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up [one] from the north, (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans.(:note) and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he That is, Cyrus, who will do all things in my name and by my direction: by which he means that both their captivity and deliverance will be ordered by God's providence and appointment. call upon my name: and he shall come upon Both of the Chaldeans and others. princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

geneva@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and in times past, that we may say, [He is] righteous? verily, [there is] none that sheweth, verily, [there is] none that declareth, verily, [there is] none that heareth (note:)Meaning, that none of the Gentile gods can work any of these things.(:note) your words.

geneva@Isaiah: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:42:6 @ I the LORD have called thee in (note:)Meaning, to a lawful and just calling.(:note) righteousness, and will hold To assist and guide you. thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a As him, by whom the promise made to all nations in Abraham will be fulfilled. covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

geneva@Isaiah:42:11 @ 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:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for (note:)Meaning, God's wrath.(:note) the time to come?

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:43:10 @ Ye (note:)The prophets and people to whom I have given my law.(:note) [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my Meaning especially Christ, and by him all the faithful. servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.

geneva@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the (note:)Meaning, that their deliverance out of Babylon would be more famous than that from Egypt was, (Jer_23:7; Hag_2:10; 2Co_5:17; Rev_21:5, Rev_21:7).(:note) wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.

geneva@Isaiah:43:23 @ Thou (note:)Meaning, in true faith and obedience.(:note) hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

geneva@Isaiah: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:44:10 @ 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:45:13 @ I have raised (note:)That is, Cyrus, that I may show by him the faithfulness of my promise in delivering my people.(:note) him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for Meaning, freely and without ransom, or any grievous condition. price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:45:24 @ Surely, (note:)Meaning the faithful will feel and confess this.(:note) shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are All the contemners of God. incensed against him shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:46:8 @ Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring [it] again to (note:)Become wise, meaning, that all idolaters are without wit or sense, like mad men.(:note) mind, O ye transgressors.

geneva@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are (note:)He detects their hypocrisy who claimed to be Israelites, but were not so.(:note) called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Meaning, the fountain and stock. the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.

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:49:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a (note:)Meaning, the Jews whom tyrants kept in bondage.(:note) servant of rulers, Kings shall see and The benefit of their deliverance will be so great, that great and small will acknowledge it, and revere God for it. arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

geneva@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Thus he speaks of his Church when he would show his mercy toward it, (2Co_6:2).(:note) In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give Meaning, Christ alone. thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the Signifying that before Christ renewed the earth by his word, there is nothing but confusion and disorder. earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

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:49:12 @ Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of (note:)Meaning, the south country, so that Christ will deliver his from all the parts of the world.(:note) Sinim.

geneva@Isaiah:49:16 @ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] (note:)Because I would not forget you.(:note) hands; thy Meaning, the good order of policy and discipline. walls [are] continually before me.

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: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: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:51:16 @ And I have put my words in thy (note:)Meaning, of Isaiah and of all true ministers who are defended by his protection.(:note) mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the That all things may be restored in heaven and earth, (Eph_1:10). heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou [art] my people.

geneva@Isaiah:52:13 @ Behold, my (note:)Meaning Christ, by whom our spiritual deliverance would be wrought of which this was a sign.(:note) servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

geneva@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who (note:)The prophet shows that very few will receive their preaching from Christ, and from their deliverance by him, (Joh_12:38; Rom_10:16).(:note) hath believed our report? and to whom is the Meaning, that no one can believe but whose hearts God touches with the virtue of his Holy Spirit. arm of the LORD revealed?

geneva@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (note:)Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.(:note) iniquity of us all.

geneva@Isaiah:54:15 @ Behold, they shall surely assemble, [but] not by (note:)And therefore will not prevail.(:note) me: whoever shall assemble Meaning, the domestic enemies of the Church, as are the hypocrites. against thee shall fall for thy sake.

geneva@Isaiah:55:4 @ Behold, I have given (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure.(:note) him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

geneva@Isaiah: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:56:9 @ 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: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:57:11 @ And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast (note:)Broken promises with me.(:note) lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of Meaning, that the wicked abuse God's leniency, and grow to further wickedness. old, and thou fearest me not?

geneva@Isaiah:57:13 @ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind (note:)Meaning, the Assyrians and others, whose help they looked for.(:note) shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

geneva@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: (note:)Meaning, to do justice, and to remedy the things that were so far out of order.(:note) therefore his arm brought That is, his Church or his arm helped itself and did not seek aid from any other. salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

geneva@Isaiah:60:3 @ And the Gentiles shall come to (note:)Meaning, that Judea would be as the morning star, and that the Gentiles would receive light from her.(:note) thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

geneva@Isaiah:60:6 @ The (note:)Meaning, that everyone will honour the Lord with that with which he is able: Signifying that it is no true serving of God unless we offer ourselves to serve his glory, and all that we have.(:note) multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.

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:60:18 @ Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt (note:)Meaning not an earthly happiness, but spiritual, which is fulfilled in Christ's kingdom.(:note) call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

geneva@Isaiah:60:22 @ A little one shall become a (note:)Meaning, that the Church would be miraculously multiplied.(:note) thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

geneva@Isaiah: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:63:17 @ O LORD, why hast (note:)By taking away the Holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude delivered us up to our own concupiscence, and punished sin by sin according to your just judgment.(:note) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy Meaning, for the covenant's sake made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob his servants. servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.

geneva@Isaiah:64:2 @ As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth (note:)Meaning, the rain, hail, fire, thunder and lightning.(:note) the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thy adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!

geneva@Isaiah: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:65:3 @ A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in (note:)Which were dedicated to idols.(:note) gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of Meaning their altars, which he thus named by contempt. brick;

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:65:15 @ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my (note:)Meaning, that he would call the Gentiles, who would abhor even the very name of the Jews for their infidelities sake.(:note) chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by Than by the name of the Jews. another name:

geneva@Isaiah:65:20 @ There shall be no more from there an infant of days, nor an old man that hath (note:)Meaning, in this wonderful restoration of the Church there would be no weakness of youth, nor infirmities of age, but all would be fresh and flourishing: and this is accomplished in the heavenly Jerusalem, when all sins will cease, and the tears will be wiped away.(:note) not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] By which he shows that the infidels and unrepentant sinners have no part of this benediction. an hundred years old shall be accursed.

geneva@Isaiah:66:7 @ Before (note:)Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and contrary to all men's opinions as when a woman is delivered before she looked for it, and without pain in travail.(:note) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child.

geneva@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one (note:)This will pass the capacity of man to see such a multitude that will come up at once, meaning under the preaching of the gospel of which they who came out of Babylon were a sign.(:note) day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

geneva@Isaiah:66:17 @ 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:66:24 @ 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:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the (note:)Meaning the nephew of Josiah: for Jehoahaz was his father, who reigned but three months, and therefore is not mentioned, nor is Jehoiakim that reigned no longer.(:note) son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth Of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, who was also called Mattaniah, and at this time the Jews were carried away into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. month.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, (note:)They did not teach the people to seek after God.(:note) Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the As the scribes, who would have expounded the law to the people. law knew me not: the Meaning, the princes and ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt. rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by That is, spoke vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols. Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For pass over the isles of (note:)Meaning, the Grecians and Italians.(:note) Chittim, and see; and send to To Arabia. Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:11 @ 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:2:19 @ 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:2:27 @ Saying to a tree, Thou [art] my (note:)Meaning, that idolaters rob God of his honour: and where as he has taught to call him the father of all flesh, they attribute this title to their idols.(:note) father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back to me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding (note:)Meaning the ten tribes.(:note) Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:17 @ At that time they shall call Jerusalem (note:)Meaning, the Church, where the Lord will be present to the world's end, (Mat_28:20).(:note) the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The (note:)Meaning Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, (2Ki_24:1).(:note) lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he shall come up as (note:)Meaning that Nebuchadnezzar would come as suddenly as a cloud that is carried with the wind.(:note) clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. This is spoken in the person of all the people, who in their affliction would cry thus. Woe to us! for we are laid waste.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my (note:)Meaning, the cities which were as easily cast down as a tent.(:note) tents ruined, [and] my curtains in a moment.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:5:14 @ 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:5:31 @ The (note:)Meaning that there could be nothing but disorder, where the ministers were wicked and corrupt.(:note) prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in its end?

geneva@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah, whom God had appointed to try out the godly from the wicked, as a founder does the pure metal from the dross.(:note) thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:9:4 @ Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any (note:)Meaning, that all were corrupt, and none could find an honest man.(:note) brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them who are] (note:)Meaning, both Jews and Gentiles, as in this next verse he shows the cause, (Jer_4:4).(:note) circumcised with the uncircumcised;

geneva@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the (note:)Meaning not only in the observation of the stars, but their laws and ceremonies by which they confirm their idolatry, which is forbidden, (Deu_12:30).(:note) customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

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:11:8 @ Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their (note:)According to his own fantasy, and not as my word appointed him.(:note) evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the Meaning, the menaces and curses contained in the law, (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16). words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:15 @ What hath my (note:)My people of Israel whom I have greatly loved till now.(:note) beloved to do in my house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh Meaning, that they offer not in the temple to God, but on the altars of Baal and the idols and so rejoiced in their wickedness. is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised plots against me, [saying], Let us (note:)Let us destroy the prophet and his doctrine. Some read «Let us corrupt his meat with wood», meaning poison.(:note) destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:12:14 @ 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:13:16 @ Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause (note:)That is, affliction and misery by the Babylonians, (Isa_8:22).(:note) darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for Meaning, for help and support of the Egyptians. light, he shall turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook (note:)Meaning, that the brute beasts for drought were compelled to forsake their young, contrary to nature, and to go seek water which they could not find.(:note) [it], because there was no grass.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there [any] among the (note:)Meaning their idols, read (Jer_10:15).(:note) vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].

geneva@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then said the LORD to me, (note:)Meaning that if there were any man living moved with so great zeal toward the people as were these two, yet he would not grant this request, as he had determined the contrary, (Eze_14:14).(:note) Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:7 @ 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:16:2 @ Thou shalt not take (note:)Meaning that the affliction would be so horrible in Jerusalem that a wife and children would only increase his sorrow.(:note) thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been (note:)Meaning that the fruit of it might never come to profit.(:note) delivered.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:13 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem which was built part on the hill and part in the valley and was compassed about with mountains.(:note) O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

geneva@Jeremiah:22:15 @ Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy (note:)Meaning Josiah, who was not given to ambition and superfluity, but was content with mediocrity, and only delighted in setting forth God's glory, and to do justice to all.(:note) father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?

geneva@Jeremiah: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:23:9 @ My heart within me is broken because of the (note:)Meaning, the false prophets who deceive the people: in which appears his great love toward his nation, read (Jer_14:13).(:note) prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:28 @ The prophet that hath a dream, let him (note:)Let the false prophet declare that it is his own fantasy, and not slander my word as though it were a cloak to cover his lies.(:note) tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. Meaning, that it is not enough for God's ministers to abstain from lies and to speak the word of God but that there is judgment in alleging it, and that it may appear to be applied to the same purpose that it was spoken, (Eze_3:27; 1Co_2:13, 1Co_4:2; 2Ti_2:25). What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:27:7 @ And all nations shall serve him, and his (note:)Meaning, Evilmerodach and his son Belshazzar.(:note) son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land shall come: and then many nations and great kings shall They will bring him and his kingdom in subjection as in (Jer_25:14). bring him into subjection.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:8 @ The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old (note:)Meaning, that the prophets that denounced war or peace were tried either true or false by the success of their prophecies, even though God makes to come to pass sometimes that which the false prophet speaks to try the faith of his, (Deu_13:3).(:note) prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:2 @ (After Jeconiah the king, and the (note:)Meaning Jeconiah's mother.(:note) queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem;)

geneva@Jeremiah:30:7 @ Alas! for that (note:)Meaning that the time of their captivity would be grievous.(:note) day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:18 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captives of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the (note:)Meaning that the city and the temple would be restored to their former estate.(:note) palace shall remain after its manner.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:21 @ And their (note:)Meaning, Zerubbabel, who was the figure of Christ in whom this was accomplished.(:note) nobles shall be from themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who [is] this that engaged his Signifying that Christ willingly submits himself to the obedience of God his father. heart to approach to me? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:1 @ At the (note:)When this noble governor will come, meaning Christ, not only Judah and Israel, but the rest of the world will be called.(:note) same time, saith the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:14 @ And I will abundantly satisfy the soul of the priests with (note:)Meaning, the spirit of wisdom, knowledge and zeal.(:note) fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, 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:34:15 @ And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in (note:)Meaning in the temple to declare that it was a most solemn and straight covenant made in the name of the Lord.(:note) the house which is called by my name:

geneva@Jeremiah:36:5 @ And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] (note:)Meaning, in prison through the malice of the priests.(:note) shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

geneva@Jeremiah:41:1 @ Now it came to pass in the (note:)The city was destroyed in the fourth month and in the seventh month, which contained part of September and part of October, the governor Gedaliah was slain.(:note) seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the Meaning, Zedekiah. king, even ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they They ate together as familiar friends. ate bread together in Mizpah.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:44:14 @ So that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but (note:)Meaning but a few.(:note) such as shall escape.

geneva@Jeremiah: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:46:22 @ Its voice shall go like a (note:)They will be scarcely able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans.(:note) serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against Meaning Egypt. her with axes, as hewers of wood.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:26 @ 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:47:7 @ How can it be (note:)Meaning, that it is not profitable that the wicked should by any means escape or hinder the Lord when he will take vengeance.(:note) quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Concerning the (note:)They were separated from the Moabites by the river Arnon, and after the ten tribes were carried away into captivity, they invaded the country of Gad.(:note) Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king That is, of the Ammonites. inherit Gad, and his people dwell in Meaning, of the Israelites. his cities?

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:49:19 @ Behold, (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar after he has overcome Judah, which is meant by the swelling of Jordan, will come against mount Seir and Edom.(:note) he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make That is, the Israelites whom the Edomites kept as prisoners to hast away from there. him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that The captain and governor of the army meaning Nebuchadnezzar. shepherd that will stand before me?

geneva@Jeremiah:49:28 @ Concerning (note:)Meaning the Arabians, and their borders.(:note) Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and lay waste the men of the east.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:17 @ Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of (note:)Meaning Tiglath-pilesar who carried away the ten tribes.(:note) Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his He carried away the rest, that is Judah and Benjamin. bones.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:41 @ Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from (note:)Meaning, that the Persians would gather their army from many nations.(:note) the ends of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:41 @ How is (note:)Meaning Babel as in (Jer_25:26).(:note) Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an horror among the nations!

geneva@Jeremiah:51:46 @ 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@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weepeth bitterly in the (note:)So that she takes no rest.(:note) night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her Meaning the Egyptians and Assyrians who promised help. lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

geneva@Lamentations:2:3 @ He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the (note:)Meaning the glory and strength, as in (1Sa_2:1).(:note) horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his That is, his comfort which he was wont to send us, when our enemies oppressed us. right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth on every side.

geneva@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart (note:)This is a figurative speech as that was, when he said the ways lamented, (Lam_1:4) meaning that this sorrow was so great that the insensible things had their part of it.(:note) and the wall to lament; they languished together.

geneva@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my (note:)Meaning, the reason his life was in danger.(:note) soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

geneva@Lamentations: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:5:4 @ We have drank our (note:)Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage.(:note) water for money; our wood is sold to us.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:16 @ The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like the colour of a (note:)The Hebrew word is tarshish meaning that the colour was like the Cilician Sea, or a precious stone so called.(:note) beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:1 @ And (note:)That is, the Lord.(:note) he said to me, Meaning, man who is but earth and ashes, which was to humble him, and cause him to consider his own state, and God's grace. Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:23 @ Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the (note:)Meaning, the vision of the cherubims and the wheels.(:note) glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:9 @ 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: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: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:7:20 @ 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:8:3 @ And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the (note:)Meaning that he was thus carried in spirit, and not in body.(:note) visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner Which was the porch or the court where the people assembled. gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of So called, because it provoked God's indignation, which was the idol of Baal. jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the LORD (note:)Meaning that the glory of God would depart from the temple.(:note) went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.

geneva@Ezekiel: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: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:15:2 @ Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch which is among the (note:)Which brings forth no fruit, no more than the other trees of the forest do: meaning that if Jerusalem, which bore the name of his Church, did not bring forth fruit it would be utterly destroyed.(:note) trees of the forest?

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:16:31 @ In that thou buildest thy eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, (note:)Meaning that some harlots contemn small rewards but no lovers gave a reward to Israel, but they gave to all others signifying that the idolaters bestow all their substance which they receive from God for his glory to serve their vile abominations.(:note) in that thou scornest hire;

geneva@Ezekiel:16:55 @ When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, (note:)Meaning that it would never come to pass.(:note) then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:4 @ He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of (note:)Meaning to Babylon.(:note) trade; he set it in a city of merchants.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:7 @ There was also (note:)Meaning, the king of Egypt from whom Zedekiah sought comfort against Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:2 @ What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, (note:)The people murmured at the chastising of the Lord, and therefore used this proverb meaning that their fathers had sinned and their children were punished for their transgressions. {{See Jer_31:29}}(:note) The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

geneva@Ezekiel: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:20:24 @ 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:21:4 @ Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the (note:)Meaning, through all the land.(:note) north:

geneva@Ezekiel:21:10 @ It is sharpened to make a grievous slaughter; it is polished that it may (note:)And so cause fear.(:note) glitter: should we then make mirth? it despiseth the Meaning, the sceptre showing that it will not spare the king, who would be as the son of God, and in his place. rod of my son, That is, the rest of the people. [as] every tree.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:25 @ And thou, profane wicked (note:)Meaning, Zedekiah who practised with the Egyptians to make himself high and able to resist the Babylonians.(:note) prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,

geneva@Ezekiel:22:20 @ [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave [you there], (note:)Meaning by this that the godly would be tried and the wicked destroyed.(:note) and melt you.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:2 @ Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one (note:)Meaning, Israel and Judah who both came out of one family.(:note) mother:

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:23:10 @ These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for (note:)Meaning the Assyrians.(:note) they had executed judgment upon her.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:33 @ 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:23:48 @ Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (note:)Meaning, all other cities and countries.(:note) women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:5 @ 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:24:10 @ Heap on wood, (note:)Meaning that the city would be utterly destroyed and that he would give the enemies an appetite for it.(:note) kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:16 @ Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the (note:)Meaning his wife in whom he delighted, as in (Eze_24:18).(:note) desire of thy eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:18 @ So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did (note:)Meaning the morning following.(:note) in the morning as I was commanded.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited (note:)Meaning, merchants who by their traffic enriched her wonderfully and increased her power.(:note) by seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror [to be] on all that dwelt in it!

geneva@Ezekiel:26:20 @ 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:27:9 @ The ancients of Gebal and its wise [men] were in thee thy (note:)Meaning, that they built the walls of the city, which is here meant by the ship: and of these were the builders of Solomon's temple, (1Ki_5:18).(:note) calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:15 @ The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thy hand: they brought thee [for] a present (note:)Meaning, unicorn's horns and elephant's teeth.(:note) horns of ivory and ebony.

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:30:18 @ At Tehaphnehes also the day (note:)Meaning that there will be great sorrow and affliction.(:note) shall be darkened, when I shall break there the That is, the strength and force. yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:2 @ Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou (note:)Meaning that he was not the same in strength to the king of the Assyrians whom the Babylonians overcame.(:note) like in thy greatness?

geneva@Ezekiel:31:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I (note:)The deep waters that caused him to mount so high (meaning his great abundance and pomp) will now lament as though they were covered with sackcloth.(:note) covered the deep for him, and I restrained its floods, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:18 @ 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:32:24 @ 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: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:34:23 @ 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:35:10 @ Because thou hast said, (note:)Meaning, Israel and Judah.(:note) These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; though the LORD was And so by fighting against God's people they should go about to put him out of his own possession. there:

geneva@Ezekiel:37:25 @ And they shall dwell in the (note:)Meaning that the elect by Christ will dwell in heaven by Jerusalem, which is meant by the land of Canaan.(:note) land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, [even] they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.

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:38:16 @ And thou shalt come against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the (note:)Meaning in the last age, and from the coming of Christ to the end of the world.(:note) latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I Signifying that God will be sanctified by maintaining his church, and destroying his enemies, as in (Eze_36:23, Eze_37:28). shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:4 @ Thou (note:)Meaning that by the virtue of God's word the enemy will be destroyed wherever he assails his Church.(:note) shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy troops, and the people that [are] with thee: I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts of the field to be devoured.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:2 @ Then said the LORD to me; This gate shall be (note:)Meaning, from the common people, but not from the priests nor the prince, read (Eze_46:8-9).(:note) shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:7 @ And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs (note:)Meaning, as he will think good.(:note) according as his hand shall be able, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

geneva@Ezekiel: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:47:22 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be to you as born in the country among the children of Israel; (note:)Meaning that in this spiritual kingdom there would be no difference between Jew nor Gentile but that all would be partakers of this inheritance in their head Christ.(:note) they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:16 @ And these [shall be] the measures of it; the north side (note:)Meaning that it would be square.(:note) four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:28 @ And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the (note:)Which is here taken for Idumea.(:note) border shall be even from Which was Jericho the city of palm trees. Tamar [to] the waters of strife [in] Kadesh, [and] to the Meaning, the Nile that runs into the sea called the Mediterranean. river toward the great sea.

geneva@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:1:17 @ 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:2:23 @ I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my (note:)To whom you made your promise, and who lived in fear of you: by which he excludes all other gods.(:note) fathers, who hast given me wisdom and Meaning power to interpret it. might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast [now] made known unto us the king's matter.

geneva@Daniel:2:39 @ And after thee shall arise another kingdom (note:)Meaning, the Persians who were not inferior in dignity, power, or riches, but were worse with regard to ambition, cruelty, and every type of vice, showing that the world would grow worse and worse, until it was restored by Christ.(:note) inferior to thee, and another That is, those of the Macedonians will be of brass, not alluding to the hardness of it, but to the vileness with regard to silver. third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

geneva@Daniel:2:45 @ 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:2:49 @ Then Daniel (note:)He did not do this for their personal profit, but that the whole Church, which was then there in affliction, might have some release and ease by this benefit.(:note) requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel [sat] in the Meaning that either he was a judge, or that he had the whole authority, so than no one could be admitted to the king's presence but by him. gate of the king.

geneva@Daniel:4:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the (note:)Meaning, as far as his dominion extended.(:note) earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

geneva@Daniel:4:13 @ I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a (note:)Meaning the angel of God, who neither eats nor sleeps, but is always ready to do God's will, and is not infected with man's corruption, but is always holy. And in that he commands to cut down this tree, he knew that it would not be cut down by man, but by God.(:note) watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;

geneva@Daniel:5:2 @ Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his (note:)Meaning his grandfather.(:note) father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.

geneva@Daniel:7:4 @ The first [was] like a (note:)Meaning the Assyrian and Chaldean empire, which was most strong and fierce in power, and most soon to come to their authority, as though they had wings to fly: yet their wings were pulled off by the Persians, and they went on their feet, and were made like other men, which is meant here by man's heart.(:note) lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

geneva@Daniel:7:5 @ And behold another beast, a second, like to a (note:)Meaning the Persians who were barbarous and cruel.(:note) bear, and it raised up itself on They were small in the beginning, and were shut up in the mountains, and had no strength. one side, and [it had] three ribs in the That is, destroyed many kingdoms and whose hunger could not be satisfied. mouth of it between the teeth of it: That is, the angels by God's commandment, who by this means punished the ingratitude of the world. and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

geneva@Daniel:7:6 @ After this I beheld, and lo another, like a (note:)Meaning Alexander the king of Macedonia.(:note) leopard, which had upon the back of it That is, his four chief captains, which had the empire among them after his death. Selencus had Asia the great, Antigonus the less, Cassander and after him Antipater was king of Macedonia, and Ptolemeus had Egypt. four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and It was not of himself nor of his own power that he gained all these countries: for his army contained only thirty thousand men, and he overcame in one battle Darius, who had one million, when he was so heavy with sleep that his eyes were hardly open, as the stories report: therefore this power was given to him from God. dominion was given to it.

geneva@Daniel:7:8 @ I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little (note:)Which is meant of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, etc., who were as kings in effect, but because they could not rule, except by the consent of the senate, their power is compared to a little horn. For Muhammad did not come from the Roman Empire, and the pope has no vocation of government: therefore this cannot be applied to them, and also in this prophecy the Prophet's purpose is chiefly to comfort the Jews until the revelation of Christ. Some take it for the whole body of antichrist.(:note) horn, before whom there were Meaning a certain portion of the ten horns: that is, a part from the whole estate was taken away. For Augustus took from the senate the liberty of choosing the deputies to send into the provinces, and took the governing of certain countries to himself. three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] These Roman emperors at the first used a certain humanity and gentleness, and were content that others, as the consuls, and senate, should bear the names of dignity, so that they might have the profit. And therefore in election and counsels they would behave themselves according as did other senators: yet against their enemies and those that would resist them, they were fierce and cruel, which is here meant by the proud mouth. eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

geneva@Daniel:7:9 @ I beheld till the (note:)Meaning, the places where God and his angels would come to judge these monarchies, which judgment would begin at the first coming of Christ.(:note) thrones were cast down, and the That is, God who was before all times, and is here described in a way such that man's nature is able to comprehend some portion of his glory. Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne [was like] the fiery flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning fire.

geneva@Daniel:7:11 @ I beheld then (note:)Meaning that he was astonished when he saw these emperors in such dignity and pride, so suddenly destroyed at the coming of Christ, when this fourth monarchy was subject to men of other nations.(:note) because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld [even] till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

geneva@Daniel:7:16 @ 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:7:21 @ 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:8:3 @ Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a (note:)Which represented the kingdom of the Persians and Medes, which were united together.(:note) ram which had [two] horns: and the [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] Meaning Cyrus, who after grew greater in power than Darius his uncle and father-in-law. higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

geneva@Daniel:8:5 @ And as I was considering, behold, (note:)Meaning Alexander that came from Greece with great speed and warlike undertaking.(:note) an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had] a notable Even though he came in the name of all Greece, yet he bore the title and dignity of the general captain, so that the strength was attributed to him, which is meant by this horn. horn between his eyes.

geneva@Daniel:8:13 @ Then I heard one (note:)Meaning that he heard one of the angels asking this question of Christ, whom he called a certain one, or a secret one, or a marvellous one.(:note) saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain [saint] which spake, How long [shall be] the vision [concerning] the daily [sacrifice], and the transgression of That is, the Jews' sins, which were the cause of its destruction. desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the That is, which suppresses God's religion and his people. host to be trodden under foot?

geneva@Daniel:8:15 @ And it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me (note:)Who was Christ who in this manner declared himself to the old fathers, how he would be God manifest in flesh.(:note) as the appearance of a man.

geneva@Daniel:8:19 @ And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last (note:)Meaning that great rage which Antiochus would show against the Church.(:note) end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end [shall be].

geneva@Daniel:8:25 @ And through his (note:)Whatever he goes about by his craft, he will bring it to pass.(:note) policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by That is, under pretence of peace, or as it were in sport. peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Meaning, against God. Prince of princes; but he shall be broken For God would destroy him with a notable plague, and so comfort his Church. without hand.

geneva@Daniel:9:24 @ Seventy (note:)He alludes to Jeremiah's prophecy, who prophesied that their captivity would be seventy years: but now God's mercy would exceed his judgment seven times as much, which would be 490 years, even until the coming of Christ, and so then it would continue forever.(:note) weeks are determined upon Meaning Daniel's nation, over whom he was careful. thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the To show mercy and to put sin out of remembrance. transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

geneva@Daniel:9:26 @ And after threescore and two (note:)In this week of the seventy, will Christ come and preach and suffer death.(:note) weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but He will seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation; (Isa_53:2). not for himself: and the people of the Meaning Titus, Vespasians's son, who would come and destroy both the temple, and the people, without any hope of recovery. prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

geneva@Daniel:9:27 @ And he (note:)By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.(:note) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection. cease, Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them. and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

geneva@Daniel:10:13 @ But the (note:)Meaning Cambyses, who reigned in his father's absence, and did not only for this time hinder the building of the temple, but would have further raged, if God had not sent me to resist him: and therefore I have stayed for the profit of the Church.(:note) prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Even though God could by one angel destroy all the world, yet to assure his children of his love he sends forth double power, even Michael, that is, Christ Jesus the head of angels. Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

geneva@Daniel:10:20 @ Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the (note:)Meaning that he would not only himself bridle the rage of Cambyses, but also the other kings of Persia by Alexander the King of Macedonia.(:note) prince of Grecia shall come.

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:11:10 @ But his (note:)Meaning Seleucus and Antiochus the great, the sons of Calinicus, will make war against Ptolemais Philopater, the son of Philadelphus.(:note) sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and [one] For his older brother Seleucus died, or was slain while the armies were preparing for war. shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he That is, Philopater, when he will see Antiochus take great dominions from him in Syria, and also ready to invade Egypt. return, and be stirred up, [even] to his fortress.

geneva@Daniel:11:22 @ And with the (note:)He shows that great foreign powers will come to help the young son of Seleucus against his uncle Antiochus, and yet will be overthrown.(:note) arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the Meaning Ptolemais Philopater's son, who was this child's cousin, and is here called the prince of the covenant, because he was the chief, and all others followed his conduct. covenant.

geneva@Daniel:11:24 @ He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do [that] which his fathers (note:)Meaning, in Egypt.(:note) have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea], and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a He will content himself with the small strongholds for a time, but will always labour by craft to attain to the chiefest. time.

geneva@Daniel:11:32 @ And such as do wickedly (note:)Meaning those who had the name of Jews, but indeed were not Jews at all, for they sold their souls, and betrayed their brethren for gain.(:note) against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].

geneva@Daniel:12:1 @ And at that (note:)The angel here notes two things: first that the Church will be in great affliction and trouble at Christ's coming, and next that God will send his angel to deliver it, whom he here calls Michael, meaning Christ, who is proclaimed by the preaching of the Gospel.(:note) time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

geneva@Daniel:12:2 @ And many (note:)Meaning all will rise at the general resurrection, which thing he here names because the faithful should always consider that: for in the earth there will be no sure comfort.(:note) of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

geneva@Daniel:12:7 @ And I heard the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his (note:)Which was as it were a double oath, and did the more confirm the thing.(:note) right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a Meaning, a long time, a longer time, and at length a short time: signifying that their troubles would have an end. time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished When the Church will be scattered and diminished in such a way as it will seem to have no power. to scatter the power of the holy people, all these [things] shall be finished.

geneva@Hosea:1:4 @ 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: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:2:5 @ 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:2:18 @ 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:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall (note:)Meaning not only all the time of their captivity, but also until Christ.(:note) abide many days without a king, and without a That is, they would neither have administration nor religion, and their idols also in which they put their confidence, would be destroyed. prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:

geneva@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because (note:)That is, the priests will be cast off, because for lack of knowledge they are not able to execute their charge, and instruct others; (Deu_33:3; Mal_2:7).(:note) thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing Meaning the whole body of the people, who were weary with hearing the word of God. thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

geneva@Hosea: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: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: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:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth (note:)That is, flatters himself with vain confidence.(:note) on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and Meaning presents to get friendship. oil is carried into Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:12:13 @ And by a (note:)Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God's free goodness.(:note) prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

geneva@Hosea:13:14 @ 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@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye (note:)Meaning, that the reason for their excess and drunkenness was taken away.(:note) drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

geneva@Joel:2:2 @ A (note:)Of affliction and trouble.(:note) day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a Meaning, the Assyrians. great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.

geneva@Joel:2:20 @ 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:2:32 @ 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@Amos:5:3 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave (note:)Meaning, that the tenth part would hardly be saved.(:note) an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

geneva@Amos:7:4 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, (note:)Meaning, that God's indignation was inflamed against the stubbornness of this people.(:note) and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

geneva@Amos:9:9 @ For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the (note:)Meaning that none of his own would perish in his wrath.(:note) least grain fall upon the earth.

geneva@Amos:9:12 @ That they may possess the remnant of (note:)Meaning, the very enemies (as were the Edomites) and others would be united with the Jews in one society and body, of which Christ would be the head.(:note) Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

geneva@Obadiah:1:21 @ And (note:)Meaning that God will raise up in his Church those who will rule and govern for the defence of it, and for the destruction of his enemies under the Messiah, whom the Prophet here calls the Lord and head of this kingdom.(:note) saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

geneva@Jonah:4:11 @ And should (note:)Thus God mercifully reproves him who would pity himself and this gourd, and yet would keep God from showing his compassion to so many thousand people.(:note) not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that Meaning that they were children and infants. cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?

geneva@Micah:1:3 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come (note:)Meaning by this that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and strongholds.(:note) down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

geneva@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, O (note:)Meaning Jerusalem, where the Lord's flock was gathered.(:note) tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even The flourishing state of the kingdom, as it was under David and Solomon, which thing was accomplished for the Church by the coming of Christ. the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

geneva@Micah:6:9 @ The LORD'S voice crieth unto the (note:)Meaning, that when God speaks to any city or nation, the godly will acknowledge his majesty and not consider the mortal man that brings the threatening, but God that sends it.(:note) city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

geneva@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and (note:)You will be consumed with inward grief and evils.(:note) thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou Meaning that the city would go about to save her men, as they that lay hold of that which they would preserve. shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

geneva@Micah: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:7:11 @ [In] (note:)That is, when God will show himself to be a deliverer of his Church, and a destroyer of his enemies.(:note) the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall Meaning the cruel empire of the Babylonians. the decree be far removed.

geneva@Micah:7:19 @ He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all (note:)Meaning his elect.(:note) their sins into the depths of the sea.

geneva@Nahum:1:2 @ God [is] (note:)Meaning, of his glory.(:note) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and With his own he is but angry for a time, but his anger is never appeased toward the reprobate, even though he defers it for a time. [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.

geneva@Nahum:1:14 @ And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, [that] no more of thy name be (note:)Meaning, Sennacherib, who would have no more children, but be slain in the house of his gods; (2Ki_19:36-37).(:note) sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

geneva@Nahum:2:3 @ 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:2:11 @ 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:3:8 @ Art thou better than populous (note:)Meaning Alexandria, which had a compact of peace with so many nations, and yet was now destroyed.(:note) No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?

geneva@Nahum:3:19 @ [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon (note:)Meaning that the Assyrians had done hurt to all people.(:note) whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

geneva@Habakkuk:1:16 @ 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:1:17 @ Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay (note:)Meaning, that they would not.(:note) the nations?

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:3:8 @ Was the LORD displeased against the (note:)Meaning that God was not angry with the waters, but that by this means he would destroy his enemies, and deliver his Church.(:note) rivers? [was] thy anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride And so did use all the elements as instruments for the destruction of your enemies. upon thy horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?

geneva@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with (note:)Meaning, the courtiers, who did imitate the strange apparel of other nations to win their favour by it, and to appear glorious in the eyes of all others; read (Eze_23:14-15).(:note) strange apparel.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This [is] the (note:)Meaning, Nineveh, which rejoicing so much of her strength and prosperity, should be thus made waste, and God's people delivered.(:note) rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.

geneva@Haggai:1:8 @ Go (note:)Meaning, that they should leave their own benefits, and go forward in the building of God's temple, and in the setting forth of his religion.(:note) up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise; (1Ki_8:22, 1Ki_8:29). I will take pleasure in it, and I will That is, my glory will be set forth by you. be glorified, saith the LORD.

geneva@Haggai: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:2:9 @ The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give (note:)Meaning all spiritual blessings and felicity purchased by Christ; (Phi_4:7).(:note) peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:2:4 @ And said to him, Run, speak to this (note:)Meaning himself, Zechariah.(:note) young man, saying, Signifying the spiritual Jerusalem and Church under Christ, which would be extended by the Gospel through all the world, and would need no material walls, nor trust in any worldly strength, but would be safely preserved and dwell in peace among all their enemies. Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it:

geneva@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the (note:)That is, Christ speaks to God as the mediator of his Church, that he would rebuke Satan: and here he shows himself to be the continual preserver of his Church.(:note) LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: [is] not this a Meaning that Joshua was wonderfully preserved in the captivity, and now Satan sought to afflict and trouble him when he was doing his office. brand plucked out of the fire?

geneva@Zechariah:4:9 @ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and (note:)Meaning, the Prophet, that I am Christ sent from my Father for the building and preservation of my spiritual temple.(:note) thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to you.

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

geneva@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then said he to me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that (note:)That is, does any injury toward his neighbour.(:note) stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this Meaning, wherever he is in the world. side according to it; and every one that He that transgresses the first table of the ten commandments, and does not serve God correctly but abuses his name. sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.

geneva@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered and said to me, These [are] the four (note:)Meaning, all the actions and motions of God's Spirit, whom according to his unchangeable counsel he causes to appear through all the world.(:note) spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:6:12 @ And speak to him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom Joshua was the figure: for in Greek they were both called Jesus.(:note) BRANCH; and he shall grow That is, of himself without the help of man. up out of his place, and he shall Which declares that no one could build this temple of which Haggai speaks, but only Christ: and therefore it was spiritual, and not material; (Hag_2:9). build the temple of the LORD:

geneva@Zechariah:9:2 @ And Hamath also shall border (note:)That is, by Damascus: meaning, that Harnath or Antiochia would be under the same rod and plague.(:note) by it; Tyre, and Zidon, though it be He secretly shows the cause of their destruction, because they deceived all others by their craft and subtilty, which they cloaked with this name of wisdom. very wise.

geneva@Zechariah:9:6 @ And a (note:)Meaning, that all would be destroyed, save a very few, that would remain as strangers.(:note) bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

geneva@Zechariah:9:12 @ 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: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: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@Malachi:3:1 @ Behold, I will send my (note:)This is meant of John the Baptist, as Christ interprets it; (Luk_7:27).(:note) messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Meaning, the Messiah, as in (Psa_40:17; Dan_9:17, Dan_9:25). Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the That is, Christ, by whom the covenant was made and ratified, who is called the angel or messenger of the covenant, because he reconciles us to his Father, and is Lord or King, because he has the rule of his Church. messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will rebuke the (note:)Meaning the caterpillar, and whatever destroys corn and fruits.(:note) devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:4:2 @ But unto you that fear my name shall the (note:)Meaning, Christ, who with his wings or beams of his grace would enlighten and comfort his Church; (Eph_5:14). And he is called the «Sun of righteousness», because in himself he has all perfection, and also the justice of the Father dwells in him: by which he regenerates us to righteousness, cleanses us from the filth of this world, and reforms us to the image of God.(:note) Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go You will be set at liberty, and increase in the joy of the Spirit; (2Co_3:17). forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

geneva@Matthew:1:21 @ And she shall bring forth (note:)Christ is born of the same virgin who never knew a man: and is named Jesus by God himself through the angel.(:note) a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save Save, and this shows us the meaning of the name Jesus. his people from their sins.

geneva@Matthew:15:5 @ But ye say, (note:)The meaning is this: whatever I bestow upon the temple, is to your profit, for it is as good as if I gave it to you, for (as the Pharisees of our time say) it will be meritorious for you: for under this form of religion, they gathered all to themselves, as though he that had given anything to the temple, had done the duty of a child.(:note) Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

geneva@Matthew:16:25 @ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall (note:)Shall gain himself: And this is his meaning, they that deny Christ to save themselves, not only not gain that which they look for, but also lose the thing they would have kept, that is, themselves, which is the greatest loss of all: but as for them that doubt not to die for Christ, it goes well with them otherwise.(:note) find it.

geneva@Matthew:24:38 @ For as in the days that were before the flood they were (note:)The word which the evangelist uses expresses the matter more fully then ours does: for it is a word which is used of brute beasts: and his meaning is that in those days men will pay attention to their appetites just like brute beasts: for otherwise there is nothing wrong with eating and drinking.(:note) eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

geneva@Matthew:27:9 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by (note:)As this prophecy is found in (Zec_11:12) it cannot be denied that Jeremy's name slipped into the text either through the fault of the Scribe, or by someone else's ignorance: it may also be that it came out of the margin by means of the abbreviation on one of the letters, the one being «yod» and the other being «zayin», which are very similar: But in the Syrian text the Prophet's name is not written down at all.(:note) Jeremy the prophet, saying, The evangelist does not follow the prophet's words, but instead he follows the prophet's meaning, which he shows to have been fulfilled. And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

geneva@Mark:6:40 @ And they sat down in (note:)The word signifies the beds in a garden, and it is literally, «by beds and beds», meaning by this that they sat down in rows one by another, as beds in a garden.(:note) ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

geneva@Mark:12:1 @ And (note:)The calling of God is unbounded, without exception, in regard to place, person, or time.(:note) he began to speak unto them by This word «parable», which the evangelists use, not only signifies a comparing of things together, but also speeches and allegories with hidden meaning. parables. A [certain] man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about [it], and digged [a place for] the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

geneva@Luke:1:34 @ Then said Mary unto the angel, (note:)The greatness of the matter causes the virgin to ask this question, not that she distrusted by any means at all, for she asks only of the manner of the conceiving, so that it is plain she believed all the rest.(:note) How shall this be, seeing So speak the Hebrews, signifying by this modest kind of speech the company of man and wife together, and this is the meaning of it: how will this be, for as I will be Christ's mother I am very sure I will not know any man: for the godly virgin had learned by the prophets that the Messiah would be born of a virgin. I know not a man?

geneva@Luke:13:32 @ And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that (note:)That deceitful and treacherous man.(:note) fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures That is, a small time, and Theophylact says it is a proverb: or else by «to day» we may understand the present time, and by tomorrow the time to come, meaning by this the entire time of his ministry and office. to day and to morrow, and the third [day] I shall be That is, when the sacrifice for sin is finished. perfected.

geneva@John:10:6 @ This (note:)This word «parable», which the evangelist uses here, signifies a hidden type of speech, when words are not used with their natural meaning, but are used to signify another thing to us.(:note) parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

geneva@John:12:32 @ And I, if I be (note:)Christ used a word which has a double meaning, for it signifies either to lift up or to get out of the way: for he intended them to think of his death, but the Jews seemed to take it another way.(:note) lifted up from the earth, will draw Chrysostom and Theophylact say that this word «all» refers to all nations: that is, not only to the Jews. all [men] unto me.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that (note:)As the papists in all their sermons, and they that ambitiously pour out some Hebrew or Greek words in the pulpit before the unlearned people, by this to get themselves a name of vain learning.(:note) speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:22 @ If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema (note:)By these words are meant the severest type of curse and excommunication that was among the Jews: and the words are as much as to say, «As our Lord comes». So that his meaning may be this, «Let him be accursed even to the coming of the Lord», that is to say, to the day of his death, even for ever.(:note) Maranatha.

geneva@Revelation:11:8 @ And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the (note:)That is, openly at Rome: where at that time was a most great crowd of people, the year of Jubile being then first ordained by Boniface to the same end, in the year 1300, an example of which is read in chapter 1 «Extra, de poenitentys strkjv@066:011:008 And their corpses shall lie in the streetes of the great citie, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord also was crucified. amp; remissionibus.» So by one act he committed two wrongs against Christ, both abolishing his truth by restoring the type of the Jubile, and triumphing over his members by wicked superstition. O religious heart! Now that we should understand the things of Rome, John himself is the author, both after in the seventeenth chapter almost throughout, and also in the restriction now next following, when he says, it is that great city (as he calls it) (Rev_17:18) and is spiritually termed Sodom and Egypt: and that spiritually (for that must here again be repeated from before) Christ was there crucified. For the two first names signify spiritual wickednesses: the latter signifies the show and pretence of good, that is, of Christian and sound religion. Sodom signifies most licentious impiety and in the most confident glorying of that city, as it were in true religion, being yet full of falsehood and ungodliness. Now who is ignorant that these things do rather, and better fit Rome, than any other city? The commendations of the city of Rome for many years past, are publicly notorious, which are not for me to gather together. This only I will say, that he long since did very well see what Rome is, who upon leaving, used these verses: «Roma vale, vidi, Satis est vidisse: revertar, Quumleno, meretrix, scurra, cinadus ero.» «Now farewell Rome, I have seen thee, it was enough to see: I will return when as I mean, bawd, harlot knave to be»(:note) street of the great city, which After a more secret type of meaning and understanding. spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, Namely in his parts, as also he said to Saul in (Act_9:5) where also our Lord was crucified.

geneva@Revelation:13:17 @ And that no man might (note:)That is, have any trade or dealings with men, but only those who have this annointing and consecration of Clearkely shaving of the head, as they call it, read Gratian «de Consecratione, distincione tertia.c.omnes.cap spiritus, etc.» of these matters.(:note) buy or sell, save he that had the Here the false prophets require three things, set down in the order of their greatness, a character, a name, and the number of the name. The meaning is, that man that does not have their first annointing and clerical shaving of the head: secondly holy orders, by which is communicated the name of the beast: or finally has not attained that high degree of pontifical knowledge, and of the law (as they call it) canonical, and has not made up in account and cast the number of the mysteries of it: for in these things consists the number of the name of the beast. This is excellently set forth in the next verse. mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.