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Genesis:12:8 @ And he removed from (note:)Because of the troubles that he had among that wicked people.(:note) thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an And so served the true God, and renounced all idolatry. altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:14:13 @ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] (note:)God removed them to join Abram, and preserves him from their idolatry and superstitions.(:note) confederate with Abram.
geneva@Exodus:1:1 @ Now (note:)Moses describes the wonderful order that God observes in performing his promise to Abraham; (Gen_15:14).(:note) these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. The Argument - After Jacob by God's commandment in (Gen_46:3) had brought his family into Egypt, where they remained for four hundred years, and from seventy people grew to an infinite number so that the king and the country endeavoured both by tyranny and cruel slavery to suppress them: the Lord according to his promise in (Gen_15:14) had compassion on his Church, and delivered them, but plagued their enemies in most strange and varied ways. The more the tyranny of the wicked raged against his Church, the more his heavy judgments increased against them, till Pharaoh and his army were drowned in the sea, which gave an entry and passage to the children of God. As the ingratitude of man is great, so they immediately forgot God's wonderful benefits and although he had given them the Passover as a sign and memorial of the same, yet they fell to distrust, and tempted God with various complaining and grudging against him and his ministers: sometimes out of ambition, sometimes lack of drink or meat to satisfy their lusts, sometimes idolatry, or such like. For this reason, God punished them with severe rods and plagues, that by his correction they might turn to him for help against his scourges, and earnestly repent for their rebellion and wickedness. Because God loves them to the end, whom he has once begun to love, he punished them not as they deserved, but dealt with them mercifully, and with new benefits laboured to overcome their malice: for he still governed them and gave them his word and Law, both concerning the way to serve him, and also the form of judgments and civil policy: with the intent that they would not serve God after as they pleased, but according to the order, that his heavenly wisdom had appointed.
geneva@Exodus:3:18 @ And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may (note:)Because Egypt was full of idolatry, God would appoint them a place where they could serve him purely.(:note) sacrifice to the LORD our God.
geneva@Exodus:32:1 @ And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, (note:)The root of Idolatry is when men think that God is not present, unless they see him physically.(:note) make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
geneva@Exodus:32:2 @ And Aaron said unto them, (note:)Thinking that they would rather abandon idolatry, than give up their most precious jewels.(:note) Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me.
geneva@Exodus:32:16 @ And the tables [were] the work of God, and (note:)All these repetitions show how excellent a thing they defrauded themselves of by their idolatry.(:note) the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
geneva@Exodus:32:20 @ And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it] upon the water, and made the children of Israel (note:)Partly to despise them for their idolatry, and partly so they would have no opportunity to remember the calf later.(:note) drink [of it].
geneva@Exodus:34:12 @ Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a (note:)If you follow their wickedness, and pollute yourself with their idolatry.(:note) snare in the midst of thee:
geneva@Leviticus:17:2 @ Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This [is] the thing which the LORD hath (note:)Lest they should practice the idolatry they had learned among the Egyptians.(:note) commanded, saying,
geneva@Leviticus:17:7 @ 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:18:28 @ That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it (note:)Both for their wicked marriages, unnatural copulations, idolatry or spiritual whoredom with Molech and such like abominations.(:note) spued out the nations that [were] before you.
geneva@Leviticus:19:2 @ Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be (note:)That is, void of all pollution, idolatry and superstition both of soul and body.(:note) holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.
geneva@Leviticus:20:6 @ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a (note:)To esteem sorcerers or conjurers is spiritual whoredom, or idolatry.(:note) whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
geneva@Numbers:26:1 @ And it came to pass after the (note:)Which came because of their whoredom and idolatry.(:note) plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
geneva@Deuteronomy:1:1 @ These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on (note:)In the country of Moab.(:note) this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain So that the wilderness was between the sea and the plain of Moab. over against the Red [sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is actively set forth in this book. Even through their ingratitude and many rebellions against God, for the space forty years. (Deu_9:7) they deserved to have been cut off from the number of his people, and forever to have been deprived of the use of his holy word and ordinances: yet he ever preserved his Church even for his own mercy's sake, and would still have his name called upon among them. Wherefore he brings them into the land of Canaan, destroys their enemies, gives them their country, towns and goods, and exhorts them by the example of their fathers (whose infidelity, idolatry, adulteries, complaining and rebellions, he had most severely punished) to fear and obey the Lord, to embrace and keep his law without adding to it or diminishing from it. For by his word he would be known to be their God, and they his people, by his word he would govern his Church, and by the same they would learn to obey him: by his word he would discern the false prophet from the true, light form darkness, ignorance from knowledge, and his own people from all the other nations and infidels: teaching them by it to refuse and detest, destroy and abolish whatever is not agreeable to his holy will, seem it otherwise never so good or precious in the eyes of man. For this cause God promised to raise up kings and governors, for the setting forth of his word and preservation of his Church: giving to them a special charge for the executing of it: whom therefore he wills to exercise themselves diligently in the continual study and meditation of the same: that they might learn to fear the Lord, love their subjects, abhor covetousness and vices, and whatever offends the majesty of God. As he had before instructed their fathers in all things belonging both to his spiritual service and also for the maintenance of that society which is between men: so he prescribes here anew all such laws and ordinances, which either concern his divine service, or else are necessary for a common good: appointing to every estate and degree their charge and duty: as well, how to rule and live in the fear of God, as to nourish friendship toward their neighbours, and to preserve the order which God has established among men: threatening most horrible plagues to them that transgress his commandments, and promising blessings and happiness to those who observe and obey them.
geneva@Deuteronomy:5:7 @ Thou shalt have none (note:)God binds us to serve him only without superstition and idolatry.(:note) other gods before me.
geneva@Deuteronomy:7:25 @ The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou (note:)And be enticed to idolatry.(:note) be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.
geneva@Deuteronomy:13:16 @ And (note:)Signifying that no idolatry is so detestable, nor more grievously to be punished, than of those who once professed God.(:note) thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
geneva@Deuteronomy:17:15 @ Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a (note:)Who is not from your nation, lest he change true religion into idolatry, and bring you to slavery.(:note) stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother.
geneva@Deuteronomy:23:8 @ The children that are begotten (note:)If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received circumcision.(:note) of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
geneva@Deuteronomy:31:19 @ Now therefore write ye this (note:)To preserve you and your children from idolatry, by remembering God's benefits.(:note) song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
geneva@Deuteronomy:31:29 @ For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the (note:)By idolatry, and worshipping images, which are the work of your hands.(:note) work of your hands.
geneva@Deuteronomy:34:6 @ And (note:)That is, the angel of the Lord, (Jud_1:9).(:note) he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto That the Jews might not have opportunity to commit idolatry by it. this day.
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@Judges:3:7 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the (note:)Or Ashteroth, trees or woods erected for idolatry.(:note) groves.
geneva@Judges:17:3 @ And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a (note:)Contrary to the commandment of God and true religion practised under Joshua, they forsook the Lord and fell into idolatry.(:note) graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
geneva@1Samuel:15:23 @ For (note:)God hates nothing more than the disobedience of his commandment, even though the intent seems good to man.(:note) rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.
geneva@1Samuel:26:19 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him (note:)Let his anger toward us be pacified by a sacrifice.(:note) accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve As much as lay in them, they compelled him to idolatry because they forced him to flee to the idolaters. other gods.
geneva@1Kings:8:41 @ Moreover concerning a (note:)He means such as should be turned from their idolatry to serve the true God.(:note) stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
geneva@1Kings:11:39 @ And I will (note:)For this idolatry that Solomon has committed.(:note) for this afflict the seed of David, For the whole spiritual kingdom was restored in the Messiah. but not for ever.
geneva@1Kings:12:31 @ And he made an (note:)That is, a temple, where altars were built for idolatry.(:note) house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
geneva@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the (note:)Because he would bind the people's devotion to his idolatry even more, he made a new holy day, besides those that the Lord had appointed in the law.(:note) fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
geneva@1Kings:14:24 @ And there were also sodomites in the (note:)Where idolatry reigns, all horrible vices are committed, till at length God's just judgment destroys them completely.(:note) land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
geneva@1Kings:14:31 @ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an (note:)Whose idolatry Rehoboam her son followed.(:note) Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
geneva@1Kings:15:30 @ Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his (note:)By causing the people to commit idolatry with his calves, and so provoking God to anger.(:note) provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
geneva@1Kings:16:25 @ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did (note:)For such is the nature of idolatry, that the superstition of it daily increases, and the older it is, the more abominable it is before God and his Church.(:note) worse than all that [were] before him.
geneva@1Kings:16:31 @ And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took (note:)By whose influence he fell into wicked and strange idolatry and cruel persecution.(:note) to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
geneva@2Kings:1:1 @ Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains the acts of the kings of Judah and Israel: that is, of Israel, from the death of Ahab to the last king Hoshea, who was imprisoned by the king of Assyria, and his city Samaria taken, and the ten tribes led into captivity by the just plague of God for their idolatry and disobedience to God. Also of Judah, from the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat to Zedekiah, who for contemning the Lord's commandment by his prophets, and neglecting his many admonitions by famine and other means was taken by his enemies, saw his sons most cruelly slain before his face, and his own eyes put out, as the Lord had declared to him before by his prophet Jeremiah. By the just vengeance of God for contempt of his word Jerusalem was destroyed, the temple burnt, and he and all his people were led away captives into Babylon. In this book are notable examples of God's favour toward those rulers and people who obey his prophets, and embrace his word: and contrariwise of his plagues on those who neglect his ministers, and do not obey his commandments.(:note)
geneva@2Kings:1:2 @ And (note:)So that he was punished for his idolatry in two ways: for the Moabites which were wont to pay him tribute rebelled and he fell out a window which was high in his house to give light beneath.(:note) Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of The Philistines who lived at Ekron worshipped this idol, the god of flies, thinking that he could preserve them from the biting of flies: or else he was so called, because flies were drawn in great abundance by the blood of the sacrifices that were offered to that idol. Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
geneva@2Kings:1:6 @ And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Ignorance is the mother of error and idolatry.(:note) [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
geneva@2Kings:5:18 @ In this thing the LORD (note:)He feels his conscience is wounded by being present at idols service, and therefore desires God to forgive him, lest others by his example might fall to idolatry: for as for his own part he confesses that he will never serve any but the true God.(:note) pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
geneva@2Kings:8:22 @ Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then (note:)This was a city in Judah given to the Levites, (Jos_21:13) that later turned from king Jehoram, because of his idolatry.(:note) Libnah revolted at the same time.
geneva@2Kings:11:17 @ And Jehoiada made a (note:)That both the king and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.(:note) covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God. king also and the people.
geneva@2Kings:12:18 @ And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and (note:)After the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell to idolatry: therefore God rejected him, and stirred up his enemy against him, whom he pacified with the treasures of the temple: for God would not be served with those gifts, seeing the king's heart was wicked.(:note) sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
geneva@2Kings:13:6 @ Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained the (note:)In which they committed their idolatry, and which the Lord had commanded to be destroyed (Deu_16:21).(:note) grove also in Samaria.)
geneva@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king (note:)His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.(:note) of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
geneva@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the (note:)Because this idolatry was so vile and almost incredible, that men should forsake the living God, to worship calves, the work of man's hands, therefore the Scripture often repeats it in the reproach of all idolaters.(:note) sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
geneva@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, (note:)Though he invented no new idolatry or impiety as others did, yet he sought help from the Egyptians, whom God had forbidden.(:note) but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
geneva@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)Although they of Judah were given to idolatry and impiety, as they of Israel were, yet God for the sake of his promise was merciful to the throne of David, and yet by his judgment toward the other, provoked to repentance.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
geneva@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it (note:)That is «a piece of brass»: thus he calls the serpent by contempt, which even though it was set up by the word of God, and miracles were wrought by it, when it was used for idolatry this good king destroyed it, not thinking it worthy to be called a serpent, but a piece of brass.(:note) Nehushtan.
geneva@2Kings:18:22 @ But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath (note:)Thus the idolaters think that God's religion is destroyed, when superstition and idolatry are reformed.(:note) taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
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@2Chronicles:1:1 @ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains in brief the contents of the two books of the kings: that is, from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. In this story some things are told in more detail than in the books of the kings and therefore help greatly in the understanding of the prophets. Three things are chiefly to be considered here: First, that when the godly kings saw the plagues of God prepared against their country for sin, they turned to the Lord and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues removed. Secondly, while the good rulers always loved the prophets of God and were zealous to set forth his religion throughout their dominions, it offended God greatly that the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them and set up idolatry and attempted served God according to the fantasy of men. Thus we have the chief acts from the beginning of the world to the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 32nd year of Darius, in total 3568 years and six months.(:note)
geneva@2Chronicles:14:5 @ Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was (note:)He shows that the rest and quietness of kingdoms stands in abolishing idolatry and advancing true religion.(:note) quiet before him.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:3 @ Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the (note:)For the space of twelve years under Rehoboam, and three years under Abijah, religion was neglected, and idolatry planted.(:note) true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
geneva@2Chronicles:17:7 @ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to (note:)He knew it was in vain to profess religion, unless such were appointed who could instruct the people in the same, and had authority to put away all idolatry.(:note) teach in the cities of Judah.
geneva@2Chronicles:19:4 @ And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again (note:)He visited all his country and brought his people from idolatry to the knowledge of the true God.(:note) through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
geneva@2Chronicles:21:11 @ Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit (note:)Meaning, idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband.(:note) fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].
geneva@2Chronicles:21:20 @ Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, (note:)That is, as some write, he was not regarded but deposed for his wickedness and idolatry so that his son reigned 22 years (his father yet living) without honour, and after his father's death he was confirmed to reign still, as in (2Ch_22:2).(:note) and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
geneva@2Chronicles:23:16 @ And Jehoiada made a (note:)That they would only serve him and renounce all idolatry.(:note) covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:17 @ Now after the death of Jehoiada came the (note:)Who were liars and knew now that the king was destitute of him who watched over him as a father, and therefore brought him to most vile idolatry.(:note) princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:21 @ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the (note:)There is no rage so cruel and beastly as of them whose hearts God has hardened, and who delight more in superstition and idolatry than in the true service of God and pure simplicity of his word.(:note) commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
geneva@2Chronicles:27:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the (note:)That is, to offer incense against the word of God, which is spoken of in the commendation of Jotham.(:note) temple of the LORD. And the people did yet They were not completely purged from idolatry. corruptly.
geneva@2Chronicles:32:12 @ Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his (note:)Thus the wicked put no difference between true religion and false, God and idols: for Hezekiah only destroyed idolatry and replaced it with true religion. Thus the papists slander the servants of God: for when they destroy idolatry, they say that they abolish religion.(:note) altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
geneva@2Chronicles:33:17 @ Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the (note:)Thus by ignorance they were deceived, thinking it nothing to keep the altars, so that they worshipped God: but it is idolatry to worship God any other way than he has appointed.(:note) LORD their God only.
geneva@2Chronicles:34:3 @ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet (note:)When he was but sixteen years old he showed himself zealous of God's glory, and at twenty years old he abolished idolatry and restored the true religion.(:note) young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
geneva@2Chronicles:36:8 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and (note:)He means superstitious marks which were found on his body when he was dead, which declared how deeply idolatry was rooted in his heart, seeing he bore the marks in his flesh.(:note) that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
geneva@Ezra:4:3 @ But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; (note:)For they knew their pretence, that is to erect idolatry instead of true religion.(:note) but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
geneva@Ezra:6:21 @ And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had (note:)Who were of the heathen and forsook their idolatry to worship the true God.(:note) separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
geneva@Psalms:106:37 @ Yea, they sacrificed their (note:)He shows how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, while God's word cannot obtain small things.(:note) sons and their daughters unto devils,
geneva@Isaiah:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of the (note:)That is, the trees and pleasant places where you commit idolatry which was forbidden (Deu_16:22).(:note) oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
geneva@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land also is full of (note:)The prophet first condemned their superstition and idolatry next their covetousness and thirdly their vain trust in worldly means.(:note) silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
geneva@Isaiah:27:9 @ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the (note:)He shows that there is no true repentance nor full reconciliation to God, till the heart is purged from all idolatry and the monuments of it are destroyed.(:note) fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten asunder, the idols and images shall not stand up.
geneva@Isaiah:30:22 @ Ye shall (note:)You will cast away your idols which you have made of gold and silver with all that belongs to them, as a most filthy thing and polluted.(:note) defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Showing that there can be no true repentance, unless both in heart and deed we show ourselves enemies to idolatry. Be gone from me.
geneva@Isaiah: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:36:1 @ Now it came to pass (note:)This history is rehearsed because it is as a seal and confirmation of the doctrine before, both for the threatenings and promises: that is, that God would permit his Church to be afflicted, but at length would send deliverance.(:note) in the When he had abolished superstition, and idolatry, and restored religion, yet God would exercise his Church to try their faith and patience. fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
geneva@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then (note:)By this he arms them against the idolatry with which they would be tempted in Babylon.(:note) will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?
geneva@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have ye not known? have ye not (note:)Do you not have the word of God, which plainly condemns idolatry?(:note) heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the Can you not learn by the visible creatures whom God has made for your use, that you should not serve them or worship them? foundations of the earth?
geneva@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up the (note:)Who called Abraham (who was the pattern of God's justice in delivering his Church) from the idolatry of the Chaldeans to go to and fro at his commandment and placed him in the land of Canaan.(:note) righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.
geneva@Isaiah:41:5 @ The isles saw [it], and (note:)Considering my excellent works among my people.(:note) feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and They assembled themselves and conspired against me to maintain their idolatry. came.
geneva@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth [stones] (note:)Meaning every place was polluted with their idolatry: or every fair stone they found they made into an idol.(:note) of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in In the sacrifices which you offering before these idols thought you served God. these?
geneva@Isaiah:57:8 @ Behind the (note:)Instead of setting up the word of God in the open places on the posts and doors to have it in remembrance, (Deu_6:9, Deu_27:1) you have set up signs and marks of your idolatry in every place.(:note) doors also and the door posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast uncovered [thyself to another] than me, and hast gone up; thou hast That is, increased your idolatry more and more. enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou didst love their bed where thou sawest [it].
geneva@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will declare thy righteousness, (note:)That is, your naughtiness, idolatry and impiety which the wicked call God's service: thus he derides their obstinacy.(:note) and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
geneva@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have (note:)He shows the reason for the rejection of the Jews, because they would not obey him or any admonition of his prophets, by whom he called them continually and stretch out his hand to draw them.(:note) spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own He shows that to delight in our own fantasies is the declining from God and the beginning of all superstitions and idolatry. thoughts;
geneva@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, the sermons and prophecies.(:note) words of Jeremiah the son of Who is thought to be he that found the book of the law under king Josiah, (2Ki_22:8). Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in This was a city about three miles from Jerusalem and belonged to the priests, the sons of Aaron, (Jos_21:18). Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: The Argument - The prophet Jeremiah born in the city of Anathoth in the country of Benjamin, was the son of Hilkiah, whom some think to be he that found the book of the law and gave it to Josiah. This prophet had excellent gifts from God, and most evident revelations of prophecy, so that by the commandment of the Lord he began very young to prophecy, that is, in the thirteenth year of Josiah, and continued eighteen years under the king, three months under Jehoahaz and under Jehoiakim eleven years, three months under Jehoiachin, and under Zedekiah eleven years to the time that they were carried away into Babylon. So that this time amounts to above forty years, besides the time that he prophesied after the captivity. In this book he declares with tears and lamentations, the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the people, for their idolatry, covetousness, deceit, cruelty, excess, rebellion and contempt of God's word, and for the consolation of the Church reveals the just time of their deliverance. Here chiefly are to be considered three things. First the rebellion of the wicked, who wax more stubborn and obstinate, when the prophets admonish them most plainly of their destruction. Next how the prophets and ministers of God should not be discouraged in their vocation, though they are persecuted and rigorously handled by the wicked, for God's cause. Thirdly though God shows his just judgment against the wicked, yet will he ever show himself a preserver of his Church, and when all means seem to men's judgment to be abolished, then will he declare himself victorious in preserving his.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone (note:)That is, fallen to vile idolatry.(:note) far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become Altogether given to vanity, and are become blind and insensible as the idols that they serve. vain?
geneva@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it but when ye entered, ye defiled (note:)By your idolatry and wicked manners, (Psa_78:58, Psa_106:38).(:note) my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not (note:)Meaning that hypocrites deny that they worship the idols, but that they honour God in them, and therefore they call their doings God's service.(:note) gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift He compares the idolaters to these beasts, because they never cease running to and fro: for both valleys and hills are full of their idolatry. dromedary traversing her ways;
geneva@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild (note:)He compares the idolaters to a wild ass: for she can never be tamed nor yet wearied: for as she runs she can take her wind at every opportunity.(:note) donkey used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her That is, when she is with foal, and therefore the hunters wait their time: so though you cannot be turned back now from your idolatry, yet when your iniquity will be at the fall, God will meet with you. month they shall find her.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:26 @ As the (note:)As a thief will not acknowledge his fault, till he is taken with the deed, and ready to be punished, so they will not confess their idolatry, till the plagues due to the same light on them.(:note) thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
geneva@Jeremiah:3:24 @ For shame hath devoured the labour of our (note:)For their idolatry God's vengeance has light on them and theirs.(:note) fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
geneva@Jeremiah: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:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say to them, The gods (note:)This declares that all that has been spoken of idols in this chapter, was to arm the Jews when they would be in Chaldea among the idolaters, and now with one sentence he instructs them both how to protest their own religion against the idolaters and how to answer them to their shame who would exhort them to idolatry, and therefore he writes this sentence in the Chaldean tongue for a memorial while all the rest of his writing is in Hebrew.(:note) that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
geneva@Jeremiah:13:27 @ I have seen thy adulteries, and thy (note:)He compares idolaters to horses inflamed after mares.(:note) neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry, [and] thy abominations on the hills in There is no place so high nor low, where the marks and signs of your idolatry do not appear. the fields. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
geneva@Jeremiah:17:1 @ The sin of Judah [is] (note:)The remembrance of their contempt of God cannot pass, although for a time he defers the punishment, for it will be revealed to men and angels.(:note) written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the Instead of the law of God, they have written idolatry and all abomination in their heart. tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your Your sins appear in all the altars that you have erected to idols. altars;
geneva@Jeremiah:23:11 @ For both prophet and priest are profane; even, in my (note:)My temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.(:note) house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:5 @ They (note:)He shows that the prophets, wholly with one consent laboured to pull the people from those vices, which then reigned, that is, from idolatry and the vain confidence of men: for under these two all others were contained, (2Ki_17:13; Jer_18:11, Jer_35:15; Jon_3:8).(:note) said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
geneva@Jeremiah:44:6 @ Wherefore (note:)He sets before their eyes God's judgments against Judah and Jerusalem for their idolatry that they might beware by their example, and not with the same wickedness provoke the Lord: for then they would be double punished.(:note) my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:17 @ But we will certainly do whatever thing proceedeth from our own mouth, to burn incense to (note:)Read (Jer_7:18) it seems that the papists gathered of this place «Salbe Regina» and «Regina caeli latare» calling the virgin Mary Queen of heaven and so out of the blessed virgin and mother of our saviour Christ, made an idol; for here the prophet condemns their idolatry.(:note) the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] we had This is still the argument of idolaters who esteem religion by the belly and instead of acknowledging God's works who sends both plenty and famine, health and sickness. They attribute it to their idols and so dishonour God. plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:6 @ My people have been lost sheep: their (note:)Their governors and ministers by their examples have provoked them to idolatry.(:note) shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from They have committed idolatry in every place. mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:4 @ Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the (note:)By this he represented the idolatry and sin of the ten tribes (for Samaria was on his left hand from Babylon) and how they had remained in it three hundred and ninety years.(:note) house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she hath changed my (note:)My word and law into idolatry and superstitions.(:note) judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
geneva@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all (note:)I will punish you as you have deserved for your idolatry.(:note) thy abominations.
geneva@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel (note:)For besides their common idolatry they had particular service, which they had in secret chambers.(:note) do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:15 @ But thou didst (note:)In abusing my gifts and in putting your confidence in your own wisdom and dignity, which were the opportunities of your idolatry.(:note) trust in thy own beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst pour out There was no idolatry with which you did not pollute yourself. thy harlotries on every one that passed by; his it was.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:26 @ Thou hast also committed harlotry with the (note:)He notes the great impiety of this people, who first falling from God to seek help at strange nations also at length embraced their idolatry thinking by it to make their amity more strong.(:note) Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy harlotry, to provoke me to anger.
geneva@Ezekiel:20:29 @ Then I said to them, What [is] the high place to which ye go? And its name is called (note:)Which signifies a high place, declaring that they vaunted themselves of their idolatry and were not ashamed of it, though God had commanded them expressly that they should have no altar lifted on high by stairs, (Exo_20:26).(:note) Bamah to this day.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:8 @ Neither left she her harlotries [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they (note:)The Holy Spirit uses these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry to be so abhorred that no one could stand to hear the name of it.(:note) lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their immorality upon her.
geneva@Ezekiel:44:7 @ In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] (note:)For they had brought idolaters who were from other countries, to teach them their idolatry, (Eze_23:40).(:note) strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
geneva@Ezekiel:44:10 @ And the (note:)The Levites who had committed idolatry were put from their dignity and could not be received into the priests office although they had been of the house of Aaron, but must serve in the inferior offices as to watch and to keep the doors, read (2Ki_23:9).(:note) Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
geneva@Ezekiel:44:15 @ But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that (note:)Who observed the law of God and did not fall to idolatry.(:note) kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
geneva@Daniel:3:17 @ If it be [so], our God whom we serve is (note:)They have two points as their foundation: first on the power and providence of God over them, and second on their cause, which was God's glory, and the testifying of his true religion with their blood. And so they make open confession, that they will not so much as outwardly consent to idolatry.(:note) able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.
geneva@Daniel:6:26 @ I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear (note:)This does not prove that Darius worshipped God properly, or was converted: for then he would have destroyed all superstition and idolatry, and not only given God the chief place, but also have set him up, and caused him to be honoured according to his word. But this was a specific confession of God's power, unto which he was compelled by this wonderful miracle.(:note) before the God of Daniel: for he [is] the Who not only has life in himself, but is the only fountain of life, and quickens all things, so that without him there is no life. living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end.
geneva@Daniel: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@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days (note:)Also called Azariah, who being a leper was disposed from his kingdom.(:note) of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, So that it may be gathered by the reign of these four kings that he preached about eighty years. kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The Argument - After the ten tribes had fallen away from God by the wicked and subtle counsel of Jeroboam, the son of Neba, and instead of his true service commanded by his word, worshipped him according to their own imaginings and traditions of men, giving themselves to most vile idolatry and superstition, the Lord from time to time sent them Prophets to call them to repentance. But they grew even worse and worse, and still abused God's benefits. Therefore now when their prosperity was at the highest under Jeroboam, the son of Joash, God sent Hosea and Amos to the Israelites (as he did at the same time send Isaiah and Micah to those of Judah) to condemn them for their ingratitude. And whereas they thought themselves to be greatly in the favour of God, and to be his people, the Prophet calls them bastards and children born in adultery: and therefore shows them that God would take away their kingdom, and give them to the Assyrians to be led away captives. Thus Hosea faithfully executed his office for the space of seventy years, though they remained still in their vices and wickedness and derided the Prophets, and condemned God's judgments. And because they would neither be discouraged with threatening only, nor should they flatter themselves by the sweetness of God's promises, he sets before them the two principal parts of the Law, which are the promise of salvation, and the doctrine of life. For the first part he directs the faithful to the Messiah, by whom alone they would have true deliverance: and for the second, he uses threatenings and menaces to bring them from their wicked manners and vices: and this is the chief scope of all the Prophets, either by God's promises to allure them to be godly, or else by threatenings of his judgments to scare them from vice. And even though the whole Law contains these two points, yet the Prophets moreover note distinctly both the time of God's judgments and the manner.
geneva@Hosea:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife (note:)That is, one that has been a harlot for a long time: not that the Prophet did this thing in effect, but he saw this in a vision, or else was commanded by God to set forth under this parable or figure the idolatry of the Synagogue, and of the people her children.(:note) of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.
geneva@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said unto him, Call his name (note:)Meaning that they would no longer be called Israelites, which name they boasted because Israel did prevail with God: but that they were as bastards, and therefore should be called Jezreelites, that is, scattered people, alluding to Jezreel, which was the chief city of the ten tribes under Ahab, where Jehu shed so much blood; (1Ki_18:45).(:note) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of I will be avenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jezreel: for even though God stirred him up to execute his judgments, yet he did them for his own ambition, and not for the glory of God as the intended goal: for he built up that idolatry which he had destroyed. Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
geneva@Hosea: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:2:13 @ And I will visit upon her the days of (note:)I will punish her for her idolatry.(:note) Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others, he declares how superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion in adorning themselves on their holy days. earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their (note:)No idolatry will come into their mouth at all, but they will fear me purely according to my word.(:note) name.
geneva@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] (note:)God complains that Judah is infected, and wants them to learn to return in time.(:note) let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto For even though the Lord had honoured this place by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he did not want his people to resort there. Gilgal, neither go ye up to He calls Bethel, that is, the house of God, Bethaven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signifying that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped. Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
geneva@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, he hath set an (note:)That is, imitates your idolatry, and has taken grafts of your trees.(:note) harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
geneva@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, (note:)For even though all other people should escape, yet you will be punished.(:note) as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved You have committed idolatry in hope of reward, and to have your barns filled ((Jer_44:17)), as a harlot that had rather live by playing the whore, than to be provided for by her own husband. a reward upon every cornfloor.
geneva@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness [is] in (note:)The chief cause of their destruction is that they commit idolatry, and corrupt my religion in Gilgal.(:note) Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters.
geneva@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD hath also a controversy with (note:)Which in those points was similar to Ephraim, but not in idolatry.(:note) Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
geneva@Hosea:13:9 @ O Israel, thou (note:)Your destruction is certain, and my benefits toward you declare that it comes not from me: therefore your own malice, idolatry, and vain confidence in men must necessarily be the cause of it.(:note) hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help.
geneva@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of (note:)Which was a town five miles from Jerusalem in Judea, but he prophesied in Israel.(:note) Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of In his days the kingdom of Israel flourished the most. Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the Which as Josephus writes, was when Uzziah would have usurped the priest's office, and therefore was smitten with leprosy. earthquake. The Argument - Among many other Prophets that God raised up to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickedness and idolatry, he stirred up Amos, who was a herdman or shepherd of a poor town, and gave him both knowledge and constancy to reprove all estates and degrees, and to make known God's horrible judgments against them, unless they repented in time. And he showed them, that if God did not spare the other nations around them, who had lived as it were in ignorance of God compared to them, but for their sins punished them, then they could look for nothing, but a horrible destruction, unless they turned to the Lord in true repentance. And finally, he comforts the godly with hope of the coming of the Messiah, by whom they would have perfect deliverance and salvation.
geneva@Amos:7:12 @ Also (note:)When this instrument of Satan was not able to accomplish his purpose by the king, he tried by another practice, that was, to scare the Prophet, that he might depart, and not reprove their idolatry there openly, and so hinder his profit.(:note) Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
geneva@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah the (note:)Born in Mareshah, a city of Judah.(:note) Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Argument - Micah the prophet of the tribe of Judah served in the work of the Lord concerning Judah and Israel at least thirty years: during which time Isaiah prophesied. He declares the destruction first of the one kingdom, and then of the other, because of their manifold wickedness, but chiefly because of their idolatry. And to this end he notes the wickedness of the people, the cruelty of the princes and governors, and the allowing of the false prophets, and the delighting in them. Then he sets forth the coming of Christ, his kingdom, and the felicity of it. This Prophet was not that Micah who resisted Ahab and all his false prophets, (1Ki_22:8) but another with the same name.
geneva@Micah:1:5 @ For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not (note:)Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the dirty pool and the tank that all idolatry and corruption was kept alive in, and who prided themselves in their father Jacob, and boasted of him.(:note) Samaria? and what [are] the high That is, the idolatry and infection. places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?
geneva@Micah:1:13 @ O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the (note:)To flee away: for Sennacherib laid siege first to that city, and remained there when he sent his captains and army against Jerusalem.(:note) swift beast: she You first received the idolatry of Jeroboam, and so infected Jerusalem. [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
geneva@Micah:4:5 @ For all people will walk (note:)He shows that the people of God ought to remain constant in their religion, even if all the world should give themselves to their superstition and idolatry.(:note) every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
geneva@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy (note:)I will destroy all things in which you put your confidence, such as your vain self-reliance and idolatry, and in doing this I will be helping you.(:note) horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
geneva@Micah:6:16 @ For the (note:)You have received all the corruption and idolatry with which the ten tribes were infected under Omri and Ahab his son: and to excuse your doings, you allege the King's authority by his statutes, and also wisdom and policy in so doing, but you will not escape punishment. But as I have shown you great favour, and taken you for my people, so will your plagues be according as your sins; (Luk_12:47).(:note) statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
geneva@Zechariah:14:9 @ And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one (note:)All idolatry and superstition will be abolished, and there will be one God, one faith, and one religion.(:note) LORD, and his name one.
geneva@Acts:7:41 @ And they made a (note:)This was the superstition of the Egyptian's idolatry: for they worshipped Apis, a strange and marvellous looking calf, and made beautiful images of cows.(:note) calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
geneva@2Peter:2:18 @ For when they speak great (note:)They deceive with vain and swelling words.(:note) swelling [words] of vanity, they They take them, as fish are taken with the hook. allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were Unfeignedly and indeed, clean departed from idolatry. clean escaped from them who live in error.
geneva@Revelation:2:20 @ Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit (note:)Often in the scripture, by fornication they mean idolatry.(:note) fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
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