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Genesis:9:25 @ And he said, (note:)He pronounces as a prophet the curse of God against all those who do not honour their parents: for Ham and his posterity were cursed.(:note) Cursed [be] Canaan; a That is, a most vile slave. servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
geneva@Genesis:20:7 @ Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is] a (note:)That is, one to whom God reveals himself familiarly.(:note) prophet, and he For the prayer of the godly is of force towards God. shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine.
geneva@Genesis:27:37 @ And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him (note:)For Isaac did this as he was the minister and prophet of God.(:note) thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
geneva@Genesis:41:14 @ Then Pharaoh sent and called (note:)The wicked seek the prophets of God in their time of need, while in their prosperity they abhor them.(:note) Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself], and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:41:33 @ Now therefore let Pharaoh (note:)The office of a true prophet is not only to show the evils to come, but also the remedies for the same.(:note) look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
geneva@Exodus:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a (note:)I have given you power and authority to speak in my name and to execute my judgments on him.(:note) god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
geneva@Exodus:15:20 @ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with (note:)Signifying their great joy: a custom the Jews observed in certain situations, (Jdg_11:34) but it should not be used as a means to justify our wanton dances.(:note) dances.
geneva@Exodus:17:4 @ And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to (note:)How ready the people are to slay the true prophets for their own purposes and how slow they are to take up God's cause against his enemies and false prophets.(:note) stone me.
geneva@Leviticus:13:20 @ And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [be] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him (note:)No one was exempted, but if the priest pronounced him unclean, he was put out from among the people: as appears by the example of Mary the prophetess, (Num_12:14) and by king Uzziah, (2Ch_26:20).(:note) unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
geneva@Numbers:11:29 @ But Moses saide vnto him, Enuiest thou for my sake? yea, would God that all the Lordes people were Prophets, and that the Lord woulde put his Spirit vpon them.
geneva@Numbers:12:6 @ And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a (note:)These were the two ordinary means.(:note) vision, [and] will speak unto him in a dream.
geneva@Numbers:31:8 @ And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: (note:)The false prophet who gave counsel how to cause the Israelites to offend their God.(:note) Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
geneva@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:13:1 @ If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of (note:)Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams.(:note) dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
geneva@Deuteronomy:13:2 @ And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, (note:)He shows that to which the false prophets tend.(:note) Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
geneva@Deuteronomy:13:3 @ Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God (note:)God ordains all these things that his may be known.(:note) proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
geneva@Deuteronomy:13:5 @ And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be (note:)Being convicted by testimonies, and condemned by the judge.(:note) put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
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:18:18 @ I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his (note:)A promise not only made to Christ, but to all that teach in his name, (Isa_59:21).(:note) mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
geneva@Deuteronomy:18:20 @ But the prophet that shall presume to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that speaketh in the name of other gods, euen the same prophet shall die.
geneva@Deuteronomy:18:22 @ When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing (note:)Under this sure note he comprises all the other tokens.(:note) follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
geneva@Deuteronomy:34:10 @ And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew (note:)To whom the Lord revealed himself so plainly as in (Exo_33:11).(:note) face to face,
geneva@Joshua:1:1 @ Now after the (note:)The beginning of this book depends on the last chapter of Deuteronomy which was written by Joshua as a preparation to his history.(:note) death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, The Argument - In this book the Holy Spirit sets most lively before us the accomplishment of God's promise, who as he promised by the mouth of Moses, that a prophet would be raised up to the people like him, whom he wills to obey, (Deu_18:15): so he shows himself true to his promise, as at all other times, and after the death of Moses his faithful servant, he raises up Joshua to be ruler and governor over his people, that they should neither be discouraged for lack of a captain, nor have reason to distrust God's promises later. So that Joshua might be confirmed in his calling, and the people also might have no opportunity to grudge, as though he were not approved by God: he is adorned with most excellent gifts and graces from God, both to govern the people with counsel, and to defend them with strength, that he lacks nothing which either belongs to a valiant captain, or a faithful minister. So he overcomes all difficulties, and brings them into the land of Canaan: which according to God's ordinance he divides among the people and appoints their borders: he established laws and ordinances, and put them in remembrance of God's revealed benefits, assuring them of his grace and favour if they obey God, and of his plagues and vengeance if they disobey him. This history represents Jesus Christ the true Joshua, who leads us into eternal happiness, signified to us by this land of Canaan. From the beginning of Genesis to the end of this book is 2567 years. For from Adam to the flood are 1656, from the flood to the departure of Abraham out of Chaldea 423, and from then to the death of Joseph 290. So that Genesis contains 2369, Exodus 140, the other three books of Moses 40, Joshua 27. So the whole makes 2576 years.
geneva@Judges:2:1 @ And an (note:)That is, messenger, or prophet, as some think, Phinehas.(:note) angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
geneva@Judges:2:22 @ That through them I may (note:)So that both outward enemies and false prophets are but a trial to prove our faith, (Deu_13:3; Jdg_3:1).(:note) prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.
geneva@Judges:4:4 @ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she (note:)By the spirit of prophesy resolving controversies and declaring the will of God.(:note) judged Israel at that time.
geneva@Judges:4:8 @ And Barak said unto her, (note:)Fearing his own weakness and his enemies power, he desires the prophetess to go with him to assure him of God's will from time to time.(:note) If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.
geneva@Judges:6:8 @ The Lord sent vnto the children of Israel a Prophet, who sayd vuto them, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, I haue brought you vp from Egypt, and haue brought you out of the house of bondage,
geneva@Judges:10:11 @ And the LORD (note:)By stirring them up some prophets, as in (Jdg_6:8).(:note) said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
geneva@1Samuel:1:1 @ Now there was a certain man of (note:)There were two Ramatus, so that in this city in mount Ephraim were Zophim, that is, the learned men and prophets.(:note) Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: The Argument - As God had ordained in (Deu_17:14), that when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, he would appoint a king for them: so here in the first book of Samuel the state of the people under their first king Saul is declared. Not content with the order that God had temporarily appointed for the government of his Church, they demanded a king, so that they might be as other nations. As well they thought they would be better off, not because they could serve God better by it, but because they would be under the safeguard of him who represented Jesus Christ the true deliverer. Therefore God gave them a tyrant and a hypocrite to rule over them, so that they might learn that a king is not sufficient to defend them, unless God by his power preserves and keeps them. Therefore he punishes the ingratitude of his people, and sends them continual wars both at home and abroad. Also, because Saul, whom God had given to the honour of a king out of nothing, did not acknowledge God's mercy to him, but rather disobeyed the word of God and was not zealous of his glory, he was removed from his estate by God, and David the true figure of Messiah was placed in his stead. His patience, modesty, constancy, persecution by open enemies, feigned friends, and deceitful flatterers, is left to the Church and to every member of it, as a pattern and example of their state and calling.
geneva@1Samuel:3:1 @ And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD (note:)The Chaldee text reads «while Eli lived».(:note) before Eli. And the word of the LORD was Because there were very few prophets to declare it. precious in those days; [there was] no open vision.
geneva@1Samuel:3:20 @ And all Israel fro Dan to Beer-sheba knew that faithfull Samuel was the Lordes Prophet.
geneva@1Samuel:9:9 @ (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the (note:)So called because he foresaw things to come.(:note) seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
geneva@1Samuel:10:5 @ After that thou shalt come to the (note:)Which was a high place in the city Kirjath-jearim, where the ark was, (1Sa_7:2).(:note) hill of God, where [is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
geneva@1Samuel:10:10 @ And when they came thither to the hill, beholde, the companie of Prophets meete him, and the Spirit of God came vpon him, & he prophecied among them.
geneva@1Samuel:10:11 @ Therefore all the people that knewe him before, when they saw that he prophecied among the Prophets, saide eche to other, What is come vnto the sonne of Kish? is Saul also among the Prophets?
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:13:8 @ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were (note:)Thinking that the absence of the prophet was a sign, that they would lose the victory.(:note) scattered from him.
geneva@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy (note:)Who willed you to obey him, and rest on the words spoken by his prophet.(:note) God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
geneva@1Samuel:16:4 @ And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town (note:)Afraid, lest some grievous crime had been committed, because the prophet was not wont to come there.(:note) trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
geneva@1Samuel:16:18 @ Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a (note:)Though David was now anointed king by the prophet, yet God would strengthen and test him in various ways before he had the use of his kingdom.(:note) son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.
geneva@1Samuel:19:20 @ And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing (note:)Being their chief instructor.(:note) [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also Changed their minds and praised God. prophesied.
geneva@1Samuel:19:24 @ And he stripped off his (note:)His kingly apparel.(:note) clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay He humbled himself as others did. down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?
geneva@1Samuel:22:5 @ And the Prophet Gad sayde vnto Dauid, Abide not in the holde, but depart and goe into the land of Iudah. Then Dauid departed & came into the forest of Hareth.
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:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me vp? Then Saul answered, I am in great distresse: for the Philistims make warre against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by Prophetes, neither by dreames: therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayest tell me, what I shall doe.
geneva@2Samuel:7:2 @ That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within (note:)Within the tabernacle covered with skins, (Exo_26:7).(:note) curtains.
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:24:11 @ For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's (note:)Whom God had appointed for David and his time.(:note) seer, saying,
geneva@1Kings:1:8 @ But Zadok the Priest, & Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and Nathan the Prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the men of might, which were with Dauid, were not with Adoniiah.
geneva@1Kings:1:10 @ But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and (note:)As the Cherethites and Pelethites.(:note) the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
geneva@1Kings:1:22 @ And lo, while she yet talked with the King, Nathan also the Prophet came in.
geneva@1Kings:1:23 @ And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face (note:)Acknowledging him to be the true and worthy king appointed by God, as the figure of his Christ.(:note) to the ground.
geneva@1Kings:1:32 @ And King Dauid saide, Call mee Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada; they came before the King.
geneva@1Kings:1:34 @ And let Zadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet anoint him there King ouer Israel, and blowe ye the trumpet, and say, God saue king Salomon.
geneva@1Kings:1:38 @ So Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went downe and caused Salomon to ride vpon king Dauids mule, and brought him to Gihon.
geneva@1Kings:1:44 @ And the King hath sent with him Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they haue caused him to ride vpon the Kings mule.
geneva@1Kings:1:45 @ And Zadok the Priest, and Nathan ye Prophet haue anointed him King in Gihon: and they are gone vp from thence with ioy, and the citie is moued: this is the noise that ye haue heard.
geneva@1Kings:11:29 @ And at that time, when Ieroboam went out of Ierusalem, the Prophet Ahiiah the Shilonite founde him in the way, hauing a newe garment on him, and they two were alone in ye field.
geneva@1Kings:11:30 @ And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and (note:)By these visible signs the prophets would more deeply print their message into the hearts of those to whom they were sent.(:note) rent it [in] twelve pieces:
geneva@1Kings:12:22 @ But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the (note:)That is, the Prophet.(:note) man of God, saying,
geneva@1Kings:13:1 @ And, behold, there came (note:)That is, a prophet.(:note) a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Not that that was called Luz in Benjamin, but another of that name. Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
geneva@1Kings:13:4 @ And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, (note:)The wicked rage against the prophets of God, when they declare God's judgment to them.(:note) Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
geneva@1Kings:13:11 @ And an olde Prophet dwelt in Beth-el, and his sonnes came and tolde him all ye woorkes, that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and the wordes which he had spoken vnto the King, tolde they their father.
geneva@1Kings:13:15 @ Then he said unto him, (note:)This he did of a simple mind, thinking it his duty to declare friendship to a prophet.(:note) Come home with me, and eat bread.
geneva@1Kings:13:18 @ He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an (note:)His fault is here double, first in that he did not permit the prophet to obey God's express commandment, and next that he pretended to have a revelation to the contrary.(:note) angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
geneva@1Kings:13:20 @ And as they sate at the table, the worde of the Lorde came vnto the Prophet, that brought him againe.
geneva@1Kings:13:23 @ And when he had eaten bread & drunke, he sadled him the asse, to wit, to the Prophet whome he had brought againe.
geneva@1Kings:13:25 @ And beholde, men that passed by, sawe the carkeis cast in the way, and the lion standing by the corps: and they came and tolde it in ye towne where the olde Prophet dwelt.
geneva@1Kings:13:26 @ And when the Prophet that brought him backe againe from the waye, hearde thereof, hee sayde, It is the man of God, who hath bene disobedient vnto the commandement of the Lorde: therefore the Lorde hath deliuered him vnto the lion, which hath rent him and slayne him, according to the worde of the Lorde, which hee spake vnto him.
geneva@1Kings:13:29 @ And the Prophet tooke vp the body of the man of God, & layed it vpon the asse, & brought it againe, and the olde Prophet came to the citie, to lament and burie him.
geneva@1Kings:14:2 @ And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, (note:)His own conscience bore witness to him that the prophet of God would not satisfy his desires, who was a wicked man.(:note) and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king over this people.
geneva@1Kings:14:3 @ And take with (note:)According to the custom when they went to ask counsel of prophets, (1Sa_9:7).(:note) thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
geneva@1Kings:14:18 @ And they buried him, and all Israel lamented him; according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by the hand of his seruant Ahiiah the Prophet.
geneva@1Kings:14:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in (note:)Which were called the books of Shemaiah and Iddo the prophets, (2Ch_12:15).(:note) the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
geneva@1Kings:16:7 @ And also (note:)That is, the prophet did his message.(:note) by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed Meaning, Nadab Jeroboam's son. him.
geneva@1Kings:16:12 @ Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the (note:)Both Hanani his father and he were prophets.(:note) prophet,
geneva@1Kings:18:4 @ For when Iezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lorde, Obadiah tooke an hundreth Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a caue, and he fed them with bread and water.)
geneva@1Kings:18:13 @ Was it not tolde my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundreth men of the Lordes Prophets by fifties in a caue, and fed them with bread & water?
geneva@1Kings:18:19 @ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel vnto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure hundreth and fiftie, and the prophets of the groues foure hundreth, which eate at Iezebels table.
geneva@1Kings:18:20 @ So Ahab sent vnto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together vnto mount Carmel.
geneva@1Kings:18:22 @ Then said Eliiah vnto the people, I onely remayne a Prophet of the Lorde: but Baals prophets are foure hundreth and fiftie men.
geneva@1Kings:18:25 @ And Eliiah said vnto the prophets of Baal, Chuse you a bullocke, and prepare him first, (for ye are many) and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder.
geneva@1Kings:18:36 @ And when they should offer the euening sacrifice, Eliiah the Prophet came, and sayd, Lord God of Abraham, Izhak and of Israel, let it be knowen this day, that thou art the God of Israel, and that I am thy seruant, and that I haue done all these things at thy commandement.
geneva@1Kings:18:40 @ And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not (note:)He commanded them that as they were truly persuaded to confess the only God: so they should serve him with all their power, and destroy the idolaters his enemies.(:note) one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
geneva@1Kings:19:1 @ And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the (note:)That is, of Baal.(:note) prophets with the sword.
geneva@1Kings:19:10 @ And he said, I have (note:)He complains that the more zealous he was to maintain God's glory, the more cruelly he was persecuted.(:note) been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
geneva@1Kings:19:14 @ And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: (note:)So should not depend on the multitude in maintaining God's glory, but because our duty requires us to do it.(:note) because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
geneva@1Kings:19:16 @ And Iehu the sonne of Nimshi shalt thou anoynt King ouer Israel: and Elisha the sonne of Shaphat of Abel Meholah shalt thou anoynt to be Prophet in thy roume.
geneva@1Kings:20:13 @ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know (note:)Before God went about with signs and miracles to pull Ahab from his impiety, and now again with wonderful victories.(:note) that I [am] the LORD.
geneva@1Kings:20:22 @ (For there had come a Prophet to the King of Israel, and had sayd vnto him, Goe, be of good courage, and consider, and take heede what thou doest: for when the yeere is gone about, the King of Aram wil come vp against thee)
geneva@1Kings:20:35 @ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, (note:)By this external sign he would more likely touch the king's heart.(:note) Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
geneva@1Kings:20:38 @ So the Prophet departed, & wayted for the King by the way, & disguised himselfe with ashes vpon his face.
geneva@1Kings:20:41 @ And hee hasted, and tooke the ashes away from his face: and the King of Israel knewe him that he was of the Prophets:
geneva@1Kings:22:6 @ Then the king of Israel gathered the (note:)Meaning the false prophets, who were liars and served for money whom Jezebel had assembled and kept after the death of those whom Elijah slew.(:note) prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
geneva@1Kings:22:7 @ And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the (note:)Jehoshaphat did not acknowledge the false prophets to be God's ministers, but contemned them.(:note) LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
geneva@1Kings:22:8 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but (note:)By which we see that the wicked cannot abide to hear the truth, but hate the prophets of God and molest them.(:note) I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
geneva@1Kings:22:10 @ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their (note:)In their kingly apparel.(:note) robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
geneva@1Kings:22:11 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him (note:)The true prophets of God were accustomed to use signs for the confirmation of their doctrine, (Isa_20:2; Jer_7:2) in which the false prophets imitated them, thinking by it to make their doctrine more believable.(:note) horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
geneva@1Kings:22:12 @ And all the prophets prophecied so, saying, Goe vp to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the Kings hand.
geneva@1Kings:22:13 @ And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with (note:)This is the common argument of the wicked, who think that no one should speak against anything if the majority approves of it, be they ever so ungodly.(:note) one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good.
geneva@1Kings:22:15 @ 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:22:22 @ And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a (note:)I will cause all his prophets to tell lies.(:note) lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
geneva@1Kings:22:23 @ Now therefore behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirite in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath appoynted euill against thee.
geneva@1Kings:22:28 @ And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, (note:)That when you see these things come to pass you may give God the glory, and know that I am his true prophet.(:note) Hearken, O people, every one of you.
geneva@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:1:12 @ 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:2:3 @ And the (note:)So called, because they are begotten anew as it were by the heavenly doctrine.(:note) sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from That is, from being your head any more: for to be as the head, is to be the master, as to be at the feet, is to be a scholar. thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I For the Lord had revealed it to him. know [it]; hold ye your peace.
geneva@2Kings:2:5 @ And the sons of the prophets that [were] at (note:)Not only at Bethel, but at Jericho and other places were there prophets, who had scholars, whom they instructed and brought up in the true fear of God.(:note) Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it]; hold ye your peace.
geneva@2Kings:2:7 @ And fiftie men of the sonnes of the Prophets went and stoode on the other side a farre off, and they two stoode by Iorden.
geneva@2Kings:2:9 @ And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, (note:)Let your spirit have double force in me, because of these dangerous times: or let me have twice as much as the rest of the prophets: or if your spirit were to be divided into three parts, let me have two.(:note) let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
geneva@2Kings:2:15 @ And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The (note:)The Spirit of prophecy was given to him as it was to Elijah.(:note) spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
geneva@2Kings:3:11 @ But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat, which (note:)That is, who was his servant.(:note) poured water on the hands of Elijah.
geneva@2Kings:3:13 @ And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, (note:)He knew that this wicked king would have but used his counsel to serve his turn, and therefore, he disdained to answer him.(:note) What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, The wicked do not esteem the servants of God unless they are driven by every necessity and fear of the present danger. Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
geneva@2Kings:3:15 @ But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel (note:)He sang songs to God's glory, and so stirred up the prophets heart to prophecy.(:note) played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
geneva@2Kings:4:4 @ And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into (note:)The Prophet declares by this to her, that God never fails to provide for his servants, their wives and children, it they trust in him.(:note) all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
geneva@2Kings:4:23 @ And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it is] neither (note:)For at such times the people were wont to resort to the prophets for doctrine and consolation.(:note) new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well.
geneva@2Kings:4:38 @ And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the (note:)That is, in the land of Israel.(:note) land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
geneva@2Kings: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:5:5 @ And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and (note:)To give this as a present to the prophets.(:note) took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
geneva@2Kings:5:8 @ And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, (note:)The prophet rebukes the king because he did not consider that God was true in his promise, and therefore would not leave his Church destitute of a prophet, whose prayers he would hear, and to whom others could have recourse for comfort.(:note) Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
geneva@2Kings:5:13 @ And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, (note:)This declares that servants should reverence and love their masters as children their fathers, and likewise masters toward their servants, must be affectioned as toward their children.(:note) My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
geneva@2Kings:5:19 @ And he said unto him, (note:)The prophet did not approve his act, but after the common manner of speech he bids him farewell.(:note) Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
geneva@2Kings:5:21 @ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him] running after him, (note:)Declaring by it, the honour and affection he bore to the prophet his master.(:note) he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, [Is] all well?
geneva@2Kings:5:22 @ And he answered, All is well: my master hath set me, saying, Behold, there be come to me, euen nowe from mount Ephraim two yong men of the children of the Prophets: giue them, I pray thee, a talent of siluer, & two change of garmets.
geneva@2Kings:6:1 @ And the children of the Prophets saide vnto Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the place where we dwell with thee, is too litle for vs.
geneva@2Kings:6:12 @ And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy (note:)There is nothing so secret that you can go about, but he knows it, and reveals it to his king.(:note) bedchamber.
geneva@2Kings:6:23 @ And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no (note:)For this gentle intreaty and the miracle wrought by the prophet, did more for peace than if they had been overcome in battle for they did not return at that time to fight against Israel, or in that king's days.(:note) more into the land of Israel.
geneva@2Kings:6:32 @ But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a (note:)Meaning, Jehoram Ahab's son, who killed the prophets and caused Naboth to be stoned.(:note) murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
geneva@2Kings:7:2 @ Then a lord on whose hand the king (note:)To whom the king gave the charge and oversight of things as in (2Ki_7:17).(:note) leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make He mocked at the prophets words saying, that if God rained down corn from heaven, yet this could not come to pass. windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not Your infidelity will be punished in this when you see this miracle, and yet not partake of it. eat thereof.
geneva@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, (note:)He mistrusted the prophets words, and therefore could believe nothing, as they who are more prudent than godly always cast more doubt than is needed.(:note) I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
geneva@2Kings:9:1 @ And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, (note:)Prepare yourself to go diligently about your business for in those countries they used long garments which they tucked up when they went about earnest business.(:note) Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
geneva@2Kings:9:4 @ So the seruat of ye Prophet gate him to Ramoth Gilead.
geneva@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have (note:)This anointing was for kings, priests and prophets which were all figures of Messiah, in whom these three offices were accomplished.(:note) anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.
geneva@2Kings:9:7 @ And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord of the hand of Iezebel.
geneva@2Kings:10:19 @ Now therefore call vnto me all ye prophets of Baal, all his seruants, & all his priests, & let not a man be lacking: for I haue a great sacrifice for Baal: whosoeuer is lacking, he shal not liue. But Iehu did it by a subtiltie to destroy ye seruats of Baal.
geneva@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king (note:)His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.(:note) of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
geneva@2Kings:13:14 @ 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:14:25 @ He restored the coast of Israel, from the entring of Hamath, vnto the Sea of the wildernesse, according to the worde of the Lorde God of Israel, which he spake by his seruant Ionah the sonne of Amittai the Prophet, which was of Gath Hepher.
geneva@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)As long as he listened to Zachariah the prophet.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
geneva@2Kings:16:7 @ So Ahaz sent (note:)Contrary to the admonition of the prophet Isaiah, (Isa_7:4).(:note) messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
geneva@2Kings:16:8 @ And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the (note:)Thus he did not spare the temple of God from being spoiled to gain help from men and would not once lift his heart to God to desire his help or hear his prophet's counsel.(:note) house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.
geneva@2Kings:17:13 @ Notwithstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Iudah by all the Prophets, & by all the Seers, saying, Turne from your euill wayes, and keepe my commandements & my statutes, according to all the Lawe, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruants the Prophets.
geneva@2Kings:17:23 @ Vntill the Lord put Israel away out of his sight, as he had said by all his seruants the Prophets, and caryed Israel away out of their land to Asshur vnto this day.
geneva@2Kings:19:2 @ And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, (note:)To hear some new prophecy and to have comfort from him.(:note) to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
geneva@2Kings:20:1 @ About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz came to him, and said vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Put thine house in an order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.
geneva@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the (note:)Which was set at the top of the stairs that Ahaz had made.(:note) dial of Ahaz.
geneva@2Kings:20:14 @ Then Isaiah the Prophet came vnto King Hezekiah, and saide vnto him, What saide these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They be come from a farre countrey, euen from Babel.
geneva@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast (note:)He acknowledges Isaiah to be the true prophet of God and therefore humbles himself to his word.(:note) spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if Seeing that God has shown me this favour to grant me quietness during my life: for he was afraid lest the enemies would have had opportunity to rejoice if the Church had decayed in his time, because he had restored religion. peace and truth be in my days?
geneva@2Kings:21:10 @ Therefore the Lorde spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,
geneva@2Kings:21:16 @ Moreover Manasseh shed (note:)The Hebrews write that he slew Isaiah the prophet, who was his father-in-law.(:note) innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
geneva@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and (note:)His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1Ki_13:2) and being but eight years old, he sought the God of his father David, (2Ch_34:3).(:note) walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
geneva@2Kings:22:13 @ Go ye, (note:)Meaning, to some prophet to whom God reveals the knowledge of things, as in (Jer_21:8), though at other times they enquired the Lord by Urim and Thummim.(:note) enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
geneva@2Kings:22:14 @ So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the (note:)Or the house of doctrine, which was near the temple, and where the learned assembled to search the scriptures and the doctrine of the prophets.(:note) college;) and they communed with her.
geneva@2Kings:23:2 @ And the King went vp into the house of the Lord, with all the men of Iudah and all the inhabitants of Ierusalem with him, and the Priests & Prophets, and all the people both smal and great: and he reade in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.
geneva@2Kings:23:18 @ 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:24:2 @ And the Lorde sent against him bandes of the Caldees, and bands of the Aramites, & bands of the Moabites, and bandes of the Ammonites, and he sent them against Iudah to destroy it, according to the worde of the Lord, which he spake by his seruants the Prophets.
geneva@1Chronicles:16:22 @ [Saying], Touch not mine (note:)My elect and those whom I have sanctified.(:note) anointed, and do my To whom God declared his word and they declared it to their posterity. prophets no harm.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:1 @ Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of (note:)Well built and fair.(:note) cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under That is, in tents covered with skin. curtains.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:2 @ Then Nathan said unto David, Do (note:)As yet God had not revealed to the prophet what he purposed concerning David, therefore seeing God favoured David, he spoke what he thought.(:note) all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:25 @ For thou, O my God, hast (note:)You have declared to me by Nathan the prophet.(:note) told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found [in his heart] to pray before thee.
geneva@1Chronicles:29:29 @ Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of (note:)The books of Nathan and Gad are thought to have been lost in the captivity.(:note) Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
geneva@2Chronicles:1:1 @ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains in brief the contents of the two books of the kings: that is, from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. In this story some things are told in more detail than in the books of the kings and therefore help greatly in the understanding of the prophets. Three things are chiefly to be considered here: First, that when the godly kings saw the plagues of God prepared against their country for sin, they turned to the Lord and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues removed. Secondly, while the good rulers always loved the prophets of God and were zealous to set forth his religion throughout their dominions, it offended God greatly that the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them and set up idolatry and attempted served God according to the fantasy of men. Thus we have the chief acts from the beginning of the world to the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 32nd year of Darius, in total 3568 years and six months.(:note)
geneva@2Chronicles:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer (note:)That is, who prophesied against him.(:note) against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
geneva@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and (note:)Signifying that no calamity can come to us unless we forsake God, and that he never leaves us till we have cast him off.(:note) therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
geneva@2Chronicles:12:15 @ The actes also of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the booke of Shemaiah the Prophet, and Iddo the Seer, in rehearsing the genealogie? and there was warre alway betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam.
geneva@2Chronicles:13:22 @ The rest of the actes of Abiiah and his maners and his sayings are written in the storie of the Prophet Iddo.
geneva@2Chronicles:14:9 @ And there came out against them Zerah the (note:)The king of Ethiopia, or Egypt.(:note) Ethiopian with an host of a million, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Which was a city in Judah, (Jos_15:44) where Michaiah the prophet was born. Mareshah.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:8 @ And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lorde, that was before the porche of the Lorde.
geneva@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] (note:)Thus instead of turning to God in repentance, he disdained the admonition of the prophet, and punished him, as the wicked do when they are told of their faults.(:note) in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:4 @ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the (note:)Hear the advise of some prophet to know whether it is God's will.(:note) word of the LORD to day.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:5 @ Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of (note:)Who were the prophets of Baal, signifying that the wicked esteem none but liars and such as will bear with their inordinate affections.(:note) prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:6 @ But Iehoshaphat sayde, Is there heere neuer a Prophet more of the Lorde that wee might inquire of him?
geneva@2Chronicles:18:9 @ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] (note:)That is, in their majesty and royal apparel.(:note) robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:11 @ And all the Prophets prophesied so, saying, Go vp to Ramoth Gilead, & prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the hand of the King.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:12 @ And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one (note:)Thinking, that since four hundred prophets had agreed in one thing, that he being but one man and in least estimation, did not dare to go against it.(:note) assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:14 @ And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, (note:)He spoke this in derision of the false prophets as the king well knew.(:note) Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:21 @ And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And (note:)That is, the Lord.(:note) [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:22 @ Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a (note:)To those who would not believe the truth, God sent a strong delusion, that they would believe lies, (2Th_2:10).(:note) lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:31 @ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat (note:)He cried to the Lord by acknowledging his fault in going with this wicked king to war against the word of the Lord by his prophet and also by desiring mercy for the same.(:note) cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.
geneva@2Chronicles:20:20 @ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his (note:)Give credit to their words and doctrine.(:note) prophets, so shall ye prosper.
geneva@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And there came a writing to him from (note:)Some think that this was Elisha so called because he had the Spirit in abundance, as had Elijah.(:note) Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
geneva@2Chronicles:24:19 @ Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they (note:)They took heaven and earth and all creatures to witness that unless they returned to the Lord, he would most grievously punish their infidelity and rebellion, (Neh_9:26).(:note) testified against them: but they would not give ear.
geneva@2Chronicles:24:25 @ 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:25:15 @ Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not (note:)He proves that whatever cannot save himself nor his worshipper is no god but an idol.(:note) deliver their own people out of thine hand?
geneva@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that (note:)Meaning the king.(:note) [the king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be So hard it is, for the carnal man to be admonished for his fault, that he condemns, mocks and threatens him who warns him: yea, imprisons him and puts him to death, (2Ch_16:10, 2Ch_18:26, 2Ch_24:21). smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
geneva@2Chronicles:25:17 @ Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, (note:)That is, let us try the matter hand to hand: for he was offended, that the army of the Israelites whom he had in wages and dismissed by the counsel of the prophet, had destroyed certain of the cities of Judah.(:note) let us see one another in the face.
geneva@2Chronicles:26:5 @ And he sought God in the days of (note:)This was not the Zechariah that was the son of Jehoiada, but some other prophet of that name.(:note) Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as For God never forsakes any who seek him, and therefore man is the cause of his own destruction. he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
geneva@2Chronicles:26:22 @ Concerning the rest of the acts of Vzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the Prophet the sonne of Amoz write.
geneva@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, (note:)For they thought they had overcome them by their own valiantness, and did not consider that God had delivered them into their hands, because Judah had offended him.(:note) because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.
geneva@2Chronicles:29:25 @ And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the (note:)This thing was not appointed by man, but it was the commandment of God.(:note) commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
geneva@2Chronicles:32:20 @ And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, (note:)This shows what the best refuge in all troubles and dangers is.(:note) prayed and cried to heaven.
geneva@2Chronicles:32:24 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him (note:)To confirm his faith in God's promise, who declared to him by his prophet that his life would be prolonged fifteen years.(:note) a sign.
geneva@2Chronicles:32:32 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Hezekiah, and his goodnesse, beholde, they are written in the vision of Ishiah the Prophet, the sonne of Amoz, in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:10 @ And the LORD spake (note:)Meaning by his prophets, but their hearts were not touched to believe and repent, without which the preaching of the word has no effect.(:note) to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
geneva@2Chronicles: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:35:15 @ And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's (note:)Meaning, by this his prophet, because he appointed the psalms and prophecies which were to be sung.(:note) seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
geneva@2Chronicles:35:18 @ And there was no Passeouer kept like that, in Israel, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neyther did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer as Iosiah kept, and the Priestes and the Leuites, and all Iudah, and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:36:2 @ Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three (note:)Three months after the death of Josiah, Necho came to Jerusalem, and so the plagues began, which Huldah and the prophets forewarned would come on Jerusalem.(:note) months in Jerusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:36:12 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himselfe before Ieremiah the Prophet at the commandement of the Lorde,
geneva@2Chronicles:36:16 @ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no (note:)Till God could no longer allow their sins, but must punish them.(:note) remedy.
geneva@2Chronicles:36:23 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath (note:)God had so forewarned by his prophet over 100 years before Cyrus was born, (Isa_44:28) that Jerusalem and the temple would be rebuilt by Cyrus his anointed: so called because God used his service for a time to deliver his Church.(:note) charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.
geneva@Ezra:1:1 @ Now in the (note:)After he and Darius had won Babylon.(:note) first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the Who promised deliverance to them after 70 years were past, (Jer_25:12). mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the That is, moved him and gave him heart. spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying, The Argument - As the Lord is always merciful to his Church, and does not punish them, but so that they should see their own miseries, and be exercised under the cross, that they might contemn the world, and aspire to the heavens: so after he had visited the Jews, and kept them in bondage 70 years in a strange country among infidels and idolaters, he remembered his tender mercies and their infirmities, and therefore for his own sake raised up a deliverer, and moved both the heart of the chief ruler to pity them, and also by him punished those who had kept them in slavery. Nonetheless, lest they should grow into a contempt of God's great benefits, he keeps them still in exercise, and raises domestic enemies, who try as much as they can to hinder their worthy enterprises: yet by the exhortation of the prophet they went forward little by little till their work was finished. The author of this book was Ezra, who was a priest and scribe of the Law, as in (Ezr_7:6). He returned to Jerusalem the sixth year of Darius, who succeeded Cyrus, that is, about fifty years after the first return under Zerubbabel, when the temple was built. He brought with him a great company and much treasure, with letters to the king's officers for all things needed for the temple: and at his coming he fixed that which was amiss, and set things in order.
geneva@Ezra:4:24 @ Then (note:)Not altogether for the prophets exhorted them to continue but they used less diligence because of the troubles.(:note) ceased the work of the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
geneva@Ezra:5:1 @ Then Haggai a Prophet & Zechariah the sonne of Iddo a Prophet prophecied vnto the Iewes that were in Iudah, and Ierusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, euen vnto them.
geneva@Ezra:5:2 @ Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God (note:)Who encouraged them to go forward, and cursed them because they were more careful to build their own houses, than zealous to build the temple of God.(:note) helping them.
geneva@Ezra:6:14 @ And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of (note:)Whom God stirs up to assure them that he would give their work good success.(:note) Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished [it], according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
geneva@Ezra:9:11 @ Which thou hast commanded by thy seruants the Prophets, saying, The land whereunto ye go to possesse it, is an vncleane land, because of the filthines of the people of the lands, which by their abominations, & by their vncleannes haue filled it from corner to corner.
geneva@Nehemiah:6:7 @ And thou hast also appointed (note:)You have bribed and set up false prophets, to make yourself king, and so to defraud the king of Persia of that subjection which you owe to him.(:note) prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, [There is] a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
geneva@Nehemiah:6:14 @ My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the (note:)Grief caused him to pray against such, who under the pretence of being the ministers of God, were adversaries to his glory, and went about to overthrow his Church, declaring also by this that where there is one true minister of God, the devil has many hirelings.(:note) prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
geneva@Nehemiah:9:26 @ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which (note:)Taking heaven and earth to witness that God would destroy them unless they returned, as in (2Ch_24:19).(:note) testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
geneva@Nehemiah:9:29 @ And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and (note:)Which is a sign taken from oxen that shrink at the yoke or burden in (Zec_7:11).(:note) withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not When you admonished them by your prophets. hear.
geneva@Nehemiah:9:30 @ Yet thou diddest forbeare them many yeeres, and protestedst among them by thy Spirite, euen by the hande of thy Prophets, but they woulde not heare: therefore gauest thou them into the hande of the people of the lands.
geneva@Nehemiah:9:32 @ Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the (note:)By whom we were led away into captivity and have been appointed to be slain, as in (Est_3:13).(:note) kings of Assyria unto this day.
geneva@Psalms:44:1 @ «To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.» We have heard with our (note:)This psalm seems to have been made by some excellent prophet for the use of the people when the Church was in extreme misery, either at their return from Babylon or under Antiochus or in similar afflictions.(:note) ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
geneva@Psalms:47:3 @ He shall (note:)He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gladness obey them.(:note) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
geneva@Psalms:51:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet (note:)To reprove him, because he had committed horrible sins, and lain in the same without repentance more then a whole year.(:note) came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.» Have mercy upon me, O God, As his sins were many and great, so he requires that God would give him the feeling of his excellent and abundant mercies. according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
geneva@Psalms:53:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)Which was an instrument or king of note.(:note) Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David.» The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] Whereas no regard is had for honesty or dishonesty, for virtue nor for vice, there the prophet pronounces that the people have no God. no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.
geneva@Psalms:68:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David.» Let God (note:)The prophet shows that even though God permits the wicked tyrants to oppress his Church for a time, yet eventually he will take revenge on them.(:note) arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
geneva@Psalms:74:9 @ We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth (note:)They lamented that they had no prophet among them to show them how long their misery would last.(:note) how long.
geneva@Psalms:75:5 @ Lift not up your (note:)The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who rule wickedly.(:note) horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
geneva@Psalms:77:1 @ «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.» I cried unto God with my (note:)The prophet teaches us by his example to flee to God for help in our necessities.(:note) voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
geneva@Psalms:78:1 @ «(note:)Read (Psa_32:1).(:note) Maschil of Asaph.» Give ear, O my people, [to] my The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people his, and the doctrine his, as Paul calls the gospel his, of which he was but the preacher, as in (Rom_2:16, Rom_16:25). law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
geneva@Psalms:79:2 @ The (note:)The prophets show to what extremities God sometimes allows his Church to fall to exercise their faith, before he sets his hand to deliver them.(:note) dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
geneva@Psalms:82:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» God standeth in the congregation of the (note:)The prophet shows that if princes and judges do not do their duty, God whose authority is above them will take vengeance on them.(:note) mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
geneva@Psalms:87:7 @ As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my (note:)The prophet sets his whole affections and comfort in the church.(:note) springs [are] in thee.
geneva@Psalms:89:12 @ The north and the south thou hast created them: (note:)Tabor is a mountain west from Jerusalem, and Hermon to the East, so the prophet signifies that all parts and places of the world will obey God's power for the deliverance of his Church.(:note) Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
geneva@Psalms:89:39 @ Thou hast (note:)Because of the horrible confusion of things, the prophet complains to God, as though he did not see the performance of his promise and thus discharging his cares on God, he resists doubt and impatience.(:note) made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his By this he means the horrible dissipation and tearing of the kingdom which was under Jeroboam, or else by the Spirit of prophecy Ethan speaks of those great miseries which came to pass soon after at the captivity of Babylon. crown [by casting it] to the ground.
geneva@Psalms:89:46 @ How long, (note:)The prophet in joining prayer with his complaint, shows that his faith never failed.(:note) LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
geneva@Psalms:90:1 @ «A Prayer of Moses (note:)Thus the Scripture refers to the prophets.(:note) the man of God.» Lord, thou hast been our You have been as a house and defence to us in all our troubles and travels now this four hundred years. dwelling place in all generations.
geneva@Psalms:96:1 @ O sing (note:)The prophet shows that the time will come, that all nations will have opportunity to praise the Lord for the revealing of his gospel.(:note) unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
geneva@Psalms:102:13 @ Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the (note:)That is, the seventy years which by the prophet Jeremiah you appointed, (Jer_29:12).(:note) set time, is come.
geneva@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art (note:)The prophet shows that we do not need to enter into the heavens to seek God, for as much as all the order of nature, with the propriety and placing of the elements, are living mirrors to see his majesty in.(:note) clothed with honour and majesty.
geneva@Psalms:104:4 @ Who (note:)As the prophet here shows that all visible powers are ready to serve God: so in (Heb_1:7) the angels also, are obedient to his commandment.(:note) maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
geneva@Psalms:105:1 @ O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: (note:)For as much as the Israelites were exempted from the common condemnation of the world, and were elected to be God's people, the prophet wills them to show themselves mindful by thanksgiving.(:note) make known his deeds among the people.
geneva@Psalms:105:15 @ [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:105:31 @ He (note:)So that this vermin did not come by chance, but as God had appointed, and his prophet Moses spoke.(:note) spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their coasts.
geneva@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise (note:)The prophet exhorts the people to praise God for his past benefits, that by this their minds may be strengthened against all present troubles and despair.(:note) ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
geneva@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with (note:)If so notable a prophet of God does not escape punishment, though others provoked him to sin, how much more will they be subject to God's judgment, who cause God's children to sin?(:note) Moses for their sakes:
geneva@Psalms:106:43 @ Many (note:)The prophet shows that neither by menace nor promise we can come to God, unless we are altogether newly reformed, and his mercy covers and hides our malice.(:note) times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
geneva@Psalms:118:1 @ O (note:)Because God by creating David king, showed his mercy toward his afflicted Church, the prophet not only thanks God himself, but exhorts all the people to do the same.(:note) give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: because his mercy [endureth] for ever.
geneva@Psalms:119:11 @ Thy word have I (note:)If God's word is carved in our hearts, we will be more able to resist the assaults of Satan: and therefore the prophet desires God to instruct him daily more and more in it.(:note) hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
geneva@Psalms:119:14 @ I have (note:)The prophet does not boast of his virtues, but sets forth an example for others to follow God's word, and leave worldly vanities.(:note) rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.
geneva@Psalms:119:126 @ [It is] (note:)The prophet shows that when the wicked have brought all things to confusion, and God's word to utter contempt, then it is God's time to help and send remedy.(:note) time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.
geneva@Psalms:141:6 @ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall (note:)The people who follow their wicked rulers in persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished.(:note) hear my words; for they are sweet.
geneva@Proverbs:9:1 @ Wisdom hath built her (note:)Christ has prepared him a Church.(:note) house, she hath hewn out her That is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, pastors and teachers. seven pillars:
geneva@Songs:6:11 @ I went down into the (note:)He went down into the synagogue to see what fruits came from the law, and the prophets.(:note) garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the pomegranates budded.
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:2:6 @ Therefore thou (note:)The prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complains to God as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.(:note) hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the east parts. filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations. and they please themselves in the children of foreigners.
geneva@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land also is full of (note:)The prophet first condemned their superstition and idolatry next their covetousness and thirdly their vain trust in worldly means.(:note) silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
geneva@Isaiah:2:9 @ And the mean man boweth down, and the great man (note:)He notes the nature of the idolaters who are never satisfied in their superstitions.(:note) humbleth himself: therefore Thus the![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}