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geneva@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not (note:)I will not correct your shame to bring you to proper living, but will let you run headlong to your own damnation.(:note) punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.

geneva@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] (note:)God complains that Judah is infected, and wants them to learn to return in time.(:note) let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto For even though the Lord had honoured this place by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he did not want his people to resort there. Gilgal, neither go ye up to He calls Bethel, that is, the house of God, Bethaven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signifying that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped. Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

geneva@Hosea:8:10 @ Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the (note:)That is, for the king and the princes will lay upon them: and by this means the Lord brings them to repentance.(:note) burden of the king of princes.

geneva@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel like (note:)Meaning, that he esteemed them and delighted in them in this way.(:note) grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according They were as abominable to me, as their lovers the idols. as they loved.

geneva@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.

geneva@Joel:1:6 @ For (note:)This was another plague with which God had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them.(:note) a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

geneva@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the (note:)It appears that he alludes to the great victory of Jehoshaphat, whom God used without man's help to destroy the enemies, (2Ch_20:20-26); also he is referring to this word Jehoshaphat, which signifies pleading or judgment, because God would judge the enemies of his Church, as he did there.(:note) valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

geneva@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:6:1 @ Woe to (note:)The Prophet threatens the wealthy, who did not regard God's plagues, nor threatenings by his Prophets.(:note) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, These two cities were famous from their first inhabitants the Canaanites: and seeing that before they did not avail those that were born here, why should you think that they should save you who were brought in to dwell in other men's possessions? [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

geneva@Amos:6:14 @ But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of (note:)From one corner of the country to another.(:note) Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

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

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

geneva@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will (note:)He shows that there is no true Church, except where the people are taught by God's pure word.(:note) teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

geneva@Micah:4:3 @ And he shall judge among many people, and (note:)By his corrections and threatenings he will bring the people into subjection who are in the utmost corners of the world.(:note) rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into They will abstain from all evil doing, and exercise themselves in godliness and in well doing to others. pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they Read (Isa_2:4) learn war any more.

geneva@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make her that halted (note:)I will cause that Israel, who is now as one lame and halting, and so almost destroyed, to live again, and grow into a great people.(:note) a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

geneva@Micah:4:11 @ Nowe also many nations are gathered against thee, saying, Zion shalbe condemned and our eye shall looke vpon Zion.

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

geneva@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall (note:)They will be as dumb men, and dare brag no more.(:note) lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, They will be astonished and afraid to hear men speak, lest they should hear of their destruction. their ears shall be deaf.

geneva@Nahum:3:4 @ Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured (note:)He compares Nineveh to a harlot, who by her beauty and subtilty entices young men, and brings them to destruction.(:note) harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

geneva@Nahum:3:5 @ Beholde, I come vpon thee, saith the Lorde of hostes, and will discouer thy skirtes vpon thy face, and will shewe the nations thy filthines, & the kingdomes thy shame.

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

geneva@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] (note:)As in times past you would not believe God's word, so you will not now believe the strange plagues which are at hand.(:note) ye will not believe, though it be told [you].

geneva@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For lo, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter & furious nation, which shall goe vpon the breadth of the lande to possesse the dwelling places, that are not theirs.

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

geneva@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Yea also, because (note:)He compares the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense, whom God will punish and make a laughing stock to all the world: and this he speaks for the comfort of the godly, and against the Chaldeans.(:note) he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people:

geneva@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, [is it] not from the (note:)Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labours, as though they were consumed with fire.(:note) LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only] for fire, and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing?

geneva@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the (note:)Because the Babylonians were cruel not only against other nations, but also against the people of God, which is meant by Lebanon and the beast in it, he shows that the same cruelly will be executed against them.(:note) violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his (note:)Signifying that God has wonderful means, and always has a marvellous power when he will deliver his Church.(:note) ways [are] everlasting.

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

geneva@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Gather (note:)He exhorts them to repentance, and wills them to descend into themselves and gather themselves, lest they be scattered like chaff.(:note) yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

geneva@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For (note:)He comforts the faithful in that God would change his punishments from them to the Philistines their enemies, and other nations.(:note) Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea (note:)That is, Galilee: by these nations he means the people that dwelt near to the Jews, and instead of friendship were their enemies: therefore he calls them Canaanites, whom the Lord appointed to be slain.(:note) coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:8 @ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and (note:)These nations presumed to take from the Jews that country which the Lord had given them.(:note) magnified [themselves] against their border.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the (note:)Read (Isa_34:11)(:note) cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:6 @ I have (note:)By the destruction of other nations he shows that the Jews should have learned to fear God.(:note) cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore (note:)Seeing that you will not repent, you can expect my vengeance as well as other nations.(:note) wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:15 @ The LORD hath taken away thy (note:)That is, the punishment for your sin.(:note) judgments, he hath cast out thine As the Assyrians, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, and other nations. enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of To defend you, as by your sins you have put him away, and left yourself naked, as in (Exo_32:25). thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

geneva@Haggai:2:7 @ And I will shake all nations, and (note:)Meaning Christ, whom all ought to look for and desire: or by desire he may signify all precious things, such as riches, and things like them.(:note) the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:14 @ {\cf2 (2:15)} Then answered Haggai, and sayd, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all the workes of their hands, and that which they offer here, is vncleane.

geneva@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the (note:)That is, Christ the mediator prayed for the salvation of his Church, which was now troubled, when all the countries about them were at rest.(:note) angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

geneva@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very greatly displeased with the nations [that are] at ease: for I was but (note:)In destroying the reprobate, I showed myself but a little angry toward my Church, but the enemy would have destroyed them also, and did not consider the goal of my chastisements.(:note) a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

geneva@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the (note:)Seeing that God had begun to show his grace among you by delivering you, he continues the same still toward you, and therefore sends me his angel and his Christ to defend you from your enemies, so that they will not hurt you, neither along the way nor at home.(:note) glory hath he sent me to the nations which wasted you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the You are so dear to God, that he can no more allow your enemies to hurt you, than a man can endure to be thrust in the eye; (Psa_17:8). apple of his eye.

geneva@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall be ioyned to the Lord in that day, and shalbe my people: and I will dwell in the middes of thee, and thou shalt knowe that the Lord of hostes hath sent me vnto thee.

geneva@Zechariah:7:14 @ But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate (note:)That is, after they were taken captive.(:note) after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land By their sins by which they provoked God's anger. desolate.

geneva@Zechariah:8:22 @ Yea, great people and mightie nations shal come to seeke the Lorde of hostes in Ierusalem, and to pray before the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, In those dayes shall ten men take holde out of all languages of the nations, euen take holde of the skirt of him that is a Iewe, and say, We will go with you: for we haue heard that God is with you.

geneva@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his (note:)He promises to deliver the Jews when he will take vengeance on their enemies for their cruelty, and the wrongs they did to them.(:note) teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so would Ekron and all the Philistines. Ekron as a Jebusite.

geneva@Zechariah:9:10 @ And I will cut off the (note:)No power of man or creature will be able to stop this kingdom of Christ, and he will peaceably govern them by his word.(:note) chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the nations: and his dominion [shall be] from That is, from the Red Sea, to the Sea called Syriacum: and by these places which the Jews knew, he meant an infinite space and area over the whole world. sea to sea, and from the That is, from the Euphrates. river to the ends of the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:12:9 @ And in that day will I seeke to destroy all the nations that come against Ierusalem.

geneva@Zechariah:14:2 @ For I will gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, and the houses spoyled, and the women defiled, and halfe of the citie shall goe into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from ye citie.

geneva@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he (note:)As your fathers and you have had experience both at the Red Sea, and at all other times.(:note) fought in the day of battle.

geneva@Zechariah:14:14 @ And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations around shall be gathered together, (note:)The enemies are rich, and therefore will not come to entreat, but to destroy and shed blood.(:note) gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

geneva@Zechariah:14:16 @ But it shall come to passe that euery one that is left of all the nations, which came against Ierusalem, shall goe vp from yere to yere to worship the King the Lord of hostes, and to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of (note:)By the Egyptians, who were the greatest enemies to true religion, he means all the Gentiles.(:note) Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

geneva@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the (note:)They have united themselves in marriage with those that are of another religion.(:note) daughter of a strange god.

geneva@Malachi:3:9 @ Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye haue spoyled me, euen this whole nation.

geneva@Malachi:3:12 @ And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a pleasant lande, sayeth the Lorde of hostes.