strong man that cannot help? yet thou, O Lord, art that are sick for hunger also: moreover, the Prophet
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rebellions are many, we sinned against thee. 8 O thou hope of Israel, the savior thereof in the time of trouble, why art thou as a 1stranger in the land, as one that passeth by, to tarry for a night? 9 Why art thou as a man astonied, and as 1a strong man that cannot help? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and thy name is called upon us: forsake us not. 10 Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they delighted to wander: they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord hath no delight in them: but he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then said the Lord unto me, 1Thou shalt not pray to do this people good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry, and when they offer burnt offering, and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 13 Then answered I, Ah Lord God, behold, the 1prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall famine come upon you, but I will give you assured peace in this place. 14 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: aI have not sent them, neither did I command them, neither spake I unto them, but they prophesy unto you a false vision, and divination, and vanity, and deceitfulness of their own heart. 15 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Concerning the prophets that prophesy in my Name, whom I have not sent, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. 16 And the people to whom these prophets do prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine, and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them: both they and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes drop down 1tears night and day with-
out ceasing: for the virgin daughter of my people is destroyed with a great destruction, and with a sore grievous plague. 18 For if I go into the field, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are sick for hunger also: moreover, the Prophet also and the Priest go a wandering 1into a land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected 1Judah, or hath thy soul abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten us, that we cannot be healed? We looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble. 20 We 1acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. 21 Do not abhor us: for thy Name's sake cast not down the throne of thy glory: remember and break not thy covenant with us. 22 Are there any among the 1vanities of the Gentiles, that can give rain? or can the heavens give showers? Is it not thou, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. 15 1 The Lord would hear no prayer for the Jews, 3 but threateneth to destroy them with four plagues.
chapter 14
a Jer. 23:21 Jer. 27:10,15
Jer. 29:9
chapter 15
a Zech. 11:9
1 Then said the Lord unto me, 1Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet mine affection could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them depart. 2 And if they say unto thee, Whither shall we depart? then tell them, Thus saith the Lord, aSuch as are appointed to death, unto death: and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for the famine, to the famine: and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the 1dogs to tear in pieces, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth to devour, and to destroy. 4 I will 1scatter them also in all kingdoms of the
14:8 1 That taketh no care for us. 14:9 1 As one that hath strength to help, and yet is afraid to put to his hand. 14:11 1 Read Jer. 7:16 and 11:14. 14:13 1 He pitieth the people, and accuseth the false prophets, which deceived them: but the Lord answered, that both the proph ets, which deceived, and the people, which suffered themselves to be seduced, shall perish, Jer. 23:15 and 27:8, 9 and 29:8. 14:17 1 The false prophets promised peace and assurance, but Jer emiah calleth to tears, and repentance for their affliction, which is at hand, as Jer. 9:1; Lam. 1:16 and 2:18. 14:18 1 Both high and low shall be led captives into Babylon. 14:19 1 Though the Prophet knew that God had cast off the mul titude, which were hypocrites, and bastard children, yet he was
assured that for his promise sake he would have still a Church, for the which he prayeth. 14:20 1 He teacheth the Church a form of prayer to humble them selves to God by true repentance, which is the only means to avoid this famine, which was the beginning of God's plagues. 14:22 1 Meaning, their idols, read Jer. 10:15. 15:1 1 Meaning, that if there were any man living moved with so great zeal toward the people as were these two, yet that he would not grant this request, forasmuch as he had determined the contrary, Ezek. 14:14. 15:3 1 The dogs, birds, and beasts should devour them that were slain. 15:4 1 The word signifieth to run to and fro for fear, and unquietness of conscience, as did Cain.
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earth, 2because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah King of Judah for that which he did in Jerusalem. 5 Who shall then have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall be sorry for thee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, and gone backward: therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee, and destroy thee: for I 1am weary with repenting. 7 And I will scatter them with the fan 1in the gates of the earth: I have wasted, and destroyed my people, yet they would not return from their ways. 8 Their widows 1are increased by me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them, and against the 2assembly of the young men, a destroyer at noon day: I have caused him to fall upon them, and the city, suddenly and 3speedily. 9 She that hath borne 1seven, hath been made weak: her heart hath failed: the sun hath failed 2her, while it was day, she hath been confounded, and ashamed, and the residue of them will I deliver unto the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord. 10 ¶ 1Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, a contentious man, and a man that striveth with the whole earth: I have neither 2lent on usury, nor men have lent unto me on usury: yet everyone doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, 1Surely thy remnant shall have wealth: surely I will cause thine enemy to entreat thee in the time of trouble, and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall the 1iron break the iron, and the brass that cometh from the North? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to be spoiled without 1gain, and that for all thy sins even in all thy borders.
14 And I will make thee to go with thine enemies into a land that thou knowest not, for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn you. 15 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my 1persecutors: take me not away in the continuance of thine anger: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found by me, and I did 1eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for thy Name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, neither did I rejoice, but sat alone 1because of thy plague: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is mine heaviness continual? and my plague desperate and cannot be healed, why art thou unto me 1as a liar, and as waters that fail? 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou 1return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take away the 2precious from the vile, thou shalt be 3according to my word: let them return 4unto thee, but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this people a strong brazen wall, and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not 1prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the tyrants. 16 2 The Lord forbidding Jeremiah to marry, showeth him what should be the afflictions upon Judah. 13 The captivity of Babylon. 15 Their deliverance. 19 The calling of the Gentiles.
15:4 2 Not that the people was punished for the king's sin only, but for their own sins also, because they consented to his wickedness, 2 Kings 21:9. 15:6 1 That is, I will not call back my plagues or spare thee any more. 15:7 1 Meaning, the cities. 15:8 1 Because I had slain their husbands. 2 Or, mother. 3 Or, fearfully. 15:9 1 She that had many, lost all her children. 2 She was destroyed in the midst of her prosperity. 15:10 1 By these are the Prophet's words, complaining of the obsti nacy of the people and that he was reserved to so wicked a time: wherein also he showeth what is the condition of God's ministers, to wit, to have all the world against them, though they give none occasion. 2 Which is an occasion of contention and hatred. 15:11 1 In this perplexity the Lord comforted me, and said that my last days should be quiet: and by the enemy he meaneth here, Nebu zaradan the captain of Nebuchadnezzar, who gave Jeremiah the choice either to remain in his country, or to go whither he would: or by the enemy he meaneth the Jews, which should afterward know Jeremiah's fidelity, and therefore favor him. 15:12 1 As for the people, though they seemed strong as iron, yet
should they not be able to resist the hard iron of Babylon, but should be led captives. 15:13 1 Or, ransom. 15:15 1 He speaketh not this for desire of revengeance, but wishing that God would deliver his Church of them whom he knew to be hardened and incorrigible. 15:16 1 I received them with a great joy, as he that is famished, eateth meat. 15:17 1 I had nothing a do with the wicked contemners of thy word, but lamented bitterly for thy plagues: showing what the faithful should do when they see tokens of God's anger. 15:18 1 And hast not assisted me according to the promise? wherein appeareth that in the Saints of God is imperfection of faith, which through impatience is ofttimes assailed, as Jer. 20:7. 15:19 1 If thou forget these carnal considerations, and faithfully execute thy charge. 2 That is, seek to win the good from the bad. 3 To wit, as my mouth hath pronounced, Jer. 1:18, and as here fol loweth, verse 20. 4 Conform not thyself to their wickedness, but let them follow thy godly example. 15:20 1 I will learn thee with an invincible strength and constancy, so that all the powers of the world shall not overcome thee.
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1 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying, 2 Thou shalt not take 1thee a wife, nor have sons nor daughters in this place. 3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons, and concerning the daughters, that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bear them, and concerning their fathers that beget them in this land, 4 They shall die of deaths and diseases: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried, but they shall be as dung upon the earth, and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine, and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 5 For thus saith the Lord, 1Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, nor be moved for them: for I have taken my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even mercy and compassion. 6 Both the great, and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, 1nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them. 7 They shall not stretch out the hands for them in the mourning to comfort them for the dead, neither shall they give them the 1cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, even in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. 10 And when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, aWherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great plague against us? or what is 1our iniquity? and what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my Law, 12 (bAnd ye have done worse than your fathers:
for behold, you walk everyone after the stubbornness of his wicked heart, and will not hear me.) 13 Therefore will I drive you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither you nor your fathers, and there ye shall serve other gods day and night: for I will show you no grace. 14 cBehold therefore saith the Lord, the days come that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, 15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel 1from the land of the North, and from all the lands where he had scattered them, and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. 16 Behold, saith the Lord, I will send out many 1fishers, and they shall fish them, and after will I send out many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the caves of the rocks. 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have defiled my land, and have filled mine inheritance with their filthy 1carrions and their abominations. 19 O Lord, thou art my 1fortress, and my strength and my refuge in the day of affliction: the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the world, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited 2lies, and vanity, wherein there was no profit. 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? 21 Behold, therefore I will this once 1teach them: I will show them mine hand and my power, and they shall know that my Name is the Lord. 17 1 The frowardness of the Jews. 5 Cursed be those that put their confidence in man. 9 Man's heart is wicked. 10 God is the searcher of the heart. 13 The living waters are forsaken. 21 The right keeping of the Sabbath commanded.
chapter 16
a Jer. 5:19
b Jer. 7:26
c Jer. 23:7
16:2 1 Meaning, that the affliction should be so horrible in Jerusa lem, that wife and children should but increase his sorrow. 16:5 1 Signifying, that the affliction should be so great, that one should not have leisure to comfort another. 16:6 1 That is, should not rent their clothes in sign of mourning. 16:7 1 For in these great extremities all consolation and comfort shall be in vain. 16:10 1 Because the wicked are always rebellious, and dissemble their own sins, and murmur against God's judgments, as though he had no just cause to punish them, he showeth him what to answer. 16:15 1 Signifying, the benefit of their deliverance out of Babylon should be so great, that it should abolish the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt: but he hath here chiefly respect to the spiri
tual deliverance under Christ. 16:16 1 By the fishers and hunters are meant the Babylonians and Chaldeans, who should destroy them in such sort, that if they escaped the one, the other should take them. 16:18 1 That is, their sons and daughters, which they offered to Molech. 16:19 1 He wondereth at the great mercy of God in this deliverance, which shall not only extend to the Jews, but also to the Gentiles. 2 Our fathers were most vile idolaters, therefore it cometh only of God's mercy, that he performeth his promise, and hath not utterly cast us off. 16:21 1 They shall once again feel my power and mercy for their deliverance, that they may learn to worship me.
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1 The sin of Judah is 1written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond, and graven upon the 2table of their heart, and upon the horns of your 3altars. 2 1They remember their altars as their children, with their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 1O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance, and all thy treasures to be spoiled, for the sin of thy high places throughout all thy borders. 4 And thou shalt rest, 1and in thee shall be a rest from thine heritage that I gave thee, and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land, which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn forever. 5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, 1Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and withdraweth his heart from the Lord. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the wilderness, and shall not see when any good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land, and not inhabited. 7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. 8 1For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not feel when the heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green, and shall not care for the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9 1The heart is deceitful and wicked above all things, who can know it? 10 I the Lord search the heart, and try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works. 11 1As the partridge gathereth the young, which
she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 12 As a glorious throne 1exalted from the beginning, so is the place of our Sanctuary. 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, that forsake thee, shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written 1in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. 14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be whole: 1save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 15 Behold, 1they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now. 16 But 1I have not thrust in myself for a pastor after thee, neither have I desired the day of misery, thou knowest that which came out of my lips was right before thee. 17 Be not 1terrible unto me: thou art mine hope in the day of adversity. 18 Let them be confounded, that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, but let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of adversity, 1and, destroy them with double destruction. 19 Thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go and stand in the 1gate of the children of the people, whereby the Kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 And say unto them, Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabi tants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates. 21 Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to your souls, and bear no burden in the 1Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
17:1 1 The remembrance of their contempt of God cannot pass, albeit for a time he defer the punishment, for it shall be manifest to men and Angels. 2 Instead of the Law of God, they have written idolatry and all abominations in their heart. 3 Your sins appear in all the altars that you have erected to idols. 17:2 1 Some read, So that their children remember their altars, that is, follow their fathers' wickedness. 17:3 1 Zion that was my mountain, shall now be left as a waste field. 17:4 1 Because thou wouldest not give the land rest, at such times, days, and years as I appointed, thou shalt hereafter be carried away, and it shall rest for lack of laborers. 17:5 1 The Jews were given to worldly policies, and thought to make themselves strong by the friendship of the Egyptians, Isa. 31:3, and strangers, and in the mean season did not depend on God, and there fore he denounceth God's plagues against them, showing that they prefer corruptible man to God, which is immortal, Isa. 2:22; Jer. 48:6, 7. 17:8 1 Read Ps. 1:3. 17:9 1 Because the wicked have ever some excuse to defend their doings, he showeth that their own lewd imaginations deceive them, and bring them to these inconveniences: but God will examine their deeds by the malice of their hearts, 1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chron. 28:9; Ps. 7:10; Jer. 11:20 and 20:12; Rev. 2:13. 17:11 1 As the Partridge by calling gathered others which forsake
her, when they see that she is not their dam: so the covetous man is forsaken of his riches, because he cometh by them falsely. 17:12 1 Showing that the godly ought to glory in nothing, but in God, who doth exalt his, and hath left a sign of his favor in his Temple. 17:13 1 Their names shall not be registered in the book of life. 17:14 1 He desireth God to preserve him that he fall not into tenta tion, considering the great contempt of God's word, and the multi tude that fall from God. 17:15 1 The wicked say that my prophecy shall not come to pass, because thou deferrest the time of thy vengeance. 17:16 1 I am assured of my vocation, and therefore know that the thing which thou speakest by me, shall come to pass, and that I speak not of any worldly affection. 17:17 1 Howsoever the wicked deal rigorously with me, yet let me find comfort in thee. 17:18 1 Read Jer. 11:20. 17:19 1 Whereas thy doctrine may be best understood both of high and low. 17:21 1 By naming the Sabbath day, he comprehendeth the thing that is thereby signified: for if they transgressed in the ceremony, they must needs be culpable of the rest, read Exod. 20:8, and by the breaking of this one commandment, he maketh them transgressors of the whole law, forasmuch as the first and second table are con tained herein.
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22 Neither carry forth burdens out of your houses in the Sabbath day: neither do ye any work, but sanctify the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers. 23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ears, but made their necks stiff, and would not hear, nor receive correction. 24 Nevertheless, if ye will hear me, saith the Lord, and bear no burden through the gates of the city in the Sabbath day, but sanctify the Sabbath day, so that ye do no work therein, 25 Then shall the Kings and the Princes enter in at the gates of this city, and shall sit aupon the throne of David, and shall ride upon chariots and upon horses, both they and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain forever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the South, which shall bring burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and shall bring sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. 27 But if ye will not hear me to sanctify the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, nor to go through the gates of Jerusalem in the Sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. 18 2 God showeth by the example of a potter, that it is in his power to destroy the despisers of his word. 18 The conspiracy of the Jews against Jeremiah. 19 His prayer against his adversaries.
5 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in mine hand, O house of Israel. 7 I will speak suddenly against a nation, or against a kingdom to pluck it up, and to root it out, and to destroy it. 8 But if this nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their wickedness, I will 1repent of the plague that I thought to bring upon them. 9 And I will speak suddenly concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom to build it and to plant it. 10 But if it do evil in my sight, and hear not my voice, I will repent of the good that I thought to do for them. 11 Speak thou now therefore unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I prepare a plague for you, and purpose a thing against you: return you therefore every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your works good. 12 But they said 1desperately, Surely we will walk after our own imaginations, and do every man after the stubbornness of his wicked heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ask now among the heathen, who hath heard such things? the virgin of Israel hath done very filthily. 14 Will a man forsake the snow of Lebanon, which cometh from the rock of the field? 1or shall the cold flowing waters, that come from another place, be forsaken? 15 Because my people hath forgotten me, and have burnt incense to vanity, and their prophets have caused them to stumble in their ways from the 1ancient ways, to walk in the paths and way that is not trodden, 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual derision, so that everyone that passeth thereby, shall be astonished and wag his head, 17 I will scatter them with an East wind before the enemy: I will show them the back, and 1not the face in the day of their destruction. 18 Then said they, Come, and let us imagine some device against Jeremiah: for the Law 1shall not perish
chapter 17
a Jer. 22:4
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there shall I show thee my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made 1of clay, was broken in the hand of the potter, so he returned, and made it another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
18:4 1 As the potter hath power over the clay to make what pot he will, or to break them, when he hath made them: so have I power over you to do with you as seemeth good to me, Isa. 45:9; Rom. 9:20, 21. 18:8 1 When the Scripture attributeth repentance unto God, it is not that he doeth contrary to that which he hath ordained in his secret counsel: but when he threateneth, it is a calling to repentance, and when he giveth man grace to repent, the threatening (which ever con taineth a condition in it) taketh no place: and this the scripture calleth repentance in God, because it so appeareth to man's judgment. 18:12 1 As men that had no remorse, but were altogether bent to rebellion and to their own self-will. 18:14 1 As no man that hath thirst refuseth fresh conduit waters
which he hath at home, to go and seek waters abroad to quench his thirst: so they ought not to seek for help and succor at strangers, and leave God which was present with them. 18:15 1 That is, the way of truth which God had taught by his law, read Jer. 6:16. 18:17 1 I will show mine anger and not my favor toward them. 18:18 1 This argument the wicked have ever used against the ser vants of God. The Church cannot err: we are the Church, and there fore whosoever speaketh against us, they ought to die, 1 Kings 22:24; Jer. 7:4 and 20:2; Mal. 2:4, and thus the false Church persecuteth the true Church, which standeth not in outward pomp, and in multitude, but is known by the graces of the holy Ghost.
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from the Priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the Prophet: come, and let us smite him with the 2tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Hearken unto me, O Lord, and hear the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul: remember that I stood before thee, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. 21 Therefore, 1deliver up their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sword, let their wives be robbed of their children, and be widows: and let their husbands be put to death, and let their young men be slain by the sword in the battle. 22 Let the cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an host suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet Lord thou knowest all their counsel against me tendeth to death: forgive not their iniquity, neither put out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee: deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. 19 He prophesieth the destruction of Jerusalem for the contempt and despising of the word of God.
Baal, which I 1commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind) 6 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called 1Topheth, nor the valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter. 7 And I will bring the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem to nought in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the field. 8 aAnd I will make this city desolate, and an hissing, so that everyone that passeth thereby, shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 9 bAnd I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies that seek their lives, shall hold them strait. 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a 1potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again, and they shall bury them in Topheth till there be no place to bury. 12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and I will make this city like Topheth. 13 For the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the Kings of Judah shall be defiled as the place of Topheth, because of all the 1houses upon whose 2roofs they have burnt incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. 14 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord's house, and said to all the people, 15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city, and upon all her towns, all the plagues that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, and would not hear my words.
chapter 19
a Jer. 18:16
Jer. 49:13 Jer. 50:13
b Deut. 28:53
Lam. 4:10
1 Thus saith the Lord, Go, and buy an earthen bottle of a potter, and take of the ancients for the people, and of the ancients of the Priests, 2 And go forth unto the valley of Ben-Hinnom, which is by the entry of the 1East gate: and thou shalt preach there the words, that I shall tell thee, 3 And shalt say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O 1Kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring a plague upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall 2tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and profaned this place, and have burnt incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they, nor their fathers have known, nor the Kings of Judah (they have filled this place also with the blood of innocents, 5 And they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto
18:18 2 Let us slander him, and accuse him: for we shall be believed. 18:21 1 Seeing the obstinate malice of the adversaries, which grew daily more and more, the Prophet being moved with God's Spirit, without any carnal affection prayeth for their destruction, because he knew that it should tend to God's glory, and profit of his Church. 19:2 1 Or, gate of the sun. 19:3 1 By Kings here and in other places are meant counselors and governors of the people: which he calleth the ancients, verse 1. 2 Read of this phrase, 1 Sam. 3:11.
19:5 1 Whereby is declared, that whatsoever is not commanded by God's word touching his service, is against his word. 19:6 1 Read Jer. 7:31 and 2 Kings 23:10; Isa. 30:33. 19:11 1 This visible sign was to confirm them touching the assur ance of this plague, which the Lord threatened by his prophet. 19:13 1 He noteth the great rage of the idolaters, which left no place free from their abominations, insomuch as they polluted their own houses therewith, as we see yet among the Papists. 2 Read Deut. 22:8.
765 Jeremiah 21:1 20 Jeremiah is smitten and cast into prison for preaching of the word of God. 3 He prophesieth the captivity of Babylon. 7 He complaineth that he is a mocking stock for the word of God. 9 He is compelled by the spirit to preach the word.
and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 10 For I had heard the railing of many, and fear on every side. 1Declare, said they, and we will declare it: all my familiars watched for mine halting, saying, It may be that he is deceived: so we shall prevail against him, and we shall execute our vengeance upon him. 11 1But the Lord is with me like a mighty giant: therefore my persecutors shall be overthrown, and shall not prevail, and shall be greatly confounded: for they have done unwisely, and their everlasting shame shall never be forgotten. 12 aBut, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. 13 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of the wicked. 14 ¶ 1Cursed be the day wherein I was born: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man that showed my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee, and comforted him. 16 And let that man be as the 1cities, which the Lord hath overturned and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon tide, 17 Because he hath not slain me, even from the womb, or that my mother might have been my grave, or her womb a perpetual 1conception. 18 How is it, that I came forth of the womb, to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? 21 He prophesieth that Zedekiah shall be taken, and the city burned.
chapter 20
a 1 Sam. 16:7 1 Chron. 28:9 Ps. 7:9 Jer. 11:20 Jer. 17:10
1 When Pashhur, the son of Immer, the priest, which was appointed governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things, 2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the Prophet, and put him in the 1stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord. 3 And on the morning, Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashhur, but 1Magor-Missabib. 4 For thus saith the Lord, behold, I will make thee to be a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it, and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall carry them captive into Babel, and shall slay them with the sword. 5 Moreover, I will deliver all the substance of this city, and all the labors thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the Kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them away and carry them to Babel. 6 And thou Pashhur, and all that dwell in thine house, shall go into captivity, and thou shalt come to Babel, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou and all thy 1friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. 7 O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I am 1deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast 2prevailed: I am in derision daily: everyone mocketh me. 8 For since I spake, I cried out of wrong, and proclaimed 1desolation: therefore the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and in derision daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his Name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur, the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the Priest, saying,
20:2 1 Thus we see that the thing which neither the King, nor the princes, nor the people durst enterprise against the Prophet of God, this Priest as a chief instrument of Satan first attempted, read Jer. 18:18. 20:3 1 Or, fear round about. 20:6 1 Which have suffered themselves to be abused by thy false prophecies. 20:7 1 Herein appeareth the impatience, which oftentimes overcom eth the servants of God, when they see not their labors to profit, and also feel their own weakness, read Jer. 15:18. 2 Thou didst thrust me forth to this work against my will. 20:8 1 He showeth that he did his office in that he reproved the people of their vices, and threatened them with God's judgments:
but because he was derided and persecuted for this, he was discour aged, and thought to have ceased to preach, save that God's Spirit did force him thereunto. 20:10 1 Thus the enemies conferred together to know what they had heard him say, that they might accuse him thereof, read Isa. 29:21. 20:11 1 Here he showeth how his faith did strive against tentation, and sought to the Lord for strength. 20:14 1 How the children of God are overcome in this battle of the flesh and the Spirit, and into what inconveniences they fall till God raise them up again: read Job 3:1 and Jer. 15:10. 20:16 1 Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19:25. 20:17 1 Meaning, that the fruit thereof might never come to profit.
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2 1Inquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us, (for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel maketh war against us) if so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may return up from us. 3 Then said Jeremiah, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah, 4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will 1turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babel, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and with a mighty arm, even in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation. 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And after this, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah the King of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city, from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their lives, and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: he shall not spare them, neither have pity nor compassion. 8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I set before you the 1way of life, and the way of 2death. 9 aHe that abideth in this city, shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a 1prey. 10 For I have set my face against this city, for evil and not for good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall burn it with fire. 11 ¶ And say unto the house of the King of Judah, Hear ye the word of the Lord. 12 O house of David, Thus saith the Lord, bExecute judgment 1in the morning, and deliver the oppressed
out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the wickedness of your works. 13 Behold, I come against thee, 1O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the Lord, which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? 14 But I will visit you according to the fruit of your works, saith the Lord, and I will kindle a fire 1in the forest thereof, and it shall devour round about it. 22 1 He exhorteth the King to judgment and righteousness. 9 Why Jerusalem is brought into captivity. 11 The death of Shallum the son of Josiah is prophesied.
chapter 21
a Jer. 38:2
b Jer. 22:3
chapter 22
a Jer. 21:12
b Jer. 17:25
1 Thus said the Lord, Go down to the house of the King of Judah, and speak there this thing, 2 And say, Hear the word of the Lord, O King of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates. 3 Thus saith the Lord, aExecute ye judgment and 1righteousness, and deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, and vex not the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow: do no violence, nor shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if ye do this thing, then shall the kings sitting upon the throne of David enter in by the gates of this House, band ride upon chariots and upon horses, both he and his servants and his people. 5 But if ye will not hear these words, I 1swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this House shall be waste. 6 For thus hath the Lord spoken upon the king's house of Judah, Thou art 1Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon, yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and as cities not inhabited. 7 And I will 1prepare destroyers against thee, everyone with his weapons, and they shall cut down thy chief 2cedar trees, and cast them in the fire. 8 1And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city? 9 Then shall they answer, Because they have
21:2 1 Not that the King was touched with repentance of his sins, and so sought to God, as did Hezekiah, when he sent to Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:1; Isa. 37:2, but because the Prophet might pray unto God to take this present plague away, as Pharaoh sought unto Moses, Exod. 9:28. 21:4 1 To wit, from your enemies to destroy yourselves. 21:8 1 By yielding yourselves to Nebuchadnezzar. 2 By resisting him. 21:9 1 As a thing recovered from extreme danger, Jer. 37:2, 39:18 and 45:5. 21:12 1 Be diligent to do justice. 21:13 1 Meaning, Jerusalem which was built part on the hill, and part in the valley, and was compassed about with mountains. 21:14 1 That is, in the houses thereof, which stood as thick as trees
in the forest. 22:3 1 This was his ordinary manner of preaching before the Kings, from Josiah unto Zedekiah, which was about forty years. 22:5 1 Showing that there is none greater than he is, Heb. 6:13, and that he will most certainly perform his oath. 22:6 1 He compareth Jerusalem to Gilead, which was beyond Jor dan, and the beauty of Judea to Lebanon. 22:7 1 The Hebrew word signifieth to sanctify, because the Lord doth dedicate to his use and purpose such as he prepareth to execute his work, Isa. 13:3; Jer. 6:4 and 12:3. 2 Thy buildings made of Cedar trees. 22:8 1 As they that wonder at a thing which they thought would never have come so to pass, Deut. 29:24; 1 Kings 9:8.
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forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. 10 ¶ Weep not for the dead, and be not moved for them, but weep for him 1that goeth out: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. 11 For thus saith the Lord, As touching 1Shallum the son of Josiah King of Judah, which reigned for Josiah his father, which went out of this place, he shall not return thither, 12 But he shall die in the place, whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. 13 ¶ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by 1unrighteousness, and his chambers without equity: he useth his neighbor without wages, and giveth him not for his work. 14 He saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers: so he will make himself large windows, and ceiling with cedar, and paint them with vermilion. 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy 1father eat and drink and prosper, when he executed judgment and justice? 16 When he judged the cause of the afflicted and the poor, he prospered: was not this because he knew me, saith the Lord? 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, even to do this. 18 Therefore thus saith the Lord against Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, They shall not 1lament him, saying, Ah, my brother, or ah sister: neither shall they mourn for him, saying, Ah, lord, or ah, his glory. 19 He shall be buried, as an ass 1is buried, even drawn and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem. 20 ¶ Go up to 1Lebanon, and cry: shout in 2Bashan, and cry by the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21 I spake unto thee when thou wast in prosper-
ity: but thou saidest, I will not hear, this hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voice. 22 The wind shall feed all thy pastors, 1and thy lovers shall go into captivity: and then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded of all thy wickedness. 23 Thou that dwellest in Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the 1cedars, how beautiful shalt thou be when sorrows come upon thee, as the sorrow of a woman in travail? 24 As I live, saith the Lord, though 1Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were the signet of my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence. 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them, whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cause them to carry thee away, and thy mother that bare thee into another country, where ye were not born, and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land, whereunto they desire to return, they shall not return thither. 28 Is not this man Coniah as a despised and broken idol? or as a vessel, wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they carried away, he and his seed, and cast out into a land that they know not? 29 O 1earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. 30 Thus saith the Lord, Write this 1man destitute of children, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall be no man of his seed that shall prosper and sit upon the throne of David, or bear rule anymore in Judah. 23 1 Against false pastors. 5 A prophecy of the great Pastor Jesus Christ.
1 Woe be unto 1the pastors that destroy and scatter the 2sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.
22:10 1 Signifying, that they should lose their king: for Jehoiachin went forth to meet Nebuchadnezzar and yielded himself, and was carried into Babylon, 2 Kings 24:12. 22:11 1 Whom some think to be Jehoiachin, and that Josiah was his grandfather: but as seemeth, this was Jehoiakim, as verse 18. 22:13 1 By bribes, and extortion. 22:15 1 Meaning, Josiah, who was not given to ambition and super fluity, but was content with mediocrity, and did only delight in set ting forth God's glory, and to do justice to all. 22:18 1 For everyone shall have enough to lament for himself. 22:19 1 Not honorably among his fathers, but as carrions are cast in a hole, because their stink should not infect, read 2 Kings 24:9. Josephus Antiquities 10:8, writeth that the enemy slew him in the city and com manded him to be cast before the walls unburied, see Jer. 36:30. 22:20 1 To call to the Assyrians for help. 2 For this was the way out of India to Assyria, whereby is meant that all help should fail: for the Chaldeans have subdued both them and the Egyptians.
22:22 1 Both thy governors and they that should help thee, shall vanish away as wind. 22:23 1 Thou that art built of the fair Cedar trees of Lebanon. 22:24 1 Who was called Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah, whom he calleth here Coniah in contempt, who thought his kingdom could never depart from him, because he came of the stock of David, and there fore for the promise sake could not be taken from his house: but he abused God's promise, and therefore was justly deprived of the kingdom. 22:29 1 He showeth that all posterities shall be witnesses of his just plague, as though it were registered for perpetual memory. 22:30 1 Not that he had no children (for after that he begat Shealtiel in the captivity, Matt. 1:12) but that none should reign after him as King. 23:1 1 Meaning, the princes, governors and false prophets, as Ezek. 34:2. 2 For the which I have especial care, and have prepared good pas tures for them.
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2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto the pastors that 1feed my people, Ye have scattered my flock, and thrust them out, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit you for the wickedness of your works, saith the Lord. 3 And I will gather the 1remnant of my sheep out of all countries, whither I had driven them, and will bring them again to their folds, and they shall grow and increase: 4 And I will set up shepherds over them, which shall feed them: and they shall dread no more nor be afraid, neither shall any of them be lacking, saith the Lord. 5 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous 1branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and aIsrael shall dwell safely, and this is the Name whereby they shall call him, bThe Lord our righteousness. 7 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The 1Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 8 But the Lord liveth, which brought up and led the seed of the house of Israel out of the North country, and from all countries where I had scattered them, and they shall dwell in their own land. 9 Mine heart breaketh within me, because of the 1prophets, all my bones shake: I am like a drunken man (and like a man whom wine hath 2overcome) for the presence of the Lord and for his holy words. 10 For the land is full of adulterers, and because of oaths the land mourneth, the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their 1course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both the Prophet and the Priest 1do wickedly: and their wickedness have I found in mine 2House, saith the Lord. 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven forth
and fall therein: for I will bring a plague upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. 13 And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria that prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem 1filthiness: they commit adultery and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of the wicked, that none can return from his wickedness: they are all 2unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, Behold, I will feed them with 1wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is 2wickedness gone forth into all the land. 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hear not the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you, and teach you vanity: they speak the vision of their own 1heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye 1shall have peace: and they say unto everyone that walketh after the stubbornness of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For 1who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord that he hath perceived, and heard his word? Who hath marked his word and heard it? 19 Behold, the tempest of the Lord goeth forth in his wrath, and a violent whirlwind shall fall down upon the head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the Lord shall not return until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye 1shall understand it plainly. 21 cI have not sent these prophets, saith the Lord, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, and yet they prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and 1had declared my words to my people, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the wickedness of their inventions.
chapter 23
a Deut. 33:28
b Jer. 33:16
c Jer. 14:13,14
Jer. 27:15 Jer. 29:8,9
23:2 1 Whose charge is to feed the flock, but they eat the fruit thereof, Ezek. 34:3. 23:3 1 Thus the Prophets ever used to mix the promises with the threat enings, lest the godly should be too much beaten down, and therefore he showeth how God will gather his Church after this dispersion. 23:5 1 This prophecy is of the restitution of the Church in the time of Jesus Christ, who is the true branch, read Isa. 11:1 and 45:8; Jer. 35:15; Dan. 9:24. 23:7 1 Read Jer. 16:14. 23:9 1 Meaning, the false prophets which deceive the people: wherein appeareth his great love toward his nation, read Jer. 14:13. 2 Hebrew, passed over or troubled. 23:10 1 They run headlong to wickedness, and seek vain help. 23:11 1 Or, are hypocrites. 2 My Temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.
23:14 1 They which should have profited by my rods against Samaria, are become worse than they. 2 Though to the world they seem holy fathers, yet I detest them as I did these abominable cities. 23:15 1 Read Jer. 8:14. 2 Or, hypocrisy. 23:16 1 Which they have invented of their own brain. 23:17 1 Read Jer. 6:14 and 8:11. 23:18 1 Thus they did deride Jeremiah, as though the word of God were not revealed unto him: so also spake Zedekiah to Micaiah, 1 Kings 22:24. 23:20 1 Both that God hath sent me, and that my words shall be true. 23:22 1 He showeth the difference between the true Prophets and the false, between the hireling and the true minister.
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23 Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God 1far off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him, saith the Lord? Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord? 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesied lies in my Name, saying, I 1have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How long? 1Do the prophets delight to prophesy lies, even prophesying the deceit of their own heart? 27 Think they to cause 1my people to forget my Name by their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their forefathers have forgotten my Name for Baal? 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him 1tell a dream, and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully: 2what is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord? 29 Is not my word even like a fire, saith the Lord? and like an hammer, that breaketh the stone? 30 Therefore behold, I will come against the prophets, saith the Lord, that 1steal my word every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I will come against the prophets, saith the Lord, which have sweet tongues, and say, 1He saith. 32 Behold, I will come against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their flatteries, and I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they bring no profit unto this people, saith the Lord. 33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a Priest shall ask thee, saying, What is the 1burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord. 34 And the prophet, or the priest, or the people that shall say, The 1burden of the Lord, I will even visit every such one, and his house. 35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor,
and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken? 36 And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man's 1word shall be his burden: for ye have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts our God. 37 Thus shalt thou say to the Prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken? 38 And if you say, The burden of the Lord, Then thus saith the Lord, Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord. 39 Therefore behold, I, even I will utterly 1forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence, 40 And will bring dan everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten. 24 The vision of the baskets of figs, 5 Signifieth that part of the people should be brought again out of captivity. 8 And that Zedekiah and the rest of the people should be carried away.
d Jer. 20:11
1 The Lord showed me, and behold, two 1baskets of figs were set before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the workmen, and cunning men of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babel. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so evil. 3 Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good, and the naughty very naughty, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4 Again the word of the Lord came unto me,
23:23 1 Do I not see your falsehood, however you cloak it, and wheresoever you commit it? 23:25 1 I have a prophecy revealed unto me, as Num. 12:6. 23:26 1 Hebrew, Is it in the heart of the Prophets? 23:27 1 He showeth that Satan raiseth up false prophets to bring the people from God. 23:28 1 Let the false prophet declare that it is his own fantasy, and not slander my word as though it were a cloak to cover his lies. 2 Meaning, that it is not sufficient for God's ministers to abstain from lies, and to speak the word of God: but that there be judgment in alleging it, and that it may appear to be applied to the same pur pose that it was spoken, Ezek. 3:27; 1 Cor. 2:13 and 4:2; 2 Tim. 2:25; 2 Pet. 4:10, 11. 23:30 1 Which set forth in my Name that which I have not com manded.
23:31 1 To wit, the Lord. 23:33 1 The Prophets called their threatenings God's burden, which the sinners were not able to sustain, therefore the wicked in deriding the word, would ask of the Prophets, what was the burden, as though they would say, You seek nothing else, but to lay burdens on our shoul ders: and thus they rejected the word of God, as a grievous burden. 23:34 1 Because this word was brought to contempt and derision, he will teach them another manner of speech, and will cause this word burden to cease, and teach them to ask with reverence, What saith the Lord? 23:36 1 The thing which they mock and contemn, shall come upon them. 23:39 1 Or, take you away. 24:1 1 The good figs signified them that were gone into captivity, and so saved their life, as Jer. 21:8, and the naughty figs them that remained, which were yet subject to the sword, famine and pestilence.
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saying, 5 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I know them that are carried away captive of Judah to be good, whom I have sent out of this 1place, into the land of the Chaldeans. 6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land, and I will build them and not destroy them, and I will plant them, and not root them out. 7 And I will give them 1an heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be amy people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. 8 bAnd as the naughty figs which cannot be eaten, they are so evil (surely thus saith the Lord) so will I give Zedekiah the King of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell 1in the land of Egypt: 9 I will even give them for a terrible plague to all the kingdoms of the earth, and for a reproach and for a proverb, for a common talk, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they be consumed out of the land, that I gave unto them, and to their fathers. 25 1 He prophesieth that they shall be in captivity seventy years. 12 And that after the seventy years the Babylonians should be destroyed. 15 The destruction of all nations is prophesied.
come unto me, and I have spoken unto you 2rising early and speaking, but ye would not hear. 4 And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets, rising early, and sending them, but ye would not hear, nor incline your ears, to obey. 5 They 1said, Turn again now everyone from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your inventions, and ye shall dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you, and to your fathers forever and ever. 6 And go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands, and I will not punish you. 7 Nevertheless, ye would not hear me, saith the Lord, but have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Because ye have not heard my words, 9 Behold, I will send and take to me all the 1families of the North, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel my 2servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations
chapter 24
a Jer. 31:33
Heb. 8:10
b Jer. 29:17
chapter 25
a Jer. 16:9
3round about, and will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and an hissing, and a continual desolation. 10 aMoreover I will 1take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the noise of the 2millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babel seventy years. 12 And when the 1seventy years are accomplished, I will visit 2the king of Babel and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquities, even the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it a perpetual desolation. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all nations. 14 For many nations, and great kings shall even
1 The word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah, in the 1fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel: 2 The which Jeremiah the Prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto 1this day (that is the three and twentieth year) the word of the Lord hath
24:5 1 Whereby he approveth the yielding of Jeconiah and his company, because they obeyed the Prophet, who exhorted them thereunto. 24:7 1 Which declareth that man of himself can know nothing, till God give the heart and understanding. 24:8 1 Which fled thither for succor. 25:1 1 That is, in the third year accomplished and in the beginning of the fourth: for though Nebuchadnezzar began to reign in the end of the third year of Jehoiakim's reign, yet that year is not here counted, because it was almost expired, Dan. 1:1. 25:3 1 Which was the fifth year and the ninth month of Jehoiakim's reign. 2 That is, I have spared no diligence or labor, Jer. 7:13. 25:5 1 He showeth that the Prophets, wholly with one consent did labor to pull the people from those vices, which then reigned, to wit,
from idolatry, and the vain confidence of men: for under these two all others were contained, 2 Kings 17:13; Jer. 18:11 and 35:15; Jonah 3:8. 25:9 1 The Chaldeans and all their power. 2 So the wicked and Satan himself are God's servants, because he maketh them to serve him by constraint, and turneth that which they do of malice, to his honor and glory. 3 As the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others. 25:10 1 Or, destroy. 2 Meaning, that bread and all things that should serve unto their feasts, should be taken away. 25:12 1 This revelation was for the confirmation of his prophecy, because he told them of the time that they should enter and remain in captivity, 2 Chron. 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Jer. 29:10; Dan. 9:2. 2 For seeing the judgment began at his own house, the enemies must needs be punished most grievously, Ezek. 9:6, 1 Pet. 4:17.
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1serve themselves of them: thus will I recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. 15 For thus hath the Lord God of Israel spoken unto me, 1Take the cup of wine of this mine indignation at mine hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all people to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me: 18 Even Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them desolate, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse, 1as appeareth this day: 19 Pharaoh also, King of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people: 20 And all sorts of people, and all the Kings of the land 1of Uz: and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and 2Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod: 21 1Edom, and Moab, and the Ammonites, 22 And all the Kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the 1Isles, that are beyond the sea, 23 And 1Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that dwell in the uttermost corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of Arabia that dwell in the 1desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of 1Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, 26 And all the kings of the North, far and near one to another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the earth, and the king of 1Sheshach shall drink after them. 27 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Drink and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I will send among you. 28 ¶ But if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then tell them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Ye shall certainly drink.
29 For lo, 1I begin to plague the city, where my Name is called upon, and should you go free? Ye shall not go acquited: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. 30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, bThe Lord shall roar from above, and thrust out his voice from his holy habitation: he shall roar upon his habitation, and cry aloud, as they that press the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 The sounds shall come to the ends of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, and will enter into judgment with all flesh, and he will give them that are wicked, to the sword, saith the Lord. 32 ¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, a plague shall go forth from nation to nation, and a cgreat whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 33 And 1the slain of the Lord shall be at that day, from one end of the earth, even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be mourned, neither gathered nor buried, but shall be as the dung upon the ground. 34 Howl, 1ye shepherds, and cry, and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for your days of slaughter are accomplished, and of your dispersion, and ye shall fall like 2precious vessels. 35 And the 1flight shall fail from the shepherds, and the escaping from the principal of the flock. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath destroyed their pasture. 37 And the 1best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the Lord. 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, and because of the wrath of his indignation. 26 2 Jeremiah moveth the people to repentance. 7 He is taken of the false prophets and priests, and brought to judgment. 23 Urijah the Prophet is killed of Jehoiakim contrary to the will of God.
b Joel 3:16
Amos 1:2
c Jer. 30:23
25:14 1 That is, of the Babylonians, as Jer. 27:7. 25:15 1 Signifying, the extreme affliction, that God had appointed for everyone, as Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17, and this cup, which the wicked drink, is more bitter than that which he giveth to his children, for he measureth the one by mercy, and the other by justice. 25:18 1 For now it beginneth and shall so continue till it be accom plished. 25:20 1 Read Job 1:1. 2 Which were cities of the Philistines. 25:21 1 Edom is here taken for the whole country, and Uz for a part thereof. 25:22 1 As Greece, Italy and the rest of those countries.
25:23 1 These were people of Arabia which came of Dedan the son of Abraham and Keturah. 25:24 1 For there were two countries so named, the one called plen tiful, and the other barren, or desert. 25:25 1 Or, Persia. 25:26 1 That is, of Babylon, as Jer. 51:41. 25:29 1 That is, Jerusalem, read verse 12. 25:33 1 They which are slain at the Lord's appointment. 25:34 1 Ye that are chief rulers, and governors. 2 Which are most easily broken. 25:35 1 It shall not help them to seek to flee. 25:37 1 Hebrew, peaceable.
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1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah King of Judah, came this word from the Lord, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the 1court of the Lord's House, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord's House, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them: keep not 2a word back, 3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may 1repent me of the plague, which I have determined to bring upon them because of the wickedness of their works. 4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, If ye will not hear me to walk in my Laws, which I have set before you, 5 And to hear the words of my servants the Prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, and will not obey them, 6 Then will I make this House like 1Shiloh, and will make this city 2a curse to all nations of the earth. 7 So the Priests, and the Prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the House of the Lord. 8 Now when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, then the Priests, and the Prophets, and all the people took him, and said, Thou shalt die the death. 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, 1This House shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? and all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. 10 And when the Princes of Judah heard of these things, they came up from the king's house into the House of the Lord, and sat down in the entry of the 1new gate of the Lord's House. 11 Then spake the Priests, and the Prophets unto the Princes, and to all the people, saying, 1This man is worthy to die: for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears. 12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the Princes and
to all the people, saying, The Lord hath 1sent me to prophesy against this House and against this city all the things that ye have heard. 13 Therefore now amend your ways, and your works, and hear the voice of the Lord your God, that the Lord may repent him of the plague, that he hath pronounced against you. 14 As for me, behold, I am in your hands: do with me as ye think good and right: 15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you, to speak all these words in your ears. 16 Then said the Princes and all the people unto the Priests, and to the Prophets, This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken unto us in the Name of the Lord our God. 17 ¶ Then rose up certain of the Elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, 18 Micah the Morashite aprophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be an heap, and the mountain of the 1house shall be as the high places of the forest. 19 Did Hezekiah King of Judah, and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear the Lord, and prayed before the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the 1plague, that he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. 20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the Name of the Lord, one Urijah the son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremiah. 21 Now when Jehoiakim the king with all his men of power, and all the princes heard his words, the King sought to slay him. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went into Egypt. 22 Then Jehoiakim the king 1sent men into Egypt, even Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain with him into Egypt.
chapter 26
a Mic. 1:1
Mic. 3:12
26:2 1 That is, in that place of the Temple whereunto the people resort out of all Judah to sacrifice. 2 To the intent that they should pretend no ignorance, as Acts 20:27. 26:3 1 Read Jer. 18:8 26:6 1 Read Jer. 7:12. 2 So that when they would curse any, they shall say, God do to thee as to Jerusalem. 26:9 1 Because of God's promises to the Temple, Ps. 132:14, that he would forever remain there, the hypocrites thought this Temple could never perish, and therefore thought it blasphemy to speak against it, Matt. 26:61; Acts 6:13, not considering that this was meant of the Church, where God will remain forever. 26:10 1 So called, because it was repaired by Jotham, 2 Kings 15:35.
26:11 1 Hebrew, judgments of death belongeth to this man. 26:12 1 He both showeth the cause of his doings plainly, and also threateneth them that they should nothing avail, though they should put him to death, but heap greater vengeance upon their heads. 26:18 1 That is, of the House of the Lord, to wit, Zion, and these exam ples the godly alleged to deliver Jeremiah out of the Priests' hands, whose rage else would not have been satisfied but by his death. 26:19 1 So that the city was not destroyed, but by miracle was deliv ered out of the hands of Sennacherib. 26:22 1 Here is declared the fury of tyrants, who cannot abide to hear God's word declared, but persecute the ministers thereof, and yet in the end they prevail nothing but provoke God's judgments so much the more.
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his hands. 9 Therefore hear not your prophets nor your soothsayers, nor your dreamers, nor your enchanters, nor your sorcerers which say unto you thus, Ye shall not serve the king of Babel. 10 For they prophesy a lie unto you to cause you to go far from your land, and that I should cast you out, and you should perish. 11 But the nation that put their necks under the yoke of the king of Babel, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the Lord, and they shall occupy it, and dwell therein. 12 ¶ I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babel, and serve him and his people, that ye may live. 13 Why will ye die, thou, and thy people by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation, that will not serve the king of Babel? 14 Therefore hear not the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babel: for they prophesy a lie unto you. 15 For I have not asent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my Name, that I might cast you out, and that ye might perish, both you, and the Prophets that prophesy unto you. 16 Also I spake to the Priests, and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hear not the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, bthe vessels of the house of the Lord shall now shortly be 1brought again from Babel: for they prophesy a lie unto you. 17 Hear them not, but serve the king of Babel, that ye may live: wherefore should this city be desolate? 18 But if they be Prophets, and if the word of the Lord be with them, let them 1entreat the Lord of hosts, that the vessels, which are left in the House of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babel. 19 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, concerning the cpillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
23 And they fetched Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, and 1cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people. 24 But the hand of Ahikam 1the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death. 27 1 Jeremiah at the commandment of the Lord sendeth bonds to the King of Judah and to the other Kings that were near, whereby they are monished to be subjects unto Nebuchadnezzar. 9 He warneth the people, and the Kings and rulers that they believe not false Prophets.
chapter 27
a Jer. 14:14
Jer. 23:11
Jer. 29:9
b Jer. 28:3
c 2 Kings 25:13
1 In the beginning of the reign of 1Jehoiakim the son of Josiah King of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord to me, Make thee 1bonds, and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah the king of Judah, 4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters, 5 I have made the earth, the man, and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power, and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it pleased me. 6 But now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel my 1servant, and the beasts of the field have I also given him to serve him. 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his 1son, and his son's son until the very time of his land come also: then many nations and great kings shall 2serve themselves of him. 8 And the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babel, the same nation will I visit saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have wholly given them into
26:23 1 As in the first Hezekiah's example is to be followed, so in this other Jehoiakim's act is to be abhorred: for God's plague did light on him, and his household. 26:24 1 Which declareth that nothing could have appeased their fury, if God had not moved this noble man to stand valiantly in his defense. 27:1 1 As touching the disposition of these prophecies, they that gathered them into a book, did not altogether observe the order of times, but did set some afore, which should be after, and contrary wise, which if the reader mark well it shall avoid many doubts, and make the reading much more easy. 27:2 1 By such signs the Prophets used sometimes to confirm their
prophecies which notwithstanding they could not do of themselves, but in as much as they had a revelation for the same, Isa. 20:2, and therefore the false Prophets to get more credit, did use also such vis ible signs, but they had no revelation, 1 Kings 22:12. 27:6 1 Read Jer. 25:9. 27:7 1 Meaning, Evil-Merodach, and his son Belshazzar. 2 They shall bring him and his kingdom in subjection, as Jer. 25:14. 27:16 1 Which were taken when Jeconiah was led captive into Babel. 27:18 1 For it was not only the Prophet's office to show the word of God, but also to pray for the sins of the people, Gen. 20:7, which these could not do because they had no express word: for God had pronounced the contrary.
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20 Which Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel took not, when he carried daway captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babel, with all the nobles of Judah, and Jerusalem. 21 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, 22 They shall be brought to Babel, and there they shall be until the day that I visit 1them, saith the Lord: then will I bring them up, and restore them unto this place. 28 1 The false prophecy of Hananiah. 12 Jeremiah reproveth Hananiah, and prophesieth.
8 The Prophets that have been before me, and before thee in time past, 1prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of plagues, and of pestilence. 9 And the Prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the Prophet shall come to pass, then shall the Prophet be known that the Lord hath truly sent him. 10 Then Hananiah the Prophet took the yoke from the Prophet Jeremiah's neck, and 1brake it. 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, from the neck of all nations within the space of two years: and the Prophet Jeremiah went his way. 12 ¶ Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the Prophet, (after that Hananiah the Prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the Prophet Jeremiah) saying, 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. 14 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, I have put a 1yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel: for they shall serve him, and I have given him the 2beasts of the field also. 15 Then said the Prophet Jeremiah, unto the Prophet Hananiah, Hear now Hananiah, the Lord hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will cast thee from of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebelliously against the Lord. 17 So Hananiah the Prophet 1died the same year in the seventh month. 29 1 Jeremiah writeth unto them that were in captivity in Babylon. 10 He prophesieth their return after seventy years. 16 He prophesieth the destruction of the King and of the people that remain in Jerusalem. 21 He threateneth the prophets that seduce the people. 25 The death of Shemaiah is prophesied.
d 2 Kings
24:12,15
1 And that same year in the beginning of the 1reign of Zedekiah King of Judah, in the 2fourth year, and in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of 3Gibeon, spake to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the Priests, and of all the people, and said, 2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the King of Babel. 3 1Within two years space I will bring into this place all the vessels of the Lord's House, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel took away from this place, and carried them into Babel. 4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim King of Judah, with all them that were carried away captive of Judah, and went into Babel, saith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babel. 5 Then the Prophet Jeremiah said unto the 1Prophet Hananiah in the presence of the Priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the House of the Lord. 6 Even the Prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: the 1Lord so do, the Lord confirm thy words which thou hast prophesied, to restore the vessels of the Lord's house, and all that is carried captive from Babel, into this place. 7 But hear thou now this word that I will speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people.
1 Now these are the words of the 1book that
27:22 1 That is, for the space of seventy years till I have caused the Medes and Persians to overcome the Chaldeans. 28:1 1 When Jeremiah began to bear these bonds and yokes. 2 After that the land hast rested, as Lev. 25:2. 3 This was a city in Benjamin belonging to the sons of Aaron, Josh. 21:17. 28:3 1 Hebrew, two years of days. 28:5 1 He was so esteemed though he was a false prophet. 28:6 1 That is, I would wish the same for God's honor, and wealth of my people, but he hath appointed the contrary. 28:8 1 Meaning, that the Prophets that did either denounce war or peace, were tried either true or false by the success of their prophe cies, albeit God maketh to come to pass sometimes that which the
false prophet speaketh to try the faith of his, Deut. 13:3. 28:10 1 This declareth the impudence of the wicked hirelings, which have no zeal to the truth, but are led with ambition to get the favor of men, and therefore cannot abide any that might discredit them but burst forth into rages and contrary to their own conscience, pass not what lies they report or how wickedly they do, so that they may maintain their estimation. 28:14 1 That is, a hard and cruel servitude. 2 Signifying, that all should be his, as Dan. 2:38. 28:17 1 Seeing this thing was evident in the eyes of the people, and yet they returned not to the Lord, it is manifest, that miracles cannot move us, neither the word itself, except God touch the heart. 29:1 1 Or, letter.
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Jeremiah the Prophet sent from Jerusalem unto 2the residue of the Elders, which were carried away captives, and to the Priests, and to the Prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babel: 2 (After that Jeconiah the King, and the 1Queen, and the eunuchs, the aprinces of Judah, and of Jerusalem, and the workmen, and cunning men were departed from Jerusalem) 3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah 1sent unto Babel to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel) saying, 4 Thus hath the Lord of hosts the God of Israel spoken unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have 1caused to be carried away captives from Jerusalem unto Babel: 5 Build you houses to dwell in, and plant you gardens, and eat the fruits of them. 6 Take you wives, and beget sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the prosperity of the city, whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and 1pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall you have peace. 8 ¶ For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Let not your prophets, and your soothsayers that be among you, deceive you, neither give ear to your dreams, which you dream. 9 For they prophesy you a lie in my Name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord. 10 But thus saith the Lord, that after seventy years be accomplished at Babel, I will visit you, and perform my good promise toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts, that I have thought towards you, saith the Lord, even the thoughts of peace, and not of trouble, to give you an end, and your hope. 12 Then shall you cry unto me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hear you, 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, because ye shall seek me with all 1your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places, whither I have cast you, saith the Lord, and will bring you again unto the place, whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 15 Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up 1Prophets in Babel. 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord of the King, that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity: 17 Even thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will send upon them the 1sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile 2figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so naughty. 18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence: and I will make them a terror to all kingdoms of the earth, and 1a curse, and astonishment, and an hissing and a reproach among all the nations whither I have cast them, 19 Because they have not heard my words saith the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the Prophets, 1rising up early, and sending them, but ye would not hear, saith the Lord. 20 ¶ Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babel. 21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy lies unto you in my Name, Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel, and he shall slay them before your eyes. 22 And all they of the captivity of Judah, that are in Babel, shall take up this curse against them, and say, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the King of Babel burnt 1in the fire, 23 Because they have committed 1villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbor's wives, and have spoken lying words in my Name, which I have not commanded them, even I know it, and testify it, saith the Lord. 24 ¶ Thou shalt also speak to Shemaiah the
chapter 29
a Jer. 24:1
2 For some died in the way. 29:2 1 Meaning, Jeconiah's mother. 29:3 1 To entreat of some equal conditions. 29:4 1 To wit, the Lord, whose work this was. 29:7 1 The Prophet speaketh not this for the affection that he bare to the tyrant, but that they should pray for the common rest and quiet ness, that their troubles might not be increased, and that they might with more patience and less grief wait for the time of their deliver ance, which God had appointed most certain: for else not only the Israelites, but all the world, yea, and the insensible creatures should rejoice when these tyrants should be destroyed, as Isa. 14:4.
29:13 1 When your oppression shall be great, and your afflictions cause you to repent your disobedience, and also when the seventy years of your captivity shall be expired, 2 Chron. 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Jer. 25:12; Dan. 9:2. 29:15 1 As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah. 29:17 1 Whereby he assureth them, that there shall be no hope of returning before the time appointed. 2 According to the comparison, Jer. 24:1, 2. 29:18 1 Read Jer. 26:6. 29:19 1 Read Jer. 7:13, 25:3 and 26:5. 29:22 1 Because they gave the people hope of speedy returning. 29:23 1 Which was adultery, and falsifying the word of God.
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1Nehelamite, saying, 25 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people, that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the Priest, and to all the Priests, saying, 26 The Lord hath made thee Priest, for 1Jehoiada the Priest, that ye should be officers in the House of the Lord, for every man that raveth and maketh himself a Prophet, to put him in prison and in the stocks. 27 Now therefore why hast not thou reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which prophesieth unto you? 28 For, for this cause he sent unto us in Babel, saying, This captivity is long: build houses to dwell in, and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them. 29 And Zephaniah the Priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the Prophet. 30 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord of Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie, 32 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will visit Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man 1to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good, that I will do for my people, saith the Lord, because he hath spoken rebelliously against the Lord. 30 1 The return of the people from Babylon. 16 He menaceth the enemies, 18 and comforteth the Church.
4 Again, these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel, and concerning Judah. 5 For thus saith the Lord, We have heard a 1terrible voice, of fear and not of peace. 6 Demand now and behold, if man travail with child: wherefore do I behold every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into a paleness? 7 Alas, for this 1day is great: none hath been like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, yet shall he be delivered from it. 8 1For in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will break 2his yoke from off thy neck, and break thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves 3of him. 9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and 1David their King, whom I will raise up unto them. 10 Therefore fear not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be afraid, O Israel: for lo, I will deliver thee from a far country, and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall turn again, and shall be in rest and prosperity, and none shall make him afraid. 11 For I am with thee saith the Lord, to save thee: though I utterly destroy all the nations where I have scattered thee, yet will I not utterly destroy thee, but I will correct thee by judgment, and not utterly cut thee off. 12 For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruising is incurable, and thy wound is dolorous. 13 There is none to judge thy cause, or to lay a plaster: there are no medicines, nor help for thee. 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee: they seek thee not: for I have stricken thee with the wound of an enemy, and with a sharp chastisement for the multitude of thine iniquities, because thy sins were increased. 15 Why cryest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable, for the multitude of thine iniquities: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. 16 1Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured, and all thine enemies everyone shall go into
1 The word, that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee, in 1a book. 3 For lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: for I will restore them unto the land, that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
29:24 1 Or, dreamer. 29:26 1 Shemaiah the false prophet flattereth Zephaniah the chief Priest, as though God had given him the spirit and zeal of Jehoiada to punish whosoever trespassed against the word of God, of the which he would have made Jeremiah one, calling him a raver and a false prophet. 29:32 1 He and his seeds shall be destroyed, so that none of them should see the benefit of this deliverance. 30:2 1 Because they should be assured and their posterity confirmed in the hope of this deliverance promised. 30:5 1 He showeth that before that this deliverance shall come, the Chaldeans should be extremely afflicted by their enemies, and that they should be in such perplexity and sorrow as a woman in her tra
vail, as Isa. 13:8. 30:7 1 Meaning, that the time of their captivity should be grievous. 30:8 1 When I shall visit Babylon. 2 Of the King of Babylon. 3 To wit, of Jacob. 30:9 1 That is, Messiah which should come of the stock of David, according to the flesh and should be the true pastor, as Ezek. 34:23, who is set forth and his kingdom that should be everlasting in the person of David, Hos. 3:5. 30:16 1 Herein is commended God's great mercy toward his, who doth not destroy them for their sins, but correct and chastise them till he have purged and pardoned them, and so burneth the rods by the which he did punish them, Isa. 33:1.
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my people. 2 Thus saith the Lord, The people which 1escaped the sword, found grace in the wilderness: 2he walketh before Israel to cause him to rest. 3 The Lord hath appeared unto me 1of old, say they: 2Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with mercy I have drawn thee. 4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin Israel: thou shalt still 1be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dance of them that be joyful. 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of 1Samaria, and the planters that plant them, 2shall make them common. 6 For the days shall come, that the 1watchmen upon the mount of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up unto 2Zion to the Lord our God. 7 For thus saith the Lord, Rejoice with gladness for Jacob, and shout for joy among the chief of the Gentiles: publish praise and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. 8 1Behold, I will bring them from the North country, and gather them from the coasts of the world, with the blind and the lame among them, with the woman with child, and her that is delivered also: a great company shall return hither. 9 They shall come 1weeping, and with mercy will I bring them again: I will lead them by the rivers of 2water in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is 3my firstborn. 10 ¶ Hear the word of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel, will gather him, and will keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand 1of him, that was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come, and rejoice in the
captivity, and they that spoil thee, shall be spoiled, and all they that rob thee, will I give to be robbed. 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord, because they called thee, The castaway, saying, This is Zion whom no man seeketh after. 18 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places, and the city shall be built upon her own heap, 1and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed 1thanksgiving, and the voice of them that are joyous, and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few: I will also glorify them, and they shall not be diminished. 20 Their children also shall be as afore time, and their congregation shall be established before me: and I will visit all that vex them. 21 And their 1noble ruler shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them, and I will cause him to draw near and approach unto me: for who is this that directeth his 2heart to come unto me, saith the Lord? 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, 1the tempest of the Lord goeth forth with wrath: the whirlwind that hangeth over, shall light upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce wrath of the Lord shall not return, until he have done, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the 1latter days ye shall understand it. 31 1 He rehearseth God's benefits after their return from Babylon. 13 And the spiritual joy of the faithful in the Church.
1 At the 1same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be
30:18 1 Meaning, that the city and the Temple should be restored to their former estate. 30:19 1 He showeth how the people shall with praise and thanksgiv ing acknowledge these benefits. 30:21 1 Meaning, Zerubbabel, who was the figure of Christ, in whom this was accomplished. 2 Signifying, that Christ doth willingly submit himself to the obedi ence of God his father. 30:23 1 Lest the wicked hypocrites should flatter themselves with these promises, the Prophets showeth what shall be their portion. 30:24 1 When this Messiah and deliverer is sent. 31:1 1 When this noble governor shall come, meaning, Christ, not only Judah, and Israel, but the rest of the world shall be called. 31:2 1 Which were delivered from the cruelty of Pharaoh. 2 To wit, God. 31:3 1 The people thus reason as though he were not so beneficial to them now, as he had been of old. 2 Thus the Lord answereth that his love is not changeable.
31:4 1 Thou shalt have still occasion to rejoice: which is meant by timbrels, and dancing, as their custom was after notable victories, Exod. 15:20; Judg. 5:2 and Jer. 18:34. 31:5 1 Because the Israelites, which were the ten tribes never returned to Samaria, therefore this must be spiritually understood under the kingdom of Christ, which was the restoration of the true Israel. 2 That is, shall eat the fruit thereof, as Lev. 19:23-25; Deut. 20:6. 31:6 1 The Ministers of the word. 2 They shall exhort all to the embracing of the Gospel, as Isa. 2:3. 31:8 1 He showeth what shall be the concord and love of all under the Gospel, when none shall be refused for their infirmities: and everyone shall exhort one another to embrace it. 31:9 1 That is, lamenting their sins, which had not given ear to the Prophets, and therefore it followeth that God received them to mercy, Jer. 50:4. Some take it that they should weep for joy. 2 Where they found no impediments, but abundance of all things. 3 That is, my dearly beloved, as the first child is to the father. 31:11 1 That is, from the Babylonians, and other enemies.
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again, O virgin of Israel: turn again to these thy cities. 22 How long wilt thou go astray, O thou rebellious daughter? for the Lord hath created 1a new thing in the earth: A WOMAN shall compass a man. 23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Yet shall they say this thing in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity, The Lord bless thee, O habitation of justice and holy mountain. 24 And Judah shall dwell in it, and all the cities thereof together, the husbandmen and they that go forth with the flock. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 26 Therefore I awaked and beheld, and my sleep 1was sweet unto me. 27 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of Judah 1with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 28 And like as I have watched upon them, to pluck up and to root out, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to plague them, so will I watch over them, to build and to plant them, saith the Lord. 29 In those days shall they say no more, The fathers have 1eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity, every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a 1new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the which my covenant they 1brake, although I was 2an husband
height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness of the Lord, even for the 1wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the increase of sheep and bullocks: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall have no more sorrow. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the 1dance, and the young men and the old men together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and give them joy for their sorrows. 14 And I will replenish the soul of the Priests with 1fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord. 15 Thus saith the Lord, A voice was heard on high, a mourning, and bitter weeping. 1Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. 16 Thus saith the Lord, Refrain the voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy: 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own borders. 18 I have heard 1Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an 2untamed calf: 3convert thou me, and I shall be converted: for thou art the Lord my God. 19 Surely after that I was converted, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my 1thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim 1my dear son or pleasant child? yet since I spake unto him, I still 2remembered him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him. I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the Lord. 21 Set thee up 1signs: make thee heaps: set thine heart toward the path and way, that thou hast walked: turn
31:12 1 By these temporal benefits he meaneth the spiritual graces, which are in the Church, and whereof there should be ever plenty, Isa. 58:11, 12. 31:13 1 In the company of the faithful, which ever praise God for his benefits. 31:14 1 Meaning, the spirit of wisdom, knowledge, and zeal. 31:15 1 To declare the greatness of God's mercy in delivering the Jews, he showeth them that they were like to the Benjamites of Isra elites, that is, utterly destroyed and carried away, insomuch, that if Rachel the mother of Benjamin could have risen again to seek for her children, she should have found none remaining. 31:18 1 That is, the people that were led captive. 2 Which was wanton and could not be subject to the yoke. 3 He showeth how the faithful used to pray: that is, desire God to turn them forasmuch as they cannot turn of themselves. 31:19 1 In sign of repentance and detestation of my sin. 31:20 1 As though he would say: No, for by his iniquity he did what lay in him to cast me off. 2 To wit, in pity him for my promise's sake. 31:21 1 Mark by what way thou didst go into captivity, and thou shalt turn again by the same.
31:22 1 Because their deliverance from Babylon, was a figure of their deliverance from sin, he showeth how this should be procured, to wit, by Jesus Christ, whom a woman should conceive and bear in her womb. Which is a strange thing in earth, because he should be born of a virgin without man, or he meaneth that Jerusalem, which was like a barren woman in her captivity, should be fruitful as she, that is joined in marriage, and whom God blesseth with children. 31:26 1 Having understood this vision of the Messiah to come, in whom the two houses of Israel and Judah should be joined, I rejoiced. 31:27 1 I will multiply and enrich them with people and cattle. 31:29 1 The wicked used this proverb, when they did murmur against God's judgments pronounced by the Prophets, saying, That their fathers had committed the fault and that the children were punished, Ezek. 18:3. 31:31 1 Though the covenant of redemption made to the fathers, and this which was given after, seem divers, yet they are all one, and grounded on Jesus Christ, save that this is called new, because of the manifestation of Christ, and the abundant graces of the holy Ghost given to his Church under the Gospel. 31:32 1 And so were the occasion of their own divorcement through their infidelity, Isa. 50:1. 2 Or, master.
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unto them, saith the Lord. 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, After 1those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall 1teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sins no more. 35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth 1the sun for a light to the day, and the courses of the moon and of the stars for a light to the night, which breaketh the sea, when the waves thereof roar: his Name is the Lord of hosts. 36 If these ordinances depart out of my sight, saith the Lord, then shall the seed of Israel cease from being a nation before me, forever. 37 Thus saith the Lord, If the heavens can be measured, 1or the foundations of the earth be searched out beneath, then will I cast off all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord. 38 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the 1city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananel, unto the gate of the corner. 39 And the line of the measure shall go forth [in] his presence upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, and unto the corner of the horsegate toward the East, shall be holy unto the Lord, neither shall it be plucked up nor destroyed anymore forever. 32 Jeremiah is cast into prison because he prophesied that the city should be taken of the king of Bab ylon. 7 He showeth that the people should come again to
their own possession. 38 The people of God are his servants, and he is their Lord.
chapter 32
a Jer. 29:16,17
Jer. 34:2
1 The word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, in the 1tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 For then the king of Babel's host besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the Prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the King of Judah's house. 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, aBehold, I will give this city into the hands of the King of Babel, and he shall take it? 4 And Zedekiah the king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hands of the king of Babel, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his face, 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babel, and there shall he be, until 1I visit him, saith the Lord: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper. 6 ¶ And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 7 Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, shall come unto thee and say, 1Buy unto thee my field, that is in Anathoth: for the 2title by kindred appertaineth unto thee 3to buy it. 8 So Hanamel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison, according to the word of the Lord, and said unto me, Buy my 1field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of the possession is thine, and the purchase belongeth unto thee: buy it for thee. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. 9 And I bought the field of Hanamel, mine uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the silver, even seven 1shekels, and ten pieces of silver. 10 And I wrote it in the book and signed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the silver in the balances.
31:33 1 In the time of Christ, my law shall instead of tables of stone be written in their hearts by mine holy Spirit, Heb. 8:10. 31:34 1 Under the kingdom of Christ there shall be none blinded with ignorance, but I will give them faith, and knowledge of God for remission of their sins and daily increase the same: so that it shall not seem to come so much by the preaching of my ministers, as by the instruction of my holy Spirit, Isa. 54:13, but the full accomplishing hereof is referred to the kingdom of Christ, when we shall be joined with our head. 31:35 1 If the sun, moon and stars cannot but give light according to mine ordinance, so long as this world lasteth, so shall my Church never fail, neither shall anything hinder it: and as sure as I will have a people, so certain is it, that I will leave them my word forever to govern them with. 31:37 1 The one and the other is impossible. 31:38 1 As it was performed, Neh. 3:1. By this description he showeth that the city should be as ample, and beautiful as ever it was: but he
alludeth to the spiritual Jerusalem, whose beauty should be incom parable. 32:1 1 So that Jeremiah had now prophesied from the thirteenth year of Josiah unto the last year save one of Zedekiah's reign, which was almost forty years. 32:5 1 Till I take Zedekiah away by death: for he shall not die by the sword, as Jer. 34:4. 32:7 1 Whereby was meant that the people should return again out of captivity and enjoy their possessions and vineyards, as verses 15 and 44. 2 Or, right to redeem it. 3 Because he was next of the kindred, as Ruth 4:4. 32:8 1 Of the possession of the Levites, read Lev. 25:32. 32:9 1 Which mounteth to of our money about ten shillings six pence, if this shekel were the common shekel, read Gen. 23:15, for the shekel of the Temple was of double value, and ten pieces of silver were half a shekel: for twenty made the shekel.
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11 So I took the book of the possession, being sealed 1according to the Law, and custom, with the book that was open, 12 And I gave the book of the possession unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses, written in the book of the possession, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying, 14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Take the writings, even this book of the possession, both that is sealed, and this book that is open, and put them in an earthen 1vessel, that they may continue a long time. 15 For the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel saith thus, Houses and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. 16 ¶ Now when I had delivered the book of the possession unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord, saying, 17 Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and by thy stretched out arm, and there is nothing 1hard unto thee. 18 bThou showest mercy unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their 1children after them: O God the great and mighty, whose name is the Lord of hosts, 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work, (for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works) 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day, and in Israel and among all men, and hast made thee a Name, 1as appeareth this day, 21 And hast brought thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, and with great terror, 22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, even a land that floweth with milk and honey, 23 And they came in, and possessed it, but they
obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy Law: all that thou commandedst them to do, they have not done: therefore thou hast caused this whole plague to come upon them. 24 Behold, the 1mounts, they are come into the city to take it, and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it by means of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence, and what thou hast spoken, is come to pass, and behold, thou seest it. 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord God, Buy unto thee the field for silver, and take witnesses: for the city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 ¶ Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, 27 Behold, I am the LORD GOD of all 1flesh: is there anything too hard for me? 28 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and he shall take it. 29 And the Chaldeans shall come and fight against this city, and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me unto anger. 30 For the children of Israel, and the children of Judah have surely done evil before me, from their 1youth: for the children of Israel have surely provoked me to anger with the works of their hands, saith the Lord. 31 Therefore this city hath been unto me as a provocation of mine anger, and of my wrath, from the day that they built it, even unto this day, that I should remove it out of my sight, 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, even they, their Kings, their Princes, their Priests, and their Prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned unto me the back and not the face: though I taught them, 1rising up early, and instructing them, yet they were not obedient to receive doctrine, 34 But they set their abominations in the house
b Exod. 34:7
Deut. 5:9
32:11 1 According to the custom the instrument or evidence was sealed up with the common seal, and a copy thereof remained, which contained the same in effect, but was not so authentical as the other, but was left open to be seen if anything should be called into doubt. 32:14 1 And so to hide them in the ground, that they might be pre served as a token of their deliverance. 32:17 1 Or, hid. 32:18 1 Because the wicked are subject to the curse of God, he showeth that their posterity which by nature are under this male diction, shall be punisheth both for their own wickedness, and that the iniquity of their fathers, which is likewise in them, shall be also revenged on their head.
32:20 1 Meaning, that his miracles in delivering his people, should never be forgotten. 32:24 1 The word signifieth anything that is cast up, as a mount or rampart, and is also used for engines of war, which were laid on an high place to shoot into a city before that guns were in use. 32:27 1 That is, of every creature: who as they are his work, so doth he govern and guide them as pleaseth him, whereby he showeth that as he is the author of this their captivity for their sins, so will he for his mercies be their redeemer to restore them again to liberty. 32:30 1 From the time that I brought them out of Egypt, and made them my people, and called them my firstborn. 32:33 1 Read Prov. 1:24; Isa. 65:2; Jer. 7:13 and 13:3 and 26:5 and 29:19; and 2 Chron. 36:15; Jer. 35:14 and 44:4.
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33 1 The Prophet is monished of the Lord to pray for the deliverance of the people which the Lord promised. 8 God forgiveth sins for his own glory. 15 Of the birth of Christ. 20 The kingdom of Christ in the Church shall never be ended.
(whereupon my Name was called) to defile it. 35 And they built the high 1places of Baal, which are in the valley of 2Ben-Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to 3pass through the fire unto Molech, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do such abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 36 And now 1therefore, thus hath the Lord God of Israel spoken concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babel by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 37 cBehold, I will gather them out of all countries, wherein I have scattered them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation, and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. 38 And they shall be dmy people, and I will be their God. 39 And I will give them 1one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever for the wealth of them, and of their children after them. 40 And I will make an everlasting 1covenant with them, that I will never turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. 41 Yea, I will delight in them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart, and with all my soul. 42 For thus saith the Lord, Like as I have brought all this great plague upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. 43 And the fields shall be possessed in this land, whereof ye say, it is desolate without man or beast, and shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 44 Men shall buy 1fields for silver, and make writings and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.
c Deut. 30:3
d Jer. 30:22
1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time (while he was yet shut up in the 1court of prison) saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord, the 1maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, and established it, the Lord is his Name. 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 4 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the Kings of Judah, which are destroyed by the 1mounts, and by the sword, 5 They come to 1fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill themselves with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my wrath: for I have hid my 2face from this city, because of all their wickedness. 6 ¶ Behold, I 1will give it health and amendment: for I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace, and truth. 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them as at the first. 8 And I will 1cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: yea, I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have rebelled against me. 9 And it shall be to me a name, a 1joy, a praise, and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness, and for all the wealth, that I show unto this city. 10 Thus saith the Lord, Again there shall be heard in this place (which ye say shall be desolate, without man, and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast) 11 The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the
32:35 1 That is, the altars which were made to offer sacrifices upon to their idols. 2 Read Jer. 7:31; 2 Kings 21:4, 6. 3 Read 2 Kings 16:3. 32:36 1 Read Jer. 30:16. 32:39 1 One consent and one religion, as Ezek. 11:19 and 36:27. 32:40 1 Read Jer. 31, 32, 33. 32:44 1 This is the declaration of that which was spoken verse 8. 33:1 1 Which was in the king's house at Jerusalem, as Jer. 32:1, 2. 33:2 1 To wit, of Jerusalem, who as he made it, so will he preserve it, read Isa. 37:26. 33:4 1 Read Jer. 32:24.
33:5 1 The Jews think to overcome the Chaldeans, but they seek their own destruction. 2 He showeth that God's favor is cause of all prosperity, as his anger is of all adversity. 33:6 1 In the midst of his threatenings God remembereth his, and comforteth them. 33:8 1 Declaring that there is no deliverance nor joy, but whereas we feel remission of sins. 33:9 1 Whereby he showeth that the Church wherein is remission of sins, is God's honor and glory, so that whosoever is enemy to it, laboreth to dishonor God.
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voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, 1Praise the Lord of hosts, because the Lord is good: for his mercy endureth forever, and of them that offer the sacrifice of praise in the house of the Lord, for I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord. 12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Again in this place, which is desolate, without man, and without beast, and in all the cities thereof there shall be dwelling for shepherds to rest their flocks. 13 In the cities of the 1mountains, in the cities in the plain, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin and about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah shall the sheep pass again, under the hand of him that telleth them, saith the Lord. 14 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing, which I have promised unto the house of Israel, and to the house of Judah. 15 In those days, and at that time will I cause 1the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David, and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely, and he that shall call 1her, is the Lord our 2righteousness. 17 For thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. 18 Neither shall the Priests and Levites want a man before me to offer 1burnt offerings, and to offer meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19 ¶ And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20 Thus saith the Lord, If you can break my covenant of the 1day, and my covenant of the night, that there should not be day and night in their season, 21 Then may my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites, and Priests my ministers. 22 As the army of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites, that minister unto me. 23 ¶ Moreover, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Considerest thou not what 1this people have spoken, saying, The two families, which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the order of heaven and earth, 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, and not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have compassion on them. 34 1 He threateneth that the city, and the King Zedekiah shall be given into the hands of the king of Bab ylon. 11 He rebuketh their cruelty toward their servants.
chapter 34
a 2 Chron. 36:19
Jer. 29:16,17
Jer. 32:3
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord (when 1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and all his host, and all the kingdoms of the earth, that were under the power of his hand, and all people fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cites thereof) saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord, behold, aI will give this city into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall burn it with fire, 3 And thou shall not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand, and thine eyes shall behold the face of the king of Babel, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babel. 4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah, thus saith the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword, 5 But thou shalt die in 1peace: and according to the burning for thy fathers the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odors for thee, and they shall lament thee, saying, Oh 2Lord: for I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord. 6 Then Jeremiah the Prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, 7 (When the King of Babel's host fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah, that were left, even against Lachish, and against Azekah: for
33:11 1 Which was a song appointed for the Levites to praise God by, 1 Chron. 16:8; Ps. 105:1; Isa. 12:4; Ps. 106:1; 107:1; 118:1; 136:1. 33:13 1 Meaning, that all the country of Judah shall be inhabited again. 33:15 1 That is, I will send the Messiah, which shall come of the house of David, of whom this prophecy is meant, as testify all the Jews, and that which is written, Jer. 23:5. 33:16 1 To wit, Christ that shall call his Church. 2 That is, Christ is our Lord God, our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, 1 Cor. 1:30. 33:18 1 That is chiefly meant of the spiritual sacrifice of thanksgiving,
which is left to the Church in the time of Christ, who was the ever lasting Priest, and the everlasting sacrifice figured by the sacrifices of the Law. 33:20 1 Read Jer. 31:35. 33:24 1 Meaning, the Chaldeans and other infidels which thought God had utterly cast off Judah and Israel or Benjamin, because he did correct them for a time for their amendment. 34:1 1 Who commonly of Jeremiah was called Nebuchadrezzar, and of others Nebuchadnezzar. 34:5 1 Not of any violent death. 2 The Jews shall lament for thee their lord and king.
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these strong cities remained of the cities of Judah) 8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people, which were at Jerusalem, 1to proclaim liberty unto them, 9 That every man should let his 1servant go free, and every man his handmaid, which was an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, and that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people which was agreed to the covenant, heard that everyone should let his servant go free, and everyone his handmaid, and that none should serve themselves of them anymore, they obeyed and let them go. 11 But afterward they 1repented and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and held them in subjection as servants and handmaids. 12 Therefore the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 13 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I made a covenant with your fathers, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of 1servants, saying, 14 bAt the term of seven years, let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which hath been sold unto thee: and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers obeyed me not, neither inclined their ears. 15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty, every man to his neighbor, and ye had made a covenant before me in 1the house, whereupon my Name is called. 16 But ye repented, and polluted my Name: for ye have caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and hold them in subjection to be unto you as servants and as handmaids. 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ye have not obeyed me, in proclaiming freedom every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to 1the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 And I will give those men that have broken
my Covenant, and have not kept the words of the Covenant, which they had made before me, when they 1cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, 19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the Eunuchs, and the Priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf, 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babel's host, which 1are gone up from you. 22 Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city, and they shall fight against it, and take it and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant. 35 He purposeth the obedience of the Rechabites, and thereby confoundeth the pride of the Jews.
b Deut. 15:1,12
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days 1of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Go unto the house of the 1Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. 3 Then took I Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites, 4 And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah a man 1of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the 2treasure. 5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and 1said unto them, Drink wine.
34:8 1 When the enemy was at hand, and they saw themselves in danger, they would seem holy, and so began some kind of reforma tion: but soon after they uttered their hypocrisy. 34:9 1 According to the Law, Exod. 21:2; Deut. 15:12. 34:11 1 Hebrew, returneth. 34:13 1 Or, bondage. 34:15 1 Meaning, in the Temple, to declare that it was a most solemn and straight covenant, made in the Name of the Lord. 34:17 1 That is, I give the sword liberty to destroy you. 34:18 1 As touching this manner of solemn covenant which the ancients used by passing between the two parts of a beast, to signify
that the transgressor of the same covenant should be so divided in pieces, read Gen. 15:10. 34:21 1 To fight against the Egyptians, as Jer. 37:11. 35:1 1 For the disposition and order of these prophecies, read Jer. 27:1. 35:2 1 They came of Hobab Moses' father-in-law, who was no Israel ite, but after joined with them in the service of God. 35:4 1 That is, a Prophet. 2 Or, door. 35:5 1 The Prophet saith not. The Lord saith thus, for then they ought to have obeyed, but he tendeth to another end: that is, to declare their obedience to man, seeing the Jews would not obey God himself.
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6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for 1Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, 2Ye shall drink no wine, neither you nor your sons forever. 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any, but all your days ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live a long time in the land where ye be strangers. 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father, in all that he hath charged us, and we drink no wine all our days, neither we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters. 9 Neither build we houses for us to dwell in, neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed, 10 But we have remained in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to 1all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel came up into the land, we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem, from the host of the Chaldeans, and from the host of Aram: so we 1dwell at Jerusalem. 12 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, 13 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Go, and tell the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will 1ye not receive doctrine to obey my words, saith the Lord? 14 The commandment of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, that they should drink no wine, is surely kept: for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, 1rising early, and speaking, but ye would not obey me. 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the Prophets: rising up early, and sending them, saying, aReturn now every man from his evil way, and amend your works, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given unto you, and to your fathers, but ye would not incline your ear, nor obey me. 16 Surely the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab, have kept the commandment of their father, which he gave them, but this people hath not obeyed me. 17 aTherefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have 1spoken unto them, but they would not hear, and I have called unto them, but they would not answer. 18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you, 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall 1not want a man, to stand before me forever. 36 Baruch writeth as Jeremiah inditeth, the book of the curses against Judah and Israel. 9 He is sent with the book unto the people, and readeth it before them all. 14 He is called before the rulers, and readeth it before them also. 23 The king casteth it in the fire. 28 There is another written at the commandment of the Lord.
chapter 35
a Jer. 18:11
Jer. 25:5
1 And in the fourth 1year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Take thee a roll or book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day that I spake unto thee, even 1from the days of Josiah unto this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear of all the evil, which I determined to do unto them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sins. 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote 1at the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll or book. 5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am 1shut up, and cannot go into the House of the Lord. 6 Therefore go thou, and read the roll wherein thou hast written at my mouth the words of the Lord, in the audience of the people in the Lord's house upon the 1fasting day: also thou shalt read them in the hearing of all Judah, that come out of their cities.
35:6 1 Whom Jehu the King of Israel favored for his zeal, 2 Kings 10:15. 2 Teaching them hereby to flee all occasion of intemperancy, ambi tion and avarice, and that they might know that they were strangers in the earth, and be ready to depart at all occasions. 35:10 1 Which was now for the space of three hundred years from Jehu to Jehoiakim. 35:11 1 Which declareth that they were not so bound to their vow, that it could not be broken for any necessity: for where they were commanded to dwell in tents, they dwell now at Jerusalem for fear of the wars. 35:13 1 Whom I have chosen to be my children, seeing these which were the children of an heathen man, obeyed the commandment of their father. 35:14 1 I have most diligently exhorted and warned you both by
myself and my Prophet. 35:17 1 That is, by his Prophets and ministers, which showeth that it is as much, as though he should speak to us himself, when he send eth his ministers to speak in his Name. 35:19 1 His posterity shall continue and be in my favor forever. 36:1 1 Read Jer. 25:1. 36:2 1 Which were twenty and three years, as Jer. 25:3, counting from the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign. 36:4 1 As he did indite. 36:5 1 Meaning, in prison, through the malice of the Priests. 36:6 1 Which was proclaimed for fear of the Babylonians, as their custom was when they feared war, or any great plague of God.
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7 It may be that they will 1pray before the Lord, and everyone return from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord hath declared against this people. 8 So Baruch the son of Neriah did according unto all, that Jeremiah the Prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house. 9 ¶ And in the fifth 1year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah King of Judah, in the ninth month, they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the Secretary, in the higher court at the entry of the 1new gate of the Lord's house in the hearing of all the people. 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord, 12 Then he went down to the King's house into the Chancellor's chamber, and lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the Chancellor, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read in the book in the audience of the people. 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll, wherein thou hast read in the audience of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. 15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it, that we may hear. So Baruch read it in their audience. 16 Now when they had heard all the words, they were 1afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will certify the King of all these words. 17 And they examined Baruch, saying, Tell us now, how didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, 1hide thee, thou and Jeremiah, and let no man know where ye be. 20 ¶ And they went in to the king to the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the Chancellor, and told the King all the words, that he might hear. 21 So the King sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he took it out of Elishama the Chancellor's chamber, and Jehudi read it in the audience of the King, and in the audience of all the princes, which stood beside the King. 22 Now the King sat in the winter house, in the 1ninth month, and there was a fire burning before him. 23 And when Jehudi had read three or four sides, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire, that was on the hearth. 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent 1their garments, neither the King, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. 25 Nevertheless, Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah had besought the King, that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. 26 But the King commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the Scribe, and Jeremiah the Prophet, but the Lord 1hid them. 27 ¶ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah (after that the King had burnt the roll and the words that Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah) saying, 28 Take thee again 1another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the King of Judah hath burnt, 29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim King of Judah, Thus saith the Lord, thou hast burnt this roll, saying, 1Why hast thou written therein, saying, That the King of Babel shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall take thence both man and beast?
36:7 1 He showeth that fasting without prayer and repentance, avail eth nothing, but is mere hypocrisy. 36:9 1 The fast was then proclaimed, and Baruch read this rule, which was a little before that Jerusalem was first taken, and then Jehoiakim, and Daniel and his companions were led away captives. 36:10 1 Which is the East gate of the Temple. 36:16 1 The godly were afraid, seeing God so offended, and the wicked were astonied for the horror of the punishment. 36:19 1 They that were godly among the princes gave this counsel, by whose means it is like that Jeremiah was delivered: for they knew the rage of the king and of the wicked to be such, that they could not
escape without danger of their lives. 36:22 1 Which contained part of November, and part of December. 36:24 1 Showing that the wicked instead of repenting when they hear God's judgments, grow into further malice against him and his word. 36:26 1 Thus we see the continual care, that God hath ever over his to preserve them from the rage of the wicked. 36:28 1 Though the wicked think to have abolished the word of God, when they have burnt the book thereof: yet this declareth that God will not only raise it up again, but also increase it in greater abun dance to their condemnation, as verse 32. 36:29 1 These are Jehoiakim's words.
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for they shall not depart. 10 For though ye had smitten the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained, but wounded men among them, yet should every man rise up in his tent, and burn this city with fire. 11 ¶ When the host of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem, because of Pharaoh's army, 12 Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the 1land of Benjamin, separating himself thence from among the people. 13 And when he was in the 1gate of Benjamin, there was a chief officer, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he took Jeremiah the Prophet, saying, Thou 2fleest to the Chaldeans. 14 Then said Jeremiah, That is false, I flee not to the Chaldeans: but he would not hear him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. 15 Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and laid him in prison in the house of Jehonathan the Scribe: for they had made that the 1prison. 16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the prisons, and had remained there a long time, 17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out, and the king asked him secretly, in his house, and said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, Yea: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babel. 18 Moreover, Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? 19 bWhere are now your prophets, which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babel shall not come against you, nor against this land? 20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the King: let my prayer be 1acceptable before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jehonathan the scribe, lest I die there. 21 Then Zedekiah the King commanded, that they should put Jeremiah in the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street until all the 1bread in the city were eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
30 Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim King of Judah, He shall have 1none to sit upon the throne of David, and his 2dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 31 And I will visit him and his seed, and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah all the evil that I have pronounced against them: but they would not hear. 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the Scribe the son of Neriah, which wrote therein at the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim King of Judah had burnt in the fire, and there were added besides them many like words. 37 1 Zedekiah succeedeth Jeconiah. 3 He sendeth unto Jeremiah to pray for him. 12 Jeremiah going into the land of Benjamin is taken. 15 He is beaten and put in prison.
chapter 37
a 2 Kings 24:17
2 Chron. 36:10 Jer. 52:1
b Jer. 28:4
1 And aKing Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned for
1Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel 2made king in the land of Judah. 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land would obey the words of the Lord which he spake by the 1ministry of the Prophet Jeremiah. 3 And Zedekiah the king 1sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the Priest to the Prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the Lord our God for us. 4 (Now Jeremiah went 1in and out among the people: for they had not put him into the prison. 5 Then Pharaoh's host was 1come out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, heard tidings of them, they 2departed from Jerusalem.) 6 Then came the word of the Lord unto the Prophet Jeremiah, saying, 7 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the King of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me, Behold, Pharaoh's host, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire. 9 Thus saith the Lord, 1Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us:
36:30 1 Though Jehoiachin his son succeeded him, yet because he reigned but three months, it was esteemed as no reign. 2 Read Jer. 22:19. 37:1 1 Who was called Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah. 2 And called him Zedekiah, whereas before his name was Matta niah, 2 Kings 24:17. 37:2 1 Hebrew, hand. 37:3 1 Because he was afraid of the Chaldeans that came against him. 37:4 1 That is, was out of prison, and at liberty. 37:5 1 To help the Jews.
2 Hebrew, went up. 37:9 1 Or, lift not up your minds. 37:12 1 As some think, to go to Anathoth his own town. 37:13 1 By the which men went into the country of Benjamin. 2 Hebrew, fallest. 37:15 1 Because it was a vile and straight prison. 37:20 1 Hebrew, fall. 37:21 1 That is, so long as there was any bread in the city: thus God provideth for his, that he will cause their enemies to preserve them to that end whereunto he hath appointed them.
787 Jeremiah 38:21 38 1 By the motion of the rulers Jeremiah is put into a dungeon. 14 At the request of Ebed-Melech the King commandeth Jeremiah to be brought forth of the dungeon. 17 Jeremiah showeth the King how he might escape death.
1with thee, and take Jeremiah the Prophet out of the dungeon before he die. 11 So Ebed-Melech took the men with him, and went to the house of the king under the treasury, and took there old rotten rags, and old worn clouts, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12 And Ebed-Melech the black Moor said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old rotten rags and worn, under thine arm holes, between the cords. And Jeremiah did so. 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon, and Jeremiah remained in the 1court of the prison. 14 ¶ Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the Prophet unto him, into the third entry that is in the House of the Lord, and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing: hide nothing from me. 15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not slay me? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hear me. 16 So the King sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us these souls, I will not slay thee, nor give thee into the hands of those men that seek thy life. 17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of hosts the God of Israel, If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babel's 1princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burnt up with fire, and thou shalt live, and thine house. 18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babel's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hands. 19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am careful for the Jews that are fled unto the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they 1mock me. 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee: hearken unto the voice of the Lord, I beseech thee, which I speak unto thee: so shall it be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live. 21 But if thou wilt refuse to go forth, this is the word that the Lord hath showed me.
1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of 1Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city, shall die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans, shall live: for he shall have his life for 1a prey, and shall live. 3 Thus saith the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babel's army, which shall take it. 4 Therefore the Princes said unto the king, We beseech you, let this man be put to death: for thus he 1weakeneth the hands of the men of war 2that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the wealth of this people, but the hurt. 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can deny 1you nothing. 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords: and in the dungeon there was no water but mire: so Jeremiah stuck fast in the mire. 7 Now when Ebed-Melech ye 1black Moor, one of the Eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon, (then the king sat in the 2gate of Benjamin) 8 And Ebed-Melech went out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, 9 My lord the king, 1these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the Prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he dieth for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the black Moor, saying, Take from hence thirty men
38:1 1 For Zedekiah had sent these to Jeremiah, to inquire at the Lord for the state of the country now when Nebuchadnezzar came, as Jer. 21:1. 38:2 1 Read Jer. 21:9 and 45:5. 38:4 1 Or, discourageth. 2 Thus we see how the wicked when they cannot abide to hear the truth of God's word, seek to put the ministers to death, as trans gressors of policies. 38:5 1 Wherein he grievously offended in that that not only he would not hear the truth spoken by the Prophet, but also gave him to the lusts of the wicked to be cruelly entreated.
38:7 1 Hebrew, Cushite, or Ethiopian. 2 To hear matters and give sentence. 38:9 1 Hereby is declared that the Prophet found more favor at this stranger's hands, than he did by all them of his country, which was to their great condemnation. 38:10 1 Hebrew, under thine hand. 38:13 1 Where the king had set him before to be at more liberty, as Jer. 37:21. 38:17 1 And yield thyself unto them. 38:19 1 Which declareth that he more feared the reproach of men, than the threatenings of God.
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22 And behold, all the women that are 1left in the king of Judah's house, shall be brought forth to the king of Babel's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have persuaded thee, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are fastened in the mire, and they are turned back. 23 So they shall bring out all thy wives, and thy children to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape out of their hands, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babel: and this city shalt thou cause to be burnt with fire. 24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die. 25 But if the princes understand that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now, what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not slay thee: also what the King said unto thee, 26 Then shalt thou say unto them, I humbly 1besought the king that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. 27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah and asked him, And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded: so they left off speaking with him, for the matter was not perceived. 28 So Jeremiah abode still in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken. 39 2 Nebuchadnezzar beseigeth Jerusalem. 4 Zedekiah fleeing, is taken of the Chaldeans. 6 His sons are slain. 7 His eyes are thrust out. 11 Jeremiah is provided for. 26 Ebed-Melech is delivered from captivity.
4 And when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, through the king's garden, and by the 1gate between the two walls, and he went toward the wilderness. 5 But the Chaldean's host pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the desert of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel unto 1Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. 6 Then the king of Babel slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babel slew all the nobles of Judah. 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in chains to carry him to Babel. 8 And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house, and the houses of the people with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 Then Nebuzaradan the 1chief steward carried away captive into Babel the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that were fled and fallen unto him, with the rest of the people that remained. 10 But Nebuzaradan the chief steward left the 1poor that had nothing in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. 11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel gave charge concerning Jeremiah 1unto Nebuzaradan the chief steward, saying, 12 Take him, and 1look well to him, and do him no harm, but do unto him 2even as he shall say unto thee. 13 So Nebuzaradan the chief steward sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergal-Sharezar, Rabmag, and all the King of Babel's princes: 14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto 1Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. 15 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 16 Go and speak to Ebed-Melech the black Moor, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel,
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1 In athe ninth year of Zedekiah King of Judah in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel and all his host against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken 1up. 3 And all the princes of the King of Babel came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babel.
38:22 1 When Jeconiah and his mother, with others, were carried away, these women of the king's house were left: which shall be taken, saith the Prophet, and tell the king of Babel how Zedekiah hath been seduced by his familiar friends and false prophets, which have left him in the mire. 38:26 1 Herein appeareth the infirmity of the Prophet, who did dis semble to save his life albeit it was not to the denial of his doctrine, or to the hurt of any. 39:2 1 The gates and walls were broken down. 39:4 1 Which was a postern door, read 2 Kings 25:4.
39:5 1 Which is called Antioch in Syria. 39:9 1 Or, captain of the guard. 39:10 1 For the rich and the mighty which put their trust in their shifts and means, were by God's just judgments most rigorously handled. 39:11 1 Hebrew, by the hand of. 39:12 1 Hebrew, set thine eyes upon them. 2 Thus God preserved his prophet by his means, whom he made the scourge to punish the king, and them that were his enemies. 39:14 1 Whom the King of Babel had now appointed governor over the rest of the Jews that he left behind.
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Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good, and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee. 17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord, and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men whom thou fearest. 18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee, because thou 1hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord. 40 Jeremiah hath license to go whither he will. 6 He dwelleth with the people that remain with Gedaliah.
that the king of Babel had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and that he had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, that were not carried away captive to Babel, 8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even 1Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai, the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of Maachathi, they and their men. 9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan asware unto them, and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babel, and it shall be well with you: 10 As for me, Behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to 1serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but you, gather you wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities, that ye have 2taken. 11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in 1Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babel had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, 12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits, very much. 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host, that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, 14 And said unto him, Knowest thou not that
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1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after that Nebuzaradan the chief steward had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babel. 2 1And the chief steward took Jeremiah and said unto him, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this plague upon this place. 3 Now the Lord hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have 1sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. 4 And now behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were on thine hands: if it please thee to come with me into Babel, come, and I will look well unto thee: but if it please thee not to come with me into Babel, 1tarry still: behold, all the land is 2before thee: whither it seemeth good, and convenient for thee to go, thither go. 5 For yet he was not returned: therefore he said, Return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babel hath made governor over all the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people, or go wheresoever it pleaseth thee to go. So the chief steward gave him vittles and a reward, and let him go. 6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to 1Mizpah, and dwelt there with him among the people that were left in the land. 7 Now when all the captains of the host, 1which were in the fields, even they and their men heard,
1Baalis the King of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it. Wherefore should he kill thee, that all the Jews, which are gathered unto thee, should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish? 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt 1not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
39:18 1 Thus God recompensed his zeal and favor, which he showed to his Prophet in his troubles. 40:2 1 From this second verse unto Jer. 42:7, it seemeth to be as a parenthesis, and separated matter: and there this story beginneth again, and this vision is declared what it was. 40:3 1 God moved this infidel to speak this to declare the great blindness and obstinacy of the Jews, which could not feel that which this heathen man confessed. 40:4 1 Hebrew, cease. 2 Or, at thy commandment.
40:6 1 Which was a city of Judah. 40:7 1 Which were scattered abroad for fear of the Chaldeans. 40:8 1 Who was of the king's blood and after slew him, Jer. 41:2. 40:10 1 Or, to receive them, or to entreat them for you. 2 Or, chosen to dwell in. 40:11 1 Which were fled also for fear of the Chaldeans. 40:14 1 For under the color of entertaining of Ishmael, he sought only to make them destroy one another. 40:16 1 Thus the godly, which think no harm to others, are soonest deceived, and never lack such as conspire their destruction.
Jeremiah 41:1 790 41 2 Ishmael killeth Gedaliah guilefully, and many others with him. 11 Johanan followeth after Ishmael.
tive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites. 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the 1captains of the host that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 12 Then they all took their men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. 13 Now when all the people whom Ishmael carried away captive, saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host, that were with him, they were glad. 14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah, returned and came again, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah. 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the 1Ammonites. 16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host that were with him, all the remnant of the people, whom Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had carried away captive from Mizpah, (after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam) even the strong men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon. 17 And they departed and dwelt in Geruth 1Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go and to enter into Egypt, 18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they feared them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babel made governor in the land. 42 1 The captains ask counsel of Jeremiah what they ought to do. 7 He admonisheth the remnant of the people not to go into Egypt.
1 But in the 1seventh month came Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama of the seed royal, and the princes of the 2king, and ten men with him, unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and there they did 3eat bread together in Mizpah. 2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah with these ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him whom the king of Babel had made governor over the land. 3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and all the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war. 4 Now the second day that he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it, 5 There came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent and cut, with 1offerings and incense in their hands to offer in the house of the Lord. 6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping, as he went: and when he met them, he said unto them, Come 1to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. 7 And when they came into the midst of the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he and the men that were with him. 8 But ten men were found among them, that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey: so he stayed, and slew them not among their brethren. 9 Now the [pit] wherein Ishmael had cast the dead bodies of the men (whom he had slain because of Gedaliah) is it, which Asa the king had 1made because of Baasha king of Israel, and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain. 10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the King's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief steward had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away cap-
1 Then all the captains of the host, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Ho shaiah, and all the people from the least unto the most, came, 2 And said unto Jeremiah the Prophet, 1Hear our prayer, we beseech thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant (for we are left, but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold) 3 That the Lord thy God may show us the way
41:1 1 The city was destroyed in the fourth month: and in the sev enth month, which contained part of September, and part of Octo ber, was the governor Gedaliah slain. 2 Meaning, Zedekiah. 3 They did eat together as familiar friends. 41:5 1 For they thought that the Temple had not been destroyed and therefore came up to the feast of Tabernacles: but hearing of the burning thereof in the way, they showed these signs of sorrow. 41:6 1 For his death was kept secret, and he feigned that he lament
for the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple: but after slew them when they seemed to favor Gedaliah. 41:9 1 Asa fortified Mizpah for fear of the enemy, and cast ditches and trenches, 1 Kings 15:22. 41:11 1 Which had been captains under Zedekiah. 41:15 1 For Baalis the king of the Ammonites was the cause of this murder. 41:17 1 Which place David of old had given to Chimham the son of Barzillai the Gileadite, 2 Sam. 19:38. 42:2 1 Hebrew, Let our prayer fall before thee, as Jer. 36:7
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Egypt, and go to dwell there,) 16 Then the sword that ye feared, 1shall take you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, for the which ye care, shall there hang upon you in Egypt, and there shall ye die. 17 And all the men that set their faces to enter into Egypt to dwell there, shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, and none of them shall remain, nor escape from the plague, that I will bring upon them. 18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be a detestation, and an astonishment, and a 1curse, and a reproach, and ye shall see this place no more. 19 O ye remnant of Judah, the Lord hath said concerning you, Go not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. 20 Surely ye 1dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God, and declare unto us even according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, and we will do it. 21 Therefore I have this day declared it you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor anything for the which he hath sent me unto you. 22 Now therefore, know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence 1in the place whither ye desire to go and dwell. 43 Johanan carrieth the remnant of the people into Egypt, contrary to the mind of Jeremiah. 8 Jeremiah prophesieth the destruction of Egypt.
wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may 1do. 4 Then Jeremiah the Prophet said unto them, I have heard you: behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words, and whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you: I will keep nothing back from you. 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, 1The Lord be a witness of truth, and faith between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us. 6 Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord God, to whom we send thee, that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God. 7 ¶ 1And so after ten days came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah. 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host, which were with him, and all the people from the least to the most, 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your prayers before him, 10 If ye will dwell in this land, then I will build you, and not destroy you, and I will plant you, and not root you out: for I 1repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. 11 Fear not for the king of Babel, of whom ye are afraid: be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you 1from his hand, 12 And I will grant you mercy that he may have compassion upon you, and he shall cause you to 1dwell in your own land. 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither hear the voice of the Lord your God, 14 Saying, Nay, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread, and there will we dwell, 15 (And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah: thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, If ye set your faces to enter into
1 Now when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto the whole people all the words of the Lord their God, for the which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words, 2 Then spake 1Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the 2proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, 3Thou speakest falsely:
42:3 1 This declareth the nature of hypocrites, which would know of God's word what they should do, but will not follow it, but inasmuch as it agreeth with that thing, which they have purposed to do. 42:5 1 There are none more ready to abuse the Name of God and take it in vain, than the hypocrites, which to color their falsehood use it without all reverence, and make it a means for them to deceive the simple and the godly. 42:7 1 Here is declared the vision and the occasion thereof, whereof mention was made, Jer. 40:1. 42:10 1 Read Jer. 18:8. 42:11 1 Because all kings' hearts and ways are in his hands, he can turn them and dispose them as it pleaseth him, and therefore they need not to fear man, but only obey God, Prov. 21:1. 42:12 1 Or, return.
42:16 1 Thus God turneth the policy of the wicked to their own destruction: for they thought themselves sure in Egypt, and there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed them and the Egyptians, Jer. 46:25. 42:18 1 Read Jer. 26:6 and 24:12, showing that this should come upon them for their infidelity and stubbornness. 42:20 1 For ye were fully minded to go into Egypt, whatsoever God spake to the contrary. 42:22 1 To wit, in Egypt. 43:2 1 Who was also called Jezaniah, Jer. 42:1. 2 This declareth that pride is the cause of rebellion: and contempt of God's ministers. 3 When the hypocrisy of the wicked is discovered, they burst forth into open rage: for they can abide nothing but flattery, read Isa. 30:10.
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the Lord our God hath 4not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to dwell there, 3 But Baruch the son of Neriah 1provoketh thee against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might slay us, and carry us away captives into Babel. 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host, and all the people obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Judah. 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host took all the remnant of Judah that were returned from all 1nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah: 6 Even men and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the chief steward had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the 1Prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. 7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: thus came they to 1Tahpanhes. 8 ¶ Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 Take great stones in thine hand, and 1hide them in the clay in the brick kiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes in the sight of the men of Judah, 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel 1my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his pavilion over them. 11 And when he shall come, he shall smite the land of Egypt: 1such as are appointed for death, to death, and such as are for captivity, to captivity, and such as are for the sword, to the sword. 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captives, and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a 1shepherd putteth on his garment, and shall depart from thence in peace. 13 He shall break also the images of 1Beth Shemesh,
that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire. 44 He reproveth the people for their idolatry. 15 They that set light by the threatening of the Lord, are chastened. 26 The destruction of Egypt, and of the Jews therein, is prophesied.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews, which dwell in the land of Egypt, and remained at Migdol and at 1Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah: and behold, this day they are desolate and no man dwelleth therein, 3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to anger in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods whom they knew not, neither they nor you, nor your fathers. 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the Prophets 1rising early, and sending them, saying, Oh do not this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But they would not hear nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, and to burn no more incense unto other gods. 6 Wherefore 1my wrath, and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they are desolate, and wasted, as appeareth this day. 7 Therefore now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling out of Judah, and leave you none to remain? 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell: that ye might bring destruction unto yourselves, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all nations of the earth. 9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers,
43:2 4 He showeth what is the nature of the hypocrites: to wit, to feign that they would obey God and embrace his word, if they were assured that his messenger spake the truth: though indeed they be most far from all obedience. 43:3 1 Thus the wicked do not only contemn and hurt the messen gers of God, but slander, and speak wickedly of all them that support or favor the godly. 43:5 1 As from the Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites, Jer. 40:11. 43:6 1 Whom these wicked lead away by force. 43:7 1 A city in Egypt near to Nilus. 43:9 1 Which signified that Nebuchadnezzar should come even to the gates of Pharaoh, where were his brick kilns for his buildings. 43:10 1 Read Jer. 25:9.
43:11 1 Everyone shall be slain by that means that God hath appointed, Jer. 15:2. 43:12 1 Meaning, most easily and suddenly shall he carry the Egyp tians away. 43:13 1 Or, the house of the Sun. 44:1 1 These were all famous and strange cities in Egypt, where the Jews that were fled, dwelt for their safety: but the Prophet declareth that there is no hold so strong that can preserve them from God's vengeance. 44:4 1 Read Jer. 7:25; 25:3; 36:5; 29:19 and 32:33. 44:6 1 He setteth before their eyes God's judgments against Judah and Jerusalem for their idolatry, that they might beware by their example, and not with the like wickedness provoke the Lord: for then they should be double punished.
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kings and our princes in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then 2had we 3plenty of vittles and were well and 4felt none evil. 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have had 1scarceness of all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 19 And when we burnt incense unto the Queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes 1to make her glad, and pour out drink offerings unto her without 2our husbands? 20 Then said Jeremiah unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, 21 Did not the Lord remember the incense, that ye burnt in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, both you and your fathers, your kings, and your Princes, and the people of the land, and 1hath he not considered it? 22 So that the Lord could no longer forbear, because of the wickedness of your inventions, and because of the abominations, which ye have committed: therefore is your land desolate, and an astonishment, and a curse, and without inhabitant, as appeareth this day. 23 Because you have burnt incense, and because ye have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies, therefore this plague is come upon you, as appeareth this day. 24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people and to all the women, Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah, that are in the land of Egypt. 25 ¶ Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your 1hand, saying, We will perform our vows that we have vowed to burn incense to the Queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: ye will perform
and the wickedness of the 1kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not 1humbled unto this day, neither have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will set my face against you ato evil, and to destroy all Judah, 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah that 1have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt there to dwell, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt: they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die from the least unto the most, by the sword, and by the famine and they shall be a detestation and an astonishment, and a 2curse and a reproach. 13 For I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah to the which they 1have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but 2such as shall escape. 15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burnt incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the Name of the Lord, we will 1not hear it of thee, 17 But we will do whatsoever thing goeth out of our own mouth, as to burn incense unto 1the Queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, both we and our fathers, our
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44:9 1 He showeth that we ought to keep in memory God's plagues from the beginning, that considering them, we might live in his fear, and know if he have not spared our fathers, yea, kings, princes, and rulers, and also whole countries, and nations for their sins, that we vile worms, cannot look to escape punishment for ours. 44:10 1 Or, beaten down. 44:12 1 Which have fully set their minds, and are gone thither on purpose. Whereby he excepteth the innocents, as Jeremiah and Baruch that were forced: therefore the Lord showeth that he will set his face against them: that is, purposely destroy them. 2 Read Jer. 26:6 and 41:18. 44:14 1 Hebrew, lift up their souls. 2 Meaning, but a few. 44:16 1 This declareth how dangerous a thing it is to decline once from God, and to follow our own fantasies: for Satan ever soliciteth such, and doth not leave them till he have brought them to extreme impudency and madness, even to justify their wickedness against God and his Prophets. 44:17 1 Read Jer. 7:18, it seemeth that the Papists gathered of this
place Salve Regina, and Regina caeli latare, calling the virgin Mary Queen of heaven, and so of the blessed virgin and mother of our Savior Christ, made an idol: for here the Prophet condemneth their idolatry. 2 Hebrew, we were satiated with bread. 3 This is still the argument of idolaters, which esteem religion by the belly, and instead of acknowledging God's works, who sendeth both plenty and dearth, health and sickness, they attribute it to their idols, and so dishonor God. 4 Or, saw. 44:18 1 Or, want. 44:19 1 Or, to appease her. 2 This teacheth us how great danger it is for the husbands to per mit their wives anything whereof they be not assured by God's word: for thereby they take an occasion to justify their doings, and their husbands shall give an account thereof before God, read Isa. 3:25. 44:21 1 Hebrew, is it not come up into his heart? 44:25 1 You have committed double evil in making wicked vows, and in performing the same.
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your vows, and do the things that ye have vowed. 26 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt, Behold, I have sworn by my great Name, saith the Lord, that my Name 1shall no more be called upon by the mouth of any man of Judah, in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liveth. 27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good, and all men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine, until they be utterly destroyed. 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword, 1shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah: and all the remnant of Judah that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine or theirs. 29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, when I visit you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil. 30 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will 1give Pharaoh Hophra King of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life: as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel his enemy, who also sought his life. 45 2 Jeremiah comforteth Baruch, assuring him that he should not perish in the destruction of Jerusalem.
thus, Behold, that which I have built, will I 1destroy, and that which I have planted, will I pluck up, even this whole land. 5 And seekest 1thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for behold, I will bring a plague upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give thee for 2a prey in all places, whither thou goest. 46 He prophesieth the destruction of Egypt. 27 Deliverance is promised to Israel.
1 The words of the Lord, which came to Jeremiah the Prophet against the 1Gentiles, 2 As against Egypt, against the army of 1Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Perath in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. 3 1Make ready buckler and shield, and go forth to battle. 4 Make ready the horses, and let the horsemen get up, and stand up with your sallets, furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. 5 1Wherefore have I seen them afraid, and driven back? for their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord. 6 The swift shall not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and 1fall toward the North by the river Perath. 7 Who is this that cometh up as 1a flood, whose waters are moved like the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like the flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers, and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city with them that dwell therein. 9 Come up ye horses, and rage ye chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, 1the black Moors, and the Libyans that bear the shield, and the Lydians that handle and bend the bow.
1 The word that Jeremiah the Prophet spake unto
1Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these 2words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto thee, O Baruch, 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now: for the Lord hath laid sorrow unto my sorrow: I 1fainted in my mourning, and I can find no rest. 4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith
44:26 1 This declareth an horrible plague toward idolaters, seeing that God will not vouchsafe to have his Name mentioned by such as have polluted it. 44:28 1 We see therefore that God hath a perpetual care over his, wheresoever they are scattered: for though they be but two or three, yet he will deliver them when he destroyeth his enemies. 44:30 1 He showeth the means whereby they should be destroyed to assure them of the certainty of the plague, and yet they remain still in their obstinacy till they perish: for Josephus, lib. 10, de Antiq., cap. 11, writeth that five years after the taking of Jerusalem, Nebu chadnezzar the younger having overcome the Moabites and the Ammonites, went against Egypt, and slew the king, and so brought these Jews and others into Babylon. 45:1 1 Which was Jeremiah's disciple, and wrote his prophecies under him. 2 Whereof read Jer. 36:9, 10. 45:3 1 Baruch moved with an inconsiderate zeal of Jeremiah's
imprisonment, but chiefly for the destruction of the people, and the Temple, maketh this lamentation, as Ps. 6:6. 45:4 1 Meaning, that God might destroy this people, because he had planted them. 45:5 1 Thinkest thou to have honor and credit? wherein he showeth his infirmity. 2 Read Jer. 21:9. 46:1 1 That is, nine nations, which are round about the land of Egypt. 46:2 1 Read 2 Kings 23:29 and 24:7; 2 Chron. 35:20. 46:3 1 He warneth the Egyptians to prepare themselves to war. 46:5 1 The Prophet had this vision of the Egyptians, which should be put to flight by the Babylonians at Carchemish. 46:6 1 The Babylonians shall discomfit them at the river Euphrates. 46:7 1 He derideth the boastings of the Egyptians, who thought by their riches and power to have overcome all the world, alluding to the river Nilus, which at certain times overfloweth the country of Egypt. 46:9 1 For these nations took part with the Egyptians.
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10 ¶ For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, and a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies: for the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate, and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath 1a sacrifice in the North country 2by the river Perath. 11 Go up unto Gilead, 1and take balm, 2O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many 3medicines: for thou shalt have no health. 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and they are fallen both together. 13 ¶ The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the Prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Publish in Egypt and declare in Migdol, and proclaim in Noph, and in Tahpanhes, and say, Stand still and prepare thee, for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15 Why are thy valiant men put back? they could not stand, because the Lord did drive them. 16 He made many to fall, and one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, let us go again to our 1own people, and to the land of our nativity from the sword of the violent. 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt, and of a great multitude, 1hath passed the time appointed. 18 As I live, saith the King, whose Name is the Lord of hosts, surely as Tabor is in the mountains, and as Carmel is in the sea: so shall 1it come. 19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee gear to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant. 20 Egypt is like a 1fair calf, but destruction cometh: out of the North it cometh. 21 Also her hired men 1are in the midst of her like fat calves: they are also turned back and fled away together: they could not stand, because the day of their destruction was come upon them, and the time
of their visitation. 22 The voice thereof shall go forth like a 1serpent: for they shall march with an army, and come against 2her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23 They shall cut down 1her forest, saith the Lord: for they cannot be counted, because they are more than the 2grasshoppers, and are innumerable. 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded: she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the North. 25 ¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will visit thy 1common people of No and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him, 26 And I will deliver them into the hands of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hands of his servants, and afterward she shall dwell as 1in the old time, saith the Lord. 27 ¶ 1But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not thou afraid, O Israel: for behold, I will deliver thee from a far country, and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and be in rest, and prosperity, and none shall make him afraid. 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord, for I am with thee, and I will utterly destroy all the nations, whither I have driven thee: but I will not utterly destroy thee, but correct 1thee by judgment, and not utterly cut thee off. 47 The word of the Lord against the Philistines.
1 The words of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the Prophet, against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote 1Gaza. 2 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, waters rise up out of the 1North, and shall be as a swelling flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein, and the cities with them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,
46:10 1 He calleth the slaughter of God's enemies a sacrifice, because it is a thing that doth please him, Isa. 34:6. 2 That is, at Carchemish. 46:11 1 For at Gilead did grow most sovereign balm for wounds. 2 So called, because Egypt had not yet been overcome by the enemy. 3 He showeth that no salve or medicine can prevail whereas God giveth the wound. 46:16 1 As they that should repent that they helped the Egyptians. 46:17 1 He derideth them which shall impute their overthrow to lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune, and not observing of time: not considering that it is God's just judgment. 46:18 1 To wit, that the Egyptians shall be destroyed. 46:20 1 They have abundance of all things, and therefore are disobe dient and proud. 46:21 1 As verse 9.
46:22 1 They shall be scarce able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans. 2 Meaning, Egypt. 46:23 1 That is, they shall slay the great and mighty men of power. 2 To wit, Nebuchadnezzar's army. 46:25 1 Some take the Hebrew word Amon for the King's name of No, that is, of Alexandria. 46:26 1 Meaning, that after the space of forty years Egypt should be restored, Isa. 19:23; Ezek. 29:13. 46:27 1 God comforteth all his that were in captivity, but specially the small Church of the Jews, whereof were Jeremiah and Baruch, which remained among the Egyptians: for the Lord never forsaketh his, Isa. 44:2; Jer. 30:10. 46:28 1 Read Jer. 10:14. 47:1 1 Which was also called Gaza, a city of the Philistines. 47:2 1 He meaneth the army of the Chaldeans, Isa. 8:7, 8.
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3 At the noise and stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the noise of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels: 1the fathers shall not look back to their children, for feebleness of 2hands, 4 Because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, and to destroy Tyre, and Sidon, and all the rest that take their part: for the Lord will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of 1Caphtor. 5 1Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ashkelon is cut up with the rest of their valleys. How long wilt 2thou cut thyself? 6 O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be or thou cease! turn again into thy scabbard, rest and be still. 7 How can it 1cease, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea bank? even there hath he appointed it. 48 The word of the Lord against the Moabites. 26 Because of their pride and cruelty.
6 Flee and save your lives, and be like unto the 1heath in the wilderness. 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy 1works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken, and 2Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his Priests and his Princes together. 8 And the destroyer shall come upon all cities, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish and the plain shall be destroyed as the Lord hath spoken. 9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. 10 1Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord 2negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. 11 Moab hath been at rest from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been 1poured from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed. 12 ¶ Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send unto him such as shall carry him away, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of 1Bethel their confidence. 14 How think you thus, We are mighty and strong men of war? 15 Moab is destroyed, and his cities 1burnt up, and his chosen young men are gone down to slaughter, saith the King, whose name is, The Lord of hosts. 16 The destruction of Moab is ready to come, and his plague hasteth fast. 17 All ye that are about him, mourn for him, and all ye that know his name, say, 1How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come
1 Concerning Moab, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Woe unto 1Nebo: for it is wasted: Kirjathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and afraid. 2 Moab shall boast no more of Heshbon: for they have devised evil against it. 1Come, and let us destroy it, that it be no more a nation: also thou shalt be destroyed, 2O Madmen, and the sword shall pursue thee. 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim with desolation and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed: her little ones have caused their cry to be heard. 5 For at the going up of 1Luhith, the mourner shall go up with weeping: for in the going down of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
47:3 1 The great fear shall take away their natural affection. 2 Their heart shall so fail them. 47:4 1 For the Caphtorims, which are also called Cappadocians, had destroyed in old time the Philistines, and dwelt in their land even to Gaza, Deut. 2:23. 47:5 1 They that pilled off their hair for sorrow and heaviness. 2 As the heathen used in their mourning, which the Lord forbade his people to do, Deut. 14:1. 47:7 1 Meaning, that it is not possible that the wicked should by any means escape or stay the Lord, when he will take vengeance. 48:1 1 These were cities of the Moabites, which Nebuchadnezzar took before he went to fight against Necho king of Egypt. 48:2 1 Thus shall the Babylonians encourage one another. 2 Read Isa. 25:10. 48:5 1 Horonaim and Luhith were two places whereby the Moabites should flee, Isa. 15:5. 48:6 1 Hide yourselves in barren places, where the enemy will not pursue after you, Jer. 17:6.
48:7 1 That is, the idols which are the works of thine hands. Some read, in thy possessions, for so the word may signify, as 1 Sam. 25:2. 2 Both thy great idol and his maintainers shall be led away cap tives, so that they shall then know that it is in vain to look for help at idols, Isa. 15:2. 48:10 1 He showeth that God would punish the Chaldeans, if they did not destroy the Egyptians, and that with a courage, and call eth this executing of his vengeance against his enemies, his work: though the Chaldeans sought another end, Isa. 10:11. 2 Or, deceitfully. 48:11 1 Hath not been removed as the Jews have, but have lived at ease, and as a wine that feedeth itself on his lees. 48:13 1 As the calf of Bethel was not able to deliver the Israelites: no more shall Chemosh deliver the Moabites. 48:15 1 Hebrew, gone up, or destroyed. 48:17 1 How are they destroyed that put their trust in their strength and riches?
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down from thy glory, and sit in thirst: for the destroyer of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strongholds. 19 Thou that dwellest in Aroer, stand by the way, and behold ask him that fleeth and that escapeth, and say, What is done? 20 1Moab is confounded: for it is destroyed, howl and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is made waste, 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon Holon and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath, 22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon the house of Diblathaim, 23 And upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth Gamul, and upon Beth Meon, 24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab far or near. 25 The 1horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord. 26 Make ye him 1drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord: Moab shall 2wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 27 For didst not thou deride Israel, as though he had been found among thieves? for when thou speakest of him, thou art 1moved. 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rocks, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. 29 aWe have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceeding proud) his stoutness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, saith the Lord, 1but it shall not be so: and his dissimulations, for they do not right. 31 1Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab: mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir Heres. 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee, as I wept for Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they are come to the sea 1of Jazer: the destroyer is fallen upon thy summer fruits, and upon thy vintage, 33 And joy, and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab: and I have caused wine to fail from the winepress: none shall tread with
shouting: their shouting shall be no shouting. 34 From the cry of Heshbon unto Elealeh and unto Jahaz have they made their noise: from Zoar unto Horonaim, the 1heifer of three years old shall go lowing: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be wasted. 35 Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods. 36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like a 1shawm, and mine heart shall sound like a shawm for the men of Kir Heres, because the riches that he hath gotten is perished. 37 bFor every head shall be 1bald, and every beard plucked: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. 38 And mourning shall be upon all the house tops of Moab, and in all the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is he destroyed? how hath Moab turned the back with shame? so shall Moab be a derision, and a fear to all them about him. 40 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, 1he shall flee as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. 41 The cities are taken, and the strongholds are won, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in travail. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath set up himself against the Lord: 43 1Fear, and pit, and snare shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord. 44 He that escapeth from the fear, shall fall in the pit, and he that getteth up out of the pit, shall be taken [in] the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. 45 They that fled, stood under the shadow 1of Heshbon, because of the force: for 2the fire came out of Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon, and devoured the corner of Moab, and the top of the seditious children. 46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab: the people of
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48:20 1 Thus they that flee, shall answer. 48:25 1 That is, his power and strength. 48:26 1 He willed the Chaldeans to lay afflictions enough upon them, till they be like drunken men that fall down to their shame and are derided of all. 2 Or, shall be full, or clap his hands. 48:27 1 Thou rejoicest to hear of his misery. 48:30 1 He shall not execute his malice against his neighbors. 48:31 1 Read Isa. 16:7. 48:32 1 Which city was in the utmost border of Moab: and hereby he signifieth that the whole land should be destroyed, and the people
carried away. 48:34 1 Read Isa. 15:5. 48:36 1 Their custom was to play on flutes or instruments, heavy and grave tunes at burials and in the time of mourning, as Matt. 9:23. 48:37 1 Or, shaven. 48:40 1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar, as Jer. 49:22. 48:43 1 He that escapeth one danger shall be taken of another, Isa. 24:17. 48:45 1 They fled thither, thinking to have succor of the Amorites. 2 The Amorites had destroyed the Moabites in times past, and now because of their power, the Moabites shall seek to them for help.
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his visitation. 9 If the 1grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some grapes? if thieves come by night, they will destroy till they have enough. 10 For I have discovered Esau: I have uncovered his secrets, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is wasted, and his brethren and his neighbors, and there shall be none to say, 11 Leave thy 1fatherless children, and I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me. 12 For thus saith the Lord, 1Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, have assuredly drunken, and art thou he that shall escape free? thou shalt not go free, but thou shalt surely drink of it. 13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that 1Bozrah shall be waste, and for a reproach, and a desolation, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual desolations. 14 I have heard a rumor from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather you together, and come against 1her, and rise up to the battle. 15 For lo, I will make thee but small among the heathen, and despised among men. 16 Thy 1fear, and the pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and keepest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. 17 Also Edom shall be desolate: everyone that goeth by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof, 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and of Gomorrah, and the places thereof near about, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the sons of men remain in it. 19 Behold, 1he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the strong dwelling place: for I will make Israel to rest, even I will make 2him to haste away from her, and who is a chosen man
1Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters led into captivity. 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the 1latter days, saith the Lord. Thus far of the judgment of Moab. 49 1 The word of the Lord against the Ammonites, 7 Edom, 23 Damascus, 28 Kedar, 34 and Elam.
1 Unto the children of 1Ammon thus saith the Lord, Hath Israel no sons? or hath he none heir? Why then hath their king 2possessed Gad? and his people dwelt in 3his cities? 2 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will cause a noise of war to be heard in 1Rabbah of the Ammonites, and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel possess those that possessed him, saith the Lord. 3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted: cry ye daughters of Rabbah: gird you with sackcloth: mourn and run to and fro by the hedges: for their king shall go into captivity; and his Priests, and his Princes likewise. 4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the 1valleys? thy valley floweth away, O rebellious daughter: she trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? 5 Behold, I will bring 1a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, of all those that be about thee, and ye shall be scattered every man 2right forth, and none shall gather him that fleeth. 6 And 1afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon. 7 ¶ To Edom thus saith the Lord of hosts, Is wisdom no more in 1Teman? is counsel perished from their children? is their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee, ye inhabitants of Dedan (1they are turned back, and have consulted to dwell) for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon him, and the time of
48:46 1 Which vaunted themselves of their idol, as though he could have defended them. 48:47 1 That is, they shall be restored by the Messiah. 49:1 1 They were separated from the Moabites by the river Arnon, and after that the ten tribes were carried away into captivity, they invaded the country of Gad. 2 To wit, of the Ammonites. 3 Meaning, of the Israelites. 49:2 1 Which was one of the chief cities of the Ammonites, as were Hesh bon and Ai: there was also a city called Heshbon among the Moabites. 49:4 1 In thy plentiful country. 49:5 1 Signifying, that power and riches cannot prevail, when as God will execute his judgments. 2 That is, without looking back, and as everyone can find a way to escape. 49:6 1 In the time of Christ, when the Gentiles shall be called. 49:7 1 Which was a city of Edom, called by the name of Teman Eli
phaz' son, who came of Esau. 49:8 1 The enemies that shall dissemble as though they fled away, shall turn back and invade your land, and possess it. 49:9 1 Meaning, that God would utterly destroy them, and not spare one, though the grape gatherers leave some grapes, and thieves seek but till they have enough, Obad. 1:5. 49:11 1 The destruction shall be so great, that there shall be none left to take care over the widows and the fatherless. 49:12 1 I have not spared mine own people, and how should I pity thee? 49:13 1 Which was a chief city of Edom. 49:14 1 That is, Bozrah. 49:16 1 Or, idol. 49:19 1 To wit, Nebuchadnezzar after he hath overcome Judah, which is meant by the swelling of Jordan, shall come against mount Seir and Edom. 2 That is, the Israelites, whom the Edomites kept as prisoners, to haste away from thence.
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that I may appoint against her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is the 3shepherd that will stand before me? 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that he hath devised against Edom, and his purpose that he hath conceived, against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least 1of the flock shall draw them out: surely 2he shall make their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their voice is heard in the red sea. 22 Behold, he shall come up, and fly as the eagle, 1and spread his wings over Bozrah, and at that day shall the heart of the strong men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in travail. 23 ¶ Unto 1Damascus he saith, Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard evil tidings, and they are faint hearted as one on the fearful sea that can not rest: 24 Damascus is discouraged, and turneth herself to flight, 1and fear hath seized her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail. 25 How is the glorious 1city not reserved, the city of my joy? 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, which shall consume the palaces of 1Ben-Hadad. 28 Unto 1Kedar, and to the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel shall smite, thus saith the Lord, Arise, and go up unto Kedar, and destroy the men of the East. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: yea, they shall take to themselves their 1curtains and all their vessels, and their camels, and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. 30 Flee, get you far off (1they have consulted to dwell) O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord: for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel hath taken counsel against you, and hath devised a purpose against you.
31 1Arise, and get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwelleth without care, saith the Lord, which have neither gates nor bars, but dwell alone. 32 And their camels shall be a bootie, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil, and I will scatter them into all winds, and to the utmost corners, and I will bring their destruction from all the sides thereof, saith the Lord. 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and desolation forever: there shall no man dwell there, nor the sons of men remain in it. 34 ¶ The words of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the Prophet, concerning 1Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will break the 1bow of Elam, even the chief of their strength. 36 And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them towards all these winds, and there shall be no nation, whither the fugitives of Elam shall not come. 37 For I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and before them that seek their lives, and will bring upon them a plague, even the indignation of my wrath, saith the Lord, and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them. 38 And I will set my 1throne in Elam, and I will destroy both the king and the princes from thence, saith the Lord: but 2in the latter days I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord. 50 He prophesieth the destruction of Babylon, and the deliverance of Israel which was in captivity.
1 The word that the Lord spake concerning Babel, and concerning the land of the Chaldeans by the 1ministry of Jeremiah the Prophet. 2 Declare among the nations, and publish it, and set up a standard, proclaim it and conceal it not: say, 1Babel is taken, Bel is confounded, 2Merodach is broken down: her idols are confounded, and their images are burst in pieces.
3 The captain and governor of the army, meaning, Nebuchad nezzar. 49:20 1 They shall not be able to resist his petty captains. 2 To visit, the enemy. 49:22 1 As Jer. 48:40, was said of Moab. 49:23 1 Which was the chief city of Syria, whereby he meaneth the whole country. 49:24 1 When she heard the sudden coming of the enemy. 49:25 1 He speaketh this in the person of the king and of them of the country, who shall wonder to see Damascus the chief city destroyed. 49:27 1 Who was king of Syria, 1 Kings 20:26, and had built these palaces, which were still called the palaces of Ben-Hadad. 49:28 1 Meaning, the Arabians, and their borderers. 49:29 1 Because they used to dwell in tents, he nameth the things that pertain thereunto.
49:30 1 The enemies will dwell in your places. 49:31 1 He showeth that they of Hazor will flee to the Arabians for succor, but that shall not avail them. 49:34 1 That is, Persia, so called of Elam the son of Shem. 49:35 1 Because the Persians were good archers, he showeth that the thing wherein they put their trust, should not profit them. 49:38 1 I will place Nebuchadnezzar there, and in these prophecies Jeremiah speaketh of those countries, which should be subdued under the first of those four monarchies whereof Daniel maketh mention. 2 This may be referred to the Empire of Persians and Medes after the Chaldeans, or unto the time of Christ, as Jer. 48:47. 50:1 1 Hebrew, hands. 50:2 1 After that God had used the Babylonians' service to punish other nations, he showeth that their turn shall come to be punished. 2 These were two of their chief idols.
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14 1Put yourselves in array against Babel round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath 2sinned against the Lord. 15 Cry against her round about: she hath 1given her hand: her foundations are fallen, and her walls are destroyed: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, do unto her. 16 Destroy the 1sower from Babel, and him that handleth the scythe in the time of harvest: because of the sword of the oppressor they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land. 17 Israel is like scattered sheep: the lions have dispersed them: first the king of 1Assyria hath devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel hath broken his 2bones. 18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Behold, I will visit the king of Babel, and his land, as I have visited the King of Assyria. 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon the mount Ephraim and Gilead. 20 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful unto them whom I reserve. 21 Go up against the land of the 1rebels, even against it and against the inhabitants aof 2Pekod: destroy, and lay it waste after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A cry of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the 1hammer of the whole world destroyed, and broken! how is Babel become desolate among the nations! 24 I have snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord. 25 The Lord hath opened his treasure, and hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
3 For out of the North 1there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land waste, and none shall dwell therein: they shall flee, and depart, both man and beast. 4 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall 1come, they, and the children of Judah together, going, and 2weeping shall they go, and seek the Lord their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us cleave to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. 6 ¶ My people hath been as lost sheep: their 1shepherds have caused them to go astray, and have turned them away to the mountains: they have gone from 2mountain to hill, and forgotten their resting place. 7 All that found them have devoured them, and their enemies said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, 1the habitation of justice, even the Lord the hope of their fathers. 8 1Flee from the midst of Babel, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be ye as the he goats 2before the flock. 9 For lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babel a multitude of mighty nations from the North country, and they shall set themselves in array against her, whereby she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a strong man, which is expert, for none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her, 1shall be satisfied, saith the Lord. 11 Because you were glad and rejoiced in destroying mine heritage, and because ye are grown fat, as the calves in the grass, 1and neighed like strong horses, 12 Therefore your mother shall be sore confounded, and she that bare you shall be ashamed, behold, the uttermost of the nations shall be a desert, a dry land, and a wilderness. 13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: everyone that goeth by Babel, shall be astonished, 1and hiss at all her plagues.
chapter 50
a Ezek. 23:13
50:3 1 To wit, the Medes and the Persians. 50:4 1 When Cyrus shall take Babel. 2 Read Jer. 31:9. 50:6 1 Their governors and ministers by their examples have pro voked them to idolatry. 2 They have committed idolatry in every place. 50:7 1 For the Lord dwelt among them in his Temple, and would have maintained them by his justice against their enemies. 50:8 1 When God shall deliver you by Cyrus. 2 That is, most forward and without fear. 50:10 1 Shall be made rich thereby. 50:11 1 For joy of the victory, that ye had against my people. 50:13 1 In sign of contempt and disdain.
50:14 1 He speaketh to the enemies the Medes and Persians. 2 Though the Lord called the Babylonians his servants, and their work his work in punishing his people, yet because they did it not to glorify God, but for their own malice, and to profit themselves, it is here called sin. 50:15 1 Or, yielded, or made peace. 50:16 1 Destroy her so that none be left to labor the ground, or to take the fruit thereof. 50:17 1 Meaning, Tiglath-Pilesar, who carried away the ten tribes. 2 He carried away the rest, to wit, Judah, and Benjamin. 50:21 1 That is, Babylon: thus the Lord raised up Cyrus. 2 Or, of them that should be visited. 50:23 1 Nebuchadnezzar, who had smitten down all the princes and people of the world.
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26 Come against her 1from the utmost border: open her storehouses, tread on her as on sheaves, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. 27 Destroy all her 1bullocks: let them go down to the slaughter. Woe unto them, for their day is come, and the time of their visitation. 28 The voice of them that 1flee, and escape out of the land of Babel to declare in Zion, the vengeance of the Lord our God, and the vengeance of his Temple. 29 Call up the archers against Babel: all ye that bend the bow, besiege it round about: let none thereof escape: brecompense her according to her work, and according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, even against the holy One of Israel. 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be destroyed in that day, saith the Lord. 31 Behold, I come unto thee, O proud man, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, even the time that I will visit thee. 32 And the proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. 33 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The children of Israel, and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives, held them, and would not let them go. 34 But their strong redeemer, whose Name is the Lord of hosts, he shall maintain their cause, that he may give rest to the land, 1and disquiet the inhabi tants of Babel. 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babel, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 36 A sword is upon the 1soothsayers, and they shall dote: a sword is upon her strong men, and they shall be afraid. 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the multitude that are in the midst of her, and they shall be like women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be spoiled. 38 A 1drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they dote upon their idols. 39 Therefore the 1Ziims with the Iims shall dwell
there, and 2the ostriches shall dwell therein: for it shall be no more inhabited, neither shall it be inhabited from generation unto generation. 40 As God destroyed cSodom and Gomorrah with the places thereof near about, saith the Lord: so shall no man dwell there, neither shall the son of man remain therein. 41 ¶ Behold, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from 1the coasts of the earth. 42 They shall hold the bow and the buckler: they are cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, and be put in array like men to the battle against thee, O daughter of Babel. 43 The king of Babel hath heard the report of them, and his hands 1waxed feeble: sorrow came upon him, even sorrow as of a woman in travail. 44 Behold, he dshall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the strong habitation: for I will make Israel to rest, and I will make them to haste away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoint against her? for who is like me, and who will appoint me the time? and who is the 1shepherd that will stand before me? 45 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he hath devised against Babel, and his purpose that he hath conceived against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise of the winning of Babel the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. 51 6 Why Babylon is destroyed. 41 The vain confidence of the Babylonians. 43 The vanity of idolaters. 59 Jeremiah giveth his book to Seraiah.
b Rev. 18:6
c Gen. 19:24
Isa. 13:19
d Jer. 49:19
1 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against Babel, and against the inhabitants 1that lift up their heart against me, a destroying 2wind, 2 And will send unto Babel fanners that shall fan her, and shall empty her land, for in the day of trouble they shall be against her on every side. 3 Also to the bender that bendeth his bow, and to him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine, will I say, Spare not her young men, but destroy all her host.
50:26 1 Hebrew, from the end. 50:27 1 Her princes and mighty men. 50:28 1 Of the Jews which should be delivered by Cyrus. 50:34 1 He showeth that when God executeth his judgments against his enemies, that his Church shall then have rest. 50:36 1 Hebrew, liars. 50:38 1 For Cyrus did cut the river Euphrates, and divided the course thereof into many streams, so that it might be passed over as though there had been no water: which thing he did by the counsel of two of Belshazzar's captains, who conspired against their king, because he
had gelded the one of them in despite, and slain the son of the other. 50:39 1 Read Isa. 13:21. 2 Hebrew, sons of the ostriches, or young. 50:41 1 Meaning, that the Persians should gather their army of many nations. 50:43 1 Which is meant of Belshazzar, Dan. 5:6. 50:44 1 Read Jer. 49:19. 51:1 1 Or, of the land that riseth up. 2 The Medes and Persians that shall destroy them as the wind doth the chaff.
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4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. 5 For Israel hath been no 1widow, nor Judah from his God, from the Lord of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the holy one of Israel. 6 ¶ 1Flee out of the midst of Babel, and deliver every man his soul: be not destroyed in her iniquity: for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance: he will render unto her a recompense. 7 Babel hath been as a golden cup in the 1Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken, the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore do the nations 2rage. 8 aBabel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, bring balm for her sore, if she may be healed. 9 We would have cured Babel, but she could not be healed: forsake her, and let 1us go everyone into his own country: for her judgment is come up into heaven, and is lifted up to the clouds. 10 The Lord hath brought forth our 1righteousness: come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God. 11 Make bright the arrows: 1gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the King of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babel to destroy it, because it is the 2vengeance of the Lord, and the vengeance of his Temple. 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babel, make the watch strong: set up the watchmen: prepare the scouts: for the Lord hath both devised, and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babel. 13 O thou that dwellest upon many 1waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, even the 2end of thy covetousness. 14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by 1,bhimself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars, and they shall cry and shout against thee. 15 cHe hath made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his discretion.
16 He giveth by his voice the multitude of waters in the heaven, and he causeth the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth, he turneth lightnings to rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 17 Every man is a beast by his own 1knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein. 18 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their 1visitation they shall perish. 19 The 1portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his Name. 20 Thou art mine 1hammer, and weapons of war: for with thee will I break the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms, 21 And by thee will I break horse and horseman, and by thee will I break the chariot and him that rideth therein. 22 By thee also will I break man and woman, and by thee will I break old and young, and by thee will I break the young man and the maid. 23 I will also break by thee the shepherd and his flock, and by thee will I break the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, and by thee will I break the dukes and princes. 24 And I will render unto Babel, and to all the inhabitants of the Chaldeans all their evil, that they have done in Zion, even in your sight, saith the Lord. 25 Behold, I come unto thee, O destroying 1mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the 2rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations: but thou shalt be destroyed forever, saith the Lord. 27 Set up a standard in the land: blow the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call up the kingdoms of 1Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her, appoint the prince against her, cause
chapter 51
a Isa. 21:9
Rev. 14:8
b Amos 6:8
c Jer. 10:12
51:5 1 Though they were forsaken for a time, yet they were not utterly cast off as though their husbands were dead. 51:6 1 He showeth that there remaineth nothing for them that abide in Babylon, but destruction, Jer. 17:6 and 48:6. 51:7 1 By whom the Lord poured out the drink of his vengeance, to whom it pleased him. 2 For the great afflictions that they have felt by the Babylonians. 51:9 1 Thus the people of God exhort one another to go to Zion and praise God. 51:10 1 In approving our cause and punishing our enemies. 51:11 1 Or, fill, or multiply. 2 For the wrong done to his people and to his Temple, Jer. 50:28. 51:13 1 For the land of Chaldea was full of rivers, which ran into Euphrates.
2 Or, measures. 51:14 1 Hebrew, his soul. 51:17 1 Read Jer. 10:14. 51:18 1 When God shall execute his vengeance. 51:19 1 That is, the true God of Israel is not like to these idols: for he can help when all things are desperate. 51:20 1 He meaneth the Medes and Persians, as he did before call the Babylonians his hammer, Jer. 50:23. 51:25 1 Not that Babylon stood on a mountain, but because it was strong and seemed invincible. 2 From thy strongholds and fortresses. 51:27 1 By these three nations he meaneth Armenia the higher, Armenia the lower, and Scythia: for Cyrus had gathered an army of divers nations.
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horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the dukes thereof, and the princes thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for the device of the Lord shall be performed against Babel, to make the land of Babel waste without an inhabitant. 30 The strong men of Babel have ceased to fight: they have remained in their holds: their strength hath failed, and they were like women: they have burnt her dwelling places, and her bars are broken. 31 A post shall run to meet the post, and a messenger to meet the messenger, to show the King of Babel, that his city is taken on a 1side thereof, 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds burnt with fire, and the men of war troubled. 33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, The daughter of Babel is like a threshingfloor: the time of her threshing is come: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest 1shall come. 34 Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babel hath 1devoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an empty vessel: he swallowed me up like a dragon: and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out. 35 The spoil of me, and that which was left of me, is brought unto Babel, shall the inhabitant of Zion say: and my blood unto the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will maintain thy 1cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will dry up the sea, and dry up her springs. 37 And Babel shall be as heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions, and yell as the lion's whelps. 39 In their 1heat I will make them feasts, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams and goats. 41 How is 1Sheshach taken! and how is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations! 42 The 1sea is come up upon Babel: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the son of man pass thereby. 44 I will also visit Bel in Babel, and I will bring out of his mouth, that which 1he hath swallowed up, and the nations shall run no more unto him, and the wall of Babel shall fall. 45 My people, go out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce wrath of the Lord, 46 Lest your heart even faint, and ye fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land: the rumor shall come this year, and after that in the other 1year shall come a rumor, and cruelty in the land, and ruler against ruler. 47 Therefore behold, the days come, that I will visit the images of Babel, and the whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and 1the earth, and all that is therein, shall rejoice for Babel: for the destroyers shall come unto her from the North, saith the Lord. 49 As Babel caused the 1slain of Israel to fall, so by Babel the slain of all the earth did fall. 50 Ye that 1have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 We are 1confounded because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces, for strangers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lord's house. 52 Wherefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will visit her graven images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 53 Though Babel should mount up to 1heaven, and
51:31 1 By turning the course of the river one side was made open and the reeds that did grow in the water were destroyed, which Cyrus did by the counsel of Gobria and Gabatha Belshazzar's captains. 51:33 1 When she shall be cut up and threshed. 51:34 1 This is spoken in the person of the Jews bewailing their state and the cruelty of the Babylonians. 51:36 1 Thus the Lord esteemed the injury done to his Church, as done to himself, because their cause is his. 51:39 1 When they are inflamed with surfeiting and drinking, I will feast with them, alluding to Belshazzar's banquet, Dan. 5:2. 51:41 1 Meaning, Babel, as Jer. 25:26. 51:42 1 The great army of the Medes and Persians. 51:44 1 That is, his gifts and presents which he had received as part of the spoil of other nations, and which the idolaters brought unto him from all countries.
51:46 1 Meaning, that Babylon should not be destroyed all at once, but little by little should be brought to nothing: for the first year came the tidings, the next year the siege, and in the third year it was taken: yet this is not that horrible destruction which the prophets threatened in many places: for that was after this when they rebelled and Darius overcame them by the policy of Zopy rus, and hanged three thousand gentlemen besides the common people. 51:48 1 All creatures in heaven and earth shall rejoice, and praise God for the destruction of Babylon the great enemy of his Church. 51:49 1 Babylon did not only destroy Israel, but many other nations. 51:50 1 Ye that are now captives in Babylon. 51:51 1 He showeth how they should remember Jerusalem by lamenting the miserable affliction thereof. 51:53 1 For the walls were two hundred foot high.
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though she should defend her strength on high, yet from me shall her destroyers come, saith the Lord. 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans, 55 Because the Lord hath laid Babel waste, and destroyed from her the great voice, and her waves shall roar like great waters, and a sound was made by their noise: 56 Because the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babel, and her strong men are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord God that recompenseth, shall surely recompense. 57 And I will 1make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose Name is the Lord of hosts. 58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The 1thick wall of Babel shall be broken, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, for they shall be weary. 59 The word which Jeremiah the Prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babel, in the 1fourth year of his reign, and this Seraiah was a peaceable Prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babel, even all these things that are written against Babel. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest unto Babel, and shalt see and shalt read all these words, 62 Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate forever. 63 And when thou hast made an end of reading this book, thou shalt bind a 1stone to it, and cast it in the midst of Euphrates, 64 And shalt say, Thus shall Babel be drowned and shall not rise from the evil, that I will bring upon her: and they shall 1be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. 52 4 Jerusalem is taken. 10 Zedekiah's sons are killed before his face, and his eyes put out. 13 The city is burned. 31 Jehoiachin is brought forth of prison, and fed
like a king.
chapter 52
a 2 Kings 24:18
1 Zedekiah awas one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 1Doubtless because the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, therefore Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babel. 4 bBut in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month the tenth day of the month came Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel, he and all his host against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of the king Zedekiah. 6 Now in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no more bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by the 1way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the King's garden: (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about) and they went by the way of the wilderness. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took Zedekiah in the desert of Jericho, and all the host was scattered from him. 9 Then they took the King and carried him up unto the king of Babel to Riblah in the land of Hamath, 1where he gave judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babel slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babel bound him in chains, and carried him to Babel, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 12 Now in the fifth month in the 1tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of the king Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel) came Nebuzaradan chief steward which 2stood before the king of Babel in Jerusalem, 13 And burnt the House of the Lord, and the
2 Chron. 39:11
b 2 Kings 25:1
Jer. 39:1
51:57 1 I will so astonish them by afflictions that they shall not know which way to turn them. 51:58 1 The thickness of the wall was fifty foot thick. 51:59 1 This was not in the time of his captivity, but seven years before, when he went either to gratulate Nebuchadnezzar, or to entreat of some matters. 51:63 1 St. John in his Revelation alludeth to this place, when he saith that the Angel took a millstone and cast it into the sea: signify ing thereby the destruction of Babylon, Rev. 18:21.
51:64 1 They shall not be able to resist, but shall labor in vain. 52:3 1 So the Lord punished sin by sin, and gave him up to his rebel lious heart, till he had brought the enemy upon him to lead him away and his people. 52:7 1 Read Jer. 39:4. 52:9 1 Read 2 Kings 25:6; Jer. 39:5. 52:12 1 In 2 Kings 25:8, it is called the seventh day, because the fire began then, and so continued to the tenth. 2 That is, which was his servant, as 2 Kings 25:8.
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King's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire. 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the chief steward, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 15 Then Nebuzaradan the chief steward carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that were fled, and fallen to the King of Babel, with the rest of the multitude. 16 But Nebuzaradan the chief steward left certain of the poor of the land, to dress the vines, and to till the land. 17 Also the 1pillars of brass that were in the House of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen Sea, that was in the House of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babel. 18 The pots also and the 1besoms, and the instruments of music, and the basins, and the incense dishes, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 19 And the bowls, and the ashpans, and the basins, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the incense dishes, and the cups, and all that was of gold, and that was of silver, took the chief steward away, 20 With the two pillars, one Sea, and twelve brazen bulls, that were under the bases, which King Solomon had made in the House of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without 1weight. 21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits did compass it, and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it, and the height of one chapiter was five cubits with network, and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass: the second pillar also, and the pomegranates were like unto these. 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side: and all the pomegranates upon the network were an 1hundred round about.
24 And the chief steward took Seraiah the chief Priest, and Zephaniah 1the second Priest, and the three keepers of the door. 25 He took also out of the city an Eunuch, which had the oversight of the men of war, and 1seven men that were in the King's presence, which were found in the city, and Sopher captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the chief steward took them, and brought them to the King of Babel to Riblah. 27 And the king of Babel smote them, and slew them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath: thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land. 28 ¶ This is the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive, in the 1seventh year, even three thousand Jews, and three and twenty. 29 In the 1eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two 2persons. 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief steward carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. 31 And in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin King of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, Evil-Merodach king of Babel, in the first year of his reign, 1lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison, 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the Kings, that were with him in Babel, 33 And changed his prison 1garments, and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. 34 His portion was a 1continual portion given him of the king of Babel, every day a certain, all the days of his life until he died.
52:17 1 Of these pillars, read 1 Kings 7:15. 52:18 1 Which were also made of brass, as 1 Kings 7:45. 52:20 1 It was so much in quantity. 52:23 1 But because of the roundness, no more could be seen but ninety and six. 52:24 1 Which served in the high Priest's stead, if he had any neces sary impediment. 52:25 1 In 2 Kings 25:19, is read but of five: those were the most excellent, and the other two, which were not so noble, are not there mentioned with them.
52:28 1 Which was the latter end of the seventh year of his reign, and the beginning of the eighth. 52:29 1 In the latter end also of that year, and the beginning of the nineteenth. 2 Hebrew, souls. 52:31 1 That is, restored him to liberty and honor. 52:33 1 And gave him princely apparel. 52:34 1 That is he had allowance in the court, and thus at length he had rest and quietness because he obeyed Jeremiah the Prophet, whereas the others were cruelly ordered, that would not obey him.
L a m e n t a t i o n s
1 The Prophet bewaileth the miserable estate of Jerusalem. 5 And showeth that they are plagued because of their sins. The first and second Chapter begin every verse according to the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. The third hath three verses for every letter, and the fourth is as the first.
she is 1in derision: all that honored her, despise her, because they have seen her filthiness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. 9 1Her filthiness is in her skirts: she remembered not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter: O Lord, behold mine affliction: for the enemy 2is proud. 10 The enemy hath stretched out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen the heathen enter into her Sanctuary, whom 1thou didst command, that they should not enter into thy Church. 11 All her people sigh and seek their bread: they have given their pleasant things for meat to refresh the soul: see, O Lord, and consider: for I am become vile. 12 Have ye no regard, all ye that pass by this way? behold and see, if there be any 1sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath. 13 From above hath 1he sent fire into my bones, which prevail against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, and turned me back: he hath made me desolate, and daily in heaviness. 14 The 1yoke of my transgressions is bound upon his hand: they are wrapped, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall: the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, neither am I able to rise up. 15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my valiant men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to destroy my young men: the Lord hath trodden 1the winepress upon the virgin the daughter of Judah. 16 aFor these things I weep: mine eye, even mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that
chapter 1
a Jer. 14:17
Lam. 2:18
1 How doth 1the city remain solitary that was full of people? she is as a widow: she that was great among the nations, 2and princess among the provinces, is made tributary. 2 She weepeth continually in the 1night, and her tears run down by her cheeks: among all her 2lovers, she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt unfaithfully with her, and are her enemies. 3 Judah is carried away captive, because 1of affliction, and because of great servitude, she dwelleth among the heathen, and findeth no rest: all her persecutors took her in the straits. 4 The ways of Zion lament, because no man com eth1to the solemn feasts, all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in 2heaviness. 5 Her adversaries 1are the chief, and her enemies prosper: for the Lord hath afflicted her, for the multitude of her transgressions, and her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become 1like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. 7 Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and of her rebellion, and all her pleasant things that she had in times past, when her people 1fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversary saw her, and did mock at her 2Sabbaths. 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore
1:1 1 The Prophet wondereth at the great judgment of God, see ing Jerusalem, which was so strong and so full of people, to be now destroyed and desolate. 2 Which had chief rule over many provinces and countries. 1:2 1 So that she taketh no rest. 2 Meaning, the Egyptians and Assyrians, which promised help. 1:3 1 For her cruelty toward the poor and oppression of servants, Jer. 34:11. 1:4 1 As they used to come up with mirth and joy, Ps. 42:4. 2 Hebrew, bitterness. 1:5 1 That is, have rule over her, Deut. 28:41. 1:6 1 As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage. 1:7 1 In her misery she considered the great benefits and commodi ties that she had lost. 2 At her religion and serving of God, which was the greatest grief
to the godly. 1:8 1 Or, driven away. 1:9 1 She is not ashamed of her sin, although it be manifest. 2 Hebrew, hath magnified himself. 1:10 1 God forbiddeth that the Ammonites and Moabites should enter into the Congregation of the Lord, and under them he com prehendeth all enemies, Deut. 23:3. 1:12 1 Thus Jerusalem lamenteth moving others to pity her and to learn by her example. 1:13 1 This declareth that we should acknowledge God to be the author of all our afflictions to the intent that we might seek unto him for remedy. 1:14 1 Mine heavy sins are continually before his eyes, as he that tieth a thing to his hand for a remembrance. 1:15 1 He hath trodden them underfoot as they tread grapes in the winepress.
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should refresh my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. 17 Zion stretcheth out her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath appointed the enemies of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem is 1as a menstruous woman in the midst of them. 18 The Lord is righteous: for I have rebelled against his 1commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. 19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my Priests and mine Elders perished in the city, while they 1sought their meat to refresh their souls. 20 Behold, O Lord, how I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am full of heaviness: the sword spoileth abroad, as death doeth at home. 21 They have heard that I mourn, but there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shall be like unto me. 22 1Let all their wickedness come before thee: 2do unto them, as thou hast done unto me, for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and mine heart is heavy. 2 1 How hath the Lord 1darkened the daughter of Zion in his wrath! and hath cast down from 2heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his 3footstool in the day of his wrath! 2 The Lord hath destroyed all the habitations of Jacob, and not spared: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath cast them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He hath cut off in his fierce wrath all the 1horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his 2right hand from before the enemy, and there was kindled in Jacob like a flame of fire, which devoured round about. 4 He 1hath bent his bow like an enemy: his right
hand was stretched up as an adversary, and slew all that was pleasant to the eye in the Tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his wrath like fire. 5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath devoured Israel and consumed all his palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah lamentation and mourning. 6 For he hath destroyed his Tabernacle, as a garden he hath destroyed his Congregation: the Lord hath caused the feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his wrath, the King and the Priest. 7 The Lord hath forsaken his altar: he hath abhorred his Sanctuary: he hath given into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: they have made a 1noise in the House of the Lord, as in the day of solemnity. 8 The Lord hath determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart, 1and the wall to lament: they were destroyed together. 9 Her gates are sunk to the ground: he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her King and her Princes are among the Gentiles: the Law is no more, neither can her Prophets 1receive any vision from the Lord. 10 The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads: they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears: my bowels swell: my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings 1swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They have said to their mothers, Where is 1bread and drink? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, and when they 2gave up the ghost in their mother's bosom. 13 1What thing shall I take to witness for thee? What thing shall I compare to thee, O daughter Jerusalem? what shall I liken to thee, that I may
1:17 1 Which because of her pollution was separate from her hus band, Lev. 15:19, and was abhorred for the time. 1:18 1 Hebrew, mouth. 1:19 1 That is, they died for hunger. 1:22 1 Of desiring vengeance against the enemy, read Jer. 11:20 and 18:21. 2 Or, gather them like grapes. 2:1 1 That is, brought her from prosperity to adversity. 2 Hath given her a most sore fall. 3 Alluding to the Temple, or to the Ark of the covenant, which was called the footstool of the Lord, because they should not set their minds so low, but lift up their hearts toward the heavens. 2:3 1 Meaning, the glory and strength, as 1 Sam. 2:1. 2 That is, his succor which he was wont to send us, when our enemies oppressed us.
2:4 1 Showing that there is no remedy but destruction, where God is the enemy. 2:7 1 As the people were accustomed to praise God to the solemn feasts with a loud voice, so now the enemies blaspheme him with shouting and cry. 2:8 1 This is a figurative speech, as that was, when he said, the ways did lament, Lam. 1:4, meaning, that this sorrow was so great, that the insensible things had their part thereof. 2:9 1 Or, find. 2:11 1 Or, faint. 2:12 1 Hebrew, wheat and wine. 2 Hebrew, poured out the soul. 2:13 1 Meaning, that her calamity was so evident, that it needed no witnesses.
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3 1 I am the man that hath seen 1affliction in the rod of his indignation. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not to light. 3 Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he caused to wax old, and he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath 1built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead forever. 7 He hath hedged about me, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chains heavy. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my
comfort thee, O virgin daughter Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? 14 Thy Prophets have1looked out vain and foolish things for thee, and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity, but have looked out for thee false 2prophecies, and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass by the way, clap their hands at thee: they hiss and wag their head upon the daughter Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call, The perfection of beauty, and the joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth, saying, Let us devour it: certainly this is the day that we looked for: we have found and seen it. 17 aThe Lord hath done that which he had purposed: he hath fulfilled his word that he had determined of old time: he hath thrown down, and not spared: he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, and set up the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart bcried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter Zion, let tears run down like a river, day and night: take thee no rest, neither let the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry in the night: in the beginning of the watches, pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thine hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streets. 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done thus: shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a 1span long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of the Lord? 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and not spared. 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my 1terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's wrath none escaped nor remained: those that I have nourished and brought up, hath mine enemy consumed.
chapter 2
a Lev. 26:15,25
Deut. 28:15,25
b Jer. 14:17
Lam. 1:16
1prayer. 9 He hath 1stopped up my ways with hewn stone, and turned away my paths. 10 1He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 11 He hath stopped my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and made me a mark for the arrow. 13 He caused 1the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, and made me drunken with 1wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath covered me with ashes. 17 Thus my soul was far off from peace: I forgot prosperity, 18 And I said, My strength and my 1hope is perished from the Lord, 19 Remembering mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them in remembrance, and is humbled 1in me. 21 I consider this in mine heart: therefore have I hope.
2:14 1 Because the false prophets called themselves Seers, as the others were called, therefore he showeth that they saw amiss, because they did not reprove the people's faults, but flattered them in their sins, which was the cause of their destruction. 2 Or, burdens. 2:20 1 Or, brought up in their own hands. 2:22 1 Or, enemies, whom I feared. 3:1 1 The Prophet complaineth of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites, when he declared the destruction of Jerusalem, as Jer. 20:1, 2. 3:5 1 He speaketh this, as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore setteth them out with this diversity of words. 3:8 1 This is a great tentation to the godly when they see not the fruit
of their prayers, and causeth them to think that they are not heard, which thing God useth to do, that they might pray more earnestly and the oftener. 3:9 1 And keepeth me in hold as a prisoner. 3:10 1 He hath no pity on me. 3:13 1 Hebrew, sons. 3:15 1 With great anguish and sorrow he hath made me to lose my sense. 3:18 1 Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly ofttimes are, yet in the end the spirit getteth the victory. 3:20 1 He showeth that God thus useth to exercise his, to the intent that hereby they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.
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22 It is the Lord's 1mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are renewed 1every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my 1portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in him. 25 The Lord is good unto them that trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good both to trust, and to wait for the salvation of the Lord. 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his 1youth. 28 He sitteth alone, 1and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 29 He putteth his 1mouth in the dust, if there may be hope. 30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproaches. 31 For the Lord will not forsake forever. 32 But though he send affliction, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 33 For he doth not 1punish 2willingly, nor afflict the children of men, 34 In stamping under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 35 In overthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most High, 36 In subverting a man in his cause: the Lord 1seeth it not. 37 Who is he then that saith, and it cometh to pass, and the Lord 1commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not 1evil and good? 39 Wherefore then is the living 1man sorrowful? man suffereth for his sin. 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 41 Let us lift up 1our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens. 42 We have sinned, and have rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared. 43 Thou hast covered us with wrath, and persecuted
us: thou hast slain, and not spared. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the aoffscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. 47 Fear, and a snare is come upon us with desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye casteth out rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye droppeth without stay, and ceaseth not, 50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye 1breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. 53 They have shut up my life1in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed. 55 I called upon thy Name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: stop not thine ear from my sigh, and from my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidest, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my 1soul, and hast redeemed my life. 59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their devises against me: 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me. 62 The lips also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually. 63 Behold, their sitting down, and their rising up, how I am their song. 64 bGive them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
chapter 3
a 1 Cor. 4:13
b Ps. 28:4
3:22 1 Considering the wickedness of man, it is [a] marvel that any remaineth alive: but only that God for his own mercy's sake and for his promise, will ever have his Church to remain, though they be never so few in number, Isa. 1:9. 3:23 1 We feel thy benefits daily. 3:24 1 The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for none other inheritance, as Ps. 16:5. 3:27 1 He showeth that we can never begin too timely to be exer cised under the cross, that when the afflictions grow greater, our patience also by experience may be stronger. 3:28 1 He murmureth not against God, but is patient. 3:29 1 He humbleth himself as they that fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waiteth for succor.
3:33 1 He taketh no pleasure in it, but doeth it of necessity for our amendment, when he suffereth the wicked to oppress the poor. 2 Hebrew, with his heart. 3:36 1 He doth not delight therein. 3:37 1 He showeth that nothing is done without God's providence. 3:38 1 That is, adversity and prosperity, Amos 3:6. 3:39 1 When God afflicteth him. 3:41 1 That is, both hearts and hands: for else to lift up the hands, is but hypocrisy. 3:51 1 I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people. 3:53 1 Read Jer. 37:16, how he was in the miry dungeon. 3:58 1 Meaning, the cause wherefore his life was in danger.
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65 Give them 1sorrow of heart even thy curse to them. 66 Persecute with wrath and destroy them from under the heaven, O Lord. 4 1 How is the 1gold become so 2dim? the most fine gold is changed, and the stones of the Sanctuary are scattered in the corner of every street. 2 The noble 1men of Zion comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen 2pitchers, even the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the dragons 1draw out the breasts, and give suck to their young: but the daughter of my people is become cruel like the 2ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, but no man breaketh it unto them. 5 They that did feed delicately, perish in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet, embrace the dung. 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is become greater than the sin of Sodom, that was adestroyed as in a moment, and 1none pitched camps against her. 7 Her bNazirites were purer than the snow, and whiter than the milk: they were more ruddy in body, than the red precious stones: they were like polished sapphire. 8 Now their 1visage is blacker than a coal: they cannot know them in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones: it is withered like a stock. 9 They that be slain with the sword, are better than they that are killed with hunger: for they fade away as they were stricken through for the 1fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children, which were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11 The Lord hath accomplished his indigna-
tion: he hath poured out his fierce wrath, he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem: 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of 1her. 14 They have wandered as blind men1in the streets, and they were polluted with blood, so that2they would not touch their garments. 15 But they cried unto them, Depart ye polluted, depart, depart, touch not: therefore they fled away, and wandered: they have said among the heathen, They shall no more dwell there. 16 The 1anger of the Lord hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: 2they reverenced not the face of the Priest, nor had compassion on the Elders. 17 While we waited for our vain help, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for 1a nation that could not save us. 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end is come. 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, and laid wait for us in the wilderness. 20 The 1breath of our nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their nets, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall be preserved alive among the heathen. 21 Rejoice and be glad, 1O daughter Edom: that dwellest in the land of Uz, the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken 2and vomit. 22 Thy punishment is accomplished, O daughter Zion: he 1will no more carry thee away into captivity, but he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter Edom, he will discover thy sins.
chapter 4
a Gen. 19:25
b Num. 6:2
4:1 1 By the gold, he meaneth the princes, as by the stones he understandeth the Priests. 2 Or, hid. 4:2 1 Or, sons. 2 Which are of small estimation, and have none honor. 4:3 1 Though the dragons be cruel, yet they pity their young, and nourish them, which things Jerusalem doth not. 2 The women forsake their children, as the ostrich doth her eggs, Job 39:17. 4:6 1 Or, no strength was against her. 4:8 1 They that were before most in God's favor, are now in greatest abomination unto him. 4:9 1 For lack of food they pine away and consume. 4:13 1 He meaneth that these things are come to pass therefore, contrary to all men's expectation. 4:14 1 Some refer this to the blind men, which as they went, stum
bled on the blood, whereof the city was full. 2 Meaning, the heathen which came to destroy them, could not abide them. 4:16 1 Or, face. 2 That is, the enemies. 4:17 1 He showeth two principal causes of their destruction: their cruelty and their vain confidence in man: for they trusted in the help of the Egyptians. 4:20 1 Our king Josiah, in whom stood our hope of God's favor, and on whom depended our state and life, was slain, whom he calleth Anointed, because he was a figure of Christ. 4:21 1 This is spoken by derision. 2 Or, show thy nakedness. 4:22 1 He comforteth the Church, by that after seventy years their sorrows shall have an end, whereas the wicked should be tormented forever.
811 Lamentations 5:22 5 The prayer of Jeremiah.
12 The princes are hanged up by 1their hand: the faces of the Elders were not had in honor. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under 1the wood. 14 The Elders have ceased from the 1gate and the young men from their songs. 15 The joy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown of our head is fallen: woe now unto us, that we have sinned. 17 Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our 1eyes are dim, 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: the foxes run upon it. 19 But thou, O Lord, remainest 1forever: thy throne is from generation to generation. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time? 21 1Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art exceedingly angry against us.
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: 1consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliens. 3 We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunk our 1water for money, and our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we are weary, and have no rest. 6 We have given our 1hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have borne 1their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands. 9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword 1of the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like as an oven because of the terrible famine. 11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
5:1 1 This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others, as the poorest remained, and some went into Egypt, and other places for succor: albeit it seemeth that the Prophet foreseeing their miseries to come, thus prayed. 5:4 1 Meaning, their extreme servitude and bondage. 5:6 1 We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submit ted ourselves unto them. 5:7 1 As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are culpable of the same sins, are punished.
5:9 1 Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness, and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food. 5:12 1 That is, by the enemy's hand. 5:13 1 Their slavery was so great, that they were not able to abide it. 5:14 1 There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth. 5:17 1 With weeping. 5:19 1 And therefore thy covenant and mercies can never fail. 5:21 1 Whereby is declared that it is not in man's power to turn to God, but is only his work to convert us, and thus God worketh in us before we can turn to him, Jer. 31:18.
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1 1 The time wherein Ezekiel prophesied, in what place. 3 His kindred. 5 The vision of the four beasts. 26 The vision of the throne.
spread out above: two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And every one went straight forward: they went whither their 1spirit led them, and they returned not when they went forth. 13 The similitude also of the beasts, and their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: for the fire ran among the beasts, and the fire gave a glister, and out of the fire there went lightning. 14 And the beasts ran, and 1returned like unto lightning. 15 Now as I beheld the beasts, behold, a wheel appeared upon the earth by the beasts, having four faces. 16 The fashion of the wheels and their work was like unto a 1Chrysolite: and they four had one form, and their fashion and their work was as one wheel in another wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides, and they returned not when they went. 18 They had also 1rings, and height, and were fearful to behold, and their rings were full of eyes, round about them four. 19 And when the beasts went, the wheels went with them: and when the beasts were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Whither their spirit led them, they went, and thither did the spirit of the wheels lead them, and the wheels were lifted up besides them: for the spirit of the beasts was in the wheels. 21 When the beasts went, they went, and when they stood, they stood, and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up besides them: for the spirit of the beasts was in the wheels. 22 And the similitude of the firmament upon the heads of the beasts was wonderful, like unto crystal spread over their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their wings
1 It came to pass in the 1thirtieth year in the fourth month, and in the fifth day of the month (as I was among the captives by the river 2Chebar) that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of 3GOD. 2 In the fifth day of the month (which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity) 3 The word of the Lord came unto Ezekiel the Priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, where the 1hand of the Lord was upon him. 4 And I looked, and behold, a 1whirlwind came out of the North, a great cloud and a fire wrapped about it, and a brightness was about it, and in the midst thereof, to wit, in the midst of the fire came out as the likeness of 2amber. 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of 1four beasts, and this was their form: they had the appearance of a man, 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the soles of a calf 's foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of bright brass. 8 And the hands of a man came out from under their wings in the four parts of them, and they four had their faces, and their wings. 9 They where 1joined by their wings one to another, and when they went forth, they returned not, but every one went straight forward. 10 And the similitude of their faces was as 1the face of a man: and they four had the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of a bullock on the left side: they four also had the face of an Eagle. 11 Thus were their faces: but their wings were
1:1 1 After that the book of the Law was found, which was the eigh teenth year of the reign of Josiah, so that five and twenty years after this book was found, Jeconiah was led away captive with Ezekiel and many of the people, who the first year after saw these visions. 2 Which was a part of Euphrates so called. 3 That is notable and excellent visions, so that it might be known, it was no natural dream, but came of God. 1:3 1 That is, the spirit of prophecy, as Ezek. 3:22 and 37:1. 1:4 1 By this diversity of words he signifieth the fearful judgment of God and the great afflictions that should come upon Jerusalem. 2 Or, pale fellow.
1:5 1 Which were the four Cherubims that represented the glory of God, as Ezek. 3:23. 1:9 1 The wing of the one touched the wing of the other. 1:10 1 Every Cherubim had four faces, the face of a man, and of a lion on the right side, and the face of a bullock and of an Eagle on the left side. 1:12 1 Hebrew, whither their spirit or w[ings] was to go. 1:14 1 That is, when they had executed God's will: for afore they returned not till God had changed the state of things. 1:16 1 The Hebrew word is tarshish meaning that the color was like the Cilician Sea, or a precious stone so called. 1:18 1 Or, the trent.
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straight, the one toward the other: every one had two which covered them, and every one had two which covered their bodies. 24 And when they went forth, I heard the noise of their 1wings, like the noise of great waters, and as the voice of the Almighty, even the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: even when they stood, they 2let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the fashion of a throne like unto a Sapphire stone, and upon the similitude of the throne was by appearance, as the similitude of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the appearance of amber, and as the similitude of fire 1round about within it to look too, even from his loins upward: and to look too, even from his loins downward, I saw as a likeness of fire, and brightness round about it. 28 As the likeness of the bow, that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the light round about. 29 This was the appearance of the similitude of the glory of the Lord: and when I saw it, I fell 1upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. 2 The Prophet is sent to call the people from their error.
will they cease: for they are a rebellious house: yet shall they know that 1there hath been a Prophet among them. 6 And thou son of man, 1fear them not, neither be afraid of their words, although rebels and thorns be with thee, and thou remainest with scorpions: fear not their words, nor be afraid at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 7 Therefore thou shalt speak my words unto them: but surely they will not hear, neither will they indeed cease: for they are rebellious. 8 But thou son of man, hear what I say unto thee: be not thou rebellious, like this rebellious house: open thy mouth, and 1eat that I give thee. 9 And when I looked up, behold, an hand was sent unto me, and lo, a roll of a book was therein. 10 And he spread it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein, 1Lamentations and mourning, and woe. 3 1 The Prophet being fed with the word of God and with the constant boldness of the spirit, is sent unto the people that were in captivity. 17 The office of true ministers.
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest: 1eat this roll, and go, and speak unto the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this roll to eat. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey. 4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go and enter into the house of Israel, and declare them my words. 5 For thou art not sent to a people of an 1unknown tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel, 6 Not to many people of an unknown tongue, or of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand: yet if I should send thee to them, they would obey thee.
1 And 1he said unto me, 2Son of man, stand up upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. 2 1And the Spirit entered into me, when he had spoken unto me, and set me upon my feet, so that I heard him that spake unto me. 3 And he said unto me, Son of Man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: for they and their fathers have rebelled against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are 1impudent children, and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. 5 But surely they will not hear, neither indeed
1:24 1 Which declared the swiftness and the fearfulness of God's judgments. 2 Which signified that they had no power of themselves, but only waited to execute God's commandment. 1:27 1 Whereby was signified a terrible judgment toward the earth. 1:29 1 Considering the majesty of God, and the weakness of flesh. 2:1 1 That is, the Lord. 2 Meaning, man which is but earth and ashes, which was to hum ble him, and cause him to consider his own state, and God's grace. 2:2 1 So that he could not abide God's presence, till God's Spirit did enter into him. 2:4 1 Hebrew, hard of face. 2:5 1 This declareth on the one part God's great affection toward his people, that notwithstanding their rebellion, yet he will send his
Prophets among them, and admonisheth his ministers on the other part that they cease not to do their duty, though the people be never so obstinate: for the word of God shall be either to their salvation or greater condemnation. 2:6 1 Read Jer. 1:17, he showeth that for none afflictions they should cease to do their duties. 2:8 1 He doth not only exhort him to his duty, but also giveth him the means wherewith he may be able to execute it. 2:10 1 He showeth what were the contents of this book: to wit, God's judgments against the wicked. 3:1 1 Whereby is meant that none is meet to be God's messenger before he have received the word of God in his heart, as verse 10, and have a zeal thereunto, and delight therein, as Jer. 15:16; Rev. 10:10. 3:5 1 Hebrew, deep lips.
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7 But the house of Israel will not obey thee: for they will not obey me: yea, all the house of Israel are impudent and stiff-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy 1face strong against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 I have made thy forehead as the adamant, and harder than the flint: fear them not therefore, neither be afraid at their looks: for they are a rebellious house. 10 He said moreover unto me, Son of man, 1receive in thine heart all my words that I speak unto thee, and hear them with thine ears, 11 And go and enter to them that are led away captives unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God: but surely they will not hear, neither will they indeed cease. 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a noise of a great rushing, saying, 1Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his place. 13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the beasts, that touched one another, and the rattling of the wheels that were by them, even a noise of a great rushing. 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I 1went in bitterness and indignation of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to them that were led away captives to 1Tel Abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them 2seven days. 16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, I have made thee a 1watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me 18 When I shall say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou givest not him warning, nor speakest to admonish the wicked of his wicked way, that he may live, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity: but his blood will I require at thine hand.
19 Yet, if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Likewise if a 1righteous man turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, I will lay a
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a Rev. 22:11
2stumbling block before him and he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his 3righteous deeds, which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21 Nevertheless, if thou admonish that righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and that he doth not sin, he shall live because he is admonished: also thou hast delivered thy soul. 22 And the 1hand of the Lord was there upon me, and he said unto me, Arise, and go into the 2field, and I will there talk with thee. 23 So when I had risen up, and gone forth into the field, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the 1glory which I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell down upon my face. 24 Then the Spirit entered into me, which 1set me up upon my feet, and spake unto me, and said to me, Come, and 2shut thyself within thine house. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them. 26 And I will make thy tongue 1cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them as a man that rebuketh: for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I shall have spoken unto thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, He that heareth, let him hear, and he that leaveth off, alet him leave: for they are a rebellious house. 4 1 The besieging of the city of Jerusalem is signified. 9 The long continuance of the captivity of Israel. 16 An hunger is prophesied to come.
1 Thou also son of man, take thee a brick, and
3:8 1 God promiseth his assistance to his ministers, and that he will give them boldness and constancy in their vocation, Isa. 50:7; Jer. 1:18; Mic. 3:8. 3:10 1 He showeth what is meant by the eating of the book, which is that the ministers of God may speak nothing as of themselves, but that only, which they have received of the Lord. 3:12 1 Whereby he signifieth, that God's glory should not be dimin ished, although he departed out of his Temple, for this declared that the city and Temple should be destroyed. 3:14 1 This showeth that there is ever an infirmity of the flesh which can never be ready to render full obedience to God, and also God's grace who ever assisteth his, and overcometh their rebellious affections. 3:15 1 Which was a place by Euphrates, where the Jews were prisoners. 2 Declaring hereby that God's ministers must with advisement and
deliberation utter his judgments. 3:17 1 Of this read Ezek. 33:2. 3:20 1 If he that hath been instructed in the right way turn back. 2 I will give him up to a reprobate mind, Rom. 1:28. 3 Which seemed to have been done in faith, and were not. 3:22 1 That is, the Spirit of prophecy. 2 Or, valley. 3:23 1 Meaning, the vision of the Cherubims, and the wheels. 3:24 1 Read Ezek. 2:2. 2 Signifying, that not only he should not profit, but they should grievously trouble and afflict him. 3:26 1 Which declareth the terrible plague of the Lord, when God stoppeth the mouths of his ministers, and that all such are the rods of his vengeance that do it.
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lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem, 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it, set the camp also against it, and lay engines of war against it round about. 3 Moreover, take an 1iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city, and direct thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: this shall be a sign unto the house of Israel. 4 Sleep thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the 1house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days, that thou shalt sleep upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity according to the number of the days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, sleep again upon thy 1right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee a day for a year, even a day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt direct thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine 1arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And behold, I will lay 1bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9 Thou shalt take also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, 1and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days, that thou shalt sleep upon thy side: even 2three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And the meat, whereof thou shalt eat shall be by weight, even 1twenty shekels a day: and from time to time shalt thou eat thereof. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, even the sixth part of 1an Hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it 1in the dung that cometh out of man in their sight. 13 And the Lord said, So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will cast them. 14 Then said I, Ah, Lord God, behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up, even unto this hour, I have not eaten of a thing dead or torn in pieces, neither came there any 1unclean flesh in my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee bullocks 1dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 16 Moreover, he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break 1the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care, and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment. 17 Because that bread and water shall fail, they shall be astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquity. 5 The sign of the hairs, whereby is signified the destruction of the people.
1 And thou son of man, take thee a sharp knife, or take thee a barber's razor, and cause it 1to pass upon thine head, and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 2 Thou shalt burn with fire the third part in the midst of the 1city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled, and thou shalt take the other third part, and smite about it with a knife, and the last third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy 1lap. 4 Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire: 1for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5 Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem, I
4:3 1 Which signified the stubbornness and hardness of their heart. 4:4 1 Hereby he represented the idolatry and sin of the ten tribes (for Samaria was on his left hand from Babylon) and how they had remained therein three hundred and ninety years. 4:6 1 Which declared Judah, who had now from the time of Josiah slept in their sins forty years. 4:7 1 In token of a speedy vengeance. 4:8 1 The people should so straightly be besieged, that they should not be able, to turn them. 4:9 1 Meaning, that the famine should be so great, that they should be glad to eat whatsoever they could get. 2 Which were fourteen months that the city was besieged, and this was as many days as Israel sinned years. 4:10 1 Which make a pound. 4:11 1 Read Exod. 29:40. 4:12 1 Signifying hereby the great scarcity of fuel and matter to burn.
4:14 1 Much less such vile corruption. 4:15 1 To be as fire to bake thy bread with. 4:16 1 That is, the force and strength wherewith it should nourish, Isa. 3:1; Ezek. 5:17 and 14:13. 5:1 1 To shave thine head and thy beard. 5:2 1 To wit, of that city which he had portrayed upon the brick, Ezek. 4:1. By the fire and pestilence he meaneth the famine, wherewith one part perished during the siege of Nebuchadnezzar. By the sword, those that were slain whom Zedekiah fled, and those that were car ried away captive. And by the scattering into the wind, those that fled into Egypt, and into other parts after the city was taken. 5:3 1 Meaning, that a very few should be left, which the Lord should preserve among all these storms, but not without trou bles and trial. 5:4 1 Out of that fire which thou kindlest shall a fire come, which shall signify the destruction of Israel.
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have set it in the midst of the nations and countries, that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my 1judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries, that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments, and my statutes, and they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because your 1multitude is greater than the nations that are round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, neither have ye kept my judgments: no, ye have not done according to the judgments of the nations, that are round about you. 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, even I come against thee, and will execute judgment in the midst of thee, even in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in thee that I never did before, neither will do anymore the like, because of all thine abominations. 10 For in the midst of thee, the fathers ashall eat their sons, and the sons shall eat their fathers, and I will execute judgment in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. 11 Wherefore as I live, saith the Lord God, Surely, because thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all thy filthiness, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also destroy thee, neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I have any pity. 12 The third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and another third part shall fall by the sword round about thee: and I will scatter the last third part into all winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath to cease in them, and I will be 1comforted: and they shall know, that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath in them. 14 Moreover, I will make thee waste, and abhorred among the nations that are round about thee, and in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So thou shalt be a reproach and shame, a chastisement and an astonishment unto the nations, that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in wrath, and in sharp rebukes:
I the Lord have spoken it. 16 When I shall send upon them the 1evil 2arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread. 17 bSo I will send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall spoil thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee: and I will bring the sword upon thee: I the Lord have spoken it. 6 He showeth that Jerusalem shall be destroyed for their idolatry. 8 He prophesieth the repentance of the remnant of the people, and their deliverance.
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a Lev. 26:29
Deut. 28:53 2 Kings 6:29 Lam. 4:10
b Ezek. 14:13
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a Ezek. 36:1
b 2 Kings 23:20
1 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, Set thy face towards the amountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: thus saith the Lord God to the 1mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, Behold, I, even I will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places: 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images of the 1Sun shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their 1idols, and I will bscatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be desolate, and the high places shall be laid waste, so that your altars shall be made waste and desolate, and your idols shall be broken and cease, and your images of the Sun shall be cut in pieces, and your works shall be abolished. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 8 Yet will I leave a remnant, 1that you may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you, shall remember me among the nations, where they shall be in captivity, because I am grieved for their whorish hearts, which have departed from me, and for their eyes, which have gone a whoring after their idols, and they 1shall be displeased in themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
5:6 1 My word and law into idolatry and superstitions. 5:7 1 Because your idols are in greater number, and your super stitions more than among the professed idolaters, read Isa. 65:11, or he condemneth their ingratitude in respect of his benefits. 5:13 1 That is, I will not be pacified, till I be revenged, Isa. 1:24. 5:16 1 Or, dangerous. 2 Which were the grasshoppers, mildew, and whatsoever were occasions of famine.
6:3 1 He speaketh to all the places where the Israelites accustomed to commit their idolatries, threatening them destruction. 6:4 1 Read 2 Kings 23:11. 6:5 1 In contempt of their power and force, which shall neither be able to deliver you nor themselves. 6:8 1 He showeth that in all dangers God will preserve a few, which shall be as the seed of his Church and call upon his Name. 6:9 1 They shall be ashamed to see that their hope in idols was but vain, and so shall repent.
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10 And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain, that I would do this evil unto them. 11 Thus saith the Lord God, 1Smite with thine hand, and stretch forth with thy foot, and say, Alas, for all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 12 He that is far off, shall die of the pestilence, and he that is near, shall fall by the sword, and he that remaineth and is besieged, shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them. 13 Then 1ye shall know, that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, which is the place where they did offer sweet savor to all their idols. 14 So will I c stretch mine hand upon them, and make the land waste and desolate 1from the wilderness unto Diblath in all their habitations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 The end of all the land of Israel shall suddenly come.
for thee: behold, it is come. 7 The 1morning is come unto thee, that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the 2sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and fulfill mine anger upon thee: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will lay upon thee all thine abominations. 9 Neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I have pity, but I will lay upon thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee, and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth. 10 Behold, the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth, the 1rod flourisheth: 2pride hath budded. 11 1Cruelty is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their riches, nor of any of theirs, neither shall there be 2lamentation for them. 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer 1rejoice, nor let him that selleth 2mourn: for the wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For he that selleth, shall not 1return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the 2vision was unto all the multitude thereof, and they returned not, 3neither doth any encourage himself in the punishment of his life. 14 1They have blown the trumpet, and prepared all, but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field, shall die with the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shall be in the mountains, like the doves of the valleys: all they shall mourn, every one for his iniquity. 17 aAll hands shall be weak, and all knees shall fall away as water.
c Ezek. 5:14
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a Isa. 13:7
Jer. 6:24
1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Also thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, An end is come unto the land of Israel: the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will lay upon thee all 1thine abominations. 4 Neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee: and thine abomination shall be in the midst of thee, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 5 Thus saith the Lord God, 1Behold, one evil, even one evil is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come, it 1watched
6:11 1 By these signs he would that the Prophet should signify the great destruction to come. 6:13 1 That is, all nations when you shall see my judgments. 6:14 1 Some read, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, which was in Syria, and bordered upon Israel, or from the wilder ness, which was South unto Diblath, which was North: meaning, the whole country. 7:3 1 I will punish thee as thou hast deserved for thine idolatry. 7:5 1 Or, behold, evil cometh after evil. 7:6 1 He showeth that the judgments of God ever watch to destroy the sinners, which notwithstanding he delayeth till there be no more hope of repentance. 7:7 1 The beginning of his punishments is already come. 2 Which was a voice of joy and mirth. 7:10 1 The scourge is in a readiness. 2 That is, the proud tyrant Nebuchadnezzar, hath gathered his
force and is ready. 7:11 1 This cruel enemy shall be a sharp scourge for their wickedness. 2 Their own affliction shall be so great, that they shall have no regard to lament for others. 7:12 1 For the present profit. 2 For he shall lose nothing. 7:13 1 In the year of the Jubilee, meaning that none should enjoy the privilege of the law, Lev. 25:13, for they should all be carried away captives. 2 This vision signified, that all should be carried away, and none should return for the Jubilee. 3 No man for all this endeavoreth himself, or taketh heart to repent for his evil life. Some read, for none shall be strengthened in his iniq uity of his life: meaning, that they should gain nothing by flattering themselves in evil. 7:14 1 The Israelites made a brag, but their hearts failed them.
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and the Elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and lo, there was a likeness, as the appearance of 1fire, to look to, from his loins downward, and from his loins upward, as the appearance of brightness, and like unto amber. 3 And he stretched out the likeness of an hand, and took me by an hairy lock of mine head, and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me 1by a Divine 2vision to Jerusalem, into the entry of the inner 3gate that lieth toward the North, where remained the idol of 4indignation, which provoked indignation. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there according to the vision, that I saw 1in the field. 5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now toward the North. So I lifted up mine eyes toward the North, and behold, Northward, at the gate of the 1altar, this idol of indignation was in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou not what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commiteth here to cause me to depart from 1my Sanctuary? but yet turn thee and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 And he caused me to enter at the gate of the court: and when I looked, behold, an hole was in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. And when I had dug in the wall, behold, there was a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in, and saw, and behold, there was every similitude of creeping things, and 1abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel painted upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy 1men of the Ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, with every man his censor in his hand, and the vapor of the incense went up like 2a cloud. 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the Ancients of the house of Israel 1do in
18 bThey shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and fear shall cover them, and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be cast far off: their csilver and their gold cannot deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: for this ruin is for their iniquity. 20 He had also set the beauty of his 1ornament in majesty: but they made images of their abominations, and of their idols therein: therefore have I set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the 1strangers to be spoiled, and to the wicked of the earth to be robbed, and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my 1secret place: for the destroyers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 ¶ Make a 1chain: for the land is full of the 2judgment of blood, and the city is full of cruelty. 24 Wherefore I will bring the most wicked of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the mighty to cease, and their 1holy places shall be defiled. 25 When destruction cometh, they shall seek peace, and shall not have it. 26 Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumor shall be upon rumor: then shall they seek a vision of the Prophet: but the Law shall perish from the Priest, and counsel from the Ancient. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people in the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 8 1 An appearance of the similitude of God. 3 Ezekiel is brought to Jerusalem in the spirit. 6 The Lord showeth the Prophet the idolatries of the house of Israel.
b Is. 15:3 Jer. 48:37
c Prov. 11:4
Zeph. 1:18
Eccl. 5:8
1 And in the 1sixth year, in the 2sixth month, and in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house,
7:20 1 Meaning, the Sanctuary. 7:21 1 That is, of the Babylonians. 7:22 1 Which signifieth the most holy place, whereinto none might enter but the high Priest. 7:23 1 Signifying, that they should be bound and led away captives. 2 That is, of sins that deserve death. 7:24 1 Which was the Temple that was divided into three parts, Ps. 63:35. 8:1 1 Of the captivity of Jeconiah. 2 Which contained part of August, and part of September. 8:2 1 As Ezek. 1:27. 8:3 1 Hebrew, in the visions of God. 2 Meaning, that he was thus carried in spirit, and not in body.
3 Which was the porch or the court where the people assembled. 4 So called, because it provoked God's indignation, which was the idol of Baal. 8:4 1 Read Ezek. 3:22. 8:5 1 That is, in the court where the people had made an altar to Baal. 8:6 1 For God will not be where idols are. 8:10 1 Which were forbidden in the Law, Lev. 11:4. 8:11 1 Thus they that should have kept all the rest in the fear, and true service of God, were the ringleaders of all abomination, and by their example pulled others from God. 2 It was in such abundance. 8:12 1 For besides their common idolatry they had particular service, which they had in secret chambers.
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3 And the glory of the God of Israel was 1gone up from the Cherub, whereupon he was, and stood on the 2door of the house, and he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side. 4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and 1set a mark upon the foreheads of them that 2mourn, and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the other he said, that I might hear, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let your eye spare none, neither have pity. 6 Destroy utterly the old, and the young, and the maids, and the children, and the women, but touch no man, upon whom is the 1mark, and begin at my Sanctuary. Then they began at the 2ancient men, which were before the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain, then go forth: and they went out and slew them in the city. 8 Now when they had slain them, and I had escaped, I fell down upon my face, and cried, saying, 1Ah Lord God, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem? 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel, and Judah is exceeding great, so that the land is full of 1blood, and the city full of corrupt judgment: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth us not. 10 As touching me also, mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I have pity, but will recompense their ways upon their heads. 11 And behold, the man clothed with linen which had the inkhorn by his side, made report, and said, Lord, I have done as thou hast commanded me. 10 1 Of the man that took hot burning coals out of the middle of the wheels of the Cherubims. 8 A rehearsal of the vision of the wheels, of the beasts, and of the Cherubims.
the dark, everyone in the chamber of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth. 13 Again he said also unto me, Turn thee again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14 And he caused me to enter into the entry of the gate of the Lord's house, which was toward the North: and behold, there sat women mourning for 1Tammuz. 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16 And he caused me to enter into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the East, and they worshipped the sun, toward the East. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a small thing to the house of Judah to commit these abominations which they do here? for they have filled the land with cruelty, and have returned to provoke me: and lo, they have cast out 1stink before their noses. 18 Therefore will I also execute my wrath: mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I have pity, and athough they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. 9 1 The destruction of the city. 4 They that shall be saved, are marked. 8 A complaint of the Prophet for the destruction of the people.
chapter 8
a Prov. 1:28
Isa. 46:7 Jer. 11:11
Mic. 3:4
chapter 10
a Ezek. 1:22
1 He cried also with a loud voice in mine ears, saying, The visitations of 1the city draw near, and every man hath a weapon in his hand to destroy it. 2 And behold, six 1men came by the way of the high gate, which lieth toward the 2North, and every man a weapon in his hand to destroy it: and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's 3inkhorn by his side, and they went in and stood beside the brazen altar.
1 And as I looked, behold in the afirmament that was above the head of the 1Cherubims there
8:14 1 The Jews write, that this was a Prophet of the idols, who after his death was once a year mourned for in the night. 8:17 1 Declaring that the censings and service of the idolaters, are but infection and villainy before God. 9:1 1 The time to take vengeance. 9:2 1 Which were Angels in the similitude of men. 2 Signifying, that the Babylonians should come from the North to destroy the city and the Temple. 3 To mark them that should be saved. 9:3 1 Which declared that he was not bound thereunto, neither would remain any longer, than there was hope that they would return from their wickedness and worship him aright. 2 Or, Threshold.
9:4 1 Or, mark with [x]. 2 He showeth what is the manner of God's children, whom he marketh to salvation: to wit, to mourn and cry out against the wick edness, which they see committed against God's glory. 9:6 1 Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserveth his small number, which he marketh, as Exod. 12:12; Rev. 7:3, but the chief mark is the Spirit of adoption, wherewith the heart is sealed up to life everlast ing. 2 Which were the chief occasion of all these evils, as Ezek. 8:11. 9:8 1 This declareth that the servants of God have a compassion, when they see his judgments executed. 9:9 1 That is, with all kinds of wickedness, read Isa. 1:15. 10:1 1 Which in Ezek. 1:5, he called the four beasts.
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and the fourth the face of an Eagle. 15 And the Cherubims were lifted up: bthis is the beast that I saw at the river Chebar. 16 And when the Cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the Cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When the Cherubims stood, they stood: and when they were lifted up, they lifted themselves up also: for the 1spirit of the beast was in them. 18 1Then the glory of the Lord departed from above the door of the house, and stood upon the Cherubims. 19 And the Cherubims lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them: and everyone stood at the entry of the gate of the Lord's House at the East side, and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them on high. 20 cThis is the 1beast that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they were the Cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings, and the likeness of man's hands was under their wings. 22 And the likeness of their faces was the selfsame faces, which I saw by the river Chebar, and the appearance of the Cherubims was the selfsame, and they went every one straight forward. 11 1 Who they were that seduced the people of Israel. 5 Against these he prophesieth, showing them how they shall be dispersed abroad. 19 The renewing of the heart cometh of God. 21 He threateneth them that lean unto their own counsels.
appeared upon them like unto the similitude of a throne, as it were a sapphire stone. 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the Cherub, and fill thine hands with coals of fire from between the Cherubims, and scatter them over 1the city. And he went in my sight. 3 Now the Cherubims stood upon the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of the Lord 1went up from the Cherub, and stood over the door of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the Lord's glory. 5 And the 1sound of the Cherubims' wings was heard into the utter court, as the voice of the Almighty God, when he speaketh. 6 And when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, and from between the Cherubims, then he went in and stood beside the wheel. 7 And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from between the Cherubims unto the fire that was between the Cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it and went out. 8 And there appeared in the Cherubims, the likeness of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked up, behold, four wheels were beside the Cherubims, one wheel by one Cherub, and another wheel by another Cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a 1Chrysolite stone. 10 And their appearance (for they were all four of one fashion) was as if one wheel had been in another wheel. 11 When they went forth, they went upon their four sides, and they returned not as they went: but to the place whither the first went, they went after it, and they 1turned not as they went. 12 And their whole body, and their 1rings, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes round about, even in the same four wheels. 13 And the Cherub cried to these wheels in mine hearing, saying, O wheel. 14 And every beast had four faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion,
b Ezek. 1:5
c Ezek. 1:15
1 Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the East gate of the Lord's house, which lieth Eastward, and behold, at the entry of the gate were five and twenty men: among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that imagine mischief, and devise wicked counsel in this city. 3 For they say, 1It is not near, let us build houses: this city is the 2caldron, and we be the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, son of man,
10:2 1 This signified, that the city should be burnt. 10:4 1 Meaning, that the glory of God should depart from the Temple. 10:5 1 Read Ezek. 1:24. 10:9 1 Read Ezek. 1:16. 10:11 1 Until they had executed God's judgments. 10:12 1 Or, trents. 10:17 1 There was one consent between the Cherubims and the
wheels. 10:18 1 Read Ezek. 9:3. 10:20 1 That is, the whole body of the four beasts or Cherubims. 11:3 1 Thus the wicked derided the Prophets, as though they preached but errors, and therefore gave themselves still to their pleasures. 2 We shall not be pulled out of Jerusalem, till the hour of our death come, as the flesh is not taken out of the caldron till it be sod.
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prophesy. 5 And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak, Thus saith the Lord, O ye house of Israel, this have ye said, and I know that which riseth up of your minds. 6 Many have ye murdered in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, They that ye have slain, and have laid in the midst of it, they are 1the flesh, and this city is the caldron, but I will bring you forth of the midst of it. 8 Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into 1the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword, and I will judge you in the border of 1Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof, but I will judge you in the border of Israel. 12 And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. 13 ¶ And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of 1Benaiah died: then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God, wilt thou then utterly destroy all the remnant of Israel? 14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy 1brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, wholly are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Depart ye far from the Lord: for the land is given us in possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little 1Sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will gather you again from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the idols thereof, and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19 aAnd I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within their bowels: and I will take the 1stony heart out of their bodies, and will give them an heart of flesh, 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 But upon them, whose heart is toward their idols, and whose affection goeth after their abominations, I will lay their way upon their own heads saith the Lord God. 22 ¶ Then did the Cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them on high. 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is toward the East side of the city. 24 Afterward the Spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea to them that were led away captives: so the vision that I had seen, went up from me. 25 Then I declared unto them that were 1led away captives, all the things that the Lord had showed me. 12 1 The parable of the captivity. 18 Another parable whereby the distress of hunger and thirst is signified.
chapter 11
a Jer. 32:39
Ezek. 36:29
1 The word of the Lord also came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see 1not: they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore thou son of man, 1prepare thy stuff to go into captivity, and go forth by day in their sight: and thou shalt pass from thy place to another place in their sight, if it be possible that they may consider it: for they are a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as the stuff of him that goeth into captivity: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
11:7 1 Contrary to their vain confidence he showeth in what sense the city is the caldron: that is, because of the dead bodies that have been murdered therein, and so lie as flesh in the caldron. 11:9 1 That is, of the Chaldeans. 11:10 1 That is, in Riblah, read 2 Kings 25:6. 11:13 1 It seemeth that this noble man died of some terrible death, and therefore the Prophet feared some strange judgment of God toward the rest of the people. 11:15 1 They that remained still at Jerusalem thus reproached them that were gone into captivity, as though they were cast off and for
saken of God. 11:16 1 They shall be yet a little Church: showing that the Lord will ever have some to call upon his Name, whom he will preserve and restore, though they be for a time afflicted. 11:19 1 Meaning, the heart whereunto nothing can enter, and regenerate them anew, so that their heart may be soft, and ready to receive my graces. 11:25 1 When Jeconiah was led away captive. 12:2 1 That is, they receive not the fruit of that which they see and hear. 12:3 1 Hebrew, make thee vessels to go into captivity.
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5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders and carry it forth in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face that thou see not the earth: for I have set thee as a 1sign unto the house of Israel. 7 And as I was commanded, so I brought forth my stuff by day, as the stuff of one that goeth into captivity: and by night I dug through the wall with mine hand, and brought it forth in the dark, and I bore it upon my shoulder in their sight. 8 And in the morning came the word of the Lord unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What 1doest thou? 10 But say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, This 1burden concerneth the chief in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them. 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall go into bondage and captivity. 12 And the chiefest that is among them, shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall, to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes. 13 My net also will I spread upon 1him, and he shall be taken in my net, and I will bring him to Babel to the land of the Chaldeans, yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his garrisons, and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will leave a 1little number of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all these abominations among the heathen, where they come, and they shall know, that I am the Lord. 17 ¶ Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with trembling, and drink thy water with trouble, and with carefulness, 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem, and of the land of Israel, They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with desolation: for the land shall be desolate from her abundance, because of the cruelty of them that dwell therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited, shall be left void, and the land shall be desolate, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 21 ¶ And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days 1are prolonged, and all visions 2fail? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God, I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel: but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. 24 For no vision shall be anymore in vain, neither shall there be any flattering divination within the house of Israel. 25 For I am the Lord: I will speak, and that thing that I shall speak, shall come to pass: it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the thing, and will perform it, saith the Lord God. 26 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth, is for 1many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, All my words shall no longer be delayed, but that thing which I have spoken, shall be done, saith the Lord God. 13 2 The word of the Lord against false prophets, which teach the people the counsels of their own hearts.
chapter 13
a Ezek. 14:9
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of aIsrael, that prophesy, and say thou unto them, that prophesy out of their 1own hearts, Hear the word of the Lord. 3 Thus saith the Lord God, Woe unto the foolish Prophets that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing. 4 O Israel, thy Prophets are like the foxes 1in the
12:6 1 That as thou doest, so shall they do, and therefore in thee they shall see their own plague and punishment. 12:9 1 Do not they deride thy doings? 12:10 1 Or, prophecy. 12:13 1 When the king shall think to escape by fleeing, I will take him in my net, as Ezek. 17:20 and 32:3. 12:16 1 Which should bear his Name, and should be his Church, read Ezek. 11:16. 12:22 1 Because they did not immediately see the prophecies
accomplished, they contemned them as though they should never be fulfilled. 2 Or, take none effect. 12:27 1 That is, it shall not come to pass in our days, and therefore we care not for it: thus the wicked ever abuse God's patience and benignity. 13:2 1 After their own fantasy, and not as having the revelation of the Lord, Jer. 23:16. 13:4 1 Watching to destroy the vineyard.
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waste places. 5 1Ye have not risen up in the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. 6 They have seen vanity, and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith it, and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word of their prophecy. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision? and have ye not spoken a lying divination? 1ye say, The Lord saith it, albeit I have not spoken. 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because ye have spoken vanity and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God, 9 And mine hand shall be upon the Prophets that see vanity, and divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the 1writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. 10 And therefore, because they have deceived my people, saying, 1Peace, and there was no peace: and one built up a 2wall, and behold, the others daubed it with untempered mortar, 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: for there shall come a great shower, and I will send hailstones, which shall cause it to fall, and a stormy wind shall break it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in my wrath, and a great shower shall be in mine anger, and hailstones in mine indignation to consume it. 14 So I will destroy the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof, and ye shall know, that I am the Lord. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with 1untempered
mortar, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither the daubers thereof, 16 To wit, the Prophets of Israel, which prophesy upon Jerusalem, and see visions of peace for it, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God. 17 Likewise thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart: and prophesy thou against them, and say, 18 Thus saith the Lord God, Woe unto the women that sow 1pillows under all armholes, and make veils upon the head of everyone that standeth up, to hunt souls: will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye give life to the souls that come unto you? 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of 1barley, and for pieces of bread to slay the souls of them that should not die, and 2to give life to the souls that should not live, in lying to my people, that hear your lies? 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will have to do with your pillows, wherewith ye hunt the 1souls to make them to flee, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them to flee. 21 Your veils also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hands to be hunted, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 22 Because with your lies ye have made the heart of the 1righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life, 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 14 4 The Lord sendeth false Prophets for the ingratitude of the people. 22 He reserveth a small portion for his Church.
1 Then came certain of the Elders of Israel unto
13:5 1 He speaketh to the governors, and true ministers that should have resisted them. 13:7 1 Ye promised peace to this people, and now ye see their destruction, so that it is manifest, that ye are false prophets. 13:9 1 That is, in the book of life, wherein the true Israelites are written. 13:10 1 Read Jer. 6:14. 2 Whereas the true Prophets prophesied the destruction of the city to bring the people to repentance, the false prophets spake the contrary, and flattered them in their vanities, so that what one false prophet said (which is here called the building of the wall) another false prophet would affirm, though he had neither occasion nor good ground to bear him. 13:15 1 Whereby is meant whatsoever man of himself setteth forth
under the authority of God's word. 13:18 1 These superstitious women for lucre would prophesy and tell every man his fortune, giving them pillows to lean upon, and ker chiefs to cover their heads, to the intent they might the more allure them and bewitch them. 13:19 1 Will ye make my word to serve your bellies? 2 These sorcerers made the people believe that they could pre serve life or destroy it, and that it should come to everyone according as they prophesied. 13:20 1 That is, to cause them to perish, and that they should depart from the body. 13:22 1 By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the wicked.
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me, and 1sat before me. 2 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their 1heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I, being required, answer them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the 1Prophet, I the Lord will answer him that cometh, according to the multitude 2of his idols: 5 That 1I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all departed from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Return, and withdraw yourselves, and turn your faces from your idols, and turn your faces from all your abominations. 7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a Prophet, for to inquire of him for me, I the Lord will answer him 1for myself, 8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example and proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 9 And if the Prophet be 1deceived, when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that Prophet, and I will stretch out mine hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people of Israel. 10 And they shall bear their punishment: the punishment of the Prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that asketh, 11 That the house of 1Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted anymore with all their
transgressions, but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God. 12 ¶ The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, 1and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and I will destroy man and beast forth of it. 14 Though these three men 1Noah, Daniel, and Job were among them, they should deliver but their own souls by their 2righteousness, saith the Lord God. 15 If I bring noisome beasts into the land and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through, because of beasts, 16 Though these three men were in the midst thereof, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall save neither sons nor daughters: they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be waste. 17 Or if I bring a sword upon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it, 18 Though these three men were in the midst thereof, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast, 20 And though Noah, Daniel and Job were in the midst of it, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus saith the Lord God, How much more when I send my afour sore judgments upon Jerusalem, even the sword, and famine, and the noisome beast, and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it? 22 Yet behold, therein shall be left a 1remnant of them that shall be carried away both sons and
chapter 14
a Ezek. 5:17
14:1 1 He showeth the hypocrisy of the idolaters, who will dissemble to hear the Prophets of God, though in their heart they follow noth ing less than their admonitions, and also how by one means or other God doth discover them. 14:3 1 They are not only idolaters in heart, but also worship their filthy idols openly, which lead them in blindness, and cause them to stumble, and cast them out of God's favor, so that he will not hear them when they call unto him, read Jer. 10:15. 14:4 1 To inquire of things which the Lord hath appointed to come to pass. 2 As his abomination hath deserved: that is, he shall be led with lies according as he delighted therein, 2 Thess. 2:10. 14:5 1 That is, convince them by their own conscience. 14:7 1 Or, by myself. 14:9 1 The Prophet declareth that God for man's ingratitude raiseth up false prophets to seduce them that delight in lies
rather than in the truth of God, and thus he punisheth sin by sin, 1 Kings 22:20, 22, and destroyeth as well those Prophets as that people. 14:11 1 Thus God's judgments against the wicked, are admonitions to the godly, to cleave unto the Lord, and not to defile themselves with like abominations. 14:13 1 Read Ezek. 4:16 and 5:17; Isa. 3:1. 14:14 1 Though Noah and Job were now alive, which in their time were most godly men (for at this time Daniel was in captivity with Ezekiel) and so these three together should pray for this wicked people, yet would I not hear them, read Jer. 15:1. 2 Meaning, that a very few (which he calleth the remnant, verse 22) should escape these plagues, whom God hath sanctified and made righteous, so that this righteousness is a sign that they are the Church of God, whom he would preserve for his own sake. 14:22 1 Read Ezek. 5:3.
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daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way, and their enterprises: and ye shall be comforted, concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their enterprises: and ye shall know, that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God. 15 2 As the unprofitable wood of the vine tree is cast into the fire, so Jerusalem shall be burnt.
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem, Thine habitation and thy kindred is of the land 1of Canaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. 4 And in thy nativity when thou wast 1born, thy navel was not cut: thou wast not washed in water to soften thee: thou wast not salted with salt, nor swaddled in clouts. 5 None eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee, for to have compassion upon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field to the contempt of thy person in the day that thou wast born. 6 And when I passed by thee, I saw thee polluted in thine 1own blood, and I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Thou shalt live: even when thou wast in thy blood, I said unto thee, Thou shalt live. 7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was as the time of love, and I spread my skirts over thee, and covered 1thy filthiness: yea, I swear unto thee, and entered into a covenant with 2thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with 1water: yea, I washed away thy blood from thee, and I 2anointed thee with oil. 10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. 11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thine hands, and a chain on thy neck. 12 And I put a frontlet upon thy face, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful 1crown upon thine head. 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work: thou didst eat fine flour, and honey and oil, and thou wast very beautiful, and
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, what cometh of the vine tree above all other trees? and of the vine branch, which is among the 1trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast in the fire to be consumed: the fire consumeth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burnt. Is it meet for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet for any work, when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burnt? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, as the vine tree, that is among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from one 1fire, and another fire shall consume them: and ye shall know, that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them, 8 And when I make the land waste, because they have greatly offended, saith the Lord God. 16 The Prophet declared the benefits of God toward Jerusalem. 15 Their unkindness. 46 He justifieth the wickedness of other people in comparison of the sins of Jerusalem. 49 The cause of the abominations, into which the Sodomites fell. 60 Mercy is promised to the repentant.
1 Again, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
15:2 1 Which brings forth no fruit, no more than the other trees of the forest do: meaning that if Jerusalem, which bore the name of his Church, did not bring forth fruit it would be utterly destroyed. 15:7 1 Though they escape one danger, yet another will take them. 16:3 1 Thou boastest to be of the seed of Abraham, but thou art degenerate and followest the abominations of the wicked Canaan ites, as children do the manners of their fathers, Isa. 1:4 and 57:3. 16:4 1 When I first brought thee out of Egypt, and planted thee in this land to be my Church. 16:6 1 Being thus in thy filthiness and forsaken of all men, I took thee and gave thee life: whereby is meant that before God wash his
Church, and give life, there is nothing but filthiness and death. 16:8 1 These words, as blood, pollution, nakedness, and filthiness, are oftentimes repeated to beat down their pride, and to cause them to consider what they were before God received them to mercy, favored them and covered their shame. 2 That thou shouldest be a chaste wife unto me, and that I should maintain thee and endue thee with all graces. 16:9 1 I washed away thy sins. 2 I sanctified thee with mine holy Spirit. 16:12 1 Hereby he showeth how he saved his Church, enriched it, and gave it power and dominion to reign.
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thou didst grow up into a kingdom. 14 And thy name was spread among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my 1beauty which I had set upon thee, saith the Lord God. 15 Now thou didst 1trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot, because of thy renown, and hast poured out 2thy fornications on everyone that passed by, thy desire was to him. 16 And thou didst take thy garments, and deckedst thine high places with divers colors, 1and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither hath any done so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels made of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and 1madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and my perfume before them. 19 My meat also, which I gave thee, as fine flour, oil and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savor: thus it was, saith the Lord God. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them, to 1be devoured: is this thy whoredom a small matter? 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through fire for them? 22 And in all thine abominations and whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. 23 And beside all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee, saith the Lord God) 24 Thou hast also built unto thee an high place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25 Thou hast built thine high place at every 1corner of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred: thou hast opened thy feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom. 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the
27 Behold, therefore I did stretch out mine hand over thee, and will diminish thine ordinary, and deliver thee unto the will of them that hate thee, even to the 1daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy wicked way. 28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable: yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication from the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, even the work of a 1presumptuous whorish woman? 31 In that thou buildest thine high place in the corner of every way, and makest thine high place in every street, and hast not been as an harlot 1that despiseth a reward, 32 But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband: 33 They give gifts to all other whores, but thou givest gifts unto all thy lovers, and rewardest them that they may come unto thee on every side for thy fornication. 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy fornications, neither the like fornication shall be after thee: for in that thou givest a reward and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord. 36 Thus saith the Lord God, Because thy 1shame was poured out, and thy filthiness discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thine abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst offer unto them, 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all 1thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated: I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy filthiness unto them, that they may see all thy filthiness. 38 And I will judge thee after the manner of them
1Egyptians thy neighbors, which have great members, and hast increased thy whoredom, to provoke me.
16:14 1 He declareth wherein the dignity of Jerusalem stood: to wit, in that that the Lord gave them of his beauty and excellency. 16:15 1 In abusing my gifts, and in putting thy confidence in thine own wisdom and dignity, which were the occasions of thine idolatry. 2 There was none idolatry so vile wherewith thou didst not pol lute thyself. 16:16 1 This declareth how the idolaters put their chief delight in those things, which please the eyes and outward senses. 16:17 1 Thou hast converted my vessels and instruments, which I gave thee to serve me with, to the use of thine idols. 16:20 1 Meaning, by fire: read Lev. 18:21; 2 Kings 23:10. 16:25 1 Or, head.
16:26 1 He noteth the great impiety of this people, who first falling from God to seek help at strange nations, did also at length embrace their idolatry, thinking thereby to make their amity more strong. 16:27 1 Or, cities. 16:30 1 Or, that will bear rule. 16:31 1 Meaning, that some harlots contemn small rewards, but no lovers gave a reward to Israel, but they gave to all others: signifying that the idolaters bestow all their substance, which they receive of God for his glory, to serve their vile abominations. 16:36 1 Or, … parts. 16:37 1 Egyptians, Assyrians and Chaldeans, whom thou tookest to be thy lovers, shall come and destroy thee, Ezek. 23:9.
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that are 1harlots, and of them that shed blood, and I will give thee the blood of wrath, and jealousy. 39 I will also give thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thine high place, and shall break down thine high places: they shall strip thee also out of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. 41 And they ashall burn up thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt give no reward anymore. 42 So will I make my wrath toward thee to rest, and my 1jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease, and be no more angry. 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me with all these things, behold, therefore I also have 1brought thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord God: yet hast not thou had consideration of all thine abominations. 44 Behold, all that use proverbs, shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, 1so is her daughter. 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children, and thou art the sister of thy 1sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children: your mother is an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, and her 1daughters, that dwell at thy left hand, and 2thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom, and her daughters. 47 Yet hast thou 1not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but as it had been a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. 48 As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, neither she nor her daughters, as thou
hast done and thy daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, 1pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her, and in her daughters: neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 But they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as pleased me. 51 Neither 1hath Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou hast exceeded them in thine abominations, and hast 2justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. 52 Therefore thou which hast justified thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins, that thou hast committed more abominable than they which are more righteous than thou art: be thou therefore confounded also, and bear thy shame, seeing that thou hast justified thy sisters. 53 Therefore I will bring again 1their captivity, with the captivity of Sodom, and her daughters, and with the captivity of Samaria, and her daughters: even the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them, 54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou hast 1comforted them. 55 And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state: Samaria also and her daughters shall return to their former state: 1when thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state. 56 For thy sister Sodom 1was not heard of 2by thy report in the day of thy pride, 57 Before thy wickedness was 1discovered, as in that same time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistines round about 2her, which despise thee on all sides. 58 Thou hast borne therefore thy wickedness and thine abomination, saith the Lord. 59 For thus saith the Lord God, I might even deal with thee, as thou hast done: when thou didst despise the 1oath, in breaking the covenant.
chapter 16
a 2 Kings 25:9
16:38 1 I will judge thee to death, as the adulterers and murder ers. 16:42 1 I will utterly destroy thee, and so my jealousy shall cease. 16:43 1 I have punished thy faults, but thou wouldest not repent. 16:44 1 As were the Canaanites, and the Hittites and others your pre decessors, so are you their successors. 16:45 1 That is, of Samaria and Sodom. 16:46 1 That is, her cities. 2 Hebrew, thy sister younger than thou. 16:47 1 But done far worse. 16:49 1 He allegeth these four vices, pride, excess, idleness and contempt of the poor, as four principal causes of such abomination, wherefore they were so horribly punished, Gen. 19:24. 16:51 1 Which worshipped the calves in Bethel and Dan. 2 Thou art so wicked, that in respect of thee Sodom and Samaria
were just. 16:53 1 This he speaketh in comparison, seeing that he would restore Jerusalem when Sodom should be restored, that is, never: and this is meant of the greatest part of the Jews. 16:54 1 In that thou hast showed thyself worse than they and yet thoughtest to escape punishment. 16:55 1 Meaning, that it should never come to pass. 16:56 1 Hebrew, was not a rumor in thy mouth. 2 Thou wouldest not call her punishment to mind when thou wast aloft, to learn by her example to fear my judgments. 16:57 1 That is, till thou wast brought under by the Syrians and Phi listines, 2 Chron. 28:19. 2 Which joined with the Syrians, or compassed about Jerusalem. 16:59 1 When thou brakest the covenant which was made between thee and me, as verse 8.
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60 Nevertheless, I will 1remember my covenant made with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will confirm unto thee an everlasting Covenant. 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive 1thy sisters, both thy elder and thy younger, and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not 2by thy covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, 63 That thou mayest remember, and be 1ashamed, and never open thy mouth anymore: because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee, for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. 17 The parable of the two Eagles.
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall 1he not pull up the roots thereof, and destroy the fruit thereof, and cause them to dry? all the leaves of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to pluck it up by the roots thereof. 10 Behold, it was planted: but shall it prosper? shall it not be dried up, and wither? 1when the East wind shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches, where it grew. 11 Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12 Say now to this rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, behold, the king of Babel is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken 1the king thereof and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babel, 13 And hath taken one of the King's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken 1an oath of him: he hath also taken the princes of the land, 14 That the kingdom might be in subjection, and not lift itself up, but keep their covenant, and stand to it. 15 But he rebelled against him, and sent his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses, and much people: shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16 As I live, saith the Lord God, he shall die in the midst of Babel, in the place of the king that had made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant made with him, he brake. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty host, and great multitude of people, maintain him in the war, when they have cast up mounts, and built ramparts to destroy many persons. 18 For he hath despised the oath, and broken the covenant (yet lo, he had given 1his hand) because he hath done all these things, he shall not escape. 19 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, As I live, I will surely bring mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, upon his own
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, put forth a parable and speak a proverb unto the house of Israel, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God, The great 1eagle with great wings and long wings, and full of feathers, which had diverse colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar, 4 And brake off the top of his twig, and carried it into the land of 1merchants, and set it in a city of merchants. 5 He took also of the 1seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful ground: he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. 6 And it budded up, and was like 1a spreading vine of 2low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and the roots thereof were under it: so it became a vine, and it brought forth branches, and shot forth buds. 7 There was also 1another great Eagle with great wings and many feathers, and behold, this vine did turn her roots toward it, and spread forth her branches toward it, that she might water it by the trenches of her plantation. 8 It was planted in a good soil by great 1waters, that it should bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and be an excellent vine.
16:60 1 That is, of mercy and love I will pity thee, and so stand to my covenant though thou hast deserved the contrary. 16:61 1 Whereby he showeth that among the most wicked, he had ever some seed of his Church, which he would cause to fructify in due time: and here he declareth how he will call the Gentiles. 2 But of my free mercy. 16:63 1 This declareth what fruits God's mercies work in his, to wit, sorrow and repentance for their former life. 17:3 1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar, who hath great power, riches, and many countries under him, shall come to Jerusalem, and take away Jeconiah the King, as verse 12. 17:4 1 Meaning, to Babylon. 17:5 1 That is, Zedekiah, who was of the King's blood and was left at Jerusalem, and made King instead of Jeconiah, 2 Kings 24:17; Jer. 37:1.
17:6 1 This was Zedekiah's kingdom. 2 That is, might not have power to rebel against Babylon, as verse 14. 17:7 1 Meaning, the king of Egypt, of whom Zedekiah sought succor against Nebuchadnezzar. 17:8 1 They thought to be moistened by the waters of Nilus. 17:9 1 Shall not Nebuchadnezzar destroy it? 17:10 1 By this dry wind he meaneth the Babylonians. 17:12 1 That is, Jeconiah, 2 Kings 24:15. 17:13 1 For his subjection and obedience. 17:18 1 Because he took the Name of God in vain, and brake his oath which he had confirmed by giving his hand: therefore the Prophet declareth that God would not suffer such perjury and infidelity to escape punishment.
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by violence, cbut hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, 8 And hath not given forth upon dusury, neither hath taken any increase, but hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and man, 9 And hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments to deal truly, he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God. 10 ¶ If he beget a son, that is a 1thief, or a shedder of blood, if he do anyone of these things, 11 Though he do not all these things, but either hath eaten upon the mountains, or defiled his neighbor's wife, 12 Or hath oppressed the poor and needy, or hath spoiled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lifted up his eyes unto the idols, or hath committed abomination, 13 Or hath given forth upon usury, or hath taken increase, shall he live? he shall not live: seeing he hath done all these abominations, 1he shall die the death, and his blood shall be upon him. 14 ¶ But if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, neither doeth such like, 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor hath defiled his neighbor's wife, 16 Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withheld the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, 17 Neither hath withdrawn his hand from the afflicted, nor received usury nor increase, but hath executed my judgments, and hath walked in my statutes, he shall not die in the iniquity of his father, but he shall surely live. 18 His father, because he cruelly oppressed and spoiled his brother by violence, and hath not done good among his people, lo, even he dieth in his iniquity. 19 Yet say ye, Wherefore shall not the son bear the iniquity of the father? because the son hath executed judgment and justice, and hath kept all my statutes, and done them, he shall surely live. 20 eThe same soul that sinneth, shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither
head. 20 aAnd I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my net, and I will bring him to Babel, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he hath committed against me. 21 And all that flee from him with all his host, shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all the winds: and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it. 22 Thus saith the Lord God, I will also take off the top1of this high cedar, and will set it, and cut off the 2top of the tender plant thereof, and I will plant it upon an high mountain and great. 23 Even in the high mountain of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be an excellent cedar, and under it shall remain all birds, and every 1fowl shall dwell in the shadow of the branches thereof. 24 And all the 1trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken it, and have done it. 18 2 He showeth that every man shall bear his own sin. 21 To him that amendeth, salvation is promised. 24 Death is prophesied to the righteous, which turneth back from the right way.
chapter 17
a Ezek. 12:13
Ezek. 32:3
chapter 18
a Lev. 18:20
b Lev. 20:18
c Isa. 58:7 Matt. 25:35
d Exod. 22:25
Lev. 25:37 Deut. 23:19
Ps. 15:5
e Deut. 24:16
2 Kings 4:6 2 Chron. 25:4
1 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 2 What mean ye that ye speak this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, 1The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall use this proverb no more in Israel. 4 Behold, all souls are mine, both the soul of the father, and also the soul of the son are mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. 5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 6 And hath not eaten 1upon the mountains, neither hath lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath adefiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath 2lain with a bmenstruous woman, 7 Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his debtor: he that hath spoiled none
17:22 1 This promise is made to the Church which shall be as a small remnant, and as the top of a tree. 2 I will trim it, and dress it. 17:23 1 Both the Jews and Gentiles shall be gathered into it. 17:24 1 All the world shall know that I have plucked down the proud enemies, and set up my Church which was low and contemned. 18:2 1 The people murmured at the chastisings of the Lord, and there fore used this proverb, meaning, that their fathers had sinned, and their
children were punished for their transgressions, read Jer. 31:29. 18:6 1 If he hath not eaten of the flesh that hath been offered up to idols, to honor them thereby. 2 Hebrew, come near. 18:10 1 Or, a cruel man. 18:13 1 He showeth how the son is punished for his father's fault: that is, if he be wicked as his father was, and doth not repent, he shall be punished as his father was, or else not.
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shall the father bear the iniquity of the son, but the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. 21 But if the wicked will return from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my 1statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, and shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be 1mentioned unto him, but in his 2righteousness that he hath done, he shall live. 23 1Have I any desire that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God? 2or shall he not live, if he return from his ways? 24 But if the righteous turn away from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and do according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? all his 1righteousness that he hath done, shall not be mentioned: but in his transgression that he hath committed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not 1equal: hear now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equal? or are not your ways unequal? 26 For when a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and commiteth iniquity, he shall even die for the same, he shall even die for his iniquity that he hath done. 27 Again, when the wicked turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, and shall not die. 29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? or are not your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, saith the Lord God: return therefore, and cause others to turn away from all your transgressions: so iniquity shall not be your
destruction. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed and make 1you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32 For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: cause therefore one another to return, and live ye. 19 1 The captivity of the kings of Judah signified by the lion's whelps and by the lion. 10 The prosperity of the city of Jerusalem that is past, and the misery thereof that is present.
1 Thou also take up a lamentation for the 1princes of Israel, 2 And say, Wherefore lay thy 1mother as a lioness among the lions? she nourished her young ones among the lion's whelps, 3 And she brought up one of her whelps, and it became a lion, and it learned to catch the prey, and it devoured men. 4 The 1nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chains unto the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, she took another of her 1whelps, and made him a lion. 6 Which went among the lions, and became a lion, and learned to catch the prey, and he devoured 1men. 7 And he knew their widows, and he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the 1nations set against him on every side of the countries, and laid their nets for him: so he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in prison and in chains, and brought him to the king of Babel, and they put him in holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. 10 Thy 1mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted
18:21 1 He joineth the observation of the commandments with repen tance: for none can repent in deed, except he labor to keep the Law. 18:22 1 Or, not laid to his charge. 2 That is, in the fruits of his faith which declare that God doth accept him. 18:23 1 He speaketh this to commend God's mercy to poor sinners, who rather is ready to pardon than to punish, as his long suffering declareth, Ezek. 33:11. Albeit God in his eternal counsel appointed the death and damnation of the reprobate, yet the end of his counsel was not their death only, but chiefly his own glory. Also because he doth not approve sin, therefore it is here said that he would have them to turn away from it, that they might live. 2 Or, rather that he may return from his ways, and live. 18:24 1 That is, the false opinion that the hypocrites have of their righteousness.
18:25 1 In punishing the father with the children. 18:31 1 He showeth that man cannot forsake his wickedness, till his heart be changed, which is only the work of God. 19:1 1 That is, Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim Josiah's sons, who for their pride and cruelty are compared unto lions. 19:2 1 To wit, Jehoahaz's mother, or Jerusalem. 19:4 1 By Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, 2 Kings 23:33. 19:5 1 Which was Jehoiakim. 19:6 1 He slew of the prophets, and them that feared God, and rav ished their wives. 19:8 1 Nebuchadnezzar with his great army which was gathered of divers nations. 19:10 1 He speaketh this in the reproach of this wicked king, in whose blood, that is, in the race of his predecessors, Jerusalem should have been blessed, according to God's promise, and flourished as a fruitful vine.
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by the waters: she brought forth fruit and branches by the abundant waters, 11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12 But she was plucked up in wrath: she was cast down to the ground, and the 1East wind dried up her fruit: her branches were broken and withered: as for the rod of her strength, the fire consumed it. 13 And now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire is gone out 1of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. 20 3 The Lord denieth that he will answer them when they pray, because of their wickedness. 33 He promiseth that his people shall return from captivity. 46 By the forest that should be burnt, is signified the burning of Jerusalem.
7 Then said I unto them, Let every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, 1and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: for I am the Lord your God. 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hear me: for none cast away the abominations of
chapter 20
a Lev. 18:5
Rom. 10:5
Gal. 3:12
b Exod. 20:8
Exod. 31:13
Deut. 5:12
c Num. 14:28,29
Num. 26:65
1their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I thought to pour out mine indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 But I had respect to my 1Name, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, and in whose sight I made myself known unto them in bringing them forth of the land of Egypt. 10 Now I carried them out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and declared my judgments unto them, awhich if a man do, he shall live in them. 12 Moreover I gave them also my bSabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord, that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them, and my Sabbaths have they greatly polluted: then I thought to pour out mine indignation upon them cin the wilderness to consume them, 14 But I had respect to my name, that it should not be polluted before the 1heathen in whose sight I brought them out. 15 Yet nevertheless, I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land, which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which was pleasant above all lands, 16 Because they cast away my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but have polluted my 1Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless, mine eye spared them, that I would not destroy them, neither would I consume them in the wilderness. 18 But I said unto their children in the wilder-
1 And in the 1seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, came certain of the Elders of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me. 2 Then came the word of the Lord unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, speak unto the Elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye come to inquire of me? as I live, saith the Lord God, when I am asked, I will not answer you. 4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man? wilt thou judge them? cause 1them to understand the abominations of their fathers, 5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when I chose Israel, and 1lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lift up mine hand unto them, and said, I am the Lord your God, 6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt, into a land that I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is pleasant among all lands,
19:12 1 Meaning, that the Chaldeans should destroy them as the East wind doth the fruit of the vine. 19:14 1 Destruction is come by Zedekiah, who was the occasion of this rebellion. 20:1 1 Of the captivity of Jeconiah. 20:4 1 This declareth the great lenity and patience of God, which call eth sinners to repentance before he condemns them. 20:5 1 I sware that I would be their God, which manner of oath was observed from all antiquity, where they used to lift up their hands toward the heaven, acknowledging God to be the author of truth, and the defender thereof, and also the Judge of the heart, wishing that he should take vengeance, if they concealed anything which they knew to be truth.
20:7 1 God had forbidden them to make mention of the idols, Exod. 23:13; Ps. 16:4. 20:8 1 Which thing declareth the wickedness of man's heart, which judge God's service by their eyes and outward senses. 20:9 1 God had ever this respect to his glory, that he would not have his Name evil spoken of among the Gentiles for the punishment that his people deserved, in confidence whereof the godly ever prayed, as Exod. 32:12; Num. 14:13. 20:14 1 Who might thereby take an occasion to blaspheme my Name and to accuse me of lack of ability, or else that I had sought a means to destroy them more commodiously. 20:16 1 That is, my true religion, which I had commanded them, and gave themselves to serve me according to their own fantasies.
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ness, Walk ye not in the ordinances of your 1fathers, neither observe their manners, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them, 20 And sanctify my Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God. 21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them, but they polluted my Sabbaths: then I thought to pour out mine indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath against them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless, I withdrew mine hand and had respect to my Name, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. 23 Yet I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries, 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had cast away my statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after 1their fathers' idols. 25 Wherefore I gave 1them also statutes that were not good, and judgments, wherein they should not live. 26 And I polluted them in their own 1gifts in that they caused to pass by the fire all that first openeth the womb, that I might destroy them, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, though they had before grievously transgressed against me. 28 1For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees,
and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offering of provocation: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof was called 1Bamah unto this day. 30 Wherefore, say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye not polluted 1after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye not whoredom after their abominations? 31 For when you offer your gifts, and make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day: shall I answer you when I am asked, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, 1I will not answer you when I am asked. 32 Neither shall that be done that cometh into your mind: for ye say, we will be as the heathen, and as the families of the countries, and serve wood, and 1stone. 33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will surely rule you with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and in my wrath poured out, 34 And will bring you from the people, and will gather you out of the countries, wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and in my wrath poured out, 35 And I will bring you into the 1wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and will bring you into the bond of the covenant. 38 And I will 1choose out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them out of the land where they dwell, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
20:18 1 Whereby the holy Ghost confuteth them that say that they will follow the religion and example of their fathers, and not measure their doings by God's word whether they be approvable thereby or no. 20:24 1 Meaning, that they set their delight upon them. 20:25 1 Because they would not obey my laws, I gave them up to themselves, that they should obey their own fantasies, as verse 39; Rom. 1:21, 24. 20:26 1 I condemned those things, and counted them as abomi nable, which they thought had been excellent, and to have declared most zeal, Luke 16:15, for that which God required, as most excellent, that they gave to their idols. 20:28 1 Not only in the wilderness, when I brought them out of Egypt, but since I placed them in this land: which declareth how prompt man's heart is to idolatry, seeing that by no admonitions he can be drawn back. 20:29 1 Which signifieth an high place, declaring that they vaunted
themselves of their idolatry, and were not ashamed thereof, though God had commanded them expressly that they should have no altar lifted upon high by stairs, Exod. 20:26. 20:30 1 Hebrew, in the way. 20:31 1 He showeth that the ingratitude of the people deserveth that God should cut them off, and that they should not have the comfort of his word. 20:32 1 He declareth that man of nature is wholly enemy unto God, and to his own salvation, and therefore God calleth him to the right way, partly by chastising, but chiefly by his mercy in forgiving his rebellion, and wickedness. 20:35 1 I will bring you among strange nations as into a wilderness, and there will visit you, and so call you to repentance, and then bring the godly home again, Isa. 65:9. 20:38 1 Signifying, that he will not burn the corn with the chaff, but choose out the wicked to punish them when he will spare his.
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39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, 1Go you, and serve everyone his idol, seeing that ye will not obey me, and pollute mine holy Name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. 40 For in mine holy mountain, even in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, and all in the land serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. 41 I will accept your sweet savor, when I bring you from the people, and gather you out of the countries, wherein ye have been scattered, that I may be sanctified in you before the heathen. 42 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the land for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your works, wherein ye have been defiled, and ye 1shall judge yourselves worthy to be cut off, for all your evils, that ye have committed. 44 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have respect unto you for my Name's sake, and not after your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt works, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God. 45 ¶ Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 46 Son of man, Set thy face toward the way of Teman, and drop thy word toward 1the South, and prophesy toward the forest of the field of the South, 47 And say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of the Lord: thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour all the 1green wood in thee, and all the dry wood: the continual flame shall not be quenched, and every face from the South to the North shall be burnt therein. 48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched. Then said I, Ah Lord God, they say of me, Doth not he speak 1parables? 21 3 He threateneth the sword and destruction to Jerusalem. 25 He showeth the fall of king Zed
ekiah. 29 He is commanded to prophesy the destruction of the children of Ammon. 30 The Lord threateneth to destroy Nebuchadnezzar.
1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, 1and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I come against thee, and will draw my sword out of his sheath, and cut off from thee both the 1righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sword go out of his sheath against all flesh from the South to the 1North, 5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of his sheath, and it shall not return anymore. 6 Mourn therefore thou son of man, as in the pain of thy 1reins, and mourn bitterly before them. 7 And if they say unto thee, Wherefore mournest thou? Then answer, Because 1of the bruit: for it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be weak, and all minds shall faint, and all knees shall fall away as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be done, saith the Lord God. 8 ¶ Again, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, say, A sword, a sword both sharp and furbished. 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter, and it is furbished that it may 1glitter: how shall we rejoice? for it contemneth the 2rod of my son, as 3all other trees. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that he may handle it: this sword is sharp, and is furbished that he may give it into the hand of the 1slayer. 12 Cry and howl, son of man: for this shall come to my people, and it shall come unto all the princes of Israel: the terrors of the sword shall be upon my people, 1smite therefore upon thy thigh. 13 For it is a trial, 1and what shall this be, if the sword contemn even the rod? It shall be no more,
20:39 1 This is spoken to the hypocrites. 20:43 1 Your own consciences shall convict you after, that you have felt my mercies. 20:46 1 For Judah stood South from Babylon. 20:47 1 Both strong and weak in Jerusalem. 20:48 1 The people said that the Prophet spake darkly: therefore he desireth the Lord to give them a plain declaration thereof. 21:2 1 Speak sensibly, that all may understand. 21:3 1 That is such which seem to have an outward show of righ teousness, by observation of the ceremonies of the law. 21:4 1 Meaning, through all the land. 21:6 1 As though thou were in extreme anguish.
21:7 1 Because of the great noise of the army of the Chaldeans. 21:10 1 And so cause a fear. 2 Meaning, the scepter: showing that it will not spare the King, who should be as the son of God, and in his place. 3 That is, the rest of the people. 21:11 1 To wit, unto the army of the Chaldeans. 21:12 1 Read Jer. 31:19. 21:13 1 Ezekiel moved with compassion, thus complaineth, fear ing the destruction of the kingdom which God had confirmed to David and his posterity by promise, which promise God per formed, although here it seemed to man's eye that it should utterly perish.
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saith the Lord God. 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy and smite 1hand to hand, and let the sword be doubled: let the sword that hath killed, return the third time: it is the sword of the great slaughter entering into their privy chambers. 15 I have brought the fear of the sword into all their gates to make their heart to faint, and to multiply their ruins. Ah, it is made bright, and it is dressed for the slaughter. 16 Get thee 1alone: go to the right hand, or get thyself to the left hand, whithersoever thy face turneth. 17 I will also smite mine hands together, and will cause my wrath to cease. I the Lord have said it. 18 ¶ The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 19 Also thou son of man, appoint thee 1two ways, that the sword of the King of Babel may come: both twain shall come out of one land, and choose a place, and choose it in the corner of the way of the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and 1to Judah in Jerusalem the strong city. 21 And the King of Babel stood at the 1parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, consulting by divination, and made his arrows bright: he consulted with idols, and looked in 2the liver. 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem to appoint captains to open their mouth in the slaughter, and to lift up their voice with shouting, to lay engines of war against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fortress. 23 And it shall be unto them 1as a false divination in their sight for the oaths made unto them: 2but he will call to remembrance their iniquity, to the intent they should be taken. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered in discovering your rebellion, that in all your works your
sins might appear: because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. 25 And thou 1Prince of Israel polluted, and wicked, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, 26 Thus saith the Lord God, I will take away the 1diadem, and take off the crown: this shall be no more the same: I will exalt the humble, and will abase him that is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more until he 1come, whose right it is, and I will give it him. 28 ¶ And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemy: say thou, I say, The sword, the sword is drawn forth and furbished to the slaughter, to consume, because of the glittering, 29 While they see 1vanity unto thee, and prophesied a lie unto thee to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. 30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, even in the land of thine habitation. 31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, and will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of beastly men, and skillful to destroy. 32 Thou shalt be in the fire to be devoured: thy blood shall be in the midst of the land, and thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken it. 22 1 Jerusalem is reproved for cruelty. 25 Of the wicked doctrine of the false prophets and priests, and of their unsatiable covetousness. 26 The tyranny of rulers. 29 The wickedness of the people.
1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Now thou son of man, wilt thou 1judge, wilt
21:14 1 That is, encourage the sword. 21:16 1 Provide for thyself: for thou shalt see God's plague of all parts on this country. 21:19 1 This was spoken, because that when Nebuchadnezzar came against Judah, his purpose was also to go against the Ammonites: but doubting in the way, which enterprise to undertake first he con sulted with his soothsayers, and so went against Judah. 21:20 1 That is, to the tribe of Judah that kept themselves in Jeru salem. 21:21 1 To know whether he should go against the Ammonites or them of Jerusalem. 2 He used conjuring and sorcery. 21:23 1 Because there was a league between the Jews, and the Babylonians, they of Jerusalem shall think nothing less than that this thing should come to pass. 2 That is, Nebuchadnezzar will remember the rebellion of Zedekiah,
and so come upon them. 21:25 1 Meaning, Zedekiah, who practiced with the Egyptians to make himself high and able to resist the Babylonians. 21:26 1 Some refer this to the Priest's attire: for Jehozadak the Priest went into captivity with the king. 21:27 1 That is, unto the coming of Messiah: for though the Jews had some sign of government afterward under the Persians, Greeks and Romans, yet this restitution was not till Christ's coming, and at length should be accomplished, as was promised, Gen. 49:10. 21:29 1 Though the Jews and Ammonites would not believe that thou, to wit, the sword, shouldest come upon them, and said, that the Prophets, which threatened, spake lies, yet thou shalt as surely come, as though thou werest already upon their necks. 22:2 1 Art thou ready to execute thy charge, which I commit unto thee against Jerusalem, that murdereth the Prophets and them that are godly?
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thou judge this bloody city? wilt thou show her all her abominations? 3 Then say, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her 1time may come, and maketh idols against 2herself, to pollute herself. 4 Thou hast offended in thy blood, that thou hast shed, and hast polluted thyself in thine idols, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come unto thy term: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art vile in 1name and sore in affliction. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel everyone in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood. 7 In thee have they despised father and mother: in the midst of thee 1have they oppressed the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths. 9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: in thee are they that eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit abomination. 10 aIn thee have they discovered their fathers' shame: in thee have they vexed her that was polluted in her flowers. 11 And everyone bhath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and everyone hath wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law, and in thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter. 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and the increase, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. 13 Behold, therefore I have 1smitten mine hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood, which hath been in the midst of thee. 14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands 1be strong, in the days that I shall have to do with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. 15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will cause
thy 1filthiness to cease from thee. 16 And thou shalt take thine 1inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. 17 ¶ And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is unto me as 1dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: they are even the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because ye are all as dross, behold, therefore I will gather you in the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it to melt it, so will I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and will put you there 1and melt you. 21 I will gather you, I say, and blow the fire of my wrath upon you, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof, and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you. 23 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land, that is unclean, 1and not rained upon in the day of wrath. 25 There is a conspiracy 1of her prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring lion, ravening the prey: they have devoured souls: they have taken the riches and precious things: they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her Priests have broken my Law, and have defiled mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither discerned between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their 1eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in cthe midst thereof are like wolves, ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls for their own covetous lucre. 28 And her 1prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanities, and divining
chapter 22
a Lev. 20:11,18
b Jer. 5:8
c Mic. 3:11
Zeph. 3:3
22:3 1 That is, the time of her destruction. 2 To her own undoing. 22:5 1 Whose very name all men hate. 22:7 1 He meaneth hereby that there was no kind of wickedness which was not committed in Jerusalem, and therefore the plagues of God should speedily come upon her. 22:13 1 In token of my wrath and vengeance. 22:14 1 That is, able to defend thyself. 22:15 1 I will thus take away the occasion of thy wickedness. 22:16 1 Thou shalt be no more the inheritance of the Lord, but forsaken.
22:18 1 Which before was most precious. 22:20 1 Meaning, hereby that the godly should be tried, and the wicked destroyed. 22:24 1 Thou art like a barren land which the Lord plagueth with drought. 22:25 1 The false prophets have conspired together to make their doctrine more probable. 22:26 1 They have neglected my service. 22:28 1 They which should have reproved them, flattered them in their vices, and covered their doings with lies, Ezek. 13:10.
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lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The people of the land have violently oppressed by spoiling and robbing, and have vexed the poor and the needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger against right. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should 1make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them, and consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own ways have I rendered upon their heads, saith the Lord God. 23 Of the Idolatry of Samaria and Jerusalem, under the names of Oholah and Oholibah.
whom she doted. 10 These discovered her shame: they took away her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword, and she had an evil name among women: for 1they had executed judgment upon her. 11 And when her sister Oholibah saw this, she marred herself with inordinate love more than she, and with her fornications more than her sister with her fornications. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, both captains and princes clothed with divers suits, horsemen riding upon horses: they were all pleasant young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, and that they were both after one sort, 14 And that she increased her fornications: for when she saw men 1painted upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans painted with vermilion, 15 And girded with girdles upon their loins, and with dyed attire upon their heads (looking all like princes after the manner of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity) 16 As soon, I say, as she saw them, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them, into Chaldea. 17 Now when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her lust departed from them. 18 So she discovered her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then mine heart forsook her, like as mine heart had forsaken her sister. 19 Yet she increased her whoredom more, and called to remembrance the days of her youth wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted upon their servants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thou calledst to remembrance the wickedness of thy youth, when thy teats were bruised by the Egyptians: therefore the paps of thy youth are thus. 22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thine heart is departed, and I will bring them against thee on every side,
1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one 1mother. 3 And they committed fornication in 1Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 4 And the names of 1them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters: thus were their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. 5 And Oholah played the harlot 1when 2she was mine, and she was set on fire with her lovers, to wit, with the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 Which were clothed with blue silk, both captains and princes they were all pleasant young men, and horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredom with them, even with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, and defiled herself with all their idols. 8 Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they 1lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even into the hands of the Assyrians, upon
22:30 1 Which would show himself zealous in my cause by resist ing vice, Isa. 59:16 and 63:5, and also pray unto me to withhold my plagues, Ps. 106:23. 23:2 1 Meaning, Israel and Judah, which came both out of one fam ily. 23:3 1 They became idolaters after the manner of the Egyptians. 23:4 1 Oholah signifieth a mansion or dwelling in herself, meaning Samaria, which was the royal city of Israel and Oholibah signifieth my mansion in her, whereby is meant Jerusalem, where God's Temple was. 23:5 1 Hebrew, under me.
2 When the Israelites were named the people of God, they became idolaters, and forsook God, and put their trust in the Assyrians. 23:8 1 The holy Ghost useth these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry so to be abhorred, that […] any should abide to hear the name thereof. 23:10 1 Meaning, the Assyrians. 23:14 1 This declareth that no words are able sufficiently to express the rage of idolaters, and therefore the holy Ghost here compareth them to those which in their raging love and filthy lusts dote upon the images and paintings of them after whom they lust.
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23 To wit, the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans,
the Lord God. 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore thou shalt also bear thy wickedness and thy whoredom. 36 ¶ The Lord said moreover unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? and wilt thou declare to them their abominations? 37 For they have played the whores, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore unto me, to pass by the fire to be their 1meat. 38 Moreover, thus have they done unto me: they have defiled my Sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, they came the same day into my Sanctuary to defile it: and lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. 40 And how much more is it that they sent for men to come from 1far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and lo, they came? for whom thou didst wash thyself, and paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thee with ornaments, 41 And satest 1upon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease, was with her: and with the men to make the company great, were brought men of 1Saba from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 43 Then I said unto her that was old in adulteries, Now shall she and her fornications come to an end. 44 And they went in unto her as they go to a common harlot: so went they to Oholah and Oholibah the wicked women. 45 And the righteous men they shall judge them after the manner of 1harlots, and after the manner of murderers: for they are harlots, and blood is in their hands. 46 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, I will bring a multitude upon them, and will give them unto the tumult and to the spoil, 47 And the multitude shall stone them with stones,
1Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: they were all pleasant young men, captains and princes: all they were valiant and renowned, riding upon horses. 24 Even these shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with a multitude of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield, and helmet round about, and 1I will leave the punishment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their 2judgments. 25 And I will lay mine indignation upon thee, and they shall deal cruelly with thee: they shall cut off thy 1nose and thine ears, and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall carry away thy sons and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make thy wickedness to cease from thee, and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt anymore. 28 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them, whom thou hatest, even into the hands of them from whom thine heart is departed. 29 And they shall handle thee despitefully, and shall take away all thy 1labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare, and the shame of thy fornications 2shall be discovered, both thy wickedness, and thy whoredom. 30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols. 31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister: therefore will I give her 1cup into thine hand. 32 Thus saith the Lord God, Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision, because it containeth much. 33 Thou shalt be filled with 1drunkenness and sorrow, even with the cup of destruction, and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou shalt even drink it, and wring it out to the dregs, and thou shalt break the shards thereof, and tear thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith
23:23 1 These were the names of certain princes and captains under Nebuchadnezzar. 23:24 1 Hebrew, I will give judgment before them. 2 Or, laws. 23:25 1 They shall destroy thy princes and priests with the rest of thy people. 23:29 1 All thy treasures and riches which thou hast gotten by labor. 2 All the world shall see thy shameful forsaking of God to serve idols. 23:31 1 I will execute the same judgments and vengeance against
thee, and that with greater severity. 23:33 1 Meaning, that its afflictions should be so great that they should cause them to lose their senses, and reason. 23:37 1 That is, to be sacrifices to their idols, read Ezek. 16:20. 23:40 1 They sent into other countries to have such as should teach the service of their idols. 23:41 1 He meaneth the altar that was prepared for the idols. 23:42 1 Which should teach the manner of worshipping their gods. 23:45 1 That is, worthy of death, read Ezek. 16:38.
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and cut them with their swords: they shall slay their sons, and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I cause wickedness to cease out of the land, that all 1women may be taught not to do after your wickedness. 49 And they shall lay your wickedness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols, and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. 24 He showeth the destruction of Jerusalem by a parable of a seething pot. 16 The parable of Ezekiel's wife being dead.
the bloody city, for I will make 1the burning great. 10 Heap on much wood: 1kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and cast in spice, and let the bones be burnt. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that 1the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, and that the scum of it may be consumed. 12 1She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not out of her: therefore her scum shall be consumed with fire. 13 Thou remainest in thy filthiness and wickedness: because I would 1have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness, till I have caused my wrath to light upon thee. 14 I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent: according to thy ways, and according to thy works shall 1they judge thee, saith the Lord God. 15 ¶ Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the 1pleasure of thine eyes with a plague: yet shalt thou neither mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Cease from sighing: make no mourning for the dead, and bind the tire of thine head upon thee, 1and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat 2not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning, and at even my wife died: and I did in 1the morning, as I was commanded. 19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things mean toward us that thou doest so? 20 Then I answered them, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will 1pollute my Sanctuary, even the 2pride of your power, the pleasure of your eyes, and
chapter 24
a Nah. 3:1
Hab. 2:12
1 Again in the 1ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the 2month, came the word of the Lord unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: for the King of Babel set himself against Jerusalem this same day. 3 Therefore speak a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Prepare a 1pot, prepare it, and also pour water into it. 4 Gather the 1pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, as the thigh and the shoulder, and fill it with the chief bones. 5 Take one of the best sheep, and 1burn also the 2bones under it, and make it boil well, and seethe the bones of it therein, 6 Because the Lord God saith thus, Woe to the bloody city, even to the pot, 1whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it: bring it out 2piece by piece: let no 3lot fall upon it. 7 For her blood is in the midst of her: she set it upon an high 1rock, and poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust, 8 That it might cause wrath to arise, and take vengeance: even I have set her blood upon an high rock that it should not be covered. 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, aWoe to
23:48 1 Meaning, all other cities and countries. 24:1 1 Of Jeconiah's captivity, and of the reign of Zedekiah, 2 Kings 25:1. 2 Called Tebeth, which containeth part of December and part of January: in the which month and day Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. 24:3 1 Whereby was meant Jerusalem. 24:4 1 That is the citizens, and the chief men thereof. 24:5 1 Or, heap. 2 Meaning, of the innocents, whom they had slain, who were the cause of the kindling of God's wrath against them. 24:6 1 Whose iniquities and wicked citizens there yet remain. 2 Signifying that they should not be destroyed all at once, but by little and little. 3 Spare none estate or condition. 24:7 1 The city showed her cruelty to all the world, and was not
ashamed thereof, neither yet hid it. 24:9 1 Or, an heap of wood. 24:10 1 Meaning, that the city should be utterly destroyed, and that he would give the enemies an appetite thereunto. 24:11 1 Or, bottom. 24:12 1 The city hath flattered herself in vain. 24:13 1 I labored by sending my Prophets to call thee to repentance, but thou wouldest not. 24:14 1 That is, the Babylonians. 24:16 1 Meaning, his wife, in whom he delighted, as verse 18. 24:17 1 For in mourning they went bareheaded and barefooted, and also covered their lips. 2 That is, which the neighbors sent to them that mourned. 24:18 1 Meaning, the morning following. 24:21 1 By sending the Chaldeans to destroy it, as Ezek. 7:22. 2 Wherein you boast and delight.
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your heart's desire, and your sons, and your daughters whom ye have left, shall fall by the sword. 22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, neither shall ye eat the bread of men. 23 And your tire shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done, ye shall do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God. 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their power, the joy of their honor, the pleasure of their eyes, and the 1desire of their heart, their sons and their daughters, 26 That he that escapeth in that day, shall come unto thee to tell thee that which he hath heard with his ears? 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb, and thou shalt be a sign unto them, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 25 2 The word of the Lord against Ammon, which rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem, 8 against Moab and Seir, Idumea and the Philistines.
upon thee, and will deliver thee to be spoiled of the heathen, and I will root thee out from the people, and I will cause thee to be destroyed out of the countries, and I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. 8 Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen, 9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab, even of the cities 1of his cities, I say, in his frontiers with the pleasant country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kirjathaim. 10 I will call the men of the East against the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, so that the Ammonites shall no more be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 12 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, because that Edom hath done evil by taking vengeance upon the house of Judah, and hath committed great offence, and revenged himself upon them, 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and destroy man and beast out of it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will execute my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger, and according to mine indignation, and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God. 15 Thus saith the Lord God, Because the Philistines have executed vengeance, and revenged themselves with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred, 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the 1Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the seacoast. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with rebukes of mine indignation, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. 26 1 He prophesieth that Tyre shall be overthrown, because it rejoiced at the destruction of Jerusalem. 15 The wondering and astonishment of the merchants for the destruction of Tyre.
1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them, 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God, Because thou saidest, 1Ha, ha, against my Sanctuary, when it was polluted, and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity, 4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the 1men of the East for a possession, and they shall set their 2palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk: 5 And I will make 1Rabbah a dwelling place for camels, and the Ammonites a sheepcote, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 6 For thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast clapped the hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel, 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand
1 And in the 1eleventh year in the first day of
24:25 1 Hebrew, lifting up of their souls. 25:3 1 Because ye rejoiced when the enemy destroyed my city and Temple. 25:4 1 That is, to the Babylonians. 2 They shall chase thee away, and take thy gorgeous houses to dwell in. 25:5 1 Called also Philadelphin, which was the chief city of the Ammonites, and full of conduits, 2 Sam. 12:27.
25:9 1 So that no power or strength should be able to resist the Babylonians. 25:16 1 Which were certain garrisons of Philistines, whereby they ofttimes molested the Jews, of the Cherethims David also had a guard, 2 Sam. 8:18. 26:1 1 Either of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of the reign of Zede kiah.
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the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, the 1gate of the people is broken: it is turned unto me: for seeing she is desolate, I shall be 2replenished, 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea mounteth up with his waves. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 Thou shalt be for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God, and it shall be a spoil to the nations. 6 And her 1daughters which are in the field, shall be slain by the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, a King of kings from the North, with horses and with chariots, and with horsemen, with a multitude and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field, and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. 9 He shall set engines of war before him against thy walls, and with his weapons break down thy towers. 10 The dust of his horses shall cover thee, for their multitude: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entry of a city that is broken down. 11 With the hooves of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay the people by the sword, and the 1pillars of thy strength shall fall down to the ground. 12 And they shall rob thy riches, and spoil thy merchandise, and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of the water. 13 aThus will I cause the sound of thy songs to
cease, and the sound of thine harps shall be no more heard. 14 I will lay thee like the top of a rock: 1thou shalt be for a spreading of nets: thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre, Shall not the isles tremble at the sound of thy fall? and at the cry of the wounded, when they shall be slain and murdered in the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the 1sea shall come down from their thrones: they shall lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments, and shall clothe themselves with astonishment: they shall sit upon the ground and be astonished at every moment, and be amazed at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited 1of the Sea men, the renowned city which was strong in the sea, both she and her inhabitants, which cause their fear to be on all that haunt therein! 18 Now shall the isles be astonished in the day of thy fall: yea, the isles that are in the sea, shall be troubled at thy departure. 19 For thus saith the Lord God, when I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, and when I shall bring the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee, 20 When I shall cast thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people 1of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, like the old ruins, with them, I say, which go down to the pit, so that thou shalt not be inhabited, and I shall show my glory in the land of the 2living. 21 I will 1bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God. 27 The Prophet bewaileth the desolation of Tyre, showing what were the riches, power and authority thereof in times past.
chapter 26
a Jer. 7:34
1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre, 3 And say unto Tyre that is situated at the entry
26:2 1 That is, the famous city Jerusalem, whereunto all people resorted. 2 My riches and fame shall increase: thus the wicked rejoice at their fall by whom they may have any profit or advantage. 26:6 1 The towns that belonged unto her. 26:11 1 For Tyre was much built by art and by labor of men was won out of the Sea. Some refer this unto the images of the noble men which they had erected up for their glory and renown. 26:14 1 I will make thee so bare that thou shalt have nothing to
cover thee. 26:16 1 The governors and rulers of other countries that dwell by the sea: whereby he signifieth that her destruction should be so horrible, that all the world should hear thereof and be afraid. 26:17 1 Meaning, merchants which by their traffic did enrich her wonderfully and increase her power. 26:20 1 Which were dead long ago. 2 Meaning, in Judea, when it shall be restored. 26:21 1 Or, make thee a terror.
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of the sea, which is the mart 1of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God, O Tyre, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the 1midst of the sea, and thy builders have made thee of perfect beauty. 5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of 1Senir: they have brought cedars from Lebanon, to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine ores: the company of the Assyrians have made thy banks of ivory, brought out of the isles of 1Kittim. 7 Fine linen with broidered work, brought from Egypt, was spread over thee to be thy sail, blue silk and purple, brought from the isles of Elishah was thy covering. 8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and Arvad were thy mariners, O Tyre: thy wise men that were in thee, they were thy 1pilots. 9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof were in thee thy 1caulkers, all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. 10 They of Persia, and of Lud and of Put were in thine army: thy men of war they hanged the shield and helmet in thee: they set forth thy beauty. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the 1Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about: they have made thy beauty perfect. 12 They of Tarshish were thy merchants for the multitude of all riches, for silver, iron, tin, and lead, which they brought to thy fairs. 13 They of 1Javan, Tubal and Meshech were thy merchants, 2concerning the lives of men, and they brought vessels of brass for thy merchandise. 14 They of the house of 1Togarmah brought to thy fairs, horses and horsemen, and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants: and the merchandise of many isles were in thine hands: they brought thee for a present, 1horns, teeth, and peacocks. 16 They of Aram were thy merchants for the
multitude of thy 1wares: they occupied in thy fairs, with 2emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and 3fine linen, and coral, and pearl. 17 They of Judah and of the land of Israel were thy merchants: they brought for thy merchandise wheat of 1Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and 2balm. 18 They of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy wares, for the multitude of all riches, as in the wine of Helbon and white wool. 19 They of Dan also and of Javan, going to and fro, occupied in thy fairs: iron work, cassia and calamus were among thy merchandise. 20 They of Dedan were thy merchants in precious clothes for the chariots. 21 They of Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar 1occupied with thee, in lambs, and rams and goats: in these were thy merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba, and Raamah were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones and gold. 23 They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria and Chilmad were thy merchants. 24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in raiment of blue silk, and of broidered work, and in coffers for the rich apparel, which were bound with cords: chains also were among thy merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish 1were thy chief in thy merchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the sea. 26 Thy 1robbers have brought thee into great waters: the 2East wind hath broken thee in the midst of the sea. 27 Thy riches and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners and pilots, thy caulkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war that are in thee, and all thy multitude which is in the midst of thee, shall fall in the midst of the sea in the day of thy ruin. 28 The 1suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
27:3 1 Which servest all the world with thy merchandise. 27:4 1 Hebrew, heart. 27:5 1 This mountain was called Hermon, but the Amorites called it Senir, Deut. 3:9. 27:6 1 Which is taken for Greece and Italy. 27:8 1 Or, shipmasters. 27:9 1 Meaning, that they built the walls of the city, which is here meant by the ship: and of these were the builders of Solomon's Temple, 1 Kings 5:18. 27:11 1 That is, they of Cappadocia, or Pygmies and dwarfs, which were so called, because that out of the high towers they seemed little. 27:13 1 Of Greece, Italy and Cappadocia. 2 By selling slaves.
27:14 1 Which are taken for a people of Asia minor. 27:15 1 Meaning, Unicorn's horns, and Elephant's teeth. 27:16 1 Or, works. 2 Or, carbuncle. 3 Or, silk. 27:17 1 Where the best wheat grew. 2 Or, turpentine, or, treacle. 27:21 1 Or, were merchants whose merchandise passed through thine hands. 27:25 1 Or, came in company toward thee. 27:26 1 Or, rowers. 2 That is, Nebuchadnezzar. 27:28 1 That is, the cities near about thee, as was Zidon, Arvad, and others.
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29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea shall come down from their ships, and shall stand upon the land, 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast dust upon their heads, and wallow themselves in the ashes. 31 They shall pluck off their hair for thee, and gird them with a sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with sorrow of heart and bitter mourning. 32 And in their mourning, they shall take up a lamentation for thee, saying, What city is like Tyre so destroyed in the midst of the sea! 33 When thy wares went forth of the seas, thou filledst many people, and thou didst enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 34 When thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy multitude which was in the midst of thee, shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and all their Kings shall be sore afraid and troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be 1anymore. 28 2 The word of God against the king of Tyre for his pride. 21 The word of the Lord against Sidon. 25 The Lord promises that he will gather together the children of Israel.
hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches. 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because thou didst think in thine heart, that thou wast equal with God, 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, even the terrible nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall cast thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slain in the midst of the sea. 9 Wilt thou say then before him that slayeth thee, I am a god? but thou shalt be a man, and no god, in the hands of him that slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the death of the 1uncircumcised by the hands of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 11 ¶ Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the King of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God, Thou sealest up the sum, and art full of 1wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God: every precious stone was in thy garment, the ruby, the topaz, and the 1diamond, the chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, 2emerald, and the carbuncle and gold: the workmanship of thy timbrels, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art 1the anointed Cherub, that covereth, and I have set thee 2in honor: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God: thou hast walked in the midst of the 3stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast 1created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with cruelty, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the 1mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord God, because thine heart is exalted, and thou hast said, 1I am a god, I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the sea, yet thou art but a man and not God, and 2though thou didst think in thine heart, that thou wast equal with God, 3 Behold, thou art wiser than 1Daniel: there is no secret that they can hide from thee. 4 With thy wisdom and thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures. 5 By thy great wisdom and by thine occupying
27:36 1 Whereby is meant a long time: for it was prophesied to be destroyed but seventy years, Isa. 23:15. 28:2 1 I am safe that none can come to hurt me, as God is in the heaven. 2 Hebrew, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. 28:3 1 Thus he speaketh by derision: for Daniel had declared notable signs of his wisdom in Babylon, when Ezekiel wrote this. 28:10 1 Like the rest of the heathen and infidels, which are God's enemies. 28:12 1 He derideth the vain opinion and confidence that the Tyr ians had in their riches, strength and pleasures.
28:13 1 Or, jasper. 2 Or, carbuncle. 28:14 1 He meaneth the royal state of Tyre, which for the excellency and glory thereof he compareth to the Cherubims which covered the Ark: and by this word anointed he signifieth the same. 2 I did thee this honor to make thee one of the builders of my Temple, which was when Hiram sent unto Solomon things neces sary for the work. 3 To wit, among my people Israel, which shined as precious stones. 28:15 1 Which was when I first called thee to this dignity. 28:16 1 Thou shalt have no part among my people.
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the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt. 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great 1dragon, that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put 1hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee in the wilderness, both thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field: thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: for I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field, and to the fowls of heaven. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of 1reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest and madest all their loins to 1stand 2upright. 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and destroy man and beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate, and waste, and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, 1The river is mine, and I have made it, 10 Behold, therefore I come upon thee, and upon thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate from the tower of Syene, even unto the borders of the 1black Moors. 11 No foot of man shall pass by it, nor foot of beast shall pass by it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be desolate among the cities that are desolate for forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
and thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground. I will lay thee before kings that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy 1sanctification by the multitude of thine iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy merchandise: therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, which shall devour thee: and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people, shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be 1a terror, and never shalt thou be anymore. 20 ¶ Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Sidon, and I will be 1glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets, and the slain shall fall in the midst of her: 1the enemy shall come against her with the sword on every side, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 24 And they shall be no more a pricking thorn unto the house of Israel, nor any grievous thorn of all that are round about them, and despised them, and they shall know that I am the Lord God. 25 Thus saith the Lord God, When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people where they are scattered, and shall be 1sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in the land, that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell safely, when I have executed judgments upon all round about them that despise them, and they shall know that I am the Lord their God. 29 He prophesieth against Pharaoh and Egypt. 13 The Lord promiseth that he will restore Egypt after forty years. 18 Egypt is the reward of King Nebuchadnezzar for the labor which he took against Tyre.
1 In the 1tenth year and in the tenth month, in
28:18 1 That is, the honor, whereunto I called them. 28:19 1 Or, brought to nothing. 28:22 1 By executing my judgments against thy wickedness. 28:23 1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar. 28:25 1 He showeth for what cause God will assemble his Church, and preserve it still, though he destroy his enemies: to wit, that they should praise him, and give thanks for his great mercies. 29:1 1 To wit, of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of the reign of Zedekiah. Of the order of these prophecies, and how the former sometimes standeth after the latter, read Jer. 27:1.
29:3 1 He compareth Pharaoh to a dragon which hideth himself in the river Nile, as Isa. 51:9. 29:4 1 I will send enemies against thee, which shall pluck thee, and thy people which trust in thee, out of thy sure places. 29:6 1 Read 2 Kings 18:21; Isa. 36:6. 29:7 1 Or, shake. 2 When they felt their hurt, they would stay no more upon thee, but stood upon their feet, and put their trust in others. 29:9 1 Thus God cannot suffer that man should arrogate anything to himself, or put his trust in anything save in him alone. 29:10 1 Hebrew, Cush, or Ethiopia.
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13 Yet thus saith the Lord God, aAt the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people, where they were scattered, 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation, and they shall be there a 1small kingdom. 15 It shall be the smallest of the kingdoms, neither shall it exalt itself anymore above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, to bring their 1iniquity to remembrance by looking after them, so shall they know that I am the Lord God. 17 ¶ In the 1seven and twentieth year also in the first month, and in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel caused his army to serve a great 1service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was made bare: yet he had no wages, 2nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he served against it. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel, and he shall take her multitude, and spoil her spoil, and take her prey, and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, that he served 1against it, because they wrought 2for me, saith the Lord God. 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to grow, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 30 The destruction of Egypt and the cities thereof.
fear shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken down. 5 1Ethiopia and Put, and Lud, and all the common people, and Chub, and the men of the land, that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the Lord, They also that maintain Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of 1Syene shall they fall by the sword, saith the Lord God. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Moors afraid, and fear shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel. 11 For he and his people with him, even the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it. 13 Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their idols to cease out of 1Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in 1Zoan, and I will execute judgment in No. 15 And I will pour my wrath upon 1Sin, which is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of 2No. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great sorrow, and No shall be destroyed, and Noph shall have sorrows daily. 17 The young men of 1Aven, and of 2Pi Beseth
chapter 29
a Jer. 46:26
1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howl and cry, Woe be unto this day. 3 For the day is near, and the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudy day, and it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and
29:14 1 Meaning, that they should not have full dominion, but be under the Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the cause is that the Israelites should no more put their trust in them, but learn to depend on God. 29:16 1 Lest I should by this means punish their sins. 29:17 1 Counting from the captivity of Jeconiah. 29:18 1 He took great pains at the siege of Tyre, and his army was sore handled. 2 Signifying that Nebuchadnezzar had more pains than profit, by the taking of Tyre.
29:20 1 Or, in it. 2 Or, evil against me. 30:5 1 By Put and Lud are meant Africa and Libya. 30:6 1 Which was a strong city of Egypt, Ezek. 29:10. 30:13 1 Or, Memphis, or Cairo. 30:14 1 Or, Tanis. 30:15 1 Or, Pelusium. 2 Or, Alexandria. 30:17 1 Or, Heliopolis. 2 Or, Pubastum.
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shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes the day 1shall restrain his light, when I shall break there the 2bars of Egypt: and when the pomp of her power shall cease in her, the cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 20 ¶ And in the 1eleventh year, in the first month, and in the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, 1I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, neither shall they put a roll to bind it, and so make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will break 1his arm that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babel, and put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him that is wounded before him. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babel, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they shall know, that I am the Lord, 1when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries, and they shall know, that I am the Lord. 31 2 A comparison of the prosperity of Pharaoh with the prosperity of the Assyrians. 10 He prophesieth a like destruction to them both.
3 Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with thick shadowing boughs, and shot up very high, and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters nourished him, and the deep exalted him on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her 1little rivers unto all the trees of the 2field. 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deep sent out. 6 All the fowls of the heavens made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all mighty nations. 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, and in the length of his branches: for his root was near great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden 1of God could not hide him: no fir tree was like his branches: and the chestnut trees were not like his boughs: all the trees in the garden of God were not like unto him in his beauty. 9 I made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because 1he is lifted up on high, and hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height, 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hands of the 1mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I have cast him away for his wickedness. 12 And the strangers have destroyed him, even the terrible nations, and they have left him upon the mountains, and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are 1broken by all the rivers of the land: and all the people of the earth are departed from his shadow, and have forsaken him. 13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches, 14 So that none of all the trees by the waters shall be exalted by their height, neither shall shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither shall
1 And in the 1eleventh year, in the third month, and in the first day of the month the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou 1like in thy greatness?
30:18 1 Meaning, that there shall be great sorrow and affliction. 2 That is, the strength and force. 30:20 1 Of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of Zedekiah's reign. 30:21 1 For Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Pharaoh Necho at Carchem ish, Jer. 46:26. 30:22 1 His force and power. 30:25 1 Whereby we see that tyrants have no power of themselves, neither can do anymore harm than God appointeth, and when he will they must cease. 31:1 1 Of Zedekiah's reign, or of Jeconiah's captivity.
31:2 1 Meaning, that he was not like in strength to the King of the Assyrians, whom the Babylonians overcame. 31:4 1 Many other nations were under their dominion. 2 Or, country. 31:8 1 Signifying, that there was no greater power in the world than his was. 31:10 1 Or, thou wast lifted up. 31:11 1 That is, of Nebuchadnezzar, who afterward was the monarch and only ruler of the world. 31:12 1 Hereby is signified the destruction of the power of the Assyr ians by the Babylonians.
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their leaves stand up in their height, which drink so much water: for they are all delivered unto death in the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men among them that go down to the pit. 15 Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when he went down to hell, I caused them to mourn, and I 1covered the deep for him, and I did restrain the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted. 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell, with them that descend into the pit, and all the excellent trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon: even all that are nourished with waters, shall 1be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down to hell with him unto them that were slain with the sword, and his arm, and they that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 18 To whom 1art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet thou shalt be cast down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the 2uncircumcised, with them that be slain by the sword: this is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. 32 2 The Prophet is commanded to bewail Pharaoh King of Egypt. 12 He prophesieth that destruction shall come unto Egypt through the King of Babylon.
cast thee upon the open field, and I will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill all the beasts of the field with thee. 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys 1with thine height. 6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou 1swimmest, even to the mountains, and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I shall 1put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark: bI will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the lights of heaven will I make dark for thee, and bring 1darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God. 9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, and upon the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be astonished with fear for thee, when I shall make my sword to glitter against their faces, and they shall be afraid at every moment: every man for his own life in the day of thy fall. 11 For thus saith the Lord God, The sword of the king of Babel shall come upon thee. 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall: they all shall be terrible nations, and they shall destroy the 1pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be consumed. 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them. 14 Then will I make 1their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord. 16 This is the mourning wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
chapter 32
a Ezek. 12:13
Ezek. 17:20
b Isa. 13:10
Joel 2:31 Joel 3:15 Matt. 24:29
1 And in the 1twelfth year in the twelfth month, and in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a 1lion of the nations, and art as a 2dragon in the sea: thou castedst out thy rivers 3and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and stampedst in their rivers. 3 Thus saith the Lord God, aI will therefore spread my net over thee a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come up into my net, 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, and I will
31:15 1 The deep waters that caused him to mount so high (mean ing his great abundance and pomp) shall now lament as though they were covered with sackcloth. 31:16 1 To cause this destruction of the king of Assyria to seem more horrible, he setteth forth other kings and princes which are dead, as though they rejoiced at the fall of such a tyrant. 31:18 1 Meaning, that Pharaoh's power was nothing so great as his was. 2 Read Ezek. 28:10. 32:1 1 Which was the first year of the general captivity under Zedekiah. 32:2 1 Thus the scriptures compare tyrants to cruel and huge beasts which devour all that be weaker than they, and such as they may
overcome. 2 Or, whale. 3 Thou preparest great armies. 32:5 1 With heaps of the carcasses of thine army. 32:6 1 As Nile overfloweth Egypt, so will I make the blood of thine host to overflow it. 32:7 1 The word signifieth to be put out as a candle is put out. 32:8 1 By this manner of speech is meant the great sorrow that shall be for the slaughter of the king and his people. 32:12 1 This came to pass in less than four years after this prophecy. 32:14 1 To wit, of the Chaldeans thine enemies, which shall quietly enjoy all thy commodities.
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17 ¶ In the twelfth year also in the fifteenth day of the month, came the word of the Lord unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, lament for the multitude of Egypt, and 1cast them down, even them and the daughters of the mighty nations under the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass 1in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: 1she is delivered to the sword: draw her down, and all her multitude. 21 The most mighty and strong shall speak to 1him out of the midst of hell with them that help her: they are gone down, and sleep with the uncircumcised that be slain by the sword. 22 Assyria is there and all his company: their graves are about him: all they are slain and fallen by the sword. 23 Whose graves are made in the side of the pit, and his multitude are round about his grave: all they are slain and fallen by the sword, which caused fear to be in the land of the living. 24 There is 1Elam and all his multitude round about his grave: all they are slain and fallen by the sword, which are gone down with the uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused themselves to be feared in the land of the 2living, yet have they borne their shame with them that are gone down to the pit. 25 They have made his bed in the midst of the slain with all his multitude: their graves are round about him: all these uncircumcised are slain by the sword: though they have caused their fear in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: they are laid in the midst of them that be slain. 26 There is 1Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude: their graves are round about them: all these uncircumcised were slain by the sword, though they caused their fear to be in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the valiant 1of the uncircumcised, that are fallen, which are gone down to the grave with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquity
shall be upon their bones: because they were the fear of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and lie with them that are slain by the sword. 29 There is Edom, his kings, and all his princes, which with their strength are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall sleep with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30 There be all the princes of the 1North, with all the Sidonians, which are gone down with the slain, with their fear: they are ashamed of their strength, and the uncircumcised sleep with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and he shall be 1comforted over all his multitude: Pharaoh, and all his army shall be slain by the sword, saith the Lord God. 32 For I have caused my 1fear to be in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them, that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. 33 2 The office of the governors and ministers. 14 He strengtheneth them that despair, and boldeneth them with the promise of mercy. 30 The word of the Lord against the mockers of the Prophet.
1 Again, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man 1from among them, and make him their 2watchman, 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people, 4 Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, and will not be warned, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 For he heard the sound of the trumpet, and would not be admonished: therefore his blood shall be upon him: but he that receiveth warning, shall save his life.
32:18 1 That is, prophesy, that they shall be cast down: thus the Lord giveth his Prophets power both to plant and to destroy by his word, read Jer. 1:10. 32:19 1 Have not other kingdoms, more beautiful than thou, perished? 32:20 1 That is, Egypt. 32:21 1 To make the matter more sensible, he bringeth in Pharaoh whom the dead shall meet and marvel at him, read Isa. 14:9. 32:24 1 Meaning, the Persians. 2 Whom in his life all the world feared. 32:26 1 That is, the Cappadocians and Italians, or Spaniards, as Jose phus writeth.
32:27 1 Which died not by cruel death, but by the course of nature, and are honorably buried with their coat armor, and signs of honor. 32:30 1 The Kings of Babylon. 32:31 1 As the wicked rejoice when they see others partakers of their miseries. 32:32 1 I will make the Egyptians afraid of me, as they caused others to fear them. 33:2 1 Or, of their coasts. 2 He showeth that the people ought to have continually gover nors and teachers which may have a care over them, and to warn them ever of the dangers which are at hand.
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6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away for his 1iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 aSo thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word at my 1mouth, and admonish them from me. 8 When I shall say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt die the death, if thou dost not speak and admonish the wicked of his way, that wicked man shall die for his iniquity, but his blood will I 1require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he do not turn from his way, he shall die for his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, Thus ye speak and say, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we are consumed because of them, 1how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, 1I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O ye house of Israel? 12 Therefore thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The 1righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, nor the wickedness of the wicked shall cause him to fall therein, in the day that he returneth from his wickedness, neither shall the righteous live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say unto the righteous, that he shall surely live, if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall be no more remembered, but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for the same. 14 Again when I shall say unto the wicked, Thou shalt die the death, if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and 1right,
15 To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and give again that he had robbed, and walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity, he shall surely live, and not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed, shall be mentioned unto him: because he hath done that, which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of thy people say, bThe way of the Lord is not equal: but their own way is unequal. 18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked return from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal, O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. 21 Also in the twelfth year of our 1captivity, in the tenth month, and in the fifth day of the month, one that had escaped out of Jerusalem, came unto me, and said, The city is smitten. 22 Now the 1hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening afore he that had escaped, came, and had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning: and when he had opened my 2mouth, I was no more dumb. 23 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, and said, 24 Son of man, these that dwell in the desolate places of the land of Israel, talk and say, 1Abraham was but one, and he possessed the land: but we are many, therefore the land shall be given us in possession. 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Ye eat with the 1blood, and lifted up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: should ye then possess the land? 26 Ye lean upon your 1swords, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: should ye then possess the land? 27 Say thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, As I live, so surely they that are in the desolate places,
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a Ezek. 3:17
b Ezek. 18:25
33:6 1 Signifying, that the wicked shall not escape punishment though the watchman be negligent: but if the watchman blow the trumpet, and then he will not obey, he shall deserve double punish ment. 33:7 1 Which teacheth that he that receiveth not his charge at the Lord's mouth, is a spy, and not a true watchman. 33:8 1 The watchman must answer for the blood of all that perish through his negligence. 33:10 1 Thus the wicked when they hear God's judgments for their sins, despair of his mercies, and murmur. 33:11 1 Read Ezek. 18:23. 33:12 1 Read of this righteousness, Ezek. 18:21, 24. 33:14 1 Hereby he condemneth all them of hypocrisy, which pretend
to forsake wickedness, and yet declare not themselves such by their fruits, that is, in obeying God's commandments, and by godly life. 33:21 1 When the Prophet was led away captive with Jeconiah. 33:22 1 I was endued with the Spirit of prophecy, Ezek. 8:1. 2 Whereby is signified that the ministers of God cannot speak till God give them courage, and open their mouths, Ezek. 24:27 and 29:21; Eph. 6:19. 33:24 1 Thus the wicked think themselves more worthy to enjoy God's promises than the Saints of God, to whom they were made: and would bind God to be subject to them, though they would not be bound to him. 33:25 1 Contrary to the Law, Lev. 17:14. 33:26 1 As they that are ready still to shed blood.
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shall fall by the sword: and him that is in the open field, will I give unto the beasts to be devoured: and they that be in the forts and in the caves, shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land desolate and waste, and the cpomp of her strength shall cease: and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, and none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land desolate and waste, because of all their abominations, that they have committed. 30 Also thou son of man, the children of thy people that 1talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh from the Lord. 31 For they come unto thee, as the people useth to come: and my people sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouths they make 1jests, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. 32 And lo, thou art unto them, as a 1jesting song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can sing well: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. 33 And when this cometh to pass (for lo, it will come) then shall they know, that a Prophet hath been among them. 34 2 Against the shepherds that despised the flock of Christ, and seek their own reign. 7 The Lord saith that he will visit his dispersed flock, and gather them together. 23 He promiseth the true shepherd Christ, and with him peace.
with cruelty, and with rigor have ye ruled them. 5 And they were scattered without a shepherd: and when they were dispersed, they were 1devoured of all the beasts of the field. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered through all the earth, and none did seek or search after them. 7 Therefore ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. 8 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock was spoiled, and my sheep were devoured of all the beasts of the field, having no shepherd, neither did my shepherds seek my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep, 9 Therefore, hear ye the word of the Lord, O ye shepherds. 10 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against the shepherds, and will require my sheep at their hands, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep: neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore: for I will deliver thy sheep from 1their mouths, and they shall no more devour them. 11 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will search my sheep, and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd searcheth out his flock, when he hath been among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep and will deliver them out of all places, where they have been scattered in 1the cloudy and dark day, 13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my sheep, and bring them to their rest, saith the Lord God. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the 1strong, and I will
c Ezek. 7:24
Ezek. 24:21 Ezek. 30:6,7
chapter 34
a Jer. 13:1
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds, aWoe be unto the 1shepherds of Israel, that feed themselves: should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 Ye eat the 1fat, and ye clothe you with the wool: ye kill them that are fed, but ye feed not the sheep. 4 The 1weak have ye not strengthened: the sick have ye not healed, neither have ye bound up the broken, nor brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost, but
33:30 1 In derision. 33:31 1 This declareth that we ought to hear God's word with such zeal and affection, that we should in all points obey it, else we abuse the word to our own condemnation, and make of his ministers, as though they were jests to serve men's foolish fantasies. 33:32 1 Or, pleasant, and love song. 34:2 1 By the shepherds he meaneth the king, the Magistrates, Priests, and Prophets. 34:3 1 Ye seek to enrich yourselves by their commodities, and to spoil their riches and substance. 34:4 1 He describeth the office and duty of a good pastor, who
ought to love and succor his flock, and not to be cruel toward them. 34:5 1 For lack of good government and doctrine they perished. 34:10 1 By destroying the covetous hirelings, and restoring true shepherds, whereof we have a sign so oft as God sendeth true preachers, who both by doctrine and life labor to feed his sheep in the pleasant pastures of his word. 34:12 1 In the day of their affliction and misery: and this promise is to comfort the Church in all dangers. 34:16 1 Meaning, such as lift up themselves above their brethren, and think they have no need to be governed by me.
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feed them with 2judgment. 17 Also you my sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the goats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good 1pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet, the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must trouble the residue with your feet. 19 And my sheep eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and drink that which ye have troubled with your feet. 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them, Behold, I, even I will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the weak with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad, 22 Therefore will I help my sheep, and they shall no more be spoiled, and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 And I will set up a shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant 1David, he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David shall be the Prince among them, I the Lord have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall 1dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will set them, as a blessing, even round about my mountains, and I will cause rain to come down in due season: and there shall be rain of blessing. 27 And the 1tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give her fruit, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the cords of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hands of those that served themselves of them. 28 And they shall no more be spoiled of the heathen, neither shall the beasts of the land devour them, but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a 1plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the reproach of the heathen anymore. 30 Thus shall they understand, that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel are my people, saith the Lord God. 31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God. 35 2 The destruction that shall come on mount Seir, because they troubled the people of Israel.
1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, Set thy face against mount 1Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, O mount Seir, I come against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, when their 1iniquity had an end, 6 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: except thou 1hate blood, even blood shall pursue thee. 7 Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. 8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thine hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers shall they fall, that are slain with the sword. 9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not 1return, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 10 Because thou hast said, 1These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them (seeing the Lord was 2there) 11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thy 1wrath, and according to thine indignation, which thou hast used in thine
34:16 2 That is, by putting difference between the good and the bad, and so give to either as they deserve. 34:18 1 By good pasture and deep waters is meant the pure word of God and the administration of justice, which they did not distribute to the poor till they had corrupted it. 34:23 1 Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure, Jer. 30:9; Hos. 3:5. 34:25 1 This declareth that under Christ the flock should be truly delivered from sin, and hell, and so be safely preserved in the Church, where they should never perish. 34:27 1 The fruits of God's grace shall appear in great abundance in
his Church. 34:29 1 That is, the rod that shall come out of the root of Jesse, Isa. 11:1. 35:2 1 Where the Edomites dwelt. 35:5 1 When by their punishment I called them from their iniquity. 35:6 1 Except thou repent thy former cruelty. 35:9 1 To wit, to their former estate. 35:10 1 Meaning, Israel and Judah. 2 And so by fighting against God's people, they should go about to put him out of his own possession. 35:11 1 As thou hast done cruelly, so shalt thou be cruelly handled.
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hatred against them: and I will make myself known among 2them, when I have judged thee. 12 And thou shalt know, that I the Lord have heard all the blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They lie waste, they are given us to be devoured. 13 Thus with your mouths ye have boasted against me, and I have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. 14 Thus saith the Lord God, So shall all the world rejoice, when I shall make thee desolate. 15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea wholly, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 36 1 He promiseth to deliver Israel from the Gentiles. 22 The benefits done unto the Jews, are to be ascribed to the mercy of God, and not unto their deservings. 26 God reneweth our hearts that we may walk in his commandments.
the joy of all their heart, and with despiteful minds to cast it out for a prey. 6 Prophesy therefore upon the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I have spoken in mine indignation and in my wrath, because ye have suffered the 1shame of the heathen. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I have 1lifted up mine hand, surely the heathen that are about you, shall bear their shame. 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, ye shall 1shoot forth your branches, and bring forth your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are ready to come. 9 For behold, I come unto you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown. 10 And I will multiply the men upon you, even all the house of Israel wholly, and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate places shall be built. 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase, and bring fruit, and I will cause you to dwell after your old estate, and I will bestow benefits upon you more than 1at the first, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon 1you, even my people Israel, and they shall possess 2you, and ye shall be their inheritance, and ye shall no more henceforth deprive them of men. 13 Thus saith the Lord, Because they say unto you, Thou 1land devourest up men, and hast been a waster of thy people, 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither waste thy people henceforth, saith the Lord God, 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen anymore, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people anymore, neither shalt cause thy folk to fall anymore, saith the Lord God. 16 ¶ Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways, and by their deeds: their way was before me as the filthiness of the menstruous. 18 Wherefore I poured my wrath upon them, for
chapter 36
a Ezek. 6:2
1 Also thou son of man, prophesy unto the amountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. 2 Thus saith the Lord God, Because the 1enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the 2high places of the world are ours in possession, 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Because that they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are come unto the lips and 1tongues of men, and unto the reproach of the people, 4 Therefore ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, and to the waste and desolate places, and to the cities that are forsaken, which are spoiled and had in derision of the residue of the heathen that are round about. 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Surely in the fire of mine indignation have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have 1taken my land for their possession, with
2 Showing that when God punisheth the enemies, the godly ought to consider that he hath a care over them, and so praise his Name: and also that the wicked rage as though there were no God, till they feel his hand to their destruction. 36:2 1 That is, the Edomite. 2 That is, Jerusalem, which for God's promises was the chiefest of all the world. 36:3 1 Ye are made a matter of talk and derision to all the world. 36:5 1 They appointed with themselves to have it, and therefore came with Nebuchadnezzar against Jerusalem for this purpose.
36:6 1 Because you have been a laughingstock unto them. 36:7 1 By making a solemn oath, read Ezek. 20:5. 36:8 1 God declareth his mercies and goodness toward his Church, who still preserveth his, even when he destroyeth his enemies. 36:11 1 Which was accomplished under Christ, to whom all these temporal deliverances did direct them. 36:12 1 That is, upon the mountains of Jerusalem. 2 Or, thee. 36:13 1 This the enemies imputed as the reproach of the land, which God did for the sins of the people according to his just judgments.
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the blood that they had shed in the land, and for their idols, wherewith they had polluted it. 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: for according to their ways, and according to their deeds, I judged them. 20 bAnd when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they polluted mine holy Name, when they said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone out of his land. 21 But I favored mine holy 1Name, which the house of Israel had polluted among the heathen, whither they went. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine 1holy Name's sake, which ye polluted among the heathen, whither ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great Name, which was polluted among the heathen, among whom you have polluted it, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before 1their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 Then will I pour clean 1water upon you, and ye shall be clean: yea, from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. 26 cA new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your body, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also deliver you from all your filthiness, and I will call for 1corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30 For I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the increase of the field, that ye shall bear no more the reproach of famine among the heathen. 31 Then shall ye remember your own wicked ways,
and your deeds that were not good, and shall judge yourselves worthy to have been 1destroyed for your iniquities, and for your abominations. 32 Be it known unto you that I do not this for your sakes, saith the Lord God: therefore, O ye house of Israel, be ashamed and confounded for your own ways. 33 Thus saith the Lord God, What time as I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will cause you to dwell in the cities, and the desolate places shall be built. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all that passed by. 35 For they said, This waste land was like the garden of Eden, and these waste, and desolate, and ruinous cities were strong, and were inhabited. 36 Then the residue of the heathen, that are left round about you, shall 1know that I the Lord build the ruinous places, and plant the desolate places: I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. 37 Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be sought of the house of Israel, to perform it unto them: I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in their solemn feasts, so shall the desolate cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 37 He prophesieth the bringing again of the people, being in captivity. 16 He showeth the union of the ten tribes with the two.
b Isa. 52:5 Rom. 2:24
c Jer. 32:39 Ezek. 11:19
1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the 1field, which was full of 2bones: 2 And he led me round about by them, and behold, they were very many in the open field, and lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and
36:21 1 And therefore would not suffer my Name to be had in con tempt, as the heathen would have reproached me, if I had suffered my Church to perish. 36:22 1 This excludeth from man all dignity, and means to deserve anything by, seeing that God referreth the whole to himself, and that only for the glory of his holy Name. 36:23 1 Or, your. 36:25 1 That is, his spirit, whereby he reformeth the heart, and regenerateth his, Isa. 44:3. 36:29 1 Under the abundance of temporal benefits he concludeth the spiritual graces.
36:31 1 Ye shall come to true repentance, and think yourselves unworthy to be of the number of God's creatures, for your ingrati tude against him. 36:36 1 He declareth that it ought not to be referred to the soil or plentifulness of the earth that any country is rich and abundant, but only to God's mercies, as his plagues and curses declare, when he maketh it barren. 37:1 1 Or, valley. 2 He showeth by a great miracle that God hath power, and also will deliver his people from their captivity, inasmuch as he is able to give life to the dead bones, and bodies, and raise them up again.
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is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him even with the tree of Judah, and make them one tree, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the pieces of wood whereon thou writest, shall be in thine hand, in their sight. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. 22 And I will make them one people in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, aand one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two peoples, neither be divided anymore henceforth into two kingdoms. 23 Neither shall they be polluted anymore with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my bservant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the 1land, that I have given unto Jacob my servant, where your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their sons, and their sons' sons forever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever. 26 Moreover, I will make a ccovenant of peace with them: it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Thus the heathen shall know, that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my Sanctuary shall be among them forevermore. 38 2 He prophesieth that Gog and Magog shall fight with great power against the people of God. 21 Their destruction.
ye shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and make flesh grow upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, that ye may live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews, and the flesh grew upon them, and above the skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind: prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four 1winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are clean cut off. 12 Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your sepulchers, and bring you into the land of Israel, 13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, 1when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your sepulchers, 14 And shall put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord. 15 ¶ The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee a piece of wood, and write upon it, Unto Judah, and to the children of Israel his companions: then take 1another piece of wood, and write upon it, Unto Joseph the tree of Ephraim, and to all the house of Israel his companions, 17 And thou shalt join them one to another into one tree, and they shall be as one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these? 19 Thou shalt answer them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the tree 1of Joseph, which
chapter 37
a John 10:16
b Isa. 40:11
Jer. 23:5 Ezek. 34:23
Dan. 9:24
c Ps. 109:4
Ps. 116:2
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of men, set thy face against 1Gog, and against the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and
37:9 1 Signifying, all parts whereas the Israelites were scattered: that is, the faithful shall be brought to the same unity of spirit and doc trine, wheresoever they are scattered through the world. 37:13 1 That is, when I have brought you out of those places, and towns where you are captives. 37:16 1 Which signifieth the joining together of the two houses, of Israel, and Judah.
37:19 1 That is, the house of Israel. 37:25 1 Meaning, that the elect by Christ shall dwell in the heaven by Jerusalem, which is meant by the land of Canaan. 38:2 1 Which was a people that came of Magog the son of Japheth, Gen. 10:2. Magog also here signifieth a certain country so that by these two countries which had the government of Greece and Italy, he meaneth the principal enemies of the Church, Rev. 20:8.
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Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 4 And I will destroy thee, and put hooks in thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth and all thine host, both horses and horsemen, all clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great multitude with bucklers and shields, all 1handling swords. 5 They of 1Paras, of Cush, and Put with them, even all they that bear shield and helmet. 6 1Gomer and all his bands, and the house of Togarmah of the North quarters, and all his bands, and much people with thee. 7 Prepare thyself, and make thee 1ready, both thou, and all thy multitude that are assembled unto thee, and be thou their safeguard. 8 After many days thou shalt be visited: for in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that hath been destroyed with the sword, and is gathered out of many people upon the mountains of Israel, which have long lain waste: yet 1they have been brought out of the people, and they shall dwell all safe. 9 Thou shalt ascend and come up like a tempest, and shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, both thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 10 Thus saith the Lord God, Even at the same time shall many things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think 1evil thoughts. 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land that hath no walled towers: 1I will go to them that are at rest and dwell in safety, which dwell all without walls, and have neither bars nor gates, 12 Thinking to spoil the prey, and to take a booty, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations which have gotten cattle, and goods, and dwell in the midst of the land. 13 Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tar shish with all the lions thereof shall say unto thee, 1Art thou come to spoil the prey? hast thou gathered
thy multitude to take a booty? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, and to spoil a great prey? 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God, In that day, when my people of Israel 1dwelleth safe shalt thou not know it, 15 And come from thy place out of the North parts, thou and much people with thee? all shall ride upon horses, even a great multitude and a mighty army. 16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land, thou shalt be in the 1latter days, and I will bring thee upon my land, that the heathen may know me, when I 2shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord God, Art not thou he, of whom I have spoken in old time, 1by the hand of my servants the Prophets of Israel which prophesied in those days and years, that I would bring thee upon them? 18 At the same time also when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, my wrath shall arise in mine anger. 19 For in mine indignation, and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken it: surely at that time there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel, 20 So that the fishes of the Sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all that move and creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the earth, shall tremble at my presence, and the mountains shall be overthrown, and the 1stairs shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21 For I will call for a sword against him 1throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man's sword shall be against his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence, and with blood, and I will cause to rain upon him and upon his bands, and upon the great people that are with him, a sore rain, and hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I be amagnified, and sanctified, and
chapter 38
a Ezek. 36:23
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38:4 1 He showeth that the enemies should bend themselves against the Church, but it should be to their own destruction. 38:5 1 The Persians, Ethiopians and men of Africa. 38:6 1 Gomer was Japheth's son, and Togarmah the son of Gomer, and are thought to be they that inhabit Asia Minor. 38:7 1 Signifying, that all the people of the world should assemble themselves against the Church and Christ their head. 38:8 1 Or, it: meaning, the land of Israel. 38:10 1 That is, to molest and destroy the Church. 38:11 1 Meaning, Israel, which had now been destroyed, and was not yet built again: declaring hereby the simplicity of the godly, who seek not so much to fortify themselves by out ward force, as to depend on the providence and goodness of God. 38:13 1 One enemy shall envy another because everyone shall think
to have the spoil of the Church. 38:14 1 Shalt not thou spy thine occasions to come against my Church when they suspect nothing? 38:16 1 Meaning, in the last age, and from the coming of Christ unto the end of the world. 2 Signifying, that God will be sanctified by maintaining his Church, and destroying his enemies, as Ezek. 36:23 and 37:28. 38:17 1 Hereby he declareth that none affliction can come to the Church, whereof they have not been advertised aforetime, to teach them to endure all things with more patience, when they know that God hath so ordained. 38:20 1 All means whereby man should think to save himself, shall fail, the affliction in those days shall be so great, and the enemies' destruction shall be so terrible. 38:21 1 Against the people of Gog and Magog.
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known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know, that I am the Lord. 39 1 He showeth the destruction of Gog, and Magog. 11 The graves of Gog and his host. 17 They shall be devoured of birds and beasts. 23 Wherefore the house of Israel is captive. 24 Their bringing again from captivity is promised.
spoiled them, saith the Lord God. 11 And at the same time will I give unto Gog 1a place there for burial in Israel, even the valley, whereby men go toward the East part of the sea: and it shall cause them that pass by, to stop their 2noses, and there shall they bury Gog with all his multitude: and they shall call it the valley of 3Hamon Gog. 12 1And seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them, and they shall have a name, when I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. 14 And they shall choose out men to go continually through the 1land with them that travail, to bury those that remain upon the ground, to cleanse it: they shall search to the end of seven months. 15 And the travelers that pass through the land, if any see a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. 16 And also the name of the city shall be 1Hamonah: thus shall they cleanse the land. 17 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to all the beasts of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come: 1gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice: for I do sacrifice a great sacrifice for you upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the valiant, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of the weathers, of the lambs, and of the goats, and of bullocks, even of all fat beasts of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken of my sacrifice, which I have sacrificed for you. 20 Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with valiant men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. 21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment, that I have executed, and mine hand, which I have laid upon them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know, that I am the Lord their God from that day and so forth.
1 Therefore thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 2 And I will destroy thee 1and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the North parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and I will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. 4 Thou 1shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, and all thy bands and the people, that is with thee: for I will give thee unto the birds, and to every feathered fowl and beast of the field to be devoured. 5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell safely in the 1isles, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 So will I make mine holy Name known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not suffer them to pollute mine holy Name anymore, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy one of Israel. 8 Behold, 1it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God: and this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall 1go forth, and shall burn and set fire upon the weapons, and on the shields, and bucklers, upon the bows, and upon the arrows, and upon the staves in their hands, and upon the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years. 10 So that they shall bring no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests: for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall rob those that robbed them, and spoil those that
39:2 1 Or, destroy thee with six plagues, as Ezek. 38:22. 39:4 1 Meaning, that by the virtue of God's word the enemy shall be destroyed wheresoever he assaileth his Church. 39:6 1 That is, among all nations where the enemies of my people dwell, seem they never so far separated. 39:8 1 That is, this plague is fully determined, in my counsel, and can not be changed. 39:9 1 After this destruction the Church shall have great peace and tranquility, and burn all their weapons, because they shall no more fear the enemies, and this is chiefly meant of the accomplishment of Christ's kingdom when by their head Christ, all enemies shall be
overcome. 39:11 1 Which declareth that the enemies shall have an horrible fall. 2 For the stink of the carcasses. 3 Or, the multitude of Gog. 39:12 1 Meaning, a long time. 39:14 1 Partly that the holy land should not be polluted, and partly for the compassion that the children of God have, even on their enemies. 39:16 1 Or, multitude. 39:17 1 Whereby he signifieth the horrible destruction that should come upon the enemies of his Church.
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23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for 1their iniquity, because they trespassed against me: therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness, and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for mine holy Name, 26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their transgression, whereby they have transgressed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and without fear of any. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am asanctified in them in the sight of many nations, 28 Then shall they know, that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them anymore there, 29 Neither will I hide my face anymore from them: for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. 40 The restoring of the city and the Temple.
5 And behold, I saw a wall on the outside of the house round about: and in the man's hand was a reed to measure with, of six cubits long, by the cubit, and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building with one reed, and the height with one reed. 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the East, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the 1post of the gate, which was one reed broad, and 2the other post of the gate, which was one reed broad. 7 And every chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad, and between the chambers were five cubits: and the post of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8 He measured also the porch of the gate within with one reed. 9 Then measured he the porch of the gate of eight cubits and the 1posts thereof, of two cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward. 10 And the Chambers of the gate Eastward, were three on this side, and three on that side: they three were of one measure, and the posts had one measure on this side, and one on that side. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate ten cubits, and the height of the gate thirteen cubits. 12 The space also before the chambers was one cubit on this side and the space was one cubit on that side, and the chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 He measured then the gate from the roof of a chamber to the top of the gate: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door. 14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, and the posts of the court, and of the gate, had one measure round about. 15 And upon the forefront of the entry of the gate unto the forefront of the porch of the gate within were fifty cubits. 16 And there were narrow windows in the chambers, and in their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and the windows went round about within: and upon the posts were palm trees. 17 ¶ Then brought he me into the outward court, and lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about, and thirty chambers were upon the pavement. 18 And the pavement was by the side of the gates
chapter 39
a Ezek. 36:23
1 In the five and twentieth year of our being in captivity, in the 1beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. 2 Into the land of Israel brought he me by 1a divine vision, and set me upon a very high mountain, whereupon was as the building of a city, toward the South. 3 And he brought me thither, and behold, there was a 1man, whose similitude was to look to, like brass, with a linen thread in his hand, and a reed to measure with: and he stood at the gate. 4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall show thee: for to the intent that they might be showed thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest unto the house of Israel.
39:23 1 The heathen shall know that they overcame not my people by their strength, neither yet by the weakness of mine arm, but that this was for my people's sins. 40:1 1 The Jews counted the beginning of the year after two sorts: for their feasts, they began to count in March, and for their other affairs in September: so that this is to be understood of September.
40:2 1 Or, visions of God. 40:3 1 Which was an Angel in form of a man, that came to measure out this building. 40:6 1 Or, threshold. 2 Or, upper posts. 40:9 1 Or, pentises.
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over against the length of the gates, and the pavement was beneath. 19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate without, unto the forefront of the court within, an hundred cubits Eastward and Northward. 20 And the gate of the outward court, that looked toward the North, measured he after the length and breadth thereof. 21 And the chambers thereof were three on this side, and three on that side, and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 22 And their windows, and their arches with their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the East, and the going up unto it had seven steps, and the arches thereof were before them. 23 And the gate of the inner court stood over against the gate toward the North, and toward the East, and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits. 24 After that, he brought me toward the South, and lo, there was a gate toward the South, and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the height was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them, and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side upon the post thereof. 27 ¶ And there was a gate in the inner court toward the South, and he measured from gate to gate toward the South an hundred cubits. 28 And he brought me into the inner court by the South gate, and he measured the South gate, according to these measures, 29 And the chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures, and there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about, it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31 And the arches thereof were toward the utter Court, and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, and the going up to it had eight steps. 32 ¶ Again he brought me into the inner court toward the East, and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof were according to these measures, and there were windows therein, and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
34 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court, and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side and on that side, and the going up to it had eight steps. 35 ¶ After he brought me to the North gate, and measured it, according to these measures, 36 The chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and there were windows therein round about: the height was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court, and palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side, and on that side, and the going up to it had eight steps. 38 And every chamber, and the entry thereof was under the posts of the gates: there they washed the burnt offering. 39 And in the porch of the gate stood two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, upon the which they slew the burnt offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering. 40 And at the side beyond the steps, at the entry of the North gate stood two tables, and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side by the side of the gate even eight tables whereupon they slew their sacrifice. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43 And within were borders an hand broad, fastened round about, and upon the tables lay the flesh of the offering. 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the North gate: and their prospect was toward the South, and one was at the side of the East gate, having the prospect toward the North. 45 And he said unto me, This chamber whose prospect is toward the South is for the Priests, that have charge to keep the house. 46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the North, is for the Priests that have the charge to keep the Altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which may come near to the Lord to minister unto him. 47 So he measured the court an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, even four square: likewise the Altar that was before the house. 48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured the posts of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three
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cubits on that side. 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it, and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side and another on that side. 41 1 The disposition and order of the building of the Temple, and the other things thereunto belonging.
broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house an hundred cubits long, and the separate place and the building with the walls thereof were an hundred cubits long. 14 Also the breadth of the forefront of the house and of the separate place toward the East, was an hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place, which was behind it, and the chambers on the one side and on the other side an hundred cubits with the Temple within, and the arches of the court. 16 The posts and the narrow windows, and the chambers round about, on three sides over against the posts, ceiled with cedar wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were ceiled. 17 And from above the door unto the inner house and without, and by all the wall round about within and without it was ceiled according to the measure. 18 And it was made with Cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a Cherub and a Cherub: and every Cherub had two faces. 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other side: thus was it made through all the house round about. 20 From the ground unto above the door were Cherubims, and palm trees made as in the wall of the Temple. 21 The posts of the Temple were squared, and thus to look unto was the similitude and form of the Sanctuary. 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits, and the corners thereof and the length thereof and the sides thereof were of wood. And he said unto me, This is the Table that shall be before the Lord. 23 And the Temple and the Sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors had two wickets, even two turning wickets, two wickets for one door, and two wickets for another door. 25 And upon the doors of the Temple there were made Cherubims and palm trees, like as was made upon the walls, and there were thick planks upon the forefront of the porch without. 26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side, and on the other side, by the sides of the porch, and upon the sides of the house, and thick planks. 42 Of the chambers of the Temple for the Priests, and the holy things.
1 Afterward, he brought me to the Temple and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the Tabernacle. 2 And the breadth of the entry was ten cubits, and the sides of the entry were five cubits, on the one side, and five cubits on the other side, and he measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 3 Then went he in, and measured the posts of the entry two cubits, and the entry six cubits, and the breadth of the entry seven cubits. 4 So he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits before the Temple, and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. 5 After, he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of every chamber four cubits round about the house, on every side. 6 And the chambers were chamber upon chamber, three and thirty foot high, and they entered into the wall made for the chambers which was round about the house, that the posts might be fastened therein, and not be fastened in the wall of the house. 7 And it was large, and went round mounting upward to the chambers: for the stairs of the house was mounting upward, round about the house: therefore the house was larger upward: so they went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. 8 I saw also the house high round about: the foundations of the chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9 The thickness of the wall which was for the chamber without, was five cubits, and that which remained, was the place of the chambers that were within. 10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the House on every side. 11 And the doors of the chambers were toward the place that remained, one door toward the North, and another door toward the South, and the breadth of the place that remained, was five cubits round about. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place toward the West corner, was seventy cubits
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1 Then brought he me into the utter court by the way toward the North, and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the North. 2 Before the length of an hundred cubits, was the North door, and it was fifty cubits broad. 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement, which was for the utter court, was chamber against chamber in three rows. 4 And before the chambers was a gallery of ten cubits wide, and within was a way of one cubit, and their doors toward the North. 5 Now the chambers above were narrower: for those chambers seemed to eat up these, to wit, the lower, and those that were in the midst of the building. 6 For they were in three rows, but had not pillars as the pillars of the court: therefore there was a difference from them beneath and from the middlemost, even from the ground. 7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forefront of the chambers, was fifty cubits long. 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court, was fifty cubits: and lo, before the Temple were an hundred cubits. 9 And under these chambers was the entry, on the East side, as one goeth into them from the outward court. 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the East, over against the separate place, and over against the building. 11 And the way before them was after the manner of the chambers, which were toward the North, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their entries were like, both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 And according to the doors of the chambers, that were toward the South, was a door in the corner of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the East, as one entereth. 13 Then said he unto me, The North chambers and the South chambers which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers wherein the Priests that approach unto the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: for the place is holy. 14 When the Priests enter therein, they shall not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister: for they
are holy, and shall put on other garments, and so shall approach to those things, which are for the people. 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the East, and measured it round about. 16 He measured the East side with the measuring rod, five hundred reeds even with the measuring reed round about. 17 He measured also the North side, five hundred reeds, even with the measuring reed round about. 18 And he measured the South 1side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about also to the West side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad to make a separation between the Sanctuary, and the profane place. 43 2 He seeth the glory of God going into the Temple, from whence it had before departed. 7 He mentioneth the idolatry of the children of Israel, for the which they were consumed and brought to naught. 9 He is commanded to call them again to repentance.
chapter 43
a Ezek. 9:3
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate even the gate that turneth toward the East. 2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel, came from out of the East, whose voice was like a noise of great waters, and the earth was made light with his glory. 3 And the vision which I saw was alike the vision, even as the vision that I saw 1when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell upon my face. 4 And the 1glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate, whose prospect is toward the East. 5 So the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. 6 And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house: and there stood a man by me, 7 Which said unto me, Son of man this place is my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, whereas I will dwell among the children of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more 1defile mine holy Name, neither they, nor their kings by their fornication, nor by the carcasses of 2their kings in their high places. 8 Albeit they set their thresholds by my thresh-
42:18 1 Or, wind. 43:3 1 When I prophesied the destruction of the city of the Chaldeans. 43:4 1 Which was departed afore, Ezek. 10:4 and 12:22.
43:7 1 By their idolatries. 2 He alludeth to Amnon and Manasseh, who were buried in their gardens near the Temple, and there had erected up monuments to their idols.
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olds, and their posts by my posts (for there was but a wall between me and them) yet have they defiled mine holy Name with their abominations, that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in my wrath. 9 Now therefore let them put away their fornication, and the carcasses of their kings far from me, and I will dwell among them forever. 10 ¶ Thou son of man, show this House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their wickedness, and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and the pattern thereof, and the going out thereof, and the coming in thereof, and the whole fashion thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the figures thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole fashion thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12 This is the 1description of the house, It shall be upon the top of the mount: all the limits thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the description of the house. 13 And these are the measures of the Altar, after the cubits, the cubit is a cubit, and an hand breadth, even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the height of the Altar. 14 And from the bottom which toucheth the ground to the lower piece shall be two cubits and the breadth one cubit, and from the little piece to the great piece shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So the altar shall be four cubits, and from the altar upward shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long and twelve broad, and foursquare in the four corners thereof. 17 And the frame shall be fourteen cubits long, and fourteen broad in the foursquare corners thereof, and the border about it shall be half a cubit, and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about, and the steps thereof shall be turned toward the East. 18 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God, These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it to offer the burnt offering thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19 And thou shalt give to the Priests, and to the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and
put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the frame, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse it, and reconcile it. 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the house without the Sanctuary. 22 But the second day thou shalt offer an he goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock. 23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24 And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the Priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them for a burnt offering unto the Lord. 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day an he goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 26 Thus shall they seven days purify the altar, and cleanse it, and 1consecrate it. 27 And when these days are expired upon the eighth day and so forth, the Priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, saith the Lord God. 44 He reproveth the people for their offense. 7 The uncircumcised in heart, and in the flesh. 9 Who are to be admitted to the service of the Temple, and who to be refused.
1 Then he brought me toward the gate of the outward Sanctuary, which turneth toward the East, and it was shut. 2 Then said the Lord unto me, This gate shall be 1shut, and shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel hath entered by it, and it shall be shut. 3 It appertaineth to the Prince: the Prince himself shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 4 ¶ Then brought he me toward the North gate before the house: and when I looked, behold, the glory of the Lord, filled the house of the Lord, and I fell upon my face. 5 And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, 1mark well and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, all that I say unto thee, concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof, and mark well the entering in of the house with every going forth of the Sanctuary.
43:12 1 Hebrew, law. 43:26 1 Hebrew, fill his hand. 44:2 1 Meaning, from the common people, but not from the Priests,
nor the Prince, read Ezek. 46:8,9. 44:5 1 Hebrew, set thine hearts.
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6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, O house of Israel, ye have enough of all your abominations, 7 Seeing that ye have brought into my Sanctuary
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins: they shall not gird themselves in the sweating places. 19 But when they go forth into the utter court, even to the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments, wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments: for they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. 20 They shall not also 1shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long, but round their heads. 21 aNeither shall any Priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither shall they take for their bwives a widow, or her that is divorced: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath been the widow of a Priest. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall stand to judge, and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies, and they shall sanctify my Sabbaths. 25 cAnd they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves, except at their father or mother, or son or daughter, brother or sister, that hath had yet none husband: in these may they 1be defiled. 26 And when he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. 27 And when he goeth into the Sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the Sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord God. 28 dAnd the Priesthood shall be their inheritance, yea, I am their inheritance: therefore shall ye give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 eAnd all the first of all the firstborn, and every oblation, even all of every sort of your oblations shall be the Priest's. Ye shall also give unto the Priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. 31 The Priests shall not eat of anything that is fdead, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. 45 1 Out of the land of promise are there separate four portions, of which the first is given to the Priests
chapter 44
a Lev. 10:9
b Lev. 21:13,14
c Lev. 21:1,2,11
d Deut. 18:1
1strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my Sanctuary, to pollute mine house, when ye offer my bread, even fat, and blood: and they have broken my covenant, because of all your abominations. 8 For ye have not kept the 1ordinances of mine holy things: but you yourselves have set others to take the charge of my Sanctuary. 9 Thus saith the Lord God, No stranger uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my Sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel, 10 Neither yet the 1Levites that are gone back from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray from me after their idols, but they shall bear their iniquity. 11 And they shall serve in my Sanctuary, and keep the gates of the House, and minister in the House: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people: and they shall stand before them to serve them. 12 Because they served before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity, 13 And they shall not come near unto me to do the office of the Priest unto me, neither shall they come near unto any of mine holy things in the most holy place, but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations, which they have committed. 14 And I will make them keepers of the watch of the House, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. 15 But the Priests of the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that 1kept the charge of my Sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to serve me, and they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God. 16 They shall enter into my Sanctuary, and shall come near to my table, to serve me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them while they serve in the gates of the inner court, and within.
Num. 18:20
e Exod. 18:2
Exod. 22:29 Exod. 34:15
Num. 3:13
f Exod. 22:31
Lev. 22:8
44:7 1 For they had brought idolaters which were of other countries, to teach them their idolatry, Ezek. 23:40. 44:8 1 Ye have not offered unto me according to my Law. 44:10 1 The Levites which had committed idolatry, were put from their dignity and could not be received into the Priests' office,
although they had been of the house of Aaron, but must serve in the inferior offices, as to watch and to keep the doors, read 2 Kings 23:9. 44:15 1 Which observed the Law of God, and fell not to idolatry. 44:20 1 As did the infidels and heathen. 44:25 1 They may be at their burial, which was a defiling.
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Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the equality thereof shall be after the Homer. 12 aAnd the shekel shall be twenty Gerahs, and twenty shekels, and 1five and twenty shekels and fifteen shekels shall be your Mina. 13 ¶ This is the oblation that ye shall offer, the sixth part of an Ephah of an Homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an Ephah of an Homer of Barley. 14 Concerning the ordinance of the oil, even of the Bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a Bath out of the Cor (ten Baths are an Homer: for ten Baths fill an Homer) 15 And one Lamb of two hundred sheep out of the fat pastures of Israel for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God. 16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings in the solemn feasts and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, and in all the high feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. 18 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, In the first month, in the first day of the 1month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish and cleanse the Sanctuary. 19 And the Priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four 1corners of the frame of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And so shalt thou do the seventh day of the month, for everyone that hath erred, and for him that is deceived: so shall you reconcile the house. 21 bIn the first month in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days, and ye shall eat unleavened bread. 22 And upon that day, shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering. 23 And in the seven days of the feast he shall make a burnt offering to the Lord, even of seven bullocks, and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days, and an he goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an Ephah for a bullock, an Ephah for a ram, and an
and to the Temple, the second to the Levites, the third to the city, the fourth to the prince. 9 An exhortation unto the heads of Israel. 10 Of just weights and measures. 14 Of the firstfruits, etc.
chapter 45
a Exod. 30:13
Lev. 27:25 Num. 3:47
b Exod. 22
Lev. 23:5
1 Moreover, when ye shall divide the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord an 1holy portion of the land, five and twenty thousand reeds long, and ten thousand broad: this shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 Of this there shall be for the Sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, all square round about, and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. 3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the Sanctuary, and the most holy place. 4 The holy portion of the land shall be the Priests, which minister in the Sanctuary, which came near to serve the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the Sanctuary. 5 And in the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth shall the Levites that minister in the house, have their possession for twenty chambers. 6 Also ye shall appoint the possession of the city, five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side, and on that side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, even before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city from the West corner Westward, and from the East corner Eastward, and the length shall be by one of the portions from the West border unto the East border. 8 In this land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people, and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel, according to their tribes. 9 Thus saith the Lord God, Let it 1suffice you, O princes of Israel: leave off cruelty and oppression, and execute judgment and justice: take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God. 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a true 1Ephah, and a true Bath. 11 The Ephah and the Bath shall be equal: a Bath shall contain the tenth part of an Homer, and an
45:1 1 Of all the land of Israel the Lord only requireth this portion for the Temple and for the Priests, for the city and for the Prince. 45:9 1 The Prophet showeth that the heads must be first reformed afore any good order can be established among the people. 45:10 1 Ephah and Bath were both of one quantity, save that Ephah contained in dry things that which Bath did in liquor, Lev. 5:11;
1 Kings 5:11. 45:12 1 That is, three-score shekels make a weight called Mina, for he joineth these three parts to a Mina. 45:18 1 Which was Nisan, containing part of March and part of April. 45:19 1 Or, court.
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1Hin of oil for an Ephah. 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast for seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. 46 1 The sacrifices of the Sabbath and of the new moon. 8 Through which doors they must go in, or come out of the Temple, etc.
forth, they shall go forth together. 11 And in the feasts, and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an Ephah to a bullock, and an Ephah to a ram, and to the lambs, the gift of his hand, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah. 12 Now when the prince shall make a free burnt offering, or peace offerings freely unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that turneth toward the East, and he shall make his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day: after he shall go forth, and when he is gone forth, one shall shut the gate. 13 Thou shalt daily make a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of one year, without blemish: thou shalt do it every morning. 14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an Ephah, and the third part of an Hin of oil, to mingle with the fine flour: this meat offering shall be continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord. 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil every morning, for a continual burnt offering. 16 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, If the prince give a gift of his inheritance unto any of his sons, it shall be his sons, and it shall be their possession by inheritance. 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the 1year of liberty: after, it shall return to the Prince, but his inheritance shall remain to his sons for them. 18 Moreover the prince shall not 1take of the people's inheritance, nor thrust them out of their possession: but he shall cause his sons to inherit of his own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from his possession. 19 ¶ After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the Priests, which stood toward the North: and behold, there was a place at the West side of them. 20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the Priests shall seethe the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering, that they should not bear them into the utter court, 1to sanctify the people. 21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to go by the four corners of the court: and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long, and thirty broad:
1 Thus saith the Lord God, The gate of the inner court, that turneth toward the East, shall be shut the six working days: but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the Priests shall make his burnt offering, and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: after he shall go forth, but the gate shall not be shut till the evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entry of this gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths, and in the new moons. 4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord on the Sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5 And the meat offering shall be an Ephah for a ram: and the meat offering for the lambs 1a gift of his hand, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah. 6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs and a ram: they shall be without blemish. 7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, even an Ephah for a bullock, and an Ephah for a ram, and for the lambs 1according as his hand shall bring, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah. 8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 9 But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the North gate to worship, shall go out by the way of the South gate: and he that entereth by the way of the South gate, shall go forth by the way of the North gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but they shall go forth over against it. 10 And the prince shall be in the midst of them: he shall go in when they go in, and when they go
45:24 1 Read Exod. 29:40. 46:5 1 That is, as much as he will. 46:7 1 Meaning, as he shall think good. 46:17 1 Which was at the Jubilee, Lev. 25:9.
46:18 1 But be content with that portion that God hath assigned him, as Ezek. 45:8. 46:20 1 That the people should not have to do with those things which appertain to the Lord, and think it lawful for them to eat them.
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these four corners were of one measure. 23 And there went a wall about them, even about those four, and kitchens were made under the walls round about. 24 Then said he unto me, This is the kitchen where the ministers of the house shall seethe the sacrifice of the people. 47 1 The vision of the waters that came out of the Temple. 13 The coasts of the land of promise, and the division thereof by tribes.
wheresoever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: 1for they shall be wholesome, and everything shall live whither the river cometh. 10 And then the 1fishers shall stand upon it, and from En Gedi even unto 2En Eglaim, they shall spread out their nets: for their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of 3the main sea, exceeding many. 11 But 1the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof shall not be wholesome: they shall be made salt pits. 12 And by this river upon the brink thereof, on this side, and on that side shall grow all 1fruitful trees, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters run out of the Sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be meat, and the leaf thereof shall be for 2medicine. 13 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes aof Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. 14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: bconcerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers, and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. 15 And this shall be the border 1of the land toward the North side, from the main sea toward Hethlon, as men go to Zedad: 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus, and the border of Hamath, and Hazar, Hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar, Enan, and the border of Damascus, and the residue of the North Northward, and the border of Hamath: so shall be the North part. 18 But the East side shall ye measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, and from the border unto the East sea: and so shall be the East part. 19 And the South side shall be toward Teman, from Tamar to the waters of 1Meriboth in Kadesh, and the river to the main sea: so shall be the South
chapter 47
a Gen. 48:22
b Gen. 12:7
Gen. 13:15 Gen. 15:18
Gen. 26:4 Deut. 34:4
1 Afterward he brought me unto the door of the house: and behold, 1waters issued out from under the threshold of the house Eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the East, and the waters ran down from under the right side of the house, at the South side of the altar. 2 Then brought he me out toward the North gate, and led me about by the way without unto the utter gate by the way that turneth Eastward: and behold, there came forth waters on the right side 3 And when the man that had the line in his hand, went forth Eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters: the waters were to the ankles. 4 Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters: the waters were to the knees: again he measured a thousand, and brought me through: the waters were to the loins. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a 1river, that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, and the waters did flow, as a river that could not be passed over. 6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river: 7 Now when I turned, behold, at the brink of the river were very many 1trees on the one side and on the other. 8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the East country, and run down into the plain, and shall go into one 1sea: they shall run into another sea, and the waters shall be wholesome. 9 And everything that liveth, which moveth,
47:1 1 Whereby are meant the spiritual graces that should be given to the Church under the kingdom of Christ. 47:5 1 Signifying that the graces of God should never decrease, but ever abound in his Church. 47:7 1 Meaning, the multitude of them that should be refreshed by the spiritual waters. 47:8 1 Showing that the abundance of these graces should be so great, that all the world should be full thereof, which is here meant by the Persian sea, or Genezareth, and the sea called Mediterranean, Zech. 14:8. 47:9 1 The waters which of nature are salt, and unwholesome shall be made sweet and comfortable.
47:10 1 Signifying, that when God bestoweth his mercies in such abundance, the ministers shall by their preaching win many. 2 Which were cities at the corners of the salt or dead sea. 3 They shall be here of all sorts, and in as great abundance as in the great Ocean where they are bred. 47:11 1 That is, the wicked and reprobate. 47:12 1 Or, tree for meat. 2 Or, for bruises and sores. 47:15 1 By the land of promise he signifieth the spiritual land whereof this was a figure. 47:19 1 Or, strife.
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part toward Teman. 20 The West part also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath: this shall be the west part. 21 So shall ye divide this land unto you, according to the tribes of Israel. 22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that dwell among you, which shall beget children among you, and they shall be unto you, as born in the country among the children of Israel, 1they shall part inheritance with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel. 23 And in what tribe the stranger dwelleth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord God. 48 The lots of the tribes. 9 The parts of the possession of the Priests, of the Temple, of the Levites, of the city, and of the Prince are rehearsed.
broad, and toward the East ten thousand broad, and toward the South five and twenty thousand long, and the Sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof. 11 It shall be for the Priests that are sanctified of the sons of aZadok, which have kept my charge, which went not astray, when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 12 Therefore this oblation of the land that is offered shall be theirs, as a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. 13 And over against the border of the Priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand long, and [ten] thousand broad: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. 14 And they shall not sell of it, neither change it, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord. 15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for housing, and for suburbs, and the city shall be in the midst thereof. 16 And these shall be the measures thereof, the North part five hundred and four thousand, and the South part 1five hundred and four thousand, and the East part five hundred and four thousand, and the West part five hundred and four thousand. 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the North two hundred and fifty, and toward the South two hundred and fifty, and toward the East two hundred and fifty, and toward the West two hundred and fifty. 18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand Eastward, and ten thousand Westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion, and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve in the city. 19 And they that serve in the city, shall be of all the tribes of Israel that shall serve therein. 20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand with 1five and twenty thousand: you shall offer this oblation foursquare for the Sanctuary, and for the possession of the city. 21 And the residue shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other of the oblation of the Sanctuary, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the East border, and Westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the West border,
chapter 48
a Ezek. 44:5
1 Now these are the names of the 1tribes. From the North side, to the coast toward Hethlon as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar, Enan, and the border of Damascus Northward the coast of Hamath, even from the East side to the West shall be a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan from the East side unto the West side, a portion for Asher. 3 And by the border of Asher from the East part even unto the West part, a portion for Naphtali. 4 And by the border of Naphtali from the East quarter unto the West side, a portion for Manasseh. 5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the East side unto the West side, a portion for Ephraim. 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the East part even unto the West part, a portion for Reuben. 7 And by the border of Reuben, from the East quarter unto the West quarter, a portion for Judah. 8 And by the border of Judah from the East part unto the West part 1shall be the offering which they shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds broad, and of length as one of the other parts, from the East side unto the West side, and the Sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. 9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the Lord, shall be of five and twenty thousand long, and of ten thousand the breadth. 10 And for them, even for the Priests shall be this holy oblation, toward the North five and twenty thousand long, and toward the West, ten thousand
47:22 1 Meaning, that in this spiritual kingdom there should be no difference between Jew nor Gentile, but that all should be partakers of this inheritance in their head Christ. 48:1 1 The tribes after that they entered into the land under Joshua, divided the land somewhat otherwise than is here set forth by this vision.
48:8 1 That is, the portion of the ground which they shall separate and appoint to the Lord, which shall be divided into three parts, for the Priests, for the Prince, and for the city. 48:16 1 Meaning, that it should be square. 48:20 1 Every way it shall be five and twenty thousand.
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over against shall be for the portion of the prince: this shall be the holy oblation, and the house of the Sanctuary shall be in the midst thereof. 22 Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, that which is in the midst shall be the prince's: between the border 1of Judah, and between the border of Benjamin shall be the Princes. 23 And the rest of the tribes shall be thus: from the East part unto the West part, Benjamin shall be a portion. 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the East side unto the West side, Simeon a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon from the East part unto the West part, Issachar a portion. 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the East side unto the West, Zebulun a portion. 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the East part unto the West part, Gad a portion. 28 And by the border of Gad at the South side, toward 1Temath, the border shall be even from 2Tamar, unto the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, and to the 3river, that runneth into the main sea.
29 This is the land, which ye shall distribute unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God. 30 And these are the bounds of the city, on the North side five hundred, and four thousand measures. 31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, the gates Northward, one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, and one gate of Levi. 32 And at the East side five hundred and four thousand, and three gates, and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, and one gate of Dan. 33 And at the South side, five hundred and four thousand measures, and three ports, one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, and one gate of Zeb ulun. 34 At the West side, five hundred and four thousand, with their three gates, one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, and one gate of Naphtali. 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures, and the name of the city from that day shall be, 1The Lord is there.
48:22 1 So that Judah was on the North side of the Prince's and Levites' portions, and Benjamin on the South side. 48:28 1 Which is here taken for Edom.
2 Which was Jericho the city of palm trees. 3 Meaning, Nile that runneth into the Sea, called Mediterranean. 48:35 1 Hebrew, Jehovah Shammah.
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1 1 The captivity of Jehoiakim king of Judah. 4 The king chooseth certain young men of the Jews to learn his law. 5 They have the king's ordinary appointed, 8 but they abstain from it.
the king. 6 Now among these were certain of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 7 Unto whom the chief of the Eunuchs 1gave other names: for he called Daniel, Belteshazzar, and Hananiah, Shadrach, and Mishael, Meshach, and Azariah, Abednego. 8 ¶ But Daniel had determined in his heart, that he would not 1defile himself with the portion of the King's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he required the chief of the Eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 (Now God had brought Daniel into favor, and tender love with the chief of the Eunuchs.) 10 And the chief of the Eunuchs said unto Daniel, 1I fear my lord the King, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: therefore if he see your faces worse liking than the other children which are of your sort, then shall you make me lose mine head unto the King. 11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the chief of the Eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, 1ten days, and let them give us 2pulse to eat, and water to drink. 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon
1 In the 1third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel unto Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of 1Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into his god's treasury. 3 And the King spake unto 1Ashpenaz the master of his 2Eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, of the 3King's seed, and of the princes: 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well 1favored, and instruct in all wisdom, and well seen in knowledge, and able to utter knowledge, and such as were able to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might 2teach the learning, and the tongue of the Chaldeans. 5 And the king appointed them provision every day of a 1portion of the king's meat, and of the wine, which he drank, so nourishing them 2three years, that at the end thereof, they might stand 3before
1:1 1 Read 2 Kings 24:1 and Jer. 25:1. 1:2 1 Which was a plain by Babylon, where was the Temple of their great god, and is here taken for Babylon. 1:3 1 Who was as master of the wards. 2 He calleth them Eunuchs whom the King nourished and brought up to be rulers of other countries afterward. 3 His purpose was to keep them as hostages, and that he might show himself victorious, and also by their good entreaty and learn ing of his religion, they might favor rather him than the Jews, and so to be able to serve him as governors in their land: moreover by this means the Jews might be better kept in subjection, fearing other wise to procure hurt to these noble men. 1:4 1 The King required three things, that they should be of noble birth, that they should be witty and learned, and that they should be of a strong and comely nature, that they might do him better service: this he did for his own commodity, therefore it is not to praise his liberality: yet in this he is worthy praise, that he esteemed learning, and knew that it was a necessary means to govern by. 2 That they might forget their own religion, and country fashions to serve him the better to his purpose: yet it is not to be thought that Daniel did learn any knowledge that was not godly: in all points he refused the abuse of things and superstition, insomuch that he would not eat the meat which the King appointed him, but was con tent to learn the knowledge of natural things. 1:5 1 That by their good entertainment they might learn to forget
the mediocrity of their own people. 2 To the intent that in this time they might both learn the manners of the Chaldeans, and also their tongue. 3 As well to serve at the table, as in other offices. 1:7 1 That they might altogether forget their religion: for the Jews gave their children names, which might ever put them in remem brance of some point of religion: therefore this was a great tentation and a sign of servitude, which they were not able to resist. 1:8 1 Not that he thought any religion to be in the meat or drink, (for afterward he did eat) but because the king should not entice him by this sweet poison to forget his religion and accustomed sobriety, and that in his meat and drink he might daily remember of what people he was: and Daniel bringeth this in to show how God from the beginning assisted him with his Spirit, and at length called him to be a Prophet. 1:10 1 He supposed they did this for their religion, which was con trary to the Babylonians, and therefore herein he representeth them, which are of no religion: for neither he would condemn theirs, nor maintain his own. 1:12 1 Meaning, that within this space he might have the trial, and that no man should be able to discern it: and thus he spake, being moved by the Spirit of God. 2 Not that it was a thing abominable to eat dainty meats, and to drink wine, as both before and after they did, but if they should have hereby been won to the King, and have refused their own religion, that meat and drink had been accursed.
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before thee, and the countenances of the children that eat of the portion of the King's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. 14 So he consented to them in this matter, an proved them ten days. 15 And at the end of ten days, their 1countenances appeared fairer, and in 2better liking than all the children's, which did eat the portion of the King's meat. 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse. 17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge, and understanding in all learning 1and wisdom: also he gave Daniel understanding of all 2visions and dreams. 18 Now when the time 1was expired, that the King had appointed to bring them in, the chief of the Eunuchs brought them before Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the King communed with them: and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. 20 And in all matters of wisdom, and understanding that the King enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the enchanters and astrologians that were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel was unto 1the first year of king Cyrus. 2 1 The dreams of Nebuchadnezzar. 13 The king commandeth all the wise men of Babylon to be slain, because they could not interpret his dream. 16 Daniel requireth time to solute the question. 24 Daniel is brought unto the king, and showeth him his dream, and the interpretation thereof. 44 Of the everlasting kingdom of Christ.
wherewith his spirit was 3troubled, and his 4sleep was upon him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the enchanters, and the astrologians, and the sorcerers, and the 1Chaldeans for to show the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the King. 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the 1Aramite's language, O king, live forever: show thy servants thy dream, and we shall show the interpretation. 5 And the King answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me. If ye will not make me understand the dream with the interpretation thereof, ye 1shall be drawn in pieces, and your houses shall be made a jakes. 6 But if ye declare the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards, and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it. 7 They answered again, and said, Let the king show 1his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof. 8 Then the king answered, and said, I know certainly that ye 1would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. 9 But if ye will not declare me the dream, there is but one judgment for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words, to speak before me till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, that I may know, if ye can declare me the interpretation thereof. 10 Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon earth that can declare the king's matter: yea, there is neither King nor Prince nor lord that asked such things at an enchanter, or
1 And in the 1second year of the reign of Neb uchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed 2dreams
1:15 1 This bare feeding and that also of Moses, when he fled from the court of Egypt, declareth that we must live in such sobriety as God doth call us unto, seeing he will make it more profitable unto us than all dainties: for his blessing only sufficeth. 2 Hebrew, fatter in flesh. 1:17 1 Meaning, in the liberal sciences, and natural knowledge, and not in the magical arts which are forbidden, Deut. 18:11. 2 So that he only was a Prophet and none of the others: for by dreams and visions God appeared to his Prophets, Num. 12:6 1:18 1 Of the three years above mentioned, verse 5. 1:21 1 That is, he was esteemed in Babylon as a Prophet so long as that commonwealth stood. 2:1 1 The father and the son were both called by this name, so that this is meant of the son, when he reigned alone: for he reigned also after a sort with his father. 2 Not that he had many dreams, but because many matters were contained in this dream. 3 Because it was so rare and strange a dream: that he had not had the like.
4 He was so heavy with sleep, that he began to sleep again. Some read, and his sleep was broken from him. 2:2 1 For all these Astrologers and sorcerers called themselves by this name of honor, as though all the wisdom and knowledge of the country depended upon them, and that all other countries were void of the same. 2:4 1 That is, in the Syrian tongue which differed not much from the Chaldeans, save it seemed to be more eloquent, and therefore the learned used to speak it, as the Jewish writers do to this day. 2:5 1 This is a just reward of their arrogance (which vaunted of themselves that they had the knowledge of all things) that they should be proved fools, and that to their perpetual shame and confusion. 2:7 1 Herein appeared their ignorance, that notwithstanding their brags, yet were they not able to tell the dream, except he entered them into the matter, and therefore they would pretend knowledge where was but mere ignorance, and so as deluders of the people, they were worthy to die. 2:8 1 Hebrew, redeem the time.
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astrologian, or Chaldean. 11 For it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can declare it before the king, except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh. 12 For this cause the king was angry and in great fury, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babel. 13 ¶ And when sentence was given, the wise men were slain: and they 1sought Daniel and his fellows to be put to death. 14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the king's 1chief steward, which was gone forth to put to death the wise men of Babel. 15 Yea, he answered and said unto Arioch the king's captain, Why is the sentence so hasty from the king? Then Arioch declared the thing to Daniel. 16 So Daniel went and desired the king that he would give him leisure, and that he would show the king the interpretation thereof. 17 ¶ Then Daniel went to his house, and showed the matter to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah his companions, 18 That they should beseech the God of heaven for grace in this secret, that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babel. 19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision by night: therefore Daniel praised the God of heaven. 20 And Daniel answered and said, aThe Name of God be praised forever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his. 21 And he changeth the times and seasons: he taketh away kings: he setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and understanding to those that understand. 22 He discovereth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in darkness, and the 1light dwelleth with him. 23 I thank thee and praise thee, O thou God of my 1fathers, that thou hast given me wisdom and
2strength, and hast showed me now the thing that we desired of thee: for thou hast declared unto us the king's matter. 24 ¶ Therefore Daniel went unto Arioch, whom the King had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babel: he went and said thus unto him, Destroy not 1the wise men of Babel, but bring me before the king, and I will declare unto the king the interpretation. 25 Then Arioch brought Daniel before the king in all haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the children of Judah that were brought captives, that will declare unto the king the interpretation. 26 Then answered the king, and said unto Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to show me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? 27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded, can neither the wise, the astrologians, the enchanters, nor the soothsayers declare unto the king. 28 But there is a God in 1heaven that revealeth secrets, and showeth the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the things which thou hast seen in thine head upon thy bed, is this: 29 O king, when thou wast in thy bed, thoughts came into thy mind, what should come to pass hereafter, and he that revealeth secrets, telleth thee what shall come. 30 As 1for me, this secret is not showed me for any wisdom that I have more than any other living, but only to show the king the interpretation, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thine heart. 31 O king, thou sawest, and behold, there was a great image: this great image whose glory was so excellent, stood before thee, and the form therefore was terrible. 32 This image's head was of fine 1gold, his breast, and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, and his feet were part of iron,
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2:13 1 Which declareth that God would not have his servant joined in the company of these sorcerers and Astrologers, whose arts were wicked, and therefore justly ought to die, though the king did it upon a rage and no zeal. 2:14 1 Or, the captain of the guards. 2:22 1 He showeth that man hath neither wisdom nor knowledge, but very dark blindness and ignorance of himself: for it cometh only of God, that man understandeth anything. 2:23 1 To whom thou madest thy promise, and who lived in thy fear: whereby he excludeth all other gods. 2 Meaning, power to interpret it. 2:24 1 Whereby appeareth that many were slain, as verse 13, and the rest at Daniel's offer were preserved on condition: not that Daniel favored their wicked profession, but that he had respect to equity, because the King proceeded according to his wicked affection, and not considering if their science were lawful or no. 2:28 1 He affirmeth that man by reason and art is not able to attain
to the cause of God's secrets, but the understanding only thereof must come of God: whereby he smiteth the king with a certain fear and reverence of God, that he might be the more apt to receive the high mysteries, that should be revealed. 2:30 1 Because he had said that God only must reveal the signi fication of this dream, the King might have asked, why Daniel did enterprise to interpret it, and therefore he showeth that he was but God's minister and had no gifts, but such as God had given him to set forth his glory. 2:32 1 By gold, silver, brass and iron, are meant the Chaldean, Persian, Macedonian and Roman kingdoms, which should successively rule all the world till Christ (which is here called the stone) come himself, and destroy the last: and this was to assure the Jews, that their affliction should not end with the empire of the Chaldeans, but that they should patiently abide the coming of Messiah, which should be at the end of this fourth monarchy.
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and part of clay. 34 Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken all together, and became like the chaff of the summer flowers, and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image, became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 36 This is the dream, and we will declare before the king the interpretation thereof. 37 ¶ O king, thou art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38 And in all places where the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all: thou art 1this head of gold. 39 And after thee shall rise another kingdom, 1inferior to thee, of silver, and another 2third kingdom shall be of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for as iron breaketh in pieces, and subdueth all things, and as iron bruiseth all these things, so shall it break in 1pieces, and bruise all. 41 Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be 1divided, but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, as thou sawest the iron mixed with the clay, and earth. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so shall the kingdom be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with clay and earth, they shall mingle themselves with 1the seed of men: but they shall not join one with another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings, shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which 1shall never be destroyed: and this kingdom shall not be given to another people, but it shall break, and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Whereas thou sawest, that the 1stone was cut of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold: so the great God hath showed the king, what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof is sure. 46 ¶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and 1bowed himself unto Daniel, and commanded that they should offer meat offerings, and sweet odors unto him. 47 Also the King answered unto Daniel, and said, I know of a truth that your 1God is a God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and the revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest open this secret. 48 So the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many and great 1gifts. He made him governor over the whole province of Babel, and chief of the rulers, and above all the wise men of Babel. 49 Then Daniel 1made request to the King, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the charge of the province of Babel: but Daniel sat in the 2gate of the king. 3 1 The king setteth up a golden image. 8 Certain are accused because they despised the king's commandment,
2:38 1 Daniel leaveth out the kingdom of the Assyrians, which was before the Babylonian, both because it was not a Monarchy and gen eral empire, and also because he would declare the things that were to come, to the coming of Christ, for the comfort of the elect among these wonderful alterations, and he calleth the Babylonian kingdom the golden head, because in respect of the other three, it was the best, and yet it was of itself wicked and cruel. 2:39 1 Meaning, the Persians which were not inferior in dignity, power, and riches, but were worse touching ambition, cruelty, and all kind of vice, showing that the world should grow worse and worse, till it was restored by Christ. 2 That is, of the Macedonians shall be of brass, not alluding to the hardness thereof, but to the vileness in respect of silver. 2:40 1 That is, the Roman empire shall subdue all these other afore named, which after Alexander were divided into the Macedonians, Grecians, Syrians and Egyptians. 2:41 1 They shall have civil wars, and continual discords among themselves. 2:43 1 They shall by marriages and affinities think to make them selves strong: yet shall they never be joined in hearts. 2:44 1 His purpose is to show, that all the kingdoms of the world are transitory, and that the kingdom of Christ shall only remain forever. 2:45 1 Meaning Christ, who was sent of God, and not set up by
man, whose kingdom at the beginning should be small and without beauty to man's judgment, but should at length grow and fill the whole earth, which he calleth a great mountain, as verse 35. And this kingdom which is not only referred to the person of Christ, but also to the whole body of his Church, and to every member thereof, shall be eternal: for the Spirit that is in them is life eternal, Rom. 8:10. 2:46 1 Though this humbling of the king seemed to deserve com mendation, yet because he joined God's honor with the Prophet's, it is to be reproved, and Daniel herein erred, if he suffered it: but it is cred ible that Daniel admonished him of his fault, and did not suffer it. 2:47 1 This confession was but a sudden motion, as it was also in Pharaoh, Exod. 9:28, but his heart was not touched, as appeared soon afterward. 2:48 1 Not that the Prophet was desirous of gifts or honor, but because by this means he might relieve his poor brethren, which were grievously oppressed in this their captivity, and also he received them, lest he should offend this cruel king, which willingly gave them. 2:49 1 He did not this for their private profit: but that the whole Church, which was then there in affliction, might have some release and ease by this benefit. 2 Meaning, that either he was a judge, or that he had the whole authority, so than none could be admitted to the king's presence, but by him.
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nezzar, O King, live forever. 10 Thou, O King, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all instruments of music, shall fall down, and worship the golden image. 11 And whosoever falleth not down, and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of an hot fiery furnace. 12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the charge of the province of Babel, 1Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: these men, O King, have not regarded thy commandment, neither will they serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set up. 13 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his anger and wrath commanded that they should bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, so these men were brought before the king. 14 And Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said unto them, What disorder? will not you, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, serve my god, nor worship the golden image that I have set up? 15 1Now therefore are ye ready when ye hear the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all instruments of music, to fall down, and worship the image which I have made? for if ye worship it not, ye shall be cast immediately into the midst of an hot fiery furnace: for who is that God, that can deliver you out of mine hands? 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the King, O Nebuchadnezzar, we 1are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 Behold, our God whom we serve, is 1able to deliver us from the hot fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known to thee, O king, that
and are put into a burning oven. 15 By belief in God they are delivered from the fire. 25 Nebuchadnezzar confesseth the power of God after the sight of the miracle.
1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made 1an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babel. 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent forth to gather together the nobles, the princes and the dukes, the judges, the receivers, the counselors, the officers, and all the governors of the provinces, that they should come to the 1dedication of the image, which Nebuchadnezzar the 2King had set up. 3 So the nobles, princes, and dukes, the judges, the receivers, the counselors, the officers, and all the governors of the provinces were assembled unto the dedicating of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the King had set up and they stood before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4 Then an herald cried aloud, Be it known to you, O people, 1nations, and languages, 5 That when ye hear the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all instruments of music, ye fall down, and worship the golden image, that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up. 6 And whosoever falleth not down, and worshippeth, shall the same hour be cast into the midst of an hot fiery furnace. 7 Therefore as soon as all the people heard the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all instruments of music, all the people, nations, and languages fell down, and worshipped the golden image, that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 8 ¶ By reason whereof at that same time came men of the Chaldeans, and grievously accused the Jews. 9 For they spake and said to the king Nebuchad-
3:1 1 Under pretence of religion, and holiness in making an image to his idol Bel, he sought his own ambition and vain glory: and this declareth that he was not toucheth with the true fear of God before but that he confessed him on a sudden motion as the wicked when they are overcome with the greatness of his works. The Greek inter preters write, that this was done eighteen years after the dream, and as may appear, the King feared lest the Jews by their religion, should have altered the state of his commonwealth, and therefore he meant to bring all to one kind of religion, and so rather sought his own qui etness than God's glory. 3:2 1 Showing that the idol is not known for an idol so long as he is with workmen: but when the ceremonies and customs are recited and used, and the consent of the people is there, then of a block they think they have made a god. 2 This was sufficient with the wicked at all times to approve their reli gion, if the king's authority were alleged for the establishment thereof, not considering in the mean season what God's word did permit. 3:4 1 These are the two dangerous weapons, wherewith Satan used to fight against the children of God, the consent of the multitude, and the cruelty of the punishment: for though some feared God, yet
the multitude, which consented to the wickedness, astonied them: and here the King required, not an inward consent, but an outward gesture, that the Jews might by little and little learn to forget their true religion. 3:12 1 It seemeth that they named not Daniel, because he was greatly in the king's favor, thinking if these three had been destroyed, they might have had better occasion to accuse Daniel: and this declareth that this policy of erecting this image was invented by the malicious flatterers which sought nothing but the destruction of the Jews, whom they accused of rebellion and ingratitude. 3:15 1 Signifying that he would receive them to grace if they would now at the length obey his decree. 3:16 1 For they should have done injury to God, if they should have doubted in this holy cause, and therefore they say, that they are resolved to die for God's cause. 3:17 1 They ground on two points, first on the power and provi dence of God over them, and secondly on their cause, which was God's glory, and the testifying of his true religion with their blood, and so make open confession, that they will not so much as out wardly consent to idolatry.
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we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. 19 ¶ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of rage, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commanded that they should heat the furnace at once seven 1times more than it was wont to be heated. 20 And he charged the most valiant men of war that were in his army, to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hot fiery furnace. 21 So these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their cloaks, with their other garments, and cast into the midst of the hot fiery furnace. 22 Therefore, because the king's commandment was strait, that the furnace should be exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that brought forth Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell down bound into the midst of the hot fiery furnace. 24 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counselors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? Who answered, and said unto him, It is true, O king. 25 And he answered, and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the 1son of God. 26 Then the King Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the hot fiery furnace, and spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, the servants of the high God, go forth and come hither: so Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego 1came forth of the midst of the fire. 27 Then the nobles, princes, and dukes, and the king's counselors came together to see these men, because the fire had no power over their bodies: for not an hair of their head was burnt, neither were their coats
changed, nor any smell of fire came upon them. 28 Wherefore Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, 1Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who hath sent his Angel, and delivered his servants, that put their trust in him, and have changed the king's commandment, and yielded their bodies rather than they would serve or worship any god save their own God. 29 Therefore I make a decree that every people, nation, and language, which speak any 1blasphemy against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be drawn in pieces, and their houses shall be made a jakes, because there is no god that can deliver after this sort. 30 Then the King promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babel. 31 Nebuchadnezzar king unto all people, nations and languages, that dwell in all the 1world, Peace be multiplied unto you: 32 I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders, that the high God hath wrought toward me. 33 How great are his signs, and how mighty are his wonders! 1his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. 4 2 Another dream of Nebuchadnezzar, which Daniel declareth. 29 The Prophet declareth how of a proud king, he should become as a beast. 31 After he confesseth the power of God, and is restored to his former dignity.
1 I Nebuchadnezzar being at 1rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace, 2 Saw a 1dream, which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed, and the visions of mine head troubled me. 3 Therefore made I a decree, that they should bring all the wise men of Babel before me, that they might declare unto me the interpretation of the dream. 4 So came the enchanters, the astrologians, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers, to whom I told the dream, but 1they could not show me the interpreta-
3:19 1 This declareth that the more that tyrants rage, and the more witty they show themselves inventing strange and cruel punishments, the more is God glorified by his servants to whom he giveth patience and constancy to abide the cruelty of their punishment: for either by delivereth them from death, or else for this life giveth them a better. 3:25 1 For the Angels were called the sons of God, because of their excellency: therefore the king called this Angel whom God sent to comfort his in these great torments, the son of God. 3:26 1 This commendeth their obedience unto God, that they would not for any fear depart out of this furnace, till the time appointed, as Noah remained in the ark, till the Lord called him forth. 3:28 1 He was moved by the greatness of the miracle to praise God, but his heart was not touched. And here we see that miracles are not sufficient to convert men to God, but that doctrine most chiefly be adjoined, without the which there can be no faith. 3:29 1 If this heathen king moved by God's Spirit would not see blas
phemy unpunished, but made a law and set a punishment to such transgressors, much more ought all they that profess religion, take order that such impiety reign not, lest according as their knowledge and charge is greater, so they suffer double punishment. 3:31 1 Meaning, so far as his dominion extended. 3:33 1 Read Dan. 2:44. 4:1 1 There was no trouble that might cause me to dream, and therefore it came only of God. 4:2 1 This was another dream besides that which he saw of the four Empires, for Daniel both declared what that dream was, and what it meant, and here he only expoundeth the dream. 4:4 1 In that that he sent abroad to others, whose ignorance in times past he had experimented, and left Daniel which was ever ready at hand, it declareth the nature of the ungodly, which never seek to the servants of God, but for very necessity, and then they spare no flatterings.
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tion thereof, 5 Till at the last Daniel came before me, (whose name was 1Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, which hath the spirit of the holy gods in him) and before him I told the dream, saying, 6 O Belteshazzar, 1chief of the enchanters, because I know, that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream, that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. 7 Thus were the visions of my head in my bed, and behold, I saw a 1tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great: 8 A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the ends of all the earth. 9 The boughs thereof were fair and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: it made a shadow under it for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh fed of it. 10 I saw in the visions of mine head upon my bed, and behold, a 1watchman and an holy one came down from heaven, 11 And cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and break off his branches: shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit, that the beasts may flee from under it, and the fowls from his branches. 12 Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and brass bind it among the grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts among the grass of the field. 13 1Let his heart be changed from man's nature, and let a beast's heart be given unto him, and let seven times be passed over him. 14 1The sentence is according to the decree of the watchmen, and according to the word of the holy ones: the demand was answered, to the intent that living men may know, that the most High hath power over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will,
and appointeth over it the most abject among men. 15 This is the dream, that I King Nebuchadnez zar have seen: therefore thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof: for all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to show me the interpretation: but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. 16 ¶ Then Daniel (whose name was Belteshazzar) held his 1peace by the space of one hour, and his thoughts troubled him, and the King spake and said, Belteshazzar, let neither the dream, nor the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. 17 The tree that thou sawest, which was great and mighty, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof through all the world, 18 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all, under the which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven did sit, 19 It is thou, O king, that art great and mighty: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the ends of the earth. 20 Whereas the King saw a watchman, and an holy one that came down from heaven, and said, Hew down the tree, and destroy it, yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and with a band of iron and brass bind it among the grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, 1till seven times pass over him. 21 This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king, 22 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as the 1oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven: and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know, that 2the
4:5 1 This no doubt was a great grief to Daniel not only to have his name changed, but to be called by the name of a vile idol, which thing Nebuchadnezzar did to make him forget the true religion of God. 4:6 1 Which also was a great grief to the Prophet to be numbered among the sorcerers and men whose practices were wicked and contrary to God's word. 4:7 1 By the tree is signified the dignity of a king whom God ordaineth to be a defense for all kind of men, and whose state is profitable for mankind. 4:10 1 Meaning the Angel of God, which neither eateth nor sleepeth, but is ever ready to do God's will, and is not infected with man's corrup tion, but is ever holy: and in that that he commandeth to cut down this tree, he knew that it should not be cut down by man, but by God. 4:13 1 Hereby he meaneth that Nebuchadnezzar should not only for a time lose his kingdom, but be like a beast. 4:14 1 God hath decreed this judgment and the whole army of heaven
have as it were subscribed unto it, like as also they desire the execution of his decree against all them that lift up themselves against God. 4:16 1 He was troubled for the great judgment of God, which he saw ordained against the king, and so the Prophets used on the one part to denounce God's judgments for the zeal they bare to his glory, and on the other part to have compassion upon man, and also to con sider that they should be subject to God's judgments, if he did not regard them with pity. 4:20 1 Whereby he meaneth a long space, as seven years. Some interpret seven months, and others seven weeks, but it seemeth he means of years. 4:22 1 Not that his shape or form was changed into a beast, but that he was either stricken mad, and so avoided man's company, or was cast out for his tyranny, and so wandered among the beasts, and ate herbs and grass. 2 Daniel showeth the cause why God thus punished him.
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most High beareth rule over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. 23 Whereas they said, that one should leave the stump of the tree roots, thy kingdom shall remain unto thee: after that, thou shalt know, that the heavens have the rule. 24 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and 1break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by mercy towards the poor: lo, let there be a 2healing of thine error. 25 All these things shall come upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 26 ¶ At the end of twelve 1months, he walked in the royal palace of Babel. 27 And the king spake and said, Is not this great Babel that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? 28 While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O king Neb uchadnezzar, to thee be it spoken, Thy kingdom is departed from thee, 29 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass, as the oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou knowest, that the most High beareth rule over the kingdom of men, and giveth it unto whomsoever he will. 30 The very same hour was this thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles feathers, and his nails like birds claws. 31 And at the end of these 1days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding was restored unto me, and I gave thanks unto the most High, and I praised and honored him, that liveth forever, awhose power is an everlasting power, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.
32 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his 1will he worketh in the army of heaven, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say unto him, What doest thou? 33 At the same time was mine understanding restored unto me, and I returned to the honor of my kingdom: my glory and my beauty was restored unto me, and my counselors and 1my princes sought unto me, and I was established in my kingdom, and my glory was augmented toward me. 34 Now therefore I Nebuchadnezzar 1praise, and extol and magnify the king of heaven, whose works are all truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride, he is able to abase. 5 5 Belshazzar king of Babylon seeth an handwriting on the wall. 8 The soothsayers called of the king, cannot expound the writing. 25 Daniel readeth it, and interpreteth it also. 30 The king is slain. 31 Darius enjoyeth the kingdom.
chapter 4
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1 King 1Belshazzar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and drank wine 2before the thousand. 2 And Belshazzar 1while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his 2father Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the Temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his princes, his wives, and his concubines might drink therein. 3 Then were brought the golden vessels, that were taken out of the Temple of the Lord's house at Jerusalem, and the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the 1gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 At the same hour appeared fingers of a man's hand, which wrote over 1against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the
4:24 1 Cease from provoking God to anger any longer by thy sins, that he may mitigate his punishment, if thou show by thine upright life that thou hast true faith and repentance. 2 Suffer the errors of thy former life to be redressed. 4:26 1 After that Daniel had declared this vision: and this his pride declareth that it is not in man to convert to God, except his Spirit move him: seeing that these terrible threatenings could not move him to repent. 4:31 1 When the term of these seven years was accomplished. 4:32 1 He confesseth God's will to be the rule of all justice, and a most perfect law, whereby he governeth both man and Angels and devils, so that none ought to murmur or ask a reason of his doings, but only to stand content therewith and give him the glory. 4:33 1 By whom it seemeth that he had been put from his kingdom before. 4:34 1 He doth not only praise God for his deliverance, but also confesseth his fault that God may only have the glory, and man the shame, and that he may be exalted and man cast down.
5:1 1 Daniel reciteth this history of king Belshazzar, Evil-merodach's son, to show God's judgments against the wicked for the deliverance of his Church: and how the prophecy of Jeremiah was true, that they should be delivered after seventy years. 2 The kings of the East parts then used to sit alone commonly, and disdained that any should sit in their company: and now to show his power, and how little he set by his enemy, which then besieged Babylon, he made a solemn banquet, and used excess in their company, which is meant here by drinking wine: thus the wicked are most dissolute and negligent, when their destruction is at hand. 5:2 1 Or, overcome with wine. 2 Meaning, his grandfather. 5:4 1 In contempt of the true God, they praise their idols, not that they thought that the gold or silver were gods, but that there was a certain virtue and power in them to do them good, which is also the opinion of all idolaters. 5:5 1 That it might the better be seen.
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king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his 1knees smote one against the other. 7 Wherefore the king cried loud, that they should bring 1the astrologians, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babel, Whosoever can read this writing, and declare me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 8 Then came all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor show the king the interpretation. 9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his princes were astonied. 10 Now the 1Queen by reason of the talk of the King and his princes, came into the banquet house, and the Queen spake, and said, O king, live forever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed. 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the days of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him: whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made chief of the 1enchanters, astrologians, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, 12 Because a more excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding (for he did expound dreams, and declare hard sentences, and dissolved doubts) were found in him, even in Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation. 13 ¶ Then was Daniel brought before the king, and the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom my father the king brought out of Jewry? 14 Now I have heard of thee, that 1the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and that light and understanding, and excellent wisdom is found in thee. 15 Now therefore wise men and Astrologians have
been brought before me, that they should read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof: but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing. 16 Then heard I of thee, that thou couldest show interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shall have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. 17 Then Daniel answered, and said before the king, Keep thy rewards to thyself, and give thy gifts to another: yet I will read the writing unto the king, and show him the interpretation. 18 O king, hear thou, The most high God gave unto 1Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and honor, and glory. 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages trembled, and feared before him: he put to death whom he would: he smote whom he would: whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was puffed up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his honor from him. 21 And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heaven, till he knew that the most high God bare rule over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it, whomsoever he pleaseth. 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things, 23 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them, and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither hear, nor understand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy ways, him hast thou not glorified. 24 1Then was the palm of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing.
5:6 1 So he that before contemned God, was moved by this sight to tremble for fear of God's judgments. 5:7 1 Thus the wicked in their troubles seek many means, who draw them from God, because they seek not to him who is the only com fort in all afflictions. 5:10 1 To wit, his grandmother Nebuchadnezzar's wife, which for her age was not before at the feast, but came thither when she heard of these strange news. 5:11 1 Read Dan. 4:6, and this declareth that both this name was odi ous unto him, and also he did not use these vile practices, because
he was not among them when all were called. 5:14 1 For the idolaters thought that the Angels had power as God, and therefore had them in like estimation, as they had God, thinking that the spirit of prophecy and understanding came of them. 5:18 1 Before he read the writing, he declareth to the king his great ingratitude toward God, who could not be moved to give him the glory, considering his wonderful work toward his grandfather, and so showeth that he doth not sin of ignorance but of malice. 5:24 1 After that God had so long time deferred his anger, and patiently waited for thine amendment.
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him concerning the Law of his God. 6 Therefore the rulers and these governors went together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live forever. 7 All the rulers of thy kingdom, the officers and governors, the counselors and dukes have consulted together to make a decree for the king, and to establish a statute, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, confirm the decree, and seal the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 9 Wherefore king Darius 1sealed the writing and the decree. 10 ¶ Now when Daniel understood that he had sealed the writing, he went into his house, and his
25 And this is the writing that he hath written, 1MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it. 27 TEKEL, thou art weighed in the balance, and art found 1too light. 28 PERES, thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then at the commandment of Belshazzar they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 30 The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Chaldeans slain. 31 And Darius 1of the Medes took the kingdom, being threescore and two years old. 6 1 Daniel is made ruler over the governors. 5 An act against Daniel. 16 He is put into a den of lions by the commandment of the king. 23 He is delivered by faith in God. 24 Daniel's accusers are put unto the lions. 25 Darius by a decree magnifieth the God of Daniel.
1window being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed and praised his God, as he did aforetime. 11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying, and making supplication unto his God. 12 So they came and spake unto the king concerning the king's decree, Hast thou not sealed the decree, that every man that shall make a request to any god or man within thirty days, save to thee, O King, shall be cast into the den of lions? The King answered, and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 13 Then answered they, and said unto the King, This Daniel which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast sealed, but maketh his petition three times a day. 14 When the King heard these words, he was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel, to deliver him: and he labored till the sun went down, to deliver him. 15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the King, Understand, O King, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree nor statute which the king confirmeth, may be 1altered.
1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 1an hundred and twenty governors, which should be over the whole kingdom, 2 And over these three rulers, (of whom Daniel was one) that the governors might give accompts unto them, and the king 1should have no damage. 3 Now this Daniel 1was preferred above the rulers, and governors, because the spirit was excellent in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. 4 ¶ Wherefore the rulers and governors 1sought an occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom: but they could find none occasion nor fault: for he was so faithful that there was no blame nor fault found in him. 5 Then said these men, We shall not find an occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against
5:25 1 This word is twice written for the certainty of the thing: show ing that God had most surely counted: signifying also that God hath appointed a term for all kingdoms, and that a miserable end shall come on all that raise themselves against him. 5:27 1 Or, wanting. 5:31 1 Cyrus his son-in-law gave him this title of honor, although Cyrus in effect had the dominion. 6:1 1 Read Esther 1:1. 6:2 1 Or, not be troubled. 6:3 1 This heathen king preferred Daniel a stranger to all his nobles and familiars, because the graces of God were more excellent in him than in others. 6:4 1 Thus the wicked cannot abide the graces of God in others, but seek by all occasions to deface them, therefore against such assaults there is no better remedy than to walk upright in the fear of God, and
to have a good conscience. 6:9 1 Herein is condemned the wickedness of the king, who would be set up as a god, and passed not what wicked laws he approved for the maintenance of the same. 6:10 1 Because he would not by his silence show that he consented to this wicked decree, he set open his windows toward Jerusalem, when he prayed: both to stir up himself with the remembrance of God's promises to his people, when they should pray toward that Temple, and also that others might see, that he would neither con sent in heart nor deed for these few days to anything that was con trary to God's glory. 6:15 1 Thus the wicked maintain evil laws by constancy and author ity, which is ofttimes either lightness, or stubbornness, when as the innocents thereby perish, and therefore governors neither ought to fear, nor be ashamed to break such.
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16 ¶ Then the King commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions: now the king spake, and said unto Daniel, Thy God, whom thou always servest, even he will deliver thee. 17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the King sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his princes, that the purpose might not be changed, concerning Daniel. 18 Then the king went unto his palace, and remained fasting, neither were the instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep went from him. 19 ¶ Then the king arose early in the morning, and went in all haste unto the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake, and said to Daniel, O Daniel the servant of the living God, is not thy God (whom thou always servest) 1able to deliver thee from the lions? 21 Then said Daniel unto the King, O king, live forever. 22 My God hath sent his Angel and hath shut the lion's mouths, and they have not hurt me: for 1my justice was found out before him: and unto thee, O king, I have done 2no hurt. 23 Then was the King exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel out of the den: so Daniel was brought out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he 1believed in his God. 24 And by the commandment of the King these men which had accused Daniel, were brought, and were 1cast into the den of lions, even they, their children, and their wives: and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones a pieces, or ever they came at the ground of the den.
25 ¶ Afterward King Darius wrote, Unto all people, nations and languages, that dwell in all the world: Peace be multiplied unto you. 26 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom, men tremble and fear 1before the God of Daniel: for he is the 2living God, and remaineth forever: and his kingdom shall not perish, and his dominion shall be everlasting. 27 He rescueth and delivereth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth: who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus of Persia. 7 3 A vision of four beasts is showed unto Daniel. 8 The ten horns of the fourth beast. 27 Of the everlasting kingdom of Christ.
1 In the first year of Belshazzar King of Babel, Daniel saw a dream, and there were visions in his head, upon his bed: 1then he wrote the dream, and declared the sum of the matter. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon 1the great sea: 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea one divers from another. 4 The first was as a 1lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth, and set upon his feet as a man, and a man's heart was given him. 5 And behold, another beast which was the second, was like a 1bear, and stood upon the 2one side: and he had three ribs in his 3mouth between his teeth, 4and they said thus unto him, Arise, and devour much flesh.
6:20 1 This declareth that Darius was not touched with the true knowledge of God, because he doubted of his power. 6:22 1 My just cause and uprightness in this thing wherein I was charged, is approved of God. 2 For he did disobey the king's wicked commandment to obey God, and so did no injury to the king, who ought to command noth ing whereby God should be dishonored. 6:23 1 Because he committed himself wholly unto God whose cause he did defend, he was assured that nothing but good could come unto him: wherein we see the power of faith, as Heb. 11:33. 6:24 1 This is a terrible example against all the wicked which do against their conscience make cruel laws to destroy the children of God, and also admonisheth Princes how to punish such when their wickedness is come to light: though not in every point, or with like circumstances, yet to execute true justice upon them. 6:26 1 This proveth not that Darius did worship God aright, or else was converted: for then he would have destroyed all superstition and idolatry: and not only given God the chief place, but also have set him up, and caused him to be honored according to his word: but this was a certain confession of God's power, whereunto he was compelled by this wonderful miracle. 2 Which hath not only life in himself, but is the only fountain of life,
and quickeneth all things, so that without him there is no life. 7:1 1 Whereas the people of Israel looked for a continual quietness, after their seventy years, as Jeremiah had declared, he showeth that this rest shall not be a deliverance from all troubles, but a beginning, and therefore encourageth them to look for a continual affliction, till the Messiah be uttered and revealed, by whom they should have a spiritual deliverance, and all the promises be fulfilled: whereof they should have a certain token in the destruction of the Babylonian kingdom. 7:2 1 Which signified that there should be horrible troubles and afflic tions in the world in all corners of the world, and at sundry times. 7:4 1 Meaning, the Assyrian and Chaldean empire, which was most strong and fierce in power, and most soon come to their authority, as though they had wings to fly: yet their wings were pulled by the Persians, and they went on their feet, and were made like other men, which is here meant by man's heart. 7:5 1 Meaning, the Persians which were barbarous and cruel. 2 They were small in the beginning and were shut up in the moun tains and had no bruit. 3 That is, destroyed many kingdoms, and was insatiable. 4 To wit, the Angels by God's commandment, who by this means punished the ingratitude of the world.
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6 After this, I beheld, and lo, there was another like a 1leopard, which had upon his back 2four wings of a fowl: the beast had also four heads, and 3dominion was given him. 7 After this, I saw in the visions by night, and behold, the 1fourth beast was fearful and terrible and very strong. It had great 2iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped 3the residue under his feet: and it was unlike to the beasts that were before it: for it had 4ten horns. 8 As I considered the horns, behold, there came up among them another little 1horn, before whom there were 2three of the first horns plucked away: and behold, in this horn were 3eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things. 9 I beheld till the 1thrones were set up, and the 2Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels, as burning fire. 10 A fiery stream issued, and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand 1thousands stood before him: the judgment was set, and the 2books opened.
11 Then I beheld, 1because of the voice of the presumptuous words which the horn spake: I beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning fire. 12 As 1concerning the other beasts, they had taken away their dominion: yet their lives were prolonged for a certain time and season. 13 ¶ As I beheld in visions by night, behold, 1one like the son of man came in the clouds of heaven, and 2approached unto the Ancient of days, and they brought him before him. 14 And he gave him 1dominion, and honor, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall never be taken away: and his dominion shall never be destroyed. 15 ¶ I Daniel was 1troubled in my spirit, in the midst of my body, and the visions of mine head made me afraid. 16 Therefore I came unto 1one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this: so he told me, and showed me the interpretation of these things. 17 These great beasts which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth,
7:6 1 Meaning, Alexander the king of Macedonia. 2 That is, his four chief captains, which had the empire among them after his death. Seleucus had Asia the great, Antigonus the less, Cassander and after him Antipater was king of Macedonia, and Ptolemy had Egypt. 3 It was not of himself nor of his own power that he got all these countries: for his army contained but thirty thousand men, and he overcame in one battle Darius, which had ten hundred thousand, when he was so heavy with sleep, that his eyes were scarce open, as the stories report: therefore this power was given him of God. 7:7 1 That is, the Roman Empire which was a monster, and could not be compared to any beasts, because the nature of none was able to express it. 2 Signifying, the tyranny and greediness of the Romans. 3 That which the Romans could not quietly enjoy in other coun tries, they would give it to other Kings and rulers, that at all times when they would, they might take it again: which liberality is here called the stamping of the rest under the feet. 4 That is, sundry and divers provinces which were governed by the deputies and proconsuls, whereof everyone might be compared to a King. 7:8 1 Which is meant of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, etc., who were as kings in effect, but because they could not rule, but by the consent of the Senate, their power is compared to a little horn. For Muhammad came not of the Roman Empire, and the Pope hath no vocation of government: therefore this cannot be applied unto them, and also in this prophecy the Prophet's purpose is chiefly to comfort the Jews unto the revelation of Christ. Some take it for the whole body of Antichrist. 2 Meaning, a certain portion of the ten horns: that is, a part from the whole estate was taken away. For Augustus took from the Senate the liberty of choosing the deputies to send into the provinces, and took the government of certain countries to himself. 3 These Roman Emperors at the first used a certain humanity and gentleness, and were content that others, as the Consuls, and Sen
ate, should bear the names of dignity, so that they might have the profit, and therefore in election and counsels would behave them selves according as did other Senators: yet against their enemies and those that would resist them, they were fierce and cruel, which is here meant by the proud mouth. 7:9 1 Meaning, the places where God and his Angels should come to judge these Monarchies, which judgment should begin at the first coming of Christ. 2 That is, God which was before all times, and is here described as man's nature is able to comprehend some portion of his glory. 7:10 1 That is, an infinite number of Angels, which were ready to execute his commandment. 2 This is meant of the first coming of Christ, when as the will of God was plainly revealed by his Gospel. 7:11 1 Meaning, that he was astonied when he saw these Emperors in such dignity and pride, and so suddenly destroyed at the coming of Christ, when this fourth Monarchy was subject to men of other nations. 7:12 1 As the three former Monarchies had an end at the time that God appointed, although they flourished for a time, so shall this fourth have, and they that patiently abide God's appointment, shall enjoy the promises. 7:13 1 Which is meant of Christ, who had not yet taken upon him man's nature, neither was the son of David according to the flesh, as he was afterward: but appeared then in a figure, and that in the clouds: that is, being separate from the common sort of men by manifest signs of his divinity. 2 To wit, when he ascend into the heavens, and his divine majesty appeared, and all power was given unto him, in respect of that that he was our Mediator. 7:14 1 This is meant of the beginning of Christ's kingdom, when God the Father gave unto him all dominion, as to the Mediator, to the intent that he should govern here his Church in earth continually, till the time that he brought them to eternal life. 7:15 1 Through the strangeness of the vision. 7:16 1 Meaning, of the Angels, as verse 10.
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shall be given into his hand until a 3time, and times, and the dividing of time. 26 But the 1judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end. 27 And the 1kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the holy people of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all 2powers shall serve and obey him. 28 Even this is the end of the matter, I Daniel had many 1cogitations which troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in mine heart. 8 A vision of a battle between a ram and a goat: 20 The understanding of the vision.
18 And they shall take the 1kingdom of the Saints of the 2most High, and shall possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. 19 ¶ After this, I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was 1so unlike to all the others, very fearful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass: which devoured brake in pieces, and stamped the 2residue under his feet. 20 Also to know of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the others which came up, before whom three fell, and of the horn that had eyes, and of the mouth that spake presumptuous things, whose 1look was more stout than his fellows. 21 I beheld, and the same 1horn made battle against the Saints, yea, and prevailed against them, 22 Until 1the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the Saints of the most High: and the time approached, that the Saints possessed the kingdom. 23 Then he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom in the earth, which shall be unlike to all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in pieces. 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten Kings that shall rise: and another shall rise after them, and he shall be unlike to the first, and he shall subdue 1three Kings, 25 And shall speak words against 1the most High, and shall consume the Saints of the most High, and think that he may 2change times and laws, and they
1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar, a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, 1after that which appeared unto me at the first. 2 And I saw in a vision, and when I saw it, I was in the palace of Shushan, which is in the province 1of Elam, and in a vision me thought I was by the river of Ulai. 3 Then I looked up and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a 1ram which had two horns, and these two horns were high: but one was 2higher than another, and the highest came up last. 4 I saw the ram pushing against the West, and
7:18 1 Because Abraham was appointed heir of all the world, Rom. 4:13, and in him all the faithful, therefore the kingdom thereof is theirs by right, which these four beasts or tyrants should invade, and usurp until the world were restored by Christ: and this was to confirm them that were in troubles, that their afflictions should have an end at length. 2 That is, of the most high things, because God hath chosen them out of this world, that they should look up to the heavens, whereon all their hope dependeth. 7:19 1 For the other three Monarchies were governed by a King, and the Roman Empire by Consuls: the Romans changed their governors yearly, and the other Monarchies retained them for term of life: also the Romans were the strongest of all the others, and were never quiet among themselves. 2 Read verse 7. 7:20 1 This is meant of the fourth beast, which was more terrible than the others. 7:21 1 Meaning the Roman Emperors, who were most cruel against the Church of God both of the Jews and of the Gentiles. 7:22 1 Till God showed his power in the person of Christ, and by the preaching of the Gospel gave unto his some rest, and so obtained a famous Name in the world, and were called the Church of God, or the kingdom of God. 7:24 1 Read the exposition hereof, verse 8. 7:25 1 That is, shall make wicked decrees and proclamations against God's word, and send throughout all their dominion, to destroy all that did profess it. 2 These Emperors shall not consider that they have their power of God, but think it is in their own power to change God's laws and
man's, and as it were the order of nature, as appeareth by Octavius, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, etc. 3 God shall suffer them thus to rage against his Saints for a long time, which is meant by the time and times, but at length he will assuage these troubles, and shorten the time for his elect's sake, Matt. 24:22, which is here meant by the dividing of time. 7:26 1 God by his power shall restore things that were out of order, and so destroy this little horn, that it shall never rise up again. 7:27 1 He showeth wherefore the beast should be destroyed, to wit, that his Church might have rest and quietness, which though they do not fully enjoy here, yet they have it in hope, and by the preaching of the Gospel enjoy the beginning thereof, which is meant by these words: Under the heaven: and therefore he here speaketh of the begin ning of Christ's kingdom in this world, which kingdom the faithful have by the participation that they have with Christ their head. 2 That is, some of every sort that bear rule. 7:28 1 Though he had many motions in his heart which moved him to and fro to seek out this matter curiously, yet he was content with that which God revealed, and kept it in memory, and wrote it for the use of the Church. 8:1 1 After the general vision, he cometh to certain particular visions as touching the destruction of the Monarchy of the Persians, and Macedonians: for the ruin of the Babylonians was at hand, and also he had sufficiently spoken thereof. 8:2 1 That is, of Persia. 8:3 1 Which represented the kingdom of the Persians and Medes, which were joined together. 2 Meaning, Cyrus, which after grew greater in power than Darius his uncle and father-in-law.
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against the North, and against the South: so that no 1beasts might stand before him, nor could deliver out of his hand, but he did what he listed, and became great. 5 And as I considered, behold, 1a goat came from the West over the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and this goat had an 2horn that appeared between his eyes. 6 And he came unto the ram that had the two horns, whom I had seen standing by the river, and ran unto him in his fierce rage. 7 And I saw him come unto the ram, and being moved against him, he 1smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand against him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him, and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his power. 8 Therefore the goat waxed exceeding great, and when he was at the strongest, his great 1horn was broken: and for it came up four that 2appeared toward the four winds of the heaven. 9 And out of one of them came forth a 1little horn, which waxed very great toward the 2South, and toward the 3East, and toward the 4pleasant land. 10 Yea, it grew up unto the 1host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host, and of the stars to the ground, and trode upon them, 11 And extolled himself against the 1prince of the host, from whom the 2daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his Sanctuary was cast down. 12 And 1a time shall be given him over the daily
sacrifice for the iniquity: and it shall 2cast down the truth to the ground, and thus shall it do, and prosper. 13 Then I heard one of the 1Saints speaking, and one of the Saints spake unto a certain one, saying, How long shall endure the vision of the daily sacrifice, and the iniquity of the 2desolation to tread both the Sanctuary and the 3army underfoot? 14 And 1he answered me, Unto the 2evening and the morning, two thousand and three hundred: then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed. 15 ¶ Now when I Daniel had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, behold, there stood before me 1like the similitude of a man. 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, 1make this man to understand the vision. 17 So he came where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for 1in the last time shall be the vision. 18 Now as he was speaking unto me, I being asleep fell on my face to the ground: but he touched me, and set me up in my place. 19 And he said, Behold, I will show thee what shall be in the last 1wrath: for in the end of the time appointed it shall come. 20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns, are the Kings of the Medes and Persians. 21 And the goat is the King of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes, is the first king.
8:4 1 That is, no kings or nations. 8:5 1 Meaning, Alexander that came from Greece with great speed and expedition. 2 Though he came in the name of all Greece, yet he bore the title and dignity of the general captain, so that the strength was attrib uted to him, which is meant by this horn. 8:7 1 Alexander overcame Darius in two sundry battles, and so had the two kingdoms of the Medes and Persians. 8:8 1 Alexander's great power was broken: for when he had over come all the East, he thought to return toward Greece to subdue them that had rebelled, and so died by the way. 2 That is, which were famous: for almost in the space of fifteen years there were fifteen divers successors before this monarchy was divided to these four, whereof Cassander had Macedonia, Seleucus Syria, Antigonus Asia the less, and Ptolemy Egypt. 8:9 1 Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who was of a servile and flattering nature, and also there were others between him and the kingdom, and therefore is here called the little horn, because neither princely conditions, nor any other thing was in him, why he should obtain this kingdom. 2 That is, toward Egypt. 3 Whereby he meaneth Ptolemeus. 4 That is, Judea. 8:10 1 Antiochus raged against the elect of God, and trode his pre cious stars under feet, which are so called, because they are sepa rated from the world.
8:11 1 That is, God, who governeth and maintaineth his Church. 2 He labored to abolish all religion, and therefore cast God's service out of his Temple, which God had chosen as a little corner from all the rest of the world to have his Name there truly called upon. 8:12 1 He showeth that their sins are the cause of these horrible afflictions: and yet comforteth them, in that he appointeth this tyrant a time, whom he would not suffer utterly to abolish his religion. 2 This horn shall abolish for a time the true doctrine, and so corrupt God's service. 8:13 1 Meaning, that he heard one of the Angels asking this ques tion of Christ, whom he called a certain one, or a secret one, or a marvelous one. 2 That is, the Jews' sins, which were cause of his destruction. 3 That is, which suppresseth God's religion, and his people. 8:14 1 Christ answered me for the comfort of the Church. 2 That is, until so many natural days be past, which make 6 years, 3 months and an half: for so long under Antiochus was the Temple profaned. 8:15 1 Which was Christ who in this manner declared himself to the old fathers, how he would be God manifest in flesh. 8:16 1 This power to command the Angel, declared that he was God. 8:17 1 The effect of this vision shall not yet appear, but a long time after. 8:19 1 Meaning, that great rage which Antiochus should show against the Church.
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22 And that that is broken, and four stood up for it, are four kingdoms, which shall stand up 1of that nation, but not 2in his strength. 23 And in the end of their kingdom, when the rebellious shall be consumed, a King of 1fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not 1in his strength: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the 2mighty, and the holy people. 25 And through his 1policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall extol himself in his heart, and by 2peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the 3prince of princes, but he shall be broken down 4without hand. 26 And the vision of the 1evening and the morning, which is declared, is true: therefore seal thou up the vision, for it shall be after many days. 27 And I Daniel was stricken and sick 1certain days: but when I rose up, I did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. 9 3 Daniel desireth to have that performed of God, which he had promised concerning the return of the people from their banishment in Babylon. 5 A true confession. 20 Daniel's prayer is heard. 21 Gabriel the Angel expoundeth unto him the vision of the seventy weeks. 24 The anointing of Christ. 25 The building again of Jerusalem. 26 The death of Christ.
in the desolation of Jerusalem. 3 And I turned my face unto the Lord God, and 1sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, saying, Oh Lord God which art 1great and fearful, and keepest covenant and mercy toward them which love 2thee, and toward them that keep thy commandments, 5 We have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, yea, we have rebelled, and have departed from thy precepts, and from thy judgments. 6 For we would not obey thy servants the Prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, 1righteousness belongeth unto thee, and unto us 2open shame, as appeareth this day unto every man of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, yea, unto all Israel, both near and far off, through all the country, whither thou hast driven them, because of their offences, that they have committed against thee. 8 O Lord, unto us appertaineth open shame, to our 1Kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. 9 Yet compassion and forgiveness is in the Lord our God, albeit we have rebelled against him. 10 For we have not obeyed the 1voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he hath laid before us by the ministry of his servants the Prophets. 11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy Law, and are turned back, and have not heard thy voice: therefore the 1curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. 12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he
1 In the first year of Darius the son of 1Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the 2realm of the Chaldeans, 2 Even in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by 1books the number of the years, whereof the Lord had spoken unto Jeremiah the Prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years
8:22 1 That is, out of Greece. 2 They shall not have like power as had Alexander. 8:23 1 Noting that this Antiochus was impudent and cruel, and also crafty that he could not be deceived. 8:24 1 That is, not like Alexander's strength. 2 Both the Gentiles that dwelt about him, and also the Jews. 8:25 1 Whatsoever he goeth about by his craft, he shall bring it to pass. 2 That is, under pretence of peace, or as it were in sport. 3 Meaning, against God. 4 For God would destroy him with a notable plague, and so com fort his Church. 8:26 1 Read verse 14. 8:27 1 For fear and astonishment. 9:1 1 Who was also called Astyages. 2 For Cyrus led with ambition, went about wars in other countries, and therefore Darius had the title of the kingdom, though Cyrus was king in effect. 9:2 1 For though he was an excellent Prophet, yet he daily increased in knowledge by reading of the Scriptures.
9:3 1 He speaketh not of that ordinary prayer, which he used in his house thrice a day, but of a rare and vehement prayer, least their sins should cause God to delay the time of their deliverance prophesied by Jeremiah. 9:4 1 That is, hast all power in thyself to execute thy terrible judg ments against obstinate sinners, as thou art rich in mercy to comfort them which obey thy word and love thee. 2 Hebrew, him. 9:7 1 He showeth that whensoever God punisheth, he doeth it for just cause: and thus the godly never accuse him of rigor as the wicked do, but acknowledge that in themselves there is just cause why he should so entreat them. 2 Hebrew, confusion of face. 9:8 1 He doth not excuse the kings because of their authority, but prayeth chiefly for them as the chief occasions of these great plagues. 9:10 1 He showeth that they rebel against God, which serve him not according to his commandment and word. 9:11 1 As Deut. 27:15, or the curse confirmed by an oath.
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confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and did present my supplication before the Lord my God, for the holy Mountain of my God, 21 Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man bGabriel, whom I had seen before in the vision, came flying, and touched me about the time of the evening oblation. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee knowledge and understanding. 23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee, for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter and consider the vision. 24 Seventy 1weeks are determined upon 2thy people and upon thine holy city, to finish the wickedness, and to seal up 3the sins, and to reconcile the iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand that from 1the going forth of the commandment to bring again the people, and to build Jerusalem, unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven 2weeks and 3threescore and two weeks, and the street shall be built again, and the wall even in a 4troublous time. 26 And after threescore and two 1weeks, shall Messiah be slain, and shall 2have nothing, and the people of the 3prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood: and unto the end of the battle it shall be destroyed by desolations. 27 And he 1shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to 2cease, 3and for the overspreading of the abominations, he shall
spake against us, and against our judges that 1judged us, by bringing upon us a great plague: for under the whole heaven hath not been the like, as hath been brought upon Jerusalem. 13 All this plague is come upon us, as it is written in the Law of Moses: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy truth. 14 Therefore hath the Lord 1made ready the plague, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we would not hear his voice. 15 aAnd now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as appeareth this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16 O Lord, according to all thy 1righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from thy city Jerusalem thine holy Mountain: because of our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are a reproach to all that are about us. 17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to 1shine upon thy Sanctuary, that lieth waste for the 2Lord's sake. 18 O my God, incline thine ear and hear: open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city whereupon thy Name is called: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our own 1righteousness, but for thy great tender mercies. 19 O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, O Lord 1consider, and do it: defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy Name is called upon thy city, and thy people. 20 ¶ And while I was speaking and praying, and
chapter 9
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b Dan. 8:16
9:12 1 Or, governed us. 9:14 1 Hebrew, watched upon the evil. 9:16 1 That is, according to all thy merciful promises and the perfor mance thereof. 9:17 1 Show thyself favorable. 2 That is, for thy Christ's sake in whom thou wilt accept all our prayers. 9:18 1 Declaring, that the godly flee only unto God's mercies, and renounce their own works, when they seek for remission of their sins. 9:19 1 Thus he could not content himself with any vehemence of words: for he was so led with a fervent zeal considering God's prom ise made to the city in respect of his Church, and for the advance ment of God's glory. 9:24 1 He alludeth to Jeremiah's prophecy: who prophesied that their captivity should be seventy years: but now God's mercy should sevenfold exceed his judgment, which should be four hundred and ninety years, even to the coming of Christ, and so then it should con tinue forever. 2 Meaning, Daniel's nation, over whom he was careful. 3 To show mercy and to put sin out of remembrance. 9:25 1 That is, from the time that Cyrus gave them leave to depart.
2 These weeks make forty-nine years, whereof 46 are referred to the time of the building of the Temple, and three to the laying of the foundation. 3 Counting from the sixth year of Darius, who gave the second commandment for the building of the Temple are 62 weeks, which make 434 years, which comprehend the time from the building of the Temple unto the baptism of Christ. 4 Hebrew, in straits of time. 9:26 1 In this least week of the seventy, shall Christ come and preach and suffer death. 2 He shall seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation, as Isa. 53:2. 3 Meaning Titus, Vespasian's son, who should come and destroy both the Temple and the people without all hope of recovery. 9:27 1 By the preaching of the Gospel he confirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles. 2 Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection. 3 Meaning, that Jerusalem and the Sanctuary should be utterly destroyed for their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague shall be so great, that they shall be all astonied at them.
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make it desolate, even until the consummation determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 10 1 There appeareth unto Daniel a man clothed in linen, 11 which showeth him wherefore he is sent.
me up upon my knees, and upon the palms of mine hands, 11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand in thy place: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had said this word unto me, I stood trembling. 12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. 13 But the 1prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but lo, 2Michael one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I remained there by the Kings of Persia. 14 Now I am come to show thee what shall come to thy people in the latter days: for yet the 1vision is for many days. 15 And when he spake these words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and held my tongue. 16 And behold, 1one like the similitude of the sons of man touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my Lord, 2by the vision my sorrows are returned upon me, and I have retained no strength. 17 For how can the servant of this my Lord talk with my Lord being such one? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. 18 Then there came again, and touched me, one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19 And said, O man, greatly beloved, fear not: 1peace be unto thee: be strong and of good courage. And when he had spoken unto me, I 2was strengthened, and said, Let my Lord speak: for thou hast strengthened me. 20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? but now will I return to fight with the Prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo,
chapter 10
a Jer. 10:9
1 In the 1third year of Cyrus King of Persia, a thing was revealed unto Daniel (whose name was called Belteshazzar) and the word was true, but the time appointed was 2long, and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. 2 At the same time I Daniel was in heaviness for three weeks of days. 3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three weeks of days were fulfilled. 4 And in the four and twentieth day of the 1first month, as I 2was by the side of that great river, even Hiddekel, 5 And I lifted mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man 1clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of aUphaz. 6 His body also was like the Chrysolite, and his face (to look upon) like the lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet were like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude. 7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me, saw not the vision: but a great fear fell upon them, so that they fled away and hid themselves. 8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for 1my strength was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no power. 9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, I slept on my face, and my face was toward the ground. 10 And behold, an 1hand touched me, which set
10:1 1 He noteth this third year, because at this time the building of the Temple began to be hindered by Cambyses Cyrus' son, when the father made war in Asia minor against the Scythians, which was a discouraging to the godly, and a great fear to Daniel. 2 Which is to declare that the godly should not hasten too much, but patiently to abide the issue of God's promise. 10:4 1 Called Abib, which containeth part of March, and part of April. 2 Being carried by the Spirit of prophecy to have the sight of this river Tigris. 10:5 1 This was the Angel of God, which was sent to assure Daniel in this prophecy that followeth. 10:8 1 The word also signifieth comeliness, or beauty, so that for fear he was like a dead man for deformity. 10:10 1 Which declareth that when we are struck down with the majesty of God, we cannot rise, except he also lift us up with his hand, which is his power. 10:13 1 Meaning, Cambyses who reigned in his father's absence,
and did not only for this space hinder the building of the Temple, but would have further raged, if God had not sent me to resist him, and therefore have I stayed for the profit of the Church. 2 Though God could by one Angel destroy all the world, yet to assure his children of his love, he sendeth forth double power, even Michael, that is, Christ Jesus the head of Angels. 10:14 1 For though the Prophet Daniel should end and cease, yet his doctrine should continue till the coming of Christ, for the comfort of his Church. 10:16 1 This was the same Angel that spake with him before in the similitude of a man. 2 I was overcome with fear and sorrow, when I saw the vision. 10:19 1 He declareth hereby that God would be merciful to the people of Israel. 2 Which declareth that when God smiteth down his children, he doth not immediately lift them up at once (for now the Angel had touched him twice) but by little and little.
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the 1Prince of Greece shall come. 21 But I will show thee that which is decreed in the Scripture of truth: 1and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince. 11 A prophecy of the kingdoms, which should be enemies to the Church of God, as of Persia, 3 Of Greece, 5 of Egypt, 28 of Syria, 36 and of the Romans.
together: for the King's 1daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the 2arm, neither shall 3he continue, nor his 4arm: but she shall be delivered to death, and they that brought her, and he 5that begat her, and he that comforted her, in these times. 7 But out of the bud of her 1roots shall one stand up in his stead, 2which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the King of the North, and do with them as he list, and shall prevail, 8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods: with their molten images, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold, and he shall continue 1more years than the king of the North. 9 So the king of the South shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. 10 Wherefore his 1sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a mighty great army: and one 2shall come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he 3return, and be stirred up at his fortress. 11 And the King of the South shall be angry, and shall come forth, and fight with him, even with the king of the North: for he shall set forth a great 1multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand. 12 Then the multitude shall be proud, and their heart shall be lifted up: for he shall cast down thou-
1 Also I, in the first year of Darius of the Medes, even I 1stood to encourage and to strengthen him. 2 And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet 1three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength, and by his riches he shall stir up 2all against the realm of Greece. 3 But a 1mighty King shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his pleasure. 4 And when he shall stand up, 1his kingdom shall be broken, 2and shall be divided toward the 3four winds of heaven: and not to his 4posterity, nor according to 5his dominion, which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up even to be for others besides 6those. 5 And the 1King of the South shall be mighty, and one of 2his princes, and shall prevail against him, and bear rule: his dominion shall be a great dominion. 6 And in the end of years they shall be joined
10:20 1 Meaning, that he would not only himself bridle the rage of Cambyses, but also the other Kings of Persia by Alexander the King of Macedonia. 10:21 1 For this Angel was appointed for the defense of the Church under Christ, who is the head thereof. 11:1 1 The Angel assureth Daniel that God hath given him power to perform these things, seeing he appointed him to assist Darius when he overcame the Chaldeans. 11:2 1 Whereof Cambyses that now reigned, was the first, the sec ond Smerdis, the third Darius the son of Hystaspis, and the fourth Xerxes, which all were enemies to the people of God, and stood against them. 2 For he raised up all the East countries to fight against the Greeks, and albeit he had in his army nine hundred thousand men, yet in four battles he was discomfited and fled away with shame. 11:3 1 That is, Alexander the great. 11:4 1 For when his estate was most flourishing, he overcame him self with drink, and so fell into a disease: or as some write, was poi soned by Cassander. 2 For his twelve chief Princes first divided his kingdom among themselves. 3 After this his Monarchy was divided into four: for Seleucus had Syria, Antigonus Asia minor, Cassander the kingdom of Macedonia, and Ptolemy Egypt. 4 Thus God revenged Alexander's ambition and cruelty in causing his posterity to be murdered, partly of the father's chief friends, and partly one of another. 5 None of these four shall be able to be compared to the power of Alexander. 6 That is, his posterity having no part thereof.
11:5 1 To wit, Ptolemy king of Egypt. 2 That is, Antiochus the son of Seleucus, and one of Alexander's princes shall be more mighty: for he should have both Asia and Syria. 11:6 1 That is, Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus shall be given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, thinking by this affinity that Syria and Egypt should have a continual peace together. 2 That force and strength shall not continue: for soon after Ber enice and her young son after her husband's death, was slain of her stepson Seleucus Callinicus the son of Laodice, the lawful wife of Antiochus, but put away for this woman's sake. 3 Neither Ptolemy nor Antiochus. 4 Some read, seed, meaning, the child begotten of Berenice. 5 Some read, she that begate her, and thereby understand her nurse, which brought her up: so that all they that were occasion of this marriage, were destroyed. 11:7 1 Meaning, that Ptolemeus Euergetes after the death of his father Philadelphus should succeed in the kingdom being of the same stock that Berenice was. 2 To revenge the sister's death against Antiochus Callinicus king of Syria. 11:8 1 For this Ptolemy reigned six and forty years. 11:10 1 Meaning, Seleucus and Antiochus the great, the sons of Cal linicus, shall make war against Ptolemy Philopater the son of Phila delphus. 2 For his elder brother Seleucus died, or was slain while the wars were preparing. 3 That is, Philopater when he shall see Antiochus to take great dominions from him in Syria, and also ready to invade Egypt. 11:11 1 For Antiochus had six thousand horsemen, and threescore thousand footmen.
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of the kingdom, one that shall raise taxes: but after few days he shall be destroyed, neither in 2wrath, nor in battle. 21 And in his place shall stand up a 1vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And the 1arms shall be overthrown with a flood before him, and shall be broken: and also the prince of the 2covenant. 23 And after 1the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and overcome with a 2small people. 24 He shall enter into the quiet and plentiful province, and he shall do that which his fathers 1have not done, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall divide among them the prey and the spoil, and the substance, yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds, even for a 2time. 25 Also he shall stir up his power, and his courage against the King of the South with a great army, and the King of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army: but he shall not 1stand: for they shall forecast and practice against him. 26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of 1his meat, shall destroy him: and his army 2shall overflow: and many shall fall, and be slain. 27 And both these Kings' hearts shall be to do 1mischief, and they shall talk of deceit at one table:
sands: but he shall not still prevail, 13 For the King of the North 1shall return, and shall set forth a greater multitude than afore, and shall come forth (after certain years) with a mighty army, and great riches. 14 And at the same time there shall 1many stand up against the king of the South: also the rebellious children of thy 2people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision, but they shall fall. 15 So the King of the North shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the strong city: and the arms of the South shall 1not resist, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. 16 But he that shall come, shall do unto him as he list, and none shall stand against him: and he shall stand in the 1pleasant land, which by his hand shall be consumed. 17 Again he shall 1set his face to enter with the power of his whole kingdom, and his confederates with him: thus shall he do, and he shall give him the 2daughter of women to destroy 3her: but 4she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. 18 After this shall he turn his face unto the 1isles, and shall take many, but a prince 2shall cause his shame to light upon him, besides that he shall cause his own shame to turn upon 3himself. 19 For he shall turn his face toward the forts of 1his own land: but he shall be overthrown and fall, and be no more 2found. 20 1Then shall stand up in his place in the glory
11:13 1 After the death of Ptolemy Philopater, who left Ptolemeus Epiphanes his heir. 11:14 1 For not only Antiochus came against him but also Philip King of Macedonia, and these two brought great power with them. 2 For under Onias which falsely alleged that place of Isa. 19:19, certain of the Jews retired with him into Egypt to fulfill this proph ecy: also the Angel showeth that all these troubles which are in the Church, are by the providence and counsel of God. 11:15 1 The Egyptians were not able to resist Scopas Antiochus' captain. 11:16 1 He showeth that he shall not only afflict the Egyptians, but also the Jews, and shall enter into their country, whereof he admon isheth them before, that they may know that all these things came by God's providence. 11:17 1 This was the second battle that Antiochus fought against Ptolemy Epiphanes. 2 To wit, a beautiful woman which was Cleopatra Antiochus' daughter. 3 For he regarded not the life of his daughter in respect of the kingdom of Egypt. 4 She shall not agree to his wicked counsel, but shall love her hus band, as her duty requireth, and not seek his destruction. 11:18 1 That is, toward Asia, Greece, and those isles which are in the sea called Mediterranean: for the Jews called all countries isles which were divided from them by sea. 2 For whereas Antiochus was wont to contemn the Romans, and put their ambassadors to shame in all places, Atilius the Consul, or Lucius Scipio put him to flight, and caused his shame to turn on his own head. 3 By his wicked life, and obeying of foolish counsel.
11:19 1 For fear of the Romans he shall flee to his holds. 2 For when as under the pretence of poverty he would have robbed the Temple of Jupiter Dodomeus, the countrymen slew him. 11:20 1 That is, Seleucus shall succeed his father Antiochus. 2 Not by foreign enemies, or battle, but by treason. 11:21 1 Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who as is thought was the occasion of Seleucus his brother's death, and was of a vile, cruel and flattering nature, and defrauded his brother's son of the kingdom, and usurped the kingdom without the consent of the people. 11:22 1 He showeth that great foreign powers shall come to help the young son of Seleucus against his uncle Antiochus: and yet shall be overthrown. 2 Meaning, Ptolemais Philopater's son who was this child's cousin germane, and is here called the prince of the covenant, because he was the chief, and all others followed his conduct. 11:23 1 For after the battle Philometor and his uncle Antiochus made a league. 2 For he came upon him at unawares, and when he suspected his uncle Antiochus nothing. 11:24 1 Meaning, in Egypt. 2 He will content himself with the small holds for a time, but ever labor by craft to attain to the chiefest. 11:25 1 He shall be overcome with treason. 11:26 1 Signifying his princes and the chief about him. 2 Declaring that his soldiers shall brast out and venture their life to slay and to be slain for the safeguard of their prince. 11:27 1 The uncle and the nephew shall take truce, and banquet together, yet in their hearts they shall imagine mischief one against the other.
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but it shall not avail: for 2yet the end shall be at the time appointed. 28 Then shall he return into his land with great 1substance: for his heart shall be against the holy covenant: so shall he do and return to his own land. 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the South: but the last shall not be as the first. 30 For the ships 1of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be sorry and return and fret against the holy covenant: so shall he do, he shall even return 2and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. 31 And arms 1shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the Sanctuary 2of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall set up the abominable desolation. 32 And such as wickedly 1break the covenant, shall he cause to sin by flattery: but the people that do know their God, shall prevail and prosper. 33 And they that understand among the 1people, shall instruct many: 2yet they shall fall by sword, and by flame, by captivity and by spoil many days. 34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a 1little help: but many shall cleave unto them 2feignedly.
35 And some of them 1of understanding shall fall to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, till the time be out: for there is a time appointed. 36 And the 1king shall do what him list: he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself against all, that is God, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath 2be accomplished: for the determination is made. 37 Neither shall he regard the 1God of his fathers, nor the desires 2of women, nor care for any God: for he shall magnify himself above all. 38 But in his place shall he honor the 1god Mauzzim, and the god whom his fathers knew not, shall he honor with 2gold and with silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. 39 Thus shall he do in 1the holds of Mauzzim with a strange god whom he shall acknowledge: he shall increase his glory, and shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. 40 And at the end of time shall the king of the 1South push at him, and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through. 41 He shall enter also into the 1pleasant land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall
11:27 2 Signifying, that it standeth not in the counsel of men to bring things to pass, but in the providence of God, who ruleth the Kings by a secret bridle, that they cannot do what they list themselves. 11:28 1 Which he shall take of the Jews in spoiling Jerusalem and the Temple, and this is told them before to move them to patience, knowing that all things are done by God's providence. 11:30 1 That is, the Roman power shall come against him: for P. Popilius the Ambassador appointed him to depart in the Romans' name, to which thing he obeyed, although with grief, and to revenge his rage he came against the people of God the second time. 2 With the Jews which shall forsake the covenant of the Lord: for first he was called against the Jews by Jason the high Priest, and this second time by Menelaus. 11:31 1 A great faction of the wicked Jews shall hold with Antiochus. 2 So called because the power of God was nothing diminished, although this tyrant set up in the Temple the image of Jupiter Olym pius, and so began to corrupt the pure service of God. 11:32 1 Meaning, such as bare the name of Jews, but indeed were nothing less, for they sold their souls, and betrayed their brethren for gain. 11:33 1 They that remain constant among the people shall teach others by their example, and edify many in the true religion. 2 Whereby he exhorteth the godly to constancy, although they should perish a thousand times, and though their miseries endure never so long. 11:34 1 As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet will he not deliver it all at once, but so help, as they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, whereof he here prophesieth. 2 That is, there shall be even of this small number many hypocrites. 11:35 1 To wit, of them that fear God and will lose their life for the defense of true religion. Signifying also that the Church must con
tinually be tried and purged, and ought to look for one persecution after another: for God hath appointed the time: therefore we must obey. 11:36 1 Because the Angel's purpose is to show the whole course of the persecutions of the Jews unto the coming of Christ, he now speaketh of the Monarchy of the Romans which he noteth by the name of a King, who were without religion and condemned the true God. 2 So long the tyrants shall prevail as God hath appointed to punish his people: but he showeth that it is but for a time. 11:37 1 The Romans shall observe no certain form of religion as other nations, but shall change their gods at their pleasures, yea, contemn them and prefer themselves to their gods. 2 Signifying that they should be without all humanity: for the love of women is taken for singular or great love, as 2 Sam. 1:26. 11:38 1 That is, the god of power and riches: they shall esteem their own power above all their gods and worship it. 2 Under pretence of worshipping the gods, they shall enrich their city with the most precious jewels of all the world, because that hereby all men should have them in admiration for their power and riches. 11:39 1 Although in their hearts they had no religion, yet they did acknowledge the gods, and worshipped them in their temples, lest they should have been despised as Atheists: but this was to increase their fame and riches: and when they got any country, they so made others the rulers thereof, that the profit ever came to the Romans. 11:40 1 That is, both the Egyptians and the Syrians shall at length fight against the Romans, but they shall be overcome. 11:41 1 The Angel forewarneth the Jews that when they should see the Romans invade them, and that the wicked should escape their hands, that then they should not think but that all this was done by God's providence, forasmuch as he warned them of it so long afore, and therefore he would still preserve them.
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escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch forth his hands also upon the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt, and of the Libyans, and of the black Mores where he shall pass. 44 But the tidings out of the East and the North shall 1trouble him: therefore he shall go forth 2with great wrath to destroy and root out many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles 1of his palace between the seas in the glorious and holy mountain, yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. 12 1 Of the deliverance of the Church by Christ.
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the brink of the 1river, and the other on that side of the brink of the river. 6 And one said unto the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, When shall be the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his 1right hand, and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth forever, that it shall tarry for a 2time two times and an half: and when he shall have accomplished 3to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. 8 Then I heard it, but I understood it not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up, and sealed, till the end of the time. 10 Many shall be purified, made white, and tried: but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall have understanding: but the wise shall understand. 11 And from the time that the 1daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abominable desolation set up, there 2shall be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand, three hundred and 1five and thirty days. 13 But go 1thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand up in thy lot, at the end of the days.
1 And at that 1time shall Michael stand up, the great prince, which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there began to be a nation unto that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many 1of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and perpetual contempt. 3 And they that be 1wise, shall shine, as the brightness of the firmament: and they that 2turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars, forever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, 1shut up the words, and seal the book 2till the end of the time: many shall
11:44 1 Hearing that Crassus was slain, and Antonius discomfited. 2 For Augustus overcame the Parthians, and recovered that which Antonius had lost. 11:45 1 The Romans after this reigned quietly throughout all coun tries, and from sea to sea, and in Judea: but at length for their cruelty God shall destroy them. 12:1 1 The Angel here noteth two things: first that the Church shall be in great affliction and trouble at Christ's coming, and next that God will send his Angel to deliver it, whom here he calleth Michael, meaning Christ, which is published by the preaching of the Gospel. 12:2 1 Meaning, all shall rise at the general resurrection, which thing he here nameth because the faithful should have ever respect to that: for in the earth there shall be no sure comfort. 12:3 1 Who have kept the true fear of God and his religion. 2 He chiefly meaneth the ministers of God's word, and next all the faithful which instruct the ignorant, and bring them to the true knowledge of God. 12:4 1 Though the most part despise this prophecy, yet keep thou it sure and esteem it as a treasure. 2 Till the time that God hath appointed for the full revelation of these things: and then many shall run to and fro to search the knowl
edge of these mysteries which things they obtain now by the light of the Gospel. 12:5 1 Which was Tigris. 12:7 1 Which was as were a double oath, and did the more confirm the thing. 2 Meaning, a long time, a longer time, and at length a short time: signifying that their troubles should have an end. 3 When the Church shall be scattered and diminished in such sort as it shall seem to have no power. 12:11 1 From the time that Christ by his sacrifice shall take away the sacrifice and ceremonies of the Law. 2 Signifying that the time shall be long of Christ's second coming, and yet the children of God ought not to be discouraged, though it be deferred. 12:12 1 In this number he addeth a month and a half to the former number, signifying that it is not in man to appoint the time of Christ's coming, but that they are blessed that patiently abide his appearing. 12:13 1 The Angel warneth the Prophet patiently to abide; till the time appointed come, signifying that he should depart this life, and rise again with the elect, when God had sufficiently humbled and purged his Church.
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1 1 The time wherein Hosea prophesied. 2 The idolatry of the people. 10 The calling of the Gentiles. 11 Christ is the head of all people.
not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9 Then said God, Call his name 1Lo-Ammi: for ye are not my people: therefore will I not be yours. 10 Yet the number of the 1children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor told: and in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 11 Then shall the children of Judah, and the children of Israel be 1gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great is the 2day of Jezreel. 2 1 The people is called to repentance. 5 He showeth their idolatry and threateneth them except they repent.
1 The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days 1of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, 2kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel. 2 At the beginning the Lord spake by Hosea, and the Lord said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife 1of fornications, and children of fornications: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord. 3 So he went, and took 1Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, which conceived and bare him a son. 4 And the Lord said unto him, Call his name 1Jezreel: for yet a little, and I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of 2Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5 And at that 1day will I also break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 6 She conceived yet again, and bare a daughter, and God said unto him, Call her name 1Lo-Ruhamah: for I will no more have pity upon the house of Israel: but I will utterly 2take them away. 7 Yet I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will 1save them by the Lord their God, and will
1 Say unto your 1brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah, 2 Plead with your 1mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries 2from between her breasts. 3 Lest I strip her naked, and 1set her as in the day that she was 2born, and make her as a wilderness, and
1:1 1 Called also Azariah, who being a leper was disposed from his kingdom. 2 So that it may be gathered by the reign of these four kings, that he preached above threescore years. 1:2 1 That is, one that of long time hath accustomed to play the harlot: not that the Prophet did this thing in effect, but he saw this in a vision, or else was commanded by God to set forth under this parable or figure the idolatry of the Synagogue, and of the people her children. 1:3 1 Gomer signifieth a consumption or corruption, and Diblaim clusters of figs, declaring that they were all corrupt like rotten figs. 1:4 1 Meaning, that they should be no more called Israelites of the which name they boasted because Israel, did prevail with God: but that they were as bastard, and therefore should be called Jezreelites, that is scattered people, alluding to Jezreel, which was the chief city of the ten tribes under Ahab where Jehu shed so much blood, 2 Kings 10:8. 2 I will be revenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jez reel: for albeit God stirred him up to execute his judgments, yet he did them for his own ambition, and not for the glory of God as the end declared: for he built up that idolatry which he had destroyed. 1:5 1 When the measure of their iniquity is full, and I shall take ven geance and destroy all their policy and force. 1:6 1 That is, not obtaining mercy: whereby he signifieth, that God's favor was departed from them. 2 For the Israelites never returned after that they were taken cap
tives by the Assyrians. 1:7 1 For after their captivity he restored him miraculously by the means of Cyrus, Ezra 1:1. 1:9 1 That is, not my people. 1:10 1 Because they thought that God could not have been true in his promise except he had preserved them, he declareth though they were destroyed, yet the true Israelites, which are the sons of the promise, should be without number, which stand both of the Jews and the Gentiles, Rom. 9:26. 1:11 1 To wit, after the captivity of Babylon when the Jews were restored, but chiefly this is referred to the time of Christ, who should be the head both of the Jews and Gentiles. 2 The calamity and destruction of Israel shall be so great, that to restore them shall be as a miracle. 2:1 1 Seeing that I have promised you deliverance, it remaineth that you encourage one another to embrace the same, considering that ye are my people on whom I will have mercy. 2:2 1 God showeth that the fault was not in him, but in their Syna gogue, and their idolatries, that he forsook them, Isa. 50:1. 2 Meaning, that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it, Ezek. 16:25. 2:3 1 For though this people were as an harlot for their idolatries, yet he had left them with their apparel and dowry and certain signs of his favor, but if they continued still, he would utterly destroy them. 2 When I brought her out of Egypt, Ezek. 16:4.
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leave her like a dry land, and slay her for thirst. 4 And I will have no pity upon her children: for they be the 1children of fornication. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them, hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after thy 1lovers that give me my bread and my water, my wool, and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 6 Therefore behold, I will stoop 1thy way with thorns, and make an hedge, that she shall not find her paths. 7 Though she follow after her lovers, yet shall she not come at them: though she seek them, yet shall she not find them: then shall she say, 1I will go and return to my first husband: for at that time was I better than now. 8 Now she did not know that I 1gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they bestowed upon Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and take away 1my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax lent, to cover her shame. 10 And now will I discover her 1lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of mine hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them as a forest, and the wild beasts shall eat them. 13 And I will visit upon her the days of 1Baal, wherein she burnt incense to them: and she decked herself with her 2earrings and her jewels, and she followed her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord. 14 Therefore behold, I will 1allure her, and bring
her into the wilderness, and speak friendly unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley 1of Achor for the door of hope, and she shall 2sing there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And at that day, saith the Lord, thou shalt call me 1Ishi, and shalt call me no more 2Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baal out of her mouth, and they shall be no more remembered by their 1names. 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the 1wild beasts, and with the fowls of the heaven, and with that that creepeth upon the earth: and I will break the bow, and the sword and the battle out of the earth: and will make them to sleep safely. 19 And I will marry thee unto me forever: yea, I will marry thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in compassion. 20 I will even marry thee unto me in 1faithfulness, and thou shalt know the Lord. 21 And in that day I will hear, saith the Lord, I will even hear 1the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy upon her, that was not pitied, aand I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people. And they shall say, Thou art my God. 3 1 The Jews shall be cast off for their idolatry. 5 Afterward they shall return to the Lord.
chapter 2
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1 Then said the Lord to me, 1Go yet, and love a woman (beloved of her husband, and was an harlot)
2:4 1 That is, bastards and begotten in adultery. 2:5 1 Meaning, the idol which they served, and by whom they thought they had wealth and abundance. 2:6 1 I will punish thee that then thou mayest try whether thine idols can help thee, and bring thee into such straightness that thou shalt have no lust to play the wanton. 2:7 1 This he speaketh of the faithful, which are truly converted, and also showeth the use and profit of God's rods. 2:8 1 This declareth that idolaters defraud God of his honor, when they attribute his benefits to their idols. 2:9 1 Signifying, that God will take away his benefits when man by his ingratitude doth abuse them. 2:10 1 That is, all her service, ceremonies and inventions whereby she worshipped her idols. 2:13 1 I will punish her for her idolatry. 2 By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others, he declareth how that superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion, in decking themselves on their holy days. 2:14 1 By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy, even in that
place where she shall think herself destitute of all help and comfort. 2:15 1 Which was a plentiful valley, and wherein they had great comfort when they came out of the wilderness, as Josh. 7:26, and is called the door of hope, because it was a departing from death and an entry into life. 2 She shall then praise God as she did when she was delivered out of Egypt. 2:16 1 That is, mine husband, knowing that I am joined to thee by an inviolable covenant. 2 That is, my master: which name was applied to their idols. 2:17 1 No idolatry shall once come into their mouth, but they shall serve me purely according to my word. 2:18 1 Meaning, that he will so bless them that all creatures shall favor them. 2:20 1 With a covenant that never shall be broken. 2:21 1 Then shall the heaven desire rain for the earth which shall bring forth for the use of man. 3:1 1 Herein the Prophet representeth the person of God, which loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw the same when she gave herself to idols.
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5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the 1day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy 2mother. 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because 1thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing 2thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were 1increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 1They eat up the sins of my people, and lift up their minds in their iniquity. 9 And there shall be like people like 1priest: for I will visit their ways upon them, and reward them their deeds. 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough, they shall 1commit adultery, and shall not increase, because they have left off to take heed to the Lord. 11 1Whoredom, and wine, and new wine take away their heart. 12 My 1people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff teacheth them: for the 2spirit of fornications hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under the oaks, and the poplar tree, and the elm, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be 1harlots, and your spouses shall be whores. 14 I will not 1visit your daughters when they are harlots: nor your spouses, when they are whores: for they themselves are separated with harlots, and sacrifice with whores: therefore the people that doth not understand, shall fall.
according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel: yet they looked to other gods, and 2loved the wine bottles. 2 So 1I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley. 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide with 1me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be to none other man, and I will be so unto thee. 4 For the children of Israel shall 1remain many days without a king and without a 2prince, and without an offering, and without an image, and without an Ephod, and without Teraphim. 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel convert and seek the Lord their God, and 1David their king, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. 4 A complaint against the people and the priests of Israel.
1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord 1hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring, they break out, and 1blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away. 4 Yet 1let none rebuke, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the Priest.
3:1 2 That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and could not take up, as they that are given to drunkenness. 3:2 1 Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest she perceiv ing the greatness of my love, should have abused me, and not been under duty: for fifteen pieces of silver were but half the price of a slave, Exod. 21:32. 3:3 1 I will try thee a long time as in thy widowhood whether thou wilt be mine or no. 3:4 1 Meaning, not only all the time of their captivity, but also unto Christ. 2 That is, they should neither have policy nor religion, and their idols also wherein they put their confidence, should be destroyed. 3:5 1 This is meant of Christ's kingdom, which was promised unto David to be eternal, Ps. 72:17. 4:1 1 Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophet, he citeth them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended, Isa. 7:13; Zech. 12:10; Mic. 6:1, 2. 4:2 1 In every place appeareth a liberty to most heinous vices, so that one followeth in the neck of another. 4:4 1 As though he would say that it were in vain to rebuke them: for no man can abide it: yea, they will speak against the prophets and priests whose office it is chiefly to rebuke them. 4:5 1 Ye shall perish all together the one because he would not obey, and the other, because he would not admonish.
2 That is, the Synagogue wherein thou boastest. 4:6 1 That is, the Priests shall be cast off, because that for lack of knowledge, they are not able to execute their charge, and instruct others, Deut. 33:3; Mal. 2:7. 2 Meaning, the whole body of the people, which were weary with hearing the word of God. 4:7 1 The more I was beneficial unto them. 4:8 1 To wit, the Priests seek to eat the people's offerings, and flatter them in their sins. 4:9 1 Signifying, that as they have sinned together, so shall they be punished together. 4:10 1 Showing that their wickedness shall be punished on all sorts: for though they think by the multitude of wives to have many chil dren, yet they shall be deceived of their hope. 4:11 1 In giving themselves to pleasures, they become like brute beasts. 4:12 1 Thus he speaketh by derision in calling them his people, which now for their sins they were not: for they sought help of stocks and sticks. 2 They are carried away with a rage. 4:13 1 Because they take away God's honor, and give it to idols: therefore he will give them up to their lusts, that they shall dishonor their own bodies, Rom. 1:28. 4:14 1 I will not correct your shame to bring you to amendment, but let you run headlong to your own damnation.
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15 Though thou Israel, play the harlot, yet 1let not Judah sin: come not ye unto 2Gilgal, neither go ye up to 3Beth Aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth. 16 For Israel is rebellious as an unruly heifer. Now the Lord will feed them as a 1lamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18 Their drunkenness stinketh: they have committed whoredom: their rulers love to say with shame, 1Bring ye. 19 The wind hath 1bound them up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices. 5 1 Against the Priests and rulers of Israel. 13 The help of man is in vain.
jamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I caused to 1know the truth. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that 1remove the bound: therefore will I pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the 1commandment. 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a rottenness. 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then went Ephraim unto 1Assyria, and sent unto King 2Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lion's whelp, to the house of Judah: I, even I will spoil and go away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it. 15 I will go, and return to my place, till they acknowledge their fault, and seek me: in their affliction, they will seek me diligently. 6 1 Affliction causeth a man to turn to God. 9 The wickedness of the Priests.
1 O ye Priests, hear this, and hearken ye, O house of Israel, and give ye ear, O house of the King: for judgment is toward you, because you have been a 1snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 Yet they were profound to decline to 1slaughter, though I have been a 2rebuker of them all. 3 I know 1Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled. 4 They will not give their minds to turn unto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord. 5 And the 1pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them. 6 They shall go with their sheep, and with their bullocks, to seek the Lord: but they shall not find him: for he hath withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten 1strange children: now shall 2a month devour them with their portions. 8 Blow ye the trumpet in Gibeah, and the shame in Ramah: cry out at Beth Aven, after thee, O 1Ben-
1 Come, and let 1us return to the Lord: for he hath spoiled, and he will heal us: he hath wounded us, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will 1he revive us, and in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we have knowledge, and endeavor ourselves to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come unto us as the rain, and as the latter rain unto the earth. 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, how shall I entreat thee? for 1your goodness is as a morn-
4:15 1 God complaineth that Judah is infected, and willeth them to learn to return in time. 2 For albeit the Lord had honored this place in time past by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he would not that his people should resort thither. 3 He calleth Bethel, that is, the house of God, Beth Aven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signify ing that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped. 4:16 1 God will so disperse them, that they shall not remain in any certain place. 4:18 1 They are so impudent in receiving bribes, that they will com mand men to bring them unto them. 4:19 1 To carry them suddenly away. 5:1 1 The Priests and Princes caught the poor people in their snares, as the fowlers did the birds, in these two high mountains. 5:2 1 Notwithstanding they seemed to be given altogether to holi ness, and to sacrifices which here he calleth slaughter in contempt. 2 Though I had admonished them continually by my Prophets. 5:3 1 They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites, because their king Jeroboam came of that tribe.
5:5 1 Meaning, their contemning of all admonitions. 5:7 1 That is, their children are degenerate, so that there is no hope in them. 2 Their destruction is not far off. 5:8 1 That is, all Israel comprehended under this part, signifying that the Lord's plagues should pursue them from place to place till they were destroyed. 5:9 1 By the success they shall know that I have surely determined this. 5:10 1 They have turned upside down all political order and all man ner of religion. 5:11 1 To wit, after king Jeroboam's commandment, and did not rather follow God. 5:13 1 Instead of seeking for remedy at God's hand. 2 Who was king of the Assyrians. 6:1 1 He showeth the people how they ought to turn to the Lord, that he might call back his plagues. 6:2 1 Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return to him. 6:4 1 You seem to have a certain holiness and repentance, but it is upon the sudden, and as a morning cloud.
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ing cloud, and as the morning dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I 1cut down by the Prophets: I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy 2judgments were as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired 1mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they 1like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they trespassed against me. 8 1Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as the thieves wait for a man, so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent: for they work mischief. 10 I have seen villainy in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim: Israel is defiled. 11 Yea, Judah hath set a 1plant for thee, while I would return the captivity of my people. 7 1 Of the vices and wantonness of the people. 12 Of their punishment.
night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have 1devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. 8 Ephraim hath 1mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, 1gray hairs are here, and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 11 Ephraim also is like a dove deceived without 1heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Assyria. 12 But when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them, and draw them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them as their 1Congregation hath heard. 13 Woe unto them: for they have fled away from me: destruction shall be unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I have 1redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their hearts, 1when they howled upon their beds: 2they assembled themselves for corn, and wine, and they rebel against me. 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arm, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 16 They return, but not to the most high: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage 1of their tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. 8 1 The destruction of Judah and Israel, because of their idolatry.
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they have dealt falsely: and 1the thief cometh in, and the robber spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: now their own inventions have beset them about: they are in my sight. 3 They make the 1king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, and as a very 1oven heated by the baker, which ceaseth from raising up, and from kneading the dough until it be leavened. 5 This is the 1day of our king: the princes have made him sick with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the
1 Set the trumpet to thy 1mouth: he shall come as an eagle against the House of the Lord, because
6:5 1 I have still labored by my prophets, and as it were framed you to bring you to amendment, but all was in vain: for my word was not food to feed them, but a sword to slay them. 2 My doctrine which I taught thee, was most evident. 6:6 1 He showeth to what scope his doctrine tended, that they should join the obedience of God, and the love of their neighbor with outward sacrifices. 6:7 1 That is, like light and weak persons. 6:8 1 Which was the place where the Priests dwelt, and which should have been best instructed in my word. 6:11 1 That is, doth imitate thine idolatry, and hath taken grafts of thy trees. 7:1 1 Meaning, that there was no one kind of vice among them, but that they were subject to all wickedness, both secret and open. 7:3 1 They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek but how to flatter and please him. 7:4 1 He compareth the rage of the people to a burning oven which the baker heateth, still till his dough be leavened and raised. 7:5 1 They used all riot and excess in their feasts, and solemnities whereby their king was overcome with surfeit, and brought into dis
eases, and delighted in flatteries. 7:7 1 By their occasion God hath deprived them of all good rulers. 7:8 1 That is, he counterfeited the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the one side, and raw on the other, that is, neither thor oughly hot, nor thoroughly cold, but partly a Jew, and partly a Gentile. 7:9 1 Which are a token of his manifold afflictions. 7:11 1 That is, without all judgment, as they that cannot tell whether it is better to cleave only to God, or to seek the help of man. 7:12 1 According to my curses made to the whole Congregation of Israel. 7:13 1 That is, divers times redeemed them, and delivered them from death. 7:14 1 When they were in affliction, and cried out for pain, they sought not unto me for help. 2 They only seek their own commodity and wealth, and pass not for me their God. 7:16 1 Because they boast of their own strength, and pass not what they speak against me and my servants, Ps. 73:9. 8:1 1 God encourageth the Prophet to signify the speedy coming of the enemy against Israel, which was once the people of God.
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they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my Law. 2 Israel shall 1cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up a 1king, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols: therefore shall they be destroyed. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be without 1innocency! 6 1For it came even from Israel: the workman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 7 For they have 1sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall bring forth no meal: if so be it brought forth, the strangers shall devour it. 8 Israel is devoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria: they are as a 1wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. 10 Yet though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them and they shall sorrow a little for the 1burden of the king and the princes. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, his altars shall be to sin. 12 I have written to them the great things of my Law: but they were counted as a 1strange thing. 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it: but the 1Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth
Temples, and Judah hath increased strong cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. 9 Of the hunger and captivity of Israel.
1 Rejoice not, O Israel for joy 1as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God: thou hast loved 2a reward upon every corn floor. 2 1The floor, and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They will not dwell in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer 1wine to the Lord, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasant unto him: but they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners: all that eat thereof, shall be polluted: for their bread 2for their souls shall not come into the house of the Lord. 5 What will ye do 1then in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord? 6 For lo, they are gone from 1destruction: but Egypt shall gather them up, and Memphis shall bury them: the nettle shall possess the pleasant places of their silver, and the thorn shall be in their tabernacles. 7 The days of visitation are come: the days of recompense are come: Israel shall know it: 1the Prophet is a fool: the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity: therefore the hatred is great. 8 The watchman of Ephraim 1should be with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 9 They 1are deeply set: they are corrupt as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found Israel like 1grapes in the wilderness: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal Peor, and separated
8:2 1 They shall cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare. 8:4 1 That is, Jeroboam by whom they sought their own liberty, and not to obey my will. 8:5 1 That is, upright judgment and godly life. 8:6 1 Meaning, the calf was invented by themselves, and of their fathers in the wilderness. 8:7 1 Showing that their religion hath but a show, and in itself is but vanity. 8:9 1 They never cease, but run to and fro to seek help. 8:10 1 That is, for the king and the princes shall lay upon them: which means the Lord useth to bring them to repentance. 8:12 1 Thus the idolaters count the word of God as strange in respect of their own inventions. 8:13 1 Saying that they offer it to the Lord, but he accepteth no ser vice, which he himself hath not appointed. 9:1 1 For though all other people should escape, yet thou shalt be punished. 2 Thou hast committed idolatry in hope of reward, and to have thy
barns filled, Jer. 44:17, as an harlot that had rather live by playing the whore, than to be entertained of her own husband. 9:2 1 These outward things that thou seekest, shall be taken from thee. 9:4 1 All their doings both touching policy and religion, shall be rejected as things polluted. 2 The meat offering which they offered for themselves. 9:5 1 When the Lord shall take away all the occasions of serving him, which shall be the most grievous point of your captivity, when ye shall see yourselves cut off from God. 9:6 1 Though they think to escape by fleeing the destruction that is at hand, yet shall they be destroyed in the place whither they flee for succor. 9:7 1 Then they shall know that they were deluded by them, who challenged to themselves to be their prophets and spiritual men. 9:8 1 The Prophet's duty is to bring men to God, and not to be a snare to pull them from God. 9:9 1 This people is so rooted in their wickedness, that Gibeah which was like to Sodom, was never more corrupt, Judg. 19:22. 9:10 1 Meaning, that he so esteemed them and delighted in them.
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King do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making 1a covenant: thus 2judgment groweth as wormwood in the furrows of the field. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall 1fear because of the calf of Beth Aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the 2Chemarims thereof, that rejoiced on it for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. 6 It shall be also brought to Assyria, for a present unto king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 Of Samaria, the king thereof is destroyed, as the foam upon the water. 8 The high places also of 1Aven shall be destroyed, even the sin of Israel: the thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, aCover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us. 9 O Israel, thou hast 1sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they 2stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not 3touch them. 10 It is my desire 1that I should chastise them, and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall gather themselves in their two 2furrows. 11 And Ephraim is as a heifer used to delight in 1threshing: but I will pass by her 2fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride: Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness: reap after the measure of mercy: 1break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 13 But you have plowed wickedness: ye have reaped iniquity: you have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thine own ways, and in the multitude of thy strong men,
themselves unto that shame, and their abominations were according to 2their lovers. 11 Ephraim their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth 1and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will deprive them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them. 13 Ephraim, as I saw, is as a tree 1in Tyre planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 O Lord, give them: what wilt thou give them? give them a 1barren womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in 1Gilgal: for there do I hate them: for the wickedness of their inventions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up: they can bring no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the dearest of their body. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations. 10 1 Against Israel and his idols. 14 His destruction for the same.
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1 Israel is a 1empty vine, yet hath it brought forth fruit unto itself, and according to the multitude of the fruit thereof he hath increased the altars: according to the 2goodness of their land they have made fair images. 2 Their heart is 1divided: now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars; he shall destroy their images. 3 For now they shall say, We have no 1King because we feared not the Lord: and what should a
9:10 2 They were as abominable unto me, as their lovers the idols. 9:11 1 Signifying, that God would destroy their children by these sundry means, and so consume them by little and little. 9:13 1 As they kept tender plants in their houses in Tyre to preserve them from the cold air of the sea, so was Ephraim at the first unto me, but now I will give him to the slaughter. 9:14 1 The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prayeth to God to make them barren, rather than that this great slaughter should come upon their children. 9:15 1 The chief cause of their destruction is that they commit idola try, and corrupt my Religion in Gilgal. 10:1 1 Whereof though the grapes were gathered, yet ever as it gathered new strength, it increased new wickedness, so that the cor rection which should have brought them to obedience, did but utter their stubbornness. 2 As they were rich and had abundance. 10:2 1 To wit, from God. 10:3 1 The day shall come that God shall take away their king, and then they shall feel the fruit of their sins, and how they trusted in him in vain, 2 Kings 17:6, 7.
10:4 1 In promising to be faithful toward God. 2 Thus their integrity and fidelity, which they pretended, was noth ing but bitterness and grief. 10:5 1 When the calf shall be carried away. 2 Chemarims were certain idolatrous priests, which did wear black apparel in their sacrifices, and cried with a loud voice: which supersti tion Elijah derided, 1 Kings 18:27, read 2 Kings 23:5. 10:8 1 This he speaketh in contempt of Bethel, read Hos. 4:15. 10:9 1 In those days wast thou as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for thy zeal could not be good in executing God's judgments, seeing thine own deeds were as wicked as theirs. 2 To wit, to fight, or the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time. 3 The Israelites were not moved by their example to cease from their sins. 10:10 1 Because they are so desperate, I will delight to destroy them. 2 That is, when they have gathered all their strength together. 10:11 1 Wherein is pleasure, as in plowing is labor and pain. 2 I will lay my yoke upon her fat neck. 10:12 1 Read Jer. 4:4.
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14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy munitions shall be destroyed, as 1Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces. 15 So shall Bethel do unto you, because of your malicious wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be destroyed. 11 1 The benefits of the Lord toward Israel. 5 Their ingratitude against him.
I will not 1enter into the city. 10 They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children of the West shall fear. 11 1They shall fear as a sparrow out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria, and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord. 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with 1God, and is faithful with the Saints. 12 He admonisheth by Jacob's example to trust in God, and not in riches.
1 When Israel 1was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 They called them, but they 1went thus from them: they sacrificed unto Baal, and burnt incense to images. 3 I led Ephraim also, as one should bear them in his arms: but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I led them with cords 1of a man, even with bands of love, and I was to them, as he was taketh off the yoke from their jaws, and I laid the meat unto them. 5 He shall no more return into the land of Egypt: but Assyria shall be his 1King, because they refused to convert. 6 And the sword shall fall on his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels. 7 And my people are bent to rebellion against me: though 1they called them to the most high, yet none at all would exalt him. 8 1How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee, as 2Admah? how shall I set thee, as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me: 3my repentings are rouled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man, the holy one in the midst of thee, and
1 Ephraim is fed 1with the wind, and followeth after the East wind: he increaseth daily lies and destruction, and they do make a covenant with Assyria, and 2oil is carried into Egypt. 2 The Lord hath also a controversy with 1Judah, and will visit Jacob, according to his ways: according to his works, will he recompense him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had 1power with God, 4 And had 1power over the Angel, and prevailed: he wept and prayed unto him: 2he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. 5 Yea, the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is himself his memorial. 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope still in thy God. 7 He is 1Canaan: the balances of decree are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Notwithstanding I am rich, I have found me out riches in all my labors: they shall find none iniquity in me, 1that were wickedness. 9 Though I am the Lord thy God, from the land of Egypt, yet will I make thee to dwell in the
10:14 1 That is, Shalmaneser in the destruction of that city spared neither kind nor age. 11:1 1 While the Israelites were in Egypt, and did not provoke my wrath by their malice and ingratitude. 11:2 1 They rebelled and went a contrary way when the Prophets called them to repentance. 11:4 1 That is, friendly: and not as beasts or slaves. 11:5 1 Seeing they contemn all this kindness, they shall be led cap tive into Assyria. 11:7 1 To wit, the Prophets. 11:8 1 God considereth with himself, and that with a certain grief, how to punish them. 2 Which were two of the cities that were destroyed with Sodom, Deut. 29:23. 3 Meaning, that his love wherewith he first loved them, made him between doubt and assurance what to do: and herein appeareth his Fatherly affection: that his mercy toward his shall overcome his judg ments, as he declareth in the next verse. 11:9 1 To consume thee, but will cause thee to yield, and so receive
thee to mercy: and this is meant of the final number who shall walk after the Lord. 11:11 1 The Egyptians, and the Assyrians shall be afraid when the Lord maintaineth his people. 11:12 1 Governeth their state according to God's word, and doth not degenerate. 12:1 1 That is, flattereth himself with vain confidence. 2 Meaning, presents to get friendship. 12:2 1 Which in those points was like to Ephraim, but not in idolatries. 12:3 1 Seeing that God did thus prefer Jacob their father, Judah's ingratitude was the more to be abhorred. 12:4 1 Read Gen. 32:24-32. 2 God found Jacob as he lay sleeping in Bethel, Gen. 28:12, and so spake with him there, that the fruit of that speech appertained to the whole body of the people, whereof we are. 12:7 1 As for Ephraim he is more like the wicked Canaanites, than godly Abraham or Jacob. 12:8 1 Thus the wicked measure God's favor by outward prosperity and like hypocrites cannot abide that any should reprove their doings.
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tabernacles, as in 1the days of the solemn feast. 10 I have also spoken by the Prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the Prophets. 11 Is there 1iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal, and their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field. 12 1And Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep, 13 And by a 1Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he reserved. 14 But Ephraim provoked him with high places: therefore shall his blood be poured upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord reward him. 13 1 The abomination of Israel, 9 and cause of their destruction.
7 And I will be unto them as a very lion, and as a leopard in the way of Assyria. 8 I will meet them, as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beasts shall tear them. 9 O Israel, one 1hath destroyed thee, but in me is thine help. 10 1I am: where is thy king that should help thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidest, Give me a king and princes? 11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and I took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is 1bound up: his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son, else would he not stand still at the time, even at the 1breaking forth of the children. 14 I will redeem them from the power of the grave: I will deliver them from death: O 1death, I will be thy death: O grave, I will be thy destruction: 2repentance is hid from mine eyes. 15 Though he grew up among his brethren, an East wind shall come, even the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and dry up his vein, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. 14 1 The destruction of Samaria. 2 He exhorteth Israel to turn to God, who requireth praise and thanks.
1 When Ephraim spake, there was 1trembling: he 2exalted himself in Israel, but he hath sinned in Baal, 3and is dead. 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding: they were all the work of the craftsmen: they say one to another while they sacrifice a 1man, Let them kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the morning dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney. 4 Yet I am the Lord thy God 1from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me: for there is no Savior beside me. 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of drought. 6 As in their pastures, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.
1 Samaria shall be desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped. 2 O Israel, 1return unto the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 3 Take unto you words, and turn to the Lord, and say unto him, 1Take away all iniquity, and
12:9 1 Seeing thou wilt not acknowledge my benefits, I will bring thee again to dwell in tents, as in the feast of the Tabernacles, which thou dost now contemn. 12:11 1 The people thought that no man durst have spoken against Gilead, that holy place, and yet the Prophet saith, that all their religion was but vanity. 12:12 1 If you boast of your riches and nobility, ye seem to reproach your father, who was a poor fugitive and servant. 12:13 1 Meaning, Moses, whereby appeareth, that whatsoever they have, it cometh of God's free goodness. 13:1 1 He showeth the excellency and authority that this tribe had above all the rest. 2 He made a king of his tribe. 3 The Ephraimites are not far from destruction, and have lost their authority. 13:2 1 The false prophets persuaded the idolaters to offer their children after the example of Abraham, and he showeth how they
would exhort one another to the same, and to kiss and worship these calves which were their idols. 13:4 1 He calleth them to repentance, and reproveth their ingrati tude. 13:9 1 Thy destruction is certain, and my benefits toward thee declare that it cometh not of me: therefore thine own malice, idolatry and vain confidence in men must needs be the cause thereof. 13:10 1 I am all one, James 1:17. 13:12 1 It is surely laid up to be punished, as Jer. 17:1. 13:13 1 But would come out of the womb, that is out of this dangers wherein he is and not to tarry to be stifled. 13:14 1 Meaning, that no power shall resist God when he will deliver his, but even in death will he give them life. 2 Because they will not turn to me, I will change my purpose. 14:2 1 He exhorteth them to repentance to avoid all these plagues, willing them to declare by words their obedience and repentance. 14:3 1 He showeth them how they ought to confess their sins.
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receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our 2lips. 4 Assyria shall 1not save us, neither will we ride upon horses, neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. 5 1I will heal their rebellion: I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. 6 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily and fasten his roots, as the trees of Lebanon. 7 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall
be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 8 They that dwell under his 1shadow, shall return: they shall revive as the corn, and flourish as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 9 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols? I 1have heard him, and looked upon him: I am like a green fir tree: upon me is thy fruit found. 10 Who is 1wise, and he shall understand these things? and prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are righteous and the just shall walk in them: but the wicked shall fall therein.
2 Declaring that this is the true sacrifice, that the faithful can offer, even thanks and praise, Heb. 13:15. 14:4 1 We will leave off all vain confidence and pride. 14:5 1 He declareth how ready God is to receive them that do repent. 14:8 1 Whosoever join themselves to this people, shall be blessed.
14:9 1 God showeth how prompt he is to hear his, when they repent, and to offer himself, as a protection and safeguard unto them, as a most sufficient fruit and profit. 14:10 1 Signifying, that the true wisdom and knowledge consisteth in this even to rest upon God.
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1 1 A prophecy against the Jews. 2 He exhorteth the people to prayer and fasting for the misery that was at hand.
13 1Gird yourselves and lament ye Priests: howl ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering, and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God. 14 Sanctify you a fast: call a solemn assembly: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, 15 Alas: for the day, for the 1day of the Lord is at hand, and it cometh as a destruction from the Almighty. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? and joy, and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods: the garners are destroyed: the barns are broken down, for the corn is withered. 18 How did the beasts mourn! the herds of cattle pine away, because they have no pasture, and the flocks of sheep are destroyed. 19 O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt up all the trees of the field. 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the river of waters are dried up, and the 1fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 2 He prophesieth of the coming and cruelty of their enemies. 13 An exhortation to move them to convert. 18 The love of God toward his people.
1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear ye this, O 1Elders, and hearken ye all inhabitants of the land, whether 2such a thing hath been in your days, or yet in the days of your fathers. 3 Tell you your children of it, and let your children show to their children, and their children, to another generation. 4 That which is left of the palmerworm, hath the grasshopper eaten, and the residue of the grasshopper hath the cankerworm eaten, and the residue of the cankerworm hath the caterpillar eaten. 5 Awake ye 1drunkards, and weep and howl all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it shall be pulled from your mouth. 6 Yea, 1a nation cometh upon my land, mighty and without number, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaws of a great lion. 7 He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the bark of my fig tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it down: the branches thereof are made white. 8 Mourn like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the 1husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is 1cut off from the house of the Lord: the Priests the Lord's ministers mourn. 10 The field is wasted: the land mourneth: for the corn is destroyed: 1the new wine is dried up, and the oil is decayed. 11 Be ye ashamed, O husbandmen: howl, O ye vinedressers for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree is decayed: the pomegranate tree and the palm tree, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: surely the joy is withered away from the sons of men.
1 Blow 1the trumpet in Zion, and shout in mine holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord is come: for it is at hand. 2 A 1day of darkness, and of blackness, a day of clouds and obscurity, as the morning spread upon the mountains, so is there a 2great people, and a mighty: there was none like it from the beginning, neither shall be anymore after it, unto the years of many generations.
1:2 1 Signifying the Princes, the Priests and the governors. 2 He calleth the Jews to the consideration of God's judgments, who had now plagued the fruits of the ground for the space of four years, which was for their sins, and to call them to repentance. 1:5 1 Meaning, that the occasion of their excess and drunkenness was taken away. 1:6 1 This was another plague wherewith God had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them. 1:8 1 Mourn grievously, as a woman which hath lost her husband to whom she hath been married in her youth. 1:9 1 The tokens of God's wrath did appear in his Temple, insomuch
as God's service was left off. 1:10 1 All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away. 1:13 1 He showeth that the only means to avoid God's wrath, and to have all things restored, is unfeigned repentance. 1:15 1 We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand. 1:20 1 That is, drought. 2:1 1 He showeth the great judgments of God, which are at hand, except they repent. 2:2 1 Of affliction and trouble. 2 Meaning, the Assyrians.
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3 A fire devoureth before him, and behind him a flame burneth up: the land is as the garden of 1Eden before him, and behind him a desolate wilderness, so that nothing shall escape him. 4 The beholding of him is like the sight of horses, and like the horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots in the tops of the mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, and as a mighty people prepared to the battle. 6 Before his face shall the people tremble: all faces 1shall gather blackness. 7 They shall run like strong men, and go up to the wall like men of war, and every man shall go forward in his ways, and they shall not stay in their paths. 8 Neither shall one 1thrust another, but everyone shall walk in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city: they shall run upon the wall: they shall clime up upon the houses, and enter in at the windows like the thief. 10 The earth shall tremble before him, the heavens shall shake, the 1sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 11 And the Lord shall 1utter his voice before his host: for his host is very great: for he is strong that doeth his word: afor the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can abide it? 12 Therefore also now the Lord saith, Turn you unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning, 13 And 1rent your heart, and not your clothes: and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14 Who knoweth, if he will 1return and repent and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation: gather the elders: assemble the 1children, and those
that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber. 17 Let the Priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage into reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. bWherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? 18 Then will the Lord be 1jealous over his land, and spare his people. 19 Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen. 20 But I will remove far off from you the 1Northern army, and I will drive him into a land, barren and desolate with his face toward the 2East sea, and his end to the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his corruption shall ascend, because he hath exalted himself to do this. 21 Fear not, O land, but be glad, and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness are green for the tree beareth her fruit: the fig tree and the vine do give their force. 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he hath given you the rain of 1righteousness, cand he will cause to come down for you the rain, even the first rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the barns shall be full of wheat, and the presses shall abound with wine and oil. 25 And I will render you the years that the grasshopper hath eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm, my great host which I sent among you. 26 So you shall eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt marvelously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27 Ye shall also know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and none
chapter 2
a Jer. 30:7 Amos 5:18 Zeph. 1:15
b Ps. 79:10
c Lev. 26:4 Deut. 11:14
2:3 1 The enemy destroyed our plentiful country, wheresoever he cometh. 2:6 1 They shall be pale and black for fear, as Nah. 2:10. 2:8 1 For none shall be able to resist them. 2:10 1 Read Joel 2:31 and Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Joel 3:15; Matt. 24:29. 2:11 1 The Lord shall stir up the Assyrians to execute his judg ments. 2:13 1 Mortify your affections and serve God with pureness of heart, and not with ceremonies. 2:14 1 He speaketh this to stir up their slothfulness, and not that he doubted of God's mercies, if they did repent. How God repenteth, read Jer. 18:8.
2:16 1 That as all have sinned, so all may show forth signs of their repentance, that men seeing the children which are not free from God's wrath, might be the more lively touched with the consider ation of their own sins. 2:18 1 If they repent he showeth that God will preserve and defend them with a most ardent affection. 2:20 1 That is, the Assyrians your enemies. 2 Called the salt sea, or Persian sea: meaning, that though his army were so great that it filled all from this sea to the sea called Mediter ranean, yet he would scatter them. 2:23 1 That is, such as should come by just measure, and as was wont to be sent when God was reconciled with them.
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other, and my people shall never be ashamed. 28 And afterward will I pour 1out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream 2dreams, and your young men shall see visions. 29 And also upon the servants, and upon the maids in those days will I pour my Spirit. 30 And I will show 1wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The 1sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. 32 But whosoever shall call 1on the Name of the Lord, shall be saved: for in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said, and in the 2remnant, whom the Lord shall call. 3 Of the judgment of God against the enemies of his people.
ant things. 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold unto the Grecians, that ye might send them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them, and will render your reward upon your own head. 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they 1shall send them to the Sabeans, to a people far off, for the Lord hath spoken it. 9 Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare war, wake up the mighty men: let all the men of war draw near and come up. 10 1Break your plowshares into swords, and your scythes into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: there shall the Lord cast down the mighty men. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put in your 1scythes, for the harvest is ripe, come, get you down, for the winepress is full: yea, the winepresses run over, for their wickedness is great. 14 O multitude, O multitude, come into the valley of threshing: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of threshing. 15 The sun and moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light. 16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord will be the 1hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God
1 For behold, in 1those days and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the 1valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people, and for mine heritage Israel: whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given the child 1for the harlot, and sold the girl for wine, that they might drink. 4 Yea, and 1what have you to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me 2a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I render your recompense upon your head: 5 For ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly and pleas-
2:28 1 That is, in greater abundance, and more generally than in times past: and this was fulfilled under Christ, when as God's graces, and his Spirit under the Gospel was abundantly given to the Church, Isa. 44:3; Acts 2:17; John 7:38, 39. 2 As they had visions and dreams in old time, so shall they now have clearer revelations. 2:30 1 He warneth the faithful what terrible things should come, to the intent that they should not look for continual quietness in this world, and yet in all these troubles he would preserve them. 2:31 1 The order of nature shall seem to be changed for the horrible afflictions that shall be in the world, Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Joel 3:15; Matt. 24:29. 2:32 1 God's judgments are for the destruction of the infidels, and to move the godly to call upon the Name of God, who will give them salvation. 2 Meaning hereby the Gentiles, Rom. 10:13. 3:1 1 When I shall deliver my Church, which standeth of the Jews and of the Gentiles. 3:2 1 It appeareth that he alludeth to that great victory of
Jehoshaphat, when as God without man's help destroyed the ene mies, 2 Chron. 20:26, also he hath respect to this word Jehoshaphat which signifieth pleading or judgment, because God would judge the enemies of his Church, as he did there. 3:3 1 That which the enemy gat for the sale of my people, he bestowed upon harlots and drink. 3:4 1 He taketh the cause of his Church in hand against the enemy, as though the injury were done to himself. 2 Have I done you wrong, that ye will render me the like? 3:8 1 For afterward God sold them by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexan der the great, for the love he bare to his people, and thereby they were comforted, as though the price had been theirs. 3:10 1 When I shall execute my judgments against mine enemies, I will cause everyone to be ready, and to prepare their weapons to destroy one another for my Church's sake. 3:13 1 Thus he shall encourage the enemies when their wickedness is full ripe, to destroy one another, which he calleth the valley of God's judgment. 3:16 1 God assureth his against all trouble, that when he destroyeth his enemies, his children shall be delivered.
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dwelling in Zion, mine holy Mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers go 1through her anymore. 18 And in that day shall the mountains 1drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall run with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the House of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 1Egypt shall be waste, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the injuries of the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I will 1cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed, and the Lord will dwell in Zion.
3:17 1 The strangers shall no more destroy his Church: which if they do, it is the people, which by their sins make the breach for the enemy. 3:18 1 He promiseth to his Church abundance of graces, read Ezek. 47:1, which should water and comfort the most barren places, Amos
9:13. 3:19 1 The malicious enemies shall have no part of his graces. 3:21 1 He had suffered his Church hitherto to lie in their filthiness, but now he promiseth to cleanse them and to make them pure unto him.
A m o s
1 1 The time of the prophecy of Amos. 3 The word of the Lord against Damascus, 6 The Philistines, Tyre, Idumea, and Ammon.
of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn to it, because they shut the whole captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the 1brotherly covenant. 10 Therefore will I send a fire upon the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. 11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn to it, because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and 1did cast off all pity, and his anger spoiled him evermore, and his wrath watched him 2[always]. 12 Therefore will I send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the places of Bozrah. 13 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn to it, because they 1have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. 14 Therefore will I kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, and with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord. 2 Against Moab, Judah, and Israel.
1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen at 1Tekoa, which he saw upon Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of 2Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the 3earthquake. 2 And he said, The Lord shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the dwelling places of the shepherds shall perish, and the top 1of Carmel shall wither. 3 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For 1three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn to it, because they have 2threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. 4 Therefore will I send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the 1palaces of BenHadad. 5 I will break also the bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant of Bikeath-Aven: and him that holdeth the scepter out of Beth Eden, and the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto 1Kir, saith the Lord. 6 Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn to it, because they 1carried away prisoners the whole captivity to shut them up in Edom. 7 Therefore will I send a fire upon the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and turn mine hand to Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God. 9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions
1 Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn to it, because it burnt the 1bones of the king of Edom into lime. 2 Therefore will I send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet. 3 And I will cut off the judge out of the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with
1:1 1 Which was a town five miles from Jerusalem in Judea, but he prophesied in Israel. 2 In his days the kingdom of Israel did most flourish. 3 Which as Josephus writeth, was when Uzziah would have usurped the Priest's office, and therefore was smitten with the leprosy. 1:2 1 Whatsoever is fruitful and pleasant in Israel, shall shortly perish. 1:3 1 He showeth first that all the people round about should be destroyed for their manifold sins: which are meant by three and four, which make seven, because the Israelites should the more deeply consider God's judgments toward them. 2 If the Syrians shall not be spared for committing this cruelty against one city, it is not possible that Israel should escape punishment which hath committed so many and grievous sins against God and man. 1:4 1 The antiquity of their buildings shall not avoid my judgments, read Jer. 49:27.
1:5 1 Tiglath-Pileser led the Assyrians captive, and brought them to Cyrene, which he calleth here Kir. 1:6 1 They joined themselves with the Edomites their enemies, which carried them away captives. 1:9 1 For Esau (of whom came the Edomites) and Jacob were breth ren, therefore they ought to have admonished them of their broth erly friendship, and not to have provoked them to hatred. 1:11 1 Hebrew, corrupt his compassions. 2 He was a continual enemy unto him. 1:13 1 He noteth the great cruelty of the Ammonites, that spared not the women, but most tyrannously tormented them, and yet the Ammonites came of Lot, who was of the household of Abraham. 2:1 1 For the Moabites were so cruel against the king of Edom, that they burnt his bones after that he was dead: which declared their barbarous rage, seeing they would revenge themselves of the dead.
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him, saith the Lord. 4 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, 1I will not turn to it, because they have cast away the Law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err after the which their fathers have walked. 5 Therefore will I send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of 1Israel, and for four, I will not turn to it, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for 2shoes. 7 They gape over the head of the poor, in the 1dust of the earth, and pervert the ways of the meek: and a man and his father will go in to a maid, to dishonor mine holy Name. 8 And they lie down upon clothes laid to pledge 1by every altar: and they 2drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their God. 9 Yet destroyed I the 1Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruit from above, and his root from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for Prophets, and of 1your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord? 12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the Prophets, saying, Prophesy not. 13 Behold, I am 1pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the 1swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty save his life. 15 Nor he that handleth the bow shall stand, and
he that is swift of foot, shall not escape, neither shall he that rideth the horse, save his life. 16 And he that is of a mighty courage among the strong men, shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord. 3 He reproveth the house of Israel of ingratitude. 11 For the which God will punish them.
1 Hear this word that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, even against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 You 1only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit you for all your iniquities. 3 Can two walk together except they be 1agreed? 4 Will a 1lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? or will a lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he hath taken nothing? 5 1Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no fowler is? or will he take up the 2snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? 6 Or 1shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people be not afraid? or shall there 2be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? 7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he 1revealeth his secret unto his servants the Prophets. 8 The lion hath roared: who will not be afraid? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but 1prophesy? 9 Proclaim in the palaces at 1Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria: so behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord: they store up violence, and robbery 1in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An adversary
2:4 1 Seeing the Gentiles that had not so far knowledge were thus punished, Judah which was so fully instructed of the Lord's will, might not think to escape. 2:6 1 If he spare not Judah unto whom his promises were made, much more he will not spare this degenerate kingdom. 2 They esteemed most vile bribes more than men's lives. 2:7 1 When they have spoiled him and thrown him unto the ground, they gape for his life. 2:8 1 Thinking by these ceremonies, that is, by sacrificing, and being near mine altar, they may excuse all their other wickedness. 2 They spoil others and offer thereof unto God, thinking that he will dispense with them, when he is made partaker of their iniquity. 2:9 1 The destruction of their enemies and his mercy toward them, should have caused their hearts to melt for love toward him. 2:11 1 Ye contemned my benefits, and abused my graces, and craft ily went about to stop the mouths of my Prophets. 2:13 1 You have wearied me with your sins, Isa. 1:14. 2:14 1 None shall be delivered by any means. 3:2 1 I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsaken me.
3:3 1 Hereby the Prophet signifieth that he speaketh not of himself, but as God guideth and moveth him, which is called the agreement between God and his Prophets. 3:4 1 Will God threaten by his Prophet, except there be some great occasion? 3:5 1 Can anything come without God's providence? 2 Shall his threatenings be in vain? 3:6 1 Shall the Prophets threaten God's judgments and the people not be afraid? 2 Doth any adversity come without God's appointment? Isa. 45:7. 3:7 1 God dealeth not with the Israelites, as he doeth with other people: for he ever warneth them before of his plagues by his Prophets. 3:8 1 Because the people ever murmured against the Prophets, he showeth that God's Spirit moved them so to speak as they did. 3:9 1 He calleth the strangers, as the Philistines and Egyptians, to be witness of God's judgments against the Israelites for their cruelty and oppression. 3:10 1 The fruit of their cruelty and theft appeareth by their great riches, which they have in their houses.
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shall come even round about the country, and shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. 12 Thus saith the Lord, As the shepherd taketh 1out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed: and in 2Damascus, as in a couch. 13 Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts. 14 Surely in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be broken off, and fall to the ground. 15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall be consumed, saith the Lord. 4 Against the governors of Samaria.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three 1months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city, and have not caused it to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were 1not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: your great gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees did the palmerworm devour: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 10 Pestilence have I sent among you after the manner of 1Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses: and I have made the stink of your tents to come up even into your nostrils, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 11 I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: and ye were as a 1firebrand plucked out of the burning, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do thus unto thee, prepare to 1meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought: which maketh the morning darkness, and walketh upon the high places of the earth, the Lord God of hosts is his Name. 5 A lamentation for the captivity of Israel.
1 Hear this word, ye 1kine of Bashan that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, and destroy the needy, and they say to their masters, 2Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with 1thorns, and your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches every cow forward: and ye shall cast yourselves out of the palace, saith the Lord. 4 Come to 1Bethel, and transgress: to Gilgal, and multiply transgression, and bring your sacrifices in the morning, and your riches after three 2years. 5 And offer a thanksgiving 1of leaven, publish and proclaim the free offerings: for this 2liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. 6 And therefore have I given you 1cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and scarceness of bread in all your places, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
1 Hear ye this word, which I lift up upon you, even a lamentation of the house of Israel. 2 The 1virgin Israel is fallen, and shall no more rise: she is left upon her land, and there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord God, The city which went out by a thousand, shall leave 1an hundred: and that which went forth by an hundred, shall leave ten to the house of Israel.
3:12 1 When the lion hath satiate his hunger, the shepherd findeth a leg or a rip of an ear, to show that the sheep have been worried. 2 Where they thought to have had a sure hold, and to have been in safety. 4:1 1 Thus he calleth the princes and governors, which being over whelmed with the great abundance of God's benefits, forgot God, and therefore he calleth them by the name of beasts and not of men. 2 They encourage such as have authority over the people to powle them, so that they may have profit by it. 4:2 1 He alludeth to fishers, which catch fish by hooks and thorns. 4:4 1 He speaketh this in contempt of them which resorted to those places, thinking that their great devotion and good intention had been sufficient to have bound God unto them. 2 Read Deut. 14:28. 4:5 1 As Lev. 7:13.
2 You only delight in these outward ceremonies and have none other respect. 4:6 1 That is, lack of bread and meat. 4:7 1 I stayed the rain till the fruits of the earth were destroyed with drought, and yet you would not consider it to return to me by repen tance. 4:8 1 They could not find water enough where they had heard say it had rained. 4:10 1 As I plagued the Egyptians, Exod. 9:10. 4:11 1 You were almost all consumed, and a few of you wonderfully preserved, 2 Kings 14:26. 4:12 1 Turn to him by repentance. 5:2 1 He so calleth them, because they so boasted of themselves or because they were given to wantonness and daintiness. 5:3 1 Meaning, that the tenth part should scarcely be saved.
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4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live. 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into 1Gilgal, and go not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6 Seek the Lord, and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 7 They turn 1judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth. 8 He 1maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turn eth the shadow of death into the morning, and he maketh the day dark as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the open earth: the Lord is his Name. 9 He strengtheneth the destroyer against the mighty, and the destroyer shall come against the fortress. 10 They have hated him 1that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh uprightly. 11 Forasmuch then as your treading is upon the poor, and 1ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take rewards, and they oppress the poor in the gate. 13 Therefore 1the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good and not evil, that ye may live: and the Lord God of hosts shall be with you, as you have spoken. 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be merciful unto the remnant of Joseph. 16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shall be in all streets: and they shall say in all the high ways, Alas, alas: and they shall
call the 1husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourn, to mourning. 17 And in all the vines shall be lamentation: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord. 18 Woe unto you, that 1desire the day of the Lord: what have you to do with it? the day of the Lord is darkness and not light, 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him: or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light, even darkness and no light in it? 21 I hate and abhor your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and meat offerings, 1I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.) 24 And let judgment run down as 1waters, and righteousness as a mighty river. 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But you have born 1Sikkuth your king, and Chiun your images, and the star of your gods which you made to yourselves. 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose Name is the God of hosts. 6 Against the princes of Israel living in pleasure.
1 Woe to 1them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, 2which were famous at the beginning of the nations: and the house of Israel came to them. 2 Go you unto Calneh, and see: and from thence go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be 1they better than these
5:5 1 In those places they worshipped new idols, which aforetime served for the true honor of God: therefore he saith that these shall not save them. 5:7 1 Instead of judgment and equity they execute cruelty and oppression. 5:8 1 He describeth the power of God, Job 9:9. 5:10 1 They hate the Prophets, which reprove them in the open assemblies. 5:11 1 Ye take both his money and also his food, wherewith he should live. 5:13 1 God will so plague them that they shall not suffer the godly once to open their mouths to admonish them of their faults. 5:16 1 So that all degrees shall have matter of lamentation for the great plagues. 5:18 1 Thus he speaketh, because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to abide God's judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear, Jer. 30:7; Joel 2:2, 11; Zeph. 1:15. 5:22 1 Because ye have corrupted my true service, and remain obsti
nate in your vices, Isa. 1:11; Jer. 6:10. 5:24 1 Do your duty to God, and to your neighbor, and so ye shall feel his grace plentifully, if you show your abundant affections according to God's word. 5:26 1 That idol which you esteemed as your king, and carried about as you did Chiun, in which images you thought that there was a cer tain divinity. 6:1 1 The Prophet threateneth the wealthy, which regarded not God's plagues nor menaces by his Prophets. 2 These two cities were famous by their first inhabitants the Canaanites: and seeing beforetime they did nothing avail them that were there born, why should you look that they should save you which were brought in to dwell in other men's pos sessions? 6:2 1 If God have destroyed these excellent cities in three divers kingdoms, as in Babylon, Syria, and of the Philistines, and hath brought their wide borders into a greater straightness than yours yet are, think you to be better, or to escape?
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kingdoms? or the border of their land greater than your border, 3 Ye that put far away the 1evil day, and approach to the seat of iniquity? 4 They lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their beds, and eat the lambs of the flock, and the calves out of the stall. 5 They sing to the sound of the viol: they invent to themselves instruments of music like 1David. 6 They drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments, but no man is 1sorry for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and 1the sorrow of them that stretched themselves, is at hand. 8 1The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord God of hosts, I abhor 2the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. 9 And if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die. 10 And his uncle 1shall take him up and burn him, to carry out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him, that is by the 2sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shall say, None. Then shall he say, 3Hold thy tongue: for we may not remember the Name of the Lord. 11 For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. 12 Shall horses 1run upon the rock? or will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into 2wormwood. 13 Yet rejoice in a thing of nought: ye say, Have not we gotten us 1horns by our own strength? 14 But behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God of hosts: and
they shall afflict you from the entering in of 1Hamath unto the river of the wilderness. 7 God showeth certain visions, whereby he signifieth the destruction of the people of Israel. 10 The false accusation of Amaziah, 12 His crafty counsel.
1 Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, and behold, he formed 1grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth: and lo, it was in the latter growth 2after the King's mowing. 2 And when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, spare, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small. 3 So the Lord 1repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord. 4 ¶ Thus also hath the Lord God showed unto me, and behold, the Lord God called to judgment by fire, 1and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. 5 Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small. 6 So the Lord repented for this. This also shall not be, saith the Lord God. 7 ¶ Thus again he showed me, and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by line 1with a line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a line in the midst of my people Israel, and will pass by them no more. 9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the temples of Israel shall be destroyed: and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10 ¶ 1Then Amaziah the Priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
6:3 1 Ye that continue still in your wickedness, and think that God's plagues are not at hand, but give yourselves to all idleness, wanton ness, and riot. 6:5 1 As he caused divers kinds of instruments to be made to serve God's glory, so these did contend to invent as many to serve their wanton affections and lusts. 6:6 1 They pitied not their brethren, whereof now many were slain and carried away captive. 6:7 1 Some read, the joy of them that stretch themselves, shall depart. 6:8 1 Read Jer. 51:14. 2 That is, the riches and pomp. 6:10 1 The destruction shall be so great, that none shall almost be left to bury the dead: and therefore they shall burn them at home, to carry out the burnt ashes with more ease. 2 That is, to some neighbor that dwelleth round about. 3 They shall be so astonished at this destruction, that they shall boast no more of the Name of God, and that they are his people: but they shall be dumb when they hear God's Name, and abhor it, as they that are desperate, or reprobate.
6:12 1 He compareth them to barren rocks, whereupon it is in vain to bestow labor: showing that God's benefits can have no place among them. 2 Read Amos 5:7. 6:13 1 That is, power and glory. 6:14 1 From one corner of the country to another. 7:1 1 To devour the land: and he alludeth to the invading of the enemies. 2 After the public commandment for mowing was given: or as some read, when the king's sheep were shorn. 7:3 1 That is, stayed this plague at my prayer. 7:4 1 Meaning, that God's indignation was inflamed against the stubbornness of this people. 7:7 1 Signifying that this should be the last measuring of the people, and that he would defer his judgment no longer. 7:10 1 That is, when Amos had prophesied that the king should be destroyed: for the wicked Priest more for hatred he bare to the Prophet than for love toward the king, thought this accusation suf ficient to condemn him, whereas none other could take place.
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11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive out of their own land. 12 Also 1Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou the Seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat thy bread, and prophesy there. 13 But prophesy no more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no 1Prophet, neither was I a Prophet's son, but I was an herdsman, and a gatherer of wild figs. 15 And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go prophesy unto my people Israel. 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and speak nothing against the house of Isaac. 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord, 1Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. 8 1 Against the rulers of Israel. 7 The Lord sweareth. 11 The famine of the word of God.
set forth wheat, and make 2the Ephah small and the shekel great, and falsify the weights by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat. 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely, I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn, that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out, and 1drowned as by the flood of Egypt. 9 And in that day, saith the Lord God, I will even cause the 1Sun to go down at noon: I will darken the earth in the clear day. 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning: and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the Land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North even unto the East shall they run to and fro to seek the 1word of the Lord, and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men perish for thirst. 14 They that swear by the sin 1of Samaria, and that say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth, and 2the manner of Beersheba liveth, even they shall fall, and never rise up again. 9 Threatenings against the Temple, 2 And against Israel. 11 The restoring of the Church.
1 Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, and behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of 1summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel, I will pass by them no more. 3 And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shall be in every place: they shall cast them forth with 1silence. 4 Hear this, O ye that 1swallow up the poor, that ye may make the needy of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the 1new month be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may
1 I saw the Lord standing upon the 1Altar, and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in pieces, even the 2heads of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the
7:12 1 When this instrument of Satan was not able to compass his purpose by the king, he assayed by another practice, that was, to fear the Prophet, that he might depart, and not reprove their idolatry there openly, and so hinder his profit. 7:14 1 Thus he showeth by his extraordinary vocation, that God had given him a charge, which he must needs execute. 7:17 1 Thus God used to approve the authority of his Prophets, by his plagues and judgments against them which were malicious enemies, Jer. 28:12 and 29:21, 25, as this day he doeth against them that persecute the ministers of his Gospel. 8:2 1 Which signified the ripeness of their sins, and the readiness of God's judgments. 8:3 1 There shall be none left to mourn for them. 8:4 1 By staying the sale of food, and necessary things which you have gotten into your own hands, and so cause the poor to spend quickly that little that they have, and at length for necessity to
become your slaves. 8:5 1 When the dearth was once come they were so greedy of gain, that they thought the holy day to be an hindrance unto them. 2 That is, the measure small, and the price great. 8:8 1 That is, the inhabitants of the land shall be drowned, as Nile drowneth many when it overfloweth. 8:9 1 In the midst of their prosperity, I will send great affliction. 8:12 1 Whereby he showeth that they shall not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God's word, which is the food thereof. 8:14 1 For the idolaters did use to swear by their idols: which here he calleth their sin, as the Papists yet do by theirs. 2 That is, the common manner of worshipping, and the service or religion there used. 9:1 1 Which was at Jerusalem: for he appeared not in the idolatrous places of Israel. 2 Both the chief of them and also the common people.
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sword: he that fleeth of them, shall not flee away: and he that escapeth of them, shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into the hell, thence shall mine hand take them: though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence: and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the 1serpent, and he shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. 5 And the Lord God of hosts shall touch the land, and it shall melt away, and all that dwell therein shall mourn, and it shall rise up wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt. 6 He buildeth his 1spheres in the heaven, and hath laid the foundation of his globe of elements in the earth: he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the open earth: the Lord is his Name. 7 Are ye not as the Ethiopians 1unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from 2Caphtor, and Aram from Kir? 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon
the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it clean out of the earth. Nevertheless I will not utterly 1destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. 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 1least stone fall upon the earth. 10 But all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not come, nor hasten for us. 11 In that day will I raise up the 1Tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it, as in the days of old, 12 That they may possess the remnant of 1Edom, and of all the heathen, because my Name is called upon them, saith the Lord, that doeth this. 13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall 1touch the mower, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall 2drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14 1And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel: and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof: they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruits of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up again out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.
9:3 1 He showeth that God will declare himself enemy unto them in all places, and that his elements and all creatures shall be enemies to destroy them. 9:6 1 He declareth by the wonderful power of God, by the making of the heavens and the elements, that it is not possible for man to escape his judgments when he punisheth. 9:7 1 Am I more bound to you than to the Ethiopians, or black moors? yet have I bestowed upon you greater benefits. 2 Read Jer. 47:4. 9:8 1 Though he destroy the rebellious multitude, yet he will ever reserve the remnant his Church to call upon his Name. 9:9 1 Meaning, that none of his should perish in his wrath.
9:11 1 I will send the Messiah promised, and restore by him the spiri tual Israel, Acts 15:16. 9:12 1 Meaning, that the very enemies as were the Edomites, and others should be joined with the Jews in one society, and body, whereof Christ should be the head. 9:13 1 Signifying, that there shall be great plenty of all things, so that when one kind of fruit is ripe, another should follow, and every one in course, Lev. 26:5. 2 Read Joel 3:18. 9:14 1 The accomplishment thereof is under Christ, when they are planted in this Church, out of the which they can never be pulled, after they are once grafted therein.
O b a d i a h
1 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God against Edom, 1We have heard a rumor from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen: arise, and 2let us rise up against her to battle. 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art utterly despised. 3 The 1pride of thine heart hath deceived thee: thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, whose habitation is high, that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. 5 1Came thieves to thee or robbers by night? how wast thou brought to silence? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? 6 How are the things of Esau sought up, and his treasures searched? 7 All the men of thy confederacy 1have driven thee to the borders: the men that were at peace with thee, have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee: they that eat thy 2bread, have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him. 8 Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding from the mount of Esau? 9 And thy strong men, O Teman, shall be afraid, because everyone of the mount of Esau shall be cut off by slaughter. 10 For thy cruelty against thy 1brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. 11 When thou stoodest 1on the other side, in the
day that the strangers carried away his substance, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. 12 But thou shouldest not have beholden the day of thy brother, in the day that he was made 1a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah, in the day of their destruction: thou shouldest not have spoken proudly in the day of affliction. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their destruction, neither shouldest thou have once looked on their affliction in the day of their destruction, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their destruction. 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossways to cut off them, that should escape, neither shouldest thou have shut up the remnant thereof in the day of affliction. 15 For the day 1of the Lord is near, upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done to thee: thy reward shall return upon thine head. 16 For as ye have 1drunk upon mine holy Mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually: yea, they shall drink and swallow up, and they shall be 2as though they had not been. 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions, 18 And the house of Jacob shall be 1a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau as stubble, and they shall kindle in them and devour them: and there shall be no remnant of the house of Esau: for the Lord hath spoken it. 19 And they shall possess the South side of the
1:1 1 God hath certainly revealed to his prophets, that he will raise up the heathen to destroy the Edomites, whereof the rumor is now published, Jer. 49:14. 2 Thus the heathen encourage themselves to rise against Edom. 1:3 1 Which despisest all others in respect of thyself, and yet art but an handful in comparison of others, and art shut up among the hills as separate from the rest of the world. 1:5 1 God will so destroy them that he will leave none, though thieves when they come, take but till they have enough, and they that gather grapes, ever leave some behind them, Jer. 49:9. 1:7 1 They in whom thou didst trust for to have help and friendship of them, shall be thine enemies and destroy thee. 2 That is, thy familiar friends and guests have by secret practices destroyed thee. 1:10 1 He showeth the cause why the Edomites were so sharply
punished: to wit, because they were enemies to his Church, whom he now comforteth by punishing their enemies. 1:11 1 When Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem, thou joined est with him, and hadest part of the spoil, and so didst rejoice when my people, that is, thy brother were afflicted, whereas thou shouldest have pitied and helped thy brother. 1:12 1 When the Lord deprived them of their former dignity, and gave them to be carried into captivity. 1:15 1 When he will summon all the heathen, and send them to destroy thee. 1:16 1 That is, rejoiced and triumphed. 2 The Edomites shall be utterly destroyed, and yet in despite of all the enemies I will reserve my Church and restore it. 1:18 1 God attributeth this power, to consume his enemies, to his Church, which power is only proper to himself, as Isa. 10:17; Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29.
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1mount of Esau, and the plain of the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin shall have Gilead. 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, which were among the 1Canaanites, shall possess
unto Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South. 21 And they 1that shall save, shall come up to mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
1:19 1 He describeth how the Church shall be enlarged and have great possessions: but this chiefly is accomplished under Christ, when as the faithful are made heirs and lords of all things by him which is their head. 1:20 1 By the Canaanites, the Jews mean the Dutchmen, and by
Zarephath, France, and by Sepharad, Spain. 1:21 1 Meaning that God will raise up in his Church such as shall rule and govern for the defense of the same, and destruction of his enemies under Messiah, whom the Prophet calleth here, the Lord and head of this kingdom.
J o n a h
1 3 Jonah fled when he was sent to preach. 4 A tempest ariseth, and he is cast into the sea for his disobedience.
of what people art thou? 9 And he answered them, I am an Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven, which hath made the sea, and the dry land. 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them) 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? (for the sea wrought, and was troublous) 12 And he said unto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea: so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men rowed to bring it to the land, but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was troublous against them. 14 Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, 1We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging. 16 Then the men 1feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows. 17 Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the 1belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2 1 Jonah is in the fish's belly. 2 His prayer. 10 He is delivered.
1 The word of the Lord came 1also unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, and go to 1Nineveh, that 2great city, and cry against it: for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to 1flee into Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord, and went down to 2Japho: and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, that he might go with them unto Tarshish, from the 3presence of the Lord. 4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: but Jonah was gone down 1into the sides of the ship, and he lay down, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy 1God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. 7 And they said everyone to his fellow, Come, and let us cast 1lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 8 Then said they unto him, Tell us for whose cause this evil is upon us? What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? which is thy country? and
1:1 1 After that he had preached a long time in Israel: and so Ezekiel, after that for a time he had prophesied in Judah, he had visions in Babylon, Ezek. 1:1. 1:2 1 For seeing the great obstination of the Israelites, he sent his Prophet to the Gentiles, that they might provoke them to repentance, or at least make them inexcusable: for Nineveh was the chief city of the Assyrians. 2 For as authors write, it contained in circuit about eight and forty miles, and had a thousand and five hundred towers, and at this time there were an hundred and twenty thousand children therein, Jonah 4:11. 1:3 1 Whereby he declared his weakness, that would not promptly follow the Lord's calling, but gave place to his own reason, which persuaded him that he should nothing at all profit there, seeing he had done so small good among his own people, Jonah 4:2. 2 Which was the haven, and port to take shipping thither, called also Joppa. 3 From that vocation whereunto God had called him, and wherein he would have assisted him.
1:5 1 As one that would have cast off this care and solicitude by seeking rest and quietness. 1:6 1 As they had called on their idols, which declareth that idolaters have no stay nor certainty, but in their troubles seek they cannot tell to whom. 1:7 1 Which declareth that the matter was in great extremity and doubt, which thing was God's motion in them, for the trial of the cause: and this may not be done but in matters of great importance. 1:14 1 This declareth that the very wicked in their necessities flee unto God for succor and also that they are touched with a certain fear to shed man's blood, whereas they know no manifest sign of wickedness. 1:16 1 They were touched with a certain repentance of their life past, and began to worship the true God by whom they saw themselves so wonderfully delivered: but this was done for fear, and not of a pure heart and affection, neither according to God's word. 1:17 1 Thus the Lord would chastise his Prophet with a most terrible spectacle of death, and hereby also confirmed him of his favor and support in this his charge which was enjoined him.
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4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's 1journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 So the people of Nineveh 1believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he proclaimed and said through Nineveh, (by the counsel of the king and his nobles) saying, Let neither man, nor 1beast, bullock nor sheep taste anything, neither feed nor drink water. 8 But let man and beast put on sackcloth, and 1cry mightily unto God: yea, let every man turn from his evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands. 9 1Who can tell if God will turn, and repent and turn away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their 1works that they turned from their evil ways: and 2God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. 4 The great goodness of God toward his creatures.
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God 1out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried in mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the belly 1of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the bottom in the midst of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am 1cast away out of thy sight: yet will I look again toward thine holy Temple. 5 The waters compassed me about unto the soul: the depth closed me round about, and the weeds were wrapped about mine head. 6 I went down to the bottom of the mountains: the earth with her bars was about me forever, yet hast thou brought up my 1life from the pit, O Lord my God. 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came unto thee into thine holy Temple. 8 They that wait upon lying 1vanities, forsake their own 2mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving, and will pay that that I have vowed: salvation is of the Lord. 10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land. 3 1 Jonah is sent again to Ninevah. 5 The repentance of the king of Ninevah.
1 Therefore it displeased 1Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? therefore I prevented it to flee unto 1Tarshish: for I knew, that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life 1from me: for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be 1angry?
1 And the word of the Lord came unto 1Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh that great city, and preach unto it the preaching which I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord: now Nineveh was a 1great and excellent city of three days journey.
2:1 1 Being now swallowed up of death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith brast out unto the Lord, knowing that out of the very hell he was able to deliver him. 2:2 1 For he was now in the fish's belly as in a grave or place of darkness. 2:4 1 This declared what his prayer was, and how he labored between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God's judgments for the same: but yet in the end faith got the victory. 2:6 1 Thou hast delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life. 2:8 1 They that depend upon anything save on God alone. 2 They refuse their own felicity, and that goodness which they should else receive of God. 3:1 1 This is a great declaration of God's mercy, that he receiveth him again, and sendeth him forth as his Prophet, which had before showed so great infirmity. 3:3 1 Read Jonah 1:2. 3:4 1 He went forward one day in the city, and preached, and so he continued till the city was converted. 3:5 1 For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them from God
to denounce his judgments against them. 3:7 1 Not that the dumb beasts had sinned or could repent, but that by their example man might be astonished, considering that for his sin the anger of God hanged over all creatures. 3:8 1 He willed that the men should earnestly call unto God for mercy. 3:9 1 For partly by the threatening of the Prophet, and partly by the motion of his own conscience, he doubted whether God would show them mercy. 3:10 1 That is, the fruits of their repentance, which did proceed of faith, which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet. 2 Read Jer. 18:8. 4:1 1 Because hereby he should be taken as a false prophet, and so the Name of God, which he preached, should be blasphemed. 4:2 1 Read Jonah 1:3. 4:3 1 Thus he prayed of grief fearing lest God's Name by this forgive ness might be blasphemed, as though he sent his Prophets forth to denounce his judgments in vain. 4:4 1 Wilt thou be judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not?
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5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the East side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow 1till he might see what should be done in the city. 6 And the Lord God prepared a 1gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, and deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And when the sun did arise, God prepared also a fervent East wind: and the sun beat upon the head
of Jonah, that he fainted and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said unto Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be 1angry unto the death. 10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night, 11 And should 1not I spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are sixscore thousand persons, that 2cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?
4:5 1 For he doubted as yet whether God would show them mercy or not, and therefore after forty days he departed out of the city, look ing what issue God would send. 4:6 1 Which was a further means, to cover him from the heat of the sun, as he remained in his booth. 4:9 1 This declareth the great inconveniences whereinto God's ser
vants do fall when they give place to their own affections, and do not in all things willingly submit themselves to God. 4:11 1 Thus God mercifully reproveth him which would pity himself, and this gourd, and yet would restrain God to show his compassion to so many thousand people. 2 Meaning, that they were children and infants.
M i c a h
1 1 The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem because of the idolatry.
9 For her plagues are grievous: for it is come into Judah: the enemy is come unto the gate of my people, unto Jerusalem. 10 Declare ye it not at 1Gath, neither weep ye: for the house of 2Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. 11 Thou that dwellest at 1Shaphir, go together naked with shame: she that dwelleth at Zaanan, shall not come forth in the mourning of Beth Ezel: the enemy shall 2receive of you for his standing. 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came from the Lord unto the 1gate of Jerusalem. 13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the beasts 1of price: she 2is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. 14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth 1Gath: the houses of Achzib shall be as a lie to the kings of Israel. 15 Yet will I bring an 1heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, he shall come unto Adullam, 2the glory of Israel. 16 Make thee bald: and shave thee for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee. 2 1 Threatenings against the wanton and dainty people. 6 They would teach the Prophets to preach.
1 The word of the Lord, that came unto Micah the 1Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria, and Jerusalem. 2 Hear, 1all ye people: hearken thou, O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you, even the Lord from his holy Temple. 3 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, and will come 1down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4 And the mountains shall melt under him (so shall the valleys cleave) as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured downward. 5 For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel: what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not 1Samaria? and which are the high 2places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem? 6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble down into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. 7 And all the graven images thereof shall be broken, and all the 1gifts thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I destroy: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return 2to the wages of an harlot. 8 Therefore I will mourn and howl: I will go without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.
1 Woe unto them that imagine iniquity, and work wickedness upon their beds: 1when the morning is light they practice it, because their hand 2hath power.
1:1 1 Born in Moresheth, a city of Judah. 1:2 1 Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people, whom he had so oft exhorted to repentance, he summoneth them to God's judg ments, taking all creatures, and God himself to witness, that the preach ing of his Prophets, which they have abused, shall be revenged. 1:3 1 Meaning hereby, that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and holds. 1:5 1 Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the puddle, and stews of all idolatry and corruption, and boasted themselves of their father Jacob. 2 That is, the idolatry and infection. 1:7 1 Which they gathered by evil practices, and thought that their idols had enriched them therewith for their service unto them. 2 The gain that came by their idols shall be consumed as a thing of naught: for as the wages or riches of harlots are wickedly gotten, so are they vilely and speedily spent. 1:10 1 Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoice at our destruction. 2 Which was a city near to Jerusalem, Josh. 18:23, there called Ophrah, and signifieth dust: therefore he willeth them to mourn and
roll themselves in the dust, for their dusty city. 1:11 1 These were cities whereby the enemy should pass as he came to Judah. 2 He shall not depart before he hath overcome you, and so you shall pay for his tarrying. 1:12 1 For Rabshakeh had shut up Jerusalem, that they could not send to succor them. 1:13 1 To flee away: for Sennacherib laid siege first to that city, and remained therein when he sent his captains and army against Jerusalem. 2 Thou first receivedst the idolatry of Jeroboam, and so didst infect Jerusalem. 1:14 1 Thou shalt bribe the Philistines thy neighbors, but they shall deceive thee, as well as they of Jerusalem. 1:15 1 He prophesieth against his own city: and because it signified an heritage, he saith that God would send an heir to possess it. 2 For so they thought themselves for the strength of their city. 2:1 1 As soon as they rise, they execute their wicked devices of the night, and according to their power hurt others. 2 Hebrew, is in power.
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2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family have I devised a plague, whereout ye shall not pluck your necks, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is evil. 4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, 1We be utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it unto me? he hath divided our fields. 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in 1the congregation of the Lord. 6 1They that prophesy, Prophesy ye not. 2They shall not prophesy to them, neither shall they take shame. 7 O thou that art named of the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord shortened? 1are these his works? are not my works good unto him 2that walketh uprightly? 8 But he that was 1yesterday my people, is risen up on the other side, as against an enemy: they spoil the 2beautiful garment from them that pass by peaceably, as though they returned from the war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their children have ye taken away 1my glory continually. 10 Arise and depart, for this is not your 1rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. 11 If a man 1walk in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, 2I will prophesy unto thee of wine, and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 I will surely gather 1thee wholly, O Jacob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, even as the flock in the midst of their fold: the cities shall be full of brute of the men. 13 The 1breaker up shall come up before them: they shall break out, and pass by the gate, and go out by it, and their king shall go before them, and the Lord shall be 2upon their heads. 3 1 Against the tyranny of princes and false prophets.
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: should not ye know 1judgment? 2 But they hate the good, and love the evil: 1they pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones. 3 And they eat also the flesh of my people, and flay off their skin from them, and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then 1shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their works. 5 Thus saith the Lord, Concerning the prophets that deceive my people, and 1bite them with their teeth, and cry, peace, but if a man put not into their mouths, they prepare war against him. 6 Therefore 1night shall be unto you for a vision, and darkness shall be unto you for a divination, and the Sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. 7 Then shall the Seers be ashamed, and the Soothsayers confounded: yea, they shall all cover 1their lips, for they have none answer of God.
2:4 1 Thus the Jews lament and say that there is no hope of restitu tion, seeing their possessions are divided among the enemies. 2:5 1 Ye shall have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee. 2:6 1 Thus the people warn the prophets that they speak to them no more, for they cannot abide their threatenings. 2 God saith that they shall not prophesy, nor receive no more of their rebukes nor taunts. 2:7 1 Are these your works according to his Law? 2 Do not the godly find my words comfortable? 2:8 1 That is, aforetime. 2 The poor can have no commodity by them, but they spoil them, as though they were enemies. 2:9 1 That is, their substance and living, which is God's blessing, and as it were part of his glory. 2:10 1 Jerusalem shall not be your safeguard: but the cause of your destruction. 2:11 1 That is, show himself to be a Prophet. 2 He showeth what prophets they delight in, that is, in flatterers, which tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their commodities. 2:12 1 To destroy thee.
2:13 1 The enemy shall break their gates and walls, and lead them into Chaldea. 2 To drive them forward, and to help their enemies. 3:1 1 That thing which is just and lawful, both to govern my people aright, and also to discharge your own conscience. 3:2 1 The Prophet condemneth the wicked governors not only of covetousness, theft, and murder, but compareth them to wolves, lions, and most cruel beasts. 3:4 1 That is, when I shall visit their wickedness: for though I hear the godly before they cry, Isa. 65:24, yet I will not hear these though they cry, Isa. 1:15 and Ezek. 8:18; James 2:13; 1 Pet. 3:11, 12. 3:5 1 They devour all their substance, and then flatter them, promis ing that all shall go well, but if one restrain from their bellies, then they invent all ways to mischief. 3:6 1 As you have loved to walk in darkness, and to prophesy lies, so God shall reward you with gross blindness and ignorance, so that when all others shall see the bright beams of God's graces, ye shall as blind men grope as in the night. 3:7 1 When God shall discover them to the world, they shall be afraid to speak: for all shall know that they were but false prophets, and did belie the word of God.
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8 Yet notwithstanding I am full 1of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of strength to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with 1blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity, 11 The heads thereof judge for rewards, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof prophesy for money: yet will they 1lean upon the Lord and say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil can come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be 1plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be an heap, and the mountain of the house, as the high places of the forest. 4 1 Of the kingdom of Christ, and felicity of his Church.
under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. 5 For all people will walk 1everyone in the name of his god, and we will walk in the Name of the Lord our God, forever and ever. 6 At the same day saith the Lord, will I gather her that halteth, and I will gather her that is cast out, and her that I have afflicted. 7 And I will make her that halteth, 1a remnant, and her that was cast far off, a mighty nation, and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion, from henceforth even forever. 8 And thou, O 1tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter Zion, unto thee shall it come, even 2the first dominion, and kingdom shall come to the daughter Jerusalem. 9 Now why dost thou cry out with lamentation? is 1there no king in thee? is thy counselor perished? for sorrow hath taken thee, as a woman in travail. 10 Sorrow and mourn, O daughter Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth of the city, and dwell in the field, and shalt go into Babel, but there shalt thou be delivered: there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, saying, Zion shall be condemned, and our eye shall look upon Zion. 12 But they 1know not the thoughts of the Lord: they understand not his counsel, for he shall gather them as the sheaves in the barn. 13 Arise and thresh, 1O daughter Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thine hooves brass, and thou shalt break in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their riches unto the Lord: and their substance unto the ruler of the whole world. 5 1 The destruction of Jerusalem. 2 The excellency of Bethlehem.
1 But in the 1last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the 2hills, and people shall flow unto it. 2 Yea, 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 1teach us 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. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and 1rebuke mighty nations afar off, and they shall break their swords into mattocks, and their spears into 2scythes: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they 3learn to fight anymore. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine, and
3:8 1 The Prophet being assured of his vocation by the Spirit of God, setteth himself alone against all the wicked, showing how God both gave him gifts, ability and knowledge, to discern between good and evil, and also constancy to reprove the sins of the people, and not to flatter them. 3:10 1 They build them houses by bribery, which he calleth blood and iniquity. 3:11 1 They will say, that they are the people of God, and abuse his Name, as a pretence to cloak their hypocrisy. 3:12 1 Read Jer. 26:18. 4:1 1 When Christ shall come, and the Temple shall be destroyed. 2 Read Isa. 2:2. 4:2 1 He showeth that there is no true Church, but where as the people are taught by God's pure word. 4:3 1 By his corrections and threatenings he will bring the people into subjection which are in the utmost corners of the world. 2 They shall abstain from all evil doing, and exercise themselves in godliness and in well doing to others. 3 Read Isa. 2:4
4:5 1 He showeth that the people of God ought to remain constant in their religion, albeit all the world should give themselves to their superstition and idolatry. 4:7 1 I will cause that Israel, which is now as one lame and halting, and so almost destroyed, shall live again, and grow into a great people. 4:8 1 Meaning, Jerusalem, where the Lord's flock was gathered. 2 The flourishing state of the kingdom, as it was under David and Solomon, which thing was accomplished to the Church by the com ing of Christ. 4:9 1 In the mean season he showeth that they should endure great troubles and temptations when thy saw themselves neither to have king nor counsel. 4:12 1 He showeth that the faithful ought not to measure God's judgments by the brags and threatenings of the wicked, but thereby are admonished to lift up their hearts to God to call for deliverance. 4:13 1 God giveth his Church this victory, so oft as he overcometh their enemies: but the accomplishment thereof shall be at the last coming of Christ.
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1 Now assemble thy garrisons, O daughter 1of garrisons: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 2 And thou Bethlehem Ephrathah art 1little to be among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that shall be the ruler in Israel: whose 2goings forth have been from the beginning and from everlasting. 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that 1she which shall bear, shall travail: then the remnant of their brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 4 And he shall 1stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, and in the majesty of the Name of the Lord his God, and they shall dwell still: for now shall he be magnified unto the ends of the world. 5 And he 1shall be our peace when Assyria shall come into our land: when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. 6 And they shall destroy 1Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with their swords: thus shall he 2deliver us from Assyria, when he cometh into our land, and when he shall tread within our borders. 7 And the 1remnant of Jacob shall be among many people, as a dew from the Lord, and as the showers upon the grass, that waiteth not for man, nor hopeth in the sons of Adam. 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, as the Lion among the beasts of the forest, and as the Lion whelp among the flocks of sheep, who when he goeth through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. 9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith
the Lord, that I will cut off thine 1horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots. 11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds. 12 And I will cut off thine enchanters out of thine hand: and thou shalt have no more soothsayers. 13 Thine idols also will I cut off, and thine images out of the midst of thee: and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. 14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thine enemies. 15 And I will execute a vengeance in my wrath and indignation upon the heathen, 1which they have not heard. 6 An exhortation to the dumb creatures to hear the judgment against Israel being unkind. 6 What manner of sacrifices do please God.
1 Hearken ye now what the Lord saith, Arise thou, and contend before the 1mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's quarrel, and ye mighty foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a quarrel against his people, and he will plead with Israel. 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? or wherein have I grieved thee? testify against me. 4 Surely I 1brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants, and I have sent before thee, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab had devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from 1Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the 2righteousness of the Lord. 6 Wherewith 1shall I come before the Lord, and
5:1 1 He forewarneth them of the dangers that shall come before they enjoy these comforts, showing that forasmuch as Jerusalem was accustomed with her garrisons to trouble others, the Lord would now cause other garrisons to vex her, and that her rulers should be smitten on the face most contemptuously. 5:2 1 For so the Jews divided their country that for every thousand there was a chief captain: and because Bethlehem was not able to make a thousand, he calleth it little, but yet God will raise up his cap tain and governor therein: and thus it is not the least by reason of this benefit, as Matt. 2:6. 2 He showeth that the coming of Christ and all his ways were appointed of God from all eternity. 5:3 1 He compareth the Jews to women with child, who for a time should have great sorrows, but at length they should have a comfort able deliverance, John 16:21. 5:4 1 That is, Christ's kingdom shall be stable and everlasting, and his people as well the Gentiles as the Jews shall dwell in safety. 5:5 1 This Messiah shall be a sufficient safeguard for us, and though the enemy invade us for a time, yet shall God stir up many which shall be able to deliver us.
5:6 1 These whom God shall raise up for the deliverance of his Church, shall destroy all the enemies thereof, which are meant here by the Assyrians and Babylonians which were the chief at that time. 2 By these governors will God deliver us when the enemy cometh into our land. 5:7 1 This remnant or Church which God shall deliver shall only depend on God's power and defense, as doth the grass of the field, and not on the hope of man. 5:10 1 I will destroy all things wherein thou puttest thy confidence, as thy vain confidence and idolatry, and so will help thee. 5:15 1 It shall be so terrible that the like hath not been heard of. 6:1 1 He took the high mountains and hard rocks to witness against the obstinacy of his people. 6:4 1 I have not hurt thee, but bestowed infinite benefits upon thee. 6:5 1 That is, remember my benefits from the beginning how I deliv ered you from Balaam's curse, and also spared you from Shittim, which was in the plain of Moab, till I brought you into the land promised. 2 That is, the truth of his promise and his manifold benefits toward you. 6:6 1 Thus the people by hypocrisy ask how to please God and are content to offer sacrifices, but will not change their lives.
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7 1 A complaint for the small number of the righteous. 4 The wickedness of those times. 14 The prosperity of the Church.
bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? shall I give my 1firstborn for my transgression, even the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: 1surely to do justly, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself, to walk with thy God. 9 The Lord's voice crieth unto the 1city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: Hear the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable? 11 Shall I justify the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof 1are full of cruelty, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sins. 14 Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied, and 1thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee, and thou 2shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver, and that which thou deliverest, will I give up to the sword. 15 Thou shalt sow, but not reap: Thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil, and make sweet wine, but shall not drink wine. 16 For the 1statutes of Omri are kept, and all the manner of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I should make thee waste, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
1 Woe is me, for I am as the 1Summer gatherings, and as the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruits. 2 The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none righteous among men: 1they all lie in wait for blood: every man hunteth his brother with a net. 3 To make good for the evil of their hands, the prince asked, and the judge judgeth for a reward: therefore the 1great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soul: so 2they wrapped it up. 4 The best of them is as 1a brier, and the most righteous of them is sharper than a thorn-hedge: the day of 2thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh: then shall be their confusion. 5 Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counselor: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6 For the son revileth the father: the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies are the men of his own house. 7 Therefore 1I will look unto the Lord: I will wait for God my Savior: my God will hear me. 8 Rejoice not against me, 1O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise, when I shall sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: then will he bring me forth to the light, and I shall see his righteousness. 10 Then she that is mine enemy, shall look upon it, and shame shall cover her, which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? Mine eyes shall behold
6:7 1 There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it unto God, if they think thereby to avoid his anger: but they will never be brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commandeth. 6:8 1 The Prophet in few words calleth them to the observation of the second Table, to know if they will obey God aright or no, saying that God hath prescribed them to do this. 6:9 1 Meaning, that when God speaketh to any city or nation, the godly will acknowledge his majesty and consider not the mortal man that bringeth the threatening, but God that sendeth it. 6:12 1 That is, of Jerusalem. 6:14 1 Thou shalt be consumed with inward grief and evils. 2 Meaning, that the city should go about to save her men, as they that lay hold on that which they would preserve. 6:16 1 You have received all the corruption and idolatry, wherewith the ten tribes were infected under Omri and Ahab his son: and to excuse your doings, you allege the King's authority by his statutes, and also wisdom and policy in so doing, but you shall not escape punishment: but as I have shown you great favor, and taken you for
my people, so shall your plagues be accordingly, Luke 12:47. 7:1 1 The Prophet taketh upon him the person of the earth, which complaineth that all her fruits are gone, so that none is left: that is, that there is no godly man remaining: for all are given to cruelty and deceit, so that none spareth his own brother. 7:2 1 He showeth that the prince, the judge, and the rich man are linked together all to do evil, and to cloak the doings one of another. 7:3 1 That is, the rich man that is able to give money, abstaineth from no wickedness nor injury. 2 These men agree among themselves and conspire with one consent to do evil. 7:4 1 They that are of most estimation and are counted most honest among them, are but thorns and briers to prick. 2 Meaning of the Prophets and governors. 7:7 1 The Prophet showeth that the only remedy for the godly in desperate evils, is to flee unto God for succor. 7:8 1 This is spoken in the person of the Church which calleth the malignant Church her enemy.
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her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. 11 This is 1the day, that thy walls shall be built: this day shall drive far away 2the decree. 12 In this day also they shall come unto thee from 1Assyria, and from the strong cities, and from the strongholds even unto the river, and from Sea to Sea, and from mountain to mountain. 13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, and for the fruits of 1their inventions. 14 1Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage (which dwell solitary in the wood) as in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in old time. 15 1According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt, will I show unto him marvelous
things. 16 The nations shall see, and be confounded for all their power: they shall 1lay their hand upon their mouth: 2their ears shall be deaf. 17 They shall 1lick the dust like a serpent: they shall move out of their holes like worms: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee. 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that taketh away iniquity, and 1passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He retaineth not his wrath forever, because mercy pleaseth him. 19 He will turn again, and have compassion upon us: he will subdue our iniquities, and cast all 1their sins into the bottom of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perform thy 1truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as thou hast sworn unto our fathers in old time.
7:11 1 To wit, when God shall show himself a deliverer of his Church, and a destroyer of his enemies. 2 Meaning, the cruel empire of the Babylonians. 7:12 1 When the Church shall be restored, they that were enemies afore, shall come out of all the corners of the world unto her, so that neither holds, rivers, seas, nor mountains shall be able to let them. 7:13 1 Afore this grace appear, he showeth how grievously the hypocrites themselves shall be punished, seeing that the earth itself, which cannot sin shall be made waste because of their wickedness. 7:14 1 The Prophet prayeth to God to be merciful unto his Church, when they should be scattered abroad as in solitary places in Bab
ylon, and to be beneficial unto them as in times past. 7:15 1 God promiseth to be favorable to his people, as he had been afore time. 7:16 1 They shall be as dumb men, and dare brag no more. 2 They shall be astonished and afraid to hear men speak, lest they should hear of their destruction. 7:17 1 They shall fall flat on the ground for fear. 7:18 1 As though he would not see it, but wink at it. 7:19 1 Meaning of his elect. 7:20 1 The Church is assured, that God will declare in effect the truth of his merciful promise, which he had made of old to Abraham, and to all that should apprehend the promise by faith.
N a h u m
1 Of the destruction of the Assyrians, and of the deliverance of Israel.
another, and as unto drunkards in their drunken- ness: they shall be devoured as stubble fully dried. 11 There 1cometh one out of thee that imagineth evil against the Lord, even a wicked counselor. 12 Thus saith the Lord, Though they be 1quiet, and also many, yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall pass by: though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. 13 For now I will break his yoke from thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. 14 And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee that no more of thy name be 1sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven, and the molten image: I will make it thy grave for thee, for thou art vile. 15 aBehold upon the mountains the feet of him that declareth, and publisheth 1peace: O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee: he is utterly cut off. 2 He describeth the victories of the Chaldeans against the Assyrians.
chapter 1
a Rom. 10:15
1 The 1burden of Nineveh. 2The book of the vision of Nahum the 3Elkoshite. 2 God is 1jealous, and the Lord revengeth: the Lord revengeth: even the Lord 2of anger, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. 3 The 1Lord is slow to anger, but he is great in power, and will not surely clear the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and drieth it, and he drieth up all the rivers: Bashan is wasted and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is wasted. 5 The mountains tremble for him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his sight, yea the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 1Who can stand before his wrath? or who can abide in the fierceness of his wrath? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken by him. 7 The Lord is good 1and as a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him. 8 But passing over as with a flood, he will utterly destroy the 1place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do ye 1imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter destruction: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For he shall come as unto 1thorns folden one in
1 The 1destroyer is come before thy face: keep the munition: look to the way: make thy loins strong: increase thy strength mightily. 2 For the Lord hath 1turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and 2marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, 1the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be as in
1:1 1 Read Isa. 13:1. 2 The vision or revelation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Ninevites. 3 That is, born in a poor village in the tribe of Simeon. 1:2 1 Meaning, of his glory. 2 With his he is but angry for a time, but his anger never assuageth toward the reprobate, though for a time he defer it. 1:3 1 Thus the wicked would make God's mercy an occasion to sin, but the Prophet willeth them to consider his force and justice. 1:6 1 If all creatures be at God's commandment, and none is able to resist his wrath, shall man flatter himself, and think by any means to escape, when he provoketh his God to anger? 1:7 1 Lest the faithful should be discouraged by hearing the power of God, he showeth them that his mercy appertain unto them, and that he hath care over them. 1:8 1 Signifying, that God will suddenly destroy Nineveh, and the Assyrians, in such sort as they shall lie in perpetual darkness, and never recover their strength again. 1:9 1 He showeth that the enterprises of the Assyrians against Judah and the Church, were against God, and therefore he would so destroy them at once, that he should not need to return the second time.
1:10 1 Although the Assyrians think themselves like thorns that prick on all sides, yet the Lord will set fire on them, and as drunken men are not able to stand against any force, so they shall be nothing able to resist him. 1:11 1 Which may be understood either of Sennacherib, or of the whole body of the people of Nineveh. 1:12 1 Though they think themselves in most safety, and of greatest strength, yet when God shall pass by, he will destroy them: notwith standing he comforteth his Church, and promiseth to make an end of punishing them by the Assyrians. 1:14 1 Meaning, Sennacherib, who should have no more children, but be slain in the house of his gods, 2 Kings 19:36, 37. 1:15 1 Which peace the Jews should enjoy by the death of Sennacherib. 2:1 1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar is in readiness to destroy the Assyr ians: and the Prophet derideth the enterprises of the Assyrians which prepared to resist him. 2:2 1 Seeing God hath punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them, read Isa. 10:12. 2 Signifying, that the Israelites were utterly destroyed. 2:3 1 Both to fear the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon espy blood one of another to discourage them.
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the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and 2the fir trees shall tremble. 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets: they shall run to and fro in the highways: they shall seem like lamps: they shall shoot like the lightning. 5 1He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they go: they shall make haste to the walls thereof, and the defense shall be prepared. 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall melt. 7 And Huzzab the Queen shall be led away captive, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, smiting upon their breasts. 8 But Nineveh is 1of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry: but none shall look back. 9 1Spoil ye the silver, spoil the gold: for there is none end of the store and glory of all the pleasant vessels. 10 1She is empty and void and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorrow is in all loins, and the faces 2of them all gather blackness. 11 Where is the 1dwelling of the lions, and the pasture of the lion's whelps? where the lion and the lioness waked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid. 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and worried for his lioness, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with spoil. 13 Behold, I come unto thee saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the 1smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I will cut off thy spoil from the earth, and the voice of thy 2messengers shall no more be heard. 3 1 Of the fall of Ninevah. 8 No power can escape the hand of God.
the leaping of the chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude is slain, and the dead bodies are many: there is none end of their corpses: they stumble upon their corpses, 4 Because of the multitude of the fornications of the 1harlot that is beautiful, and is a mistress of witchcraft, and selleth the people through her whoredom, and the nations through her witchcrafts. 5 Behold, I come upon thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and will show the nations thy filthiness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock. 7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee, shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is destroyed, who will have pity upon her? where shall I seek comforters for thee? 8 Art thou better than 1No, which was full of people? that lay in the rivers, and had the waters round about it? whose ditch was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and there was none end: Put and Lubim were 1her helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, and went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets: and they cast lots for her noble men, and all her mighty men were bound in chains. 11 Also thou shalt be drunken: thou shalt hide thyself, and shalt seek help because of the enemy. 12 All thy strong cities shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: for if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. 13 Behold, thy people within thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be opened unto thine enemies, and the fire shall devour thy bars. 14 Draw thee waters for the siege: fortify thy strongholds: go into the clay, and temper the mortar: make strong brick. 15 There shall the fire devour thee: the sword shall
1 O bloody city, it is all full of lies and robbery: 1the prey departeth not. 2 The noise of a whip, 1and the noise of the moving of the wheels, and the beating of the horses, and
2 Meaning, their spears should shake and crash together. 2:5 1 Then the Assyrians shall seek by all means to gather their power, but all things shall fail them. 2:8 1 The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say, that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters they that walk on the banks cannot touch, but they shall be scattered, and shall not look back though men would call them. 2:9 1 God commandeth the enemies to spoil Nineveh, and promis eth them infinite riches and treasures. 2:10 1 That is, Nineveh, and the men thereof shall be after this sort. 2 Read Joel 2:6. 2:11 1 Meaning, Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the Lions, and given to all oppression, and spared no violence or tyranny
to provide for their wives and children. 2:13 1 That is, as soon as my wrath beginneth to kindle. 2 Signifying the heralds, which were accustomed to proclaim war. Some read, of thy gum teeth, wherewith Nineveh was wont to bruise the bones of the poor. 3:1 1 It never ceaseth to spoil and rob. 3:2 1 He showeth how the Chaldeans shall haste, and how coura geous their horses shall be in beating the ground when they come against the Assyrians. 3:4 1 He compareth Nineveh to an harlot, which by her beauty and subtlety enticeth young men, and bringeth them to destruction. 3:8 1 Meaning, Alexandria, which was in league with so many nations, and yet was now destroyed. 3:9 1 Or, thine.
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cut thee off: it shall eat thee up like the 1locusts, though thou be multiplied like the locusts, and multiplied like the grasshopper. 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the locust spoileth and flieth away. 17 Thy princes are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers which remain in the hedges in the cold day: but when the sun ariseth,
they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. 18 Thy 1shepherds do sleep, O king of Assyria: thy strong men lie down: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. 19 There is no healing of thy wound: thy plague is grievous: all that hear the brute of thee, shall clap the hands over thee: for upon 1whom hath not thy malice passed continually?
3:15 1 Signifying, that God's judgments should suddenly destroy the Assyrians, as these vermin are with rain or change of weather.
3:18 1 Thy princes and counselors. 3:19 1 Meaning, that there was no people to whom the Assyrians had not done hurt.
H a b a k k u k
1 1 A complaint against the wicked that persecute the just.
every stronghold: for they shall gather 1dust, and take it. 11 Then shall they 1take a courage, and transgress and do wickedly, imputing this their power unto their god. 12 Art not thou of old, O Lord my God, mine holy One? we shall not 1die: O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment, and O God, thou hast established them for correction. 13 Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see evil: thou canst not behold wickedness: wherefore dost thou look upon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoureth the man, that is more righteous than he? 14 And makest men as the 1fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 15 They take up all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn, whereof they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their 1net, and burn incense unto their yarn, because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. 17 Shall they therefore stretch out their net, and not spare continually to slay 1the nations? 2 1 A vision. 5 Against pride, covetousness, drunkenness, and idolatry.
chapter 1
a Zeph. 3:3
1 The burden, which Habakkuk the Prophet did see. 2 O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee 1for violence, and thou wilt not help! 3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold sorrow? for spoiling, and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. 4 Therefore the Law is dissolved, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth 1compass about the righteous: therefore 2wrong judgment proceedeth. 5 Behold among the heathen, and regard, and wonder, and marvel: for I will work a work in your days: 1ye will not believe it, though it be told you. 6 For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and furious nation, which shall go upon the breadth of the land to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and fearful: 1their judgment, and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the wolves in the aevening: and their horsemen are many: and their horsemen shall come from far: they shall fly as the eagle hasting to meat. 9 They come all to spoil: for their faces shall be an 1East wind, and they shall gather the captivity 2as the sand. 10 And they shall mock the Kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride
1 I will stand upon my 1watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look and see what he would say unto me, and what I shall answer to him that rebuketh me. 2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run 1that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but
1:2 1 The Prophet complaineth unto God, and bewaileth that among the Jews is left none equity and brotherly love: but instead hereof reigneth cruelty, theft, contention and strife. 1:4 1 To suppress him, if any should show himself zealous of God's cause. 2 Because the judges which should redress this excess, are as evil as the rest. 1:5 1 As in times past you would not believe God's word, so shall ye not now believe the strange plagues which are at hand. 1:7 1 They themselves shall be your judges in this cause, and none shall have authority over them to control them. 1:9 1 For the Jews most feared this wind, because it destroyed their fruits. 2 They shall be so many in number. 1:10 1 They shall cast up mounts against it.
1:11 1 The Prophet comforteth the faithful that God will also destroy the Babylonians, because they shall abuse this victory, and become proud and insolent, attributing the praise hereof to their idols. 1:12 1 He assureth the godly of God's protection, showing that the enemy can do no more than God hath appointed, and also that their sins required such a sharp rod. 1:14 1 So that the great devoureth the small, and the Chaldeans destroy all the world. 1:16 1 Meaning, that the enemies flatter themselves, and glory in their own force, power and wit. 1:17 1 Meaning, that they should not. 2:1 1 I will renounce mine own judgment, and only depend on God to be instructed what I shall answer them that abuse my preaching, and to be armed against all temptations. 2:2 1 Write it in great letters, that he that runneth may read it.
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at the 1last it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry, wait: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay. 4 Behold, 1he that lifteth up himself, his mind is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith, 5 Yea, indeed the proud man is as 1he that transgresseth by wine: therefore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people. 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Ho, he that increaseth that which is not his? 1how long? and he that ladeth himself with thick clay? 7 Shall 1they not rise up suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall stir thee? and thou shalt be their prey? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee, because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city, and unto all that dwell therein. 9 Ho, he that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of evil. 10 Thou 1hast consulted shame to thine own house, by destroying many people, and hast sinned against thine own soul. 11 For the 1stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe unto him that buildeth a town with blood, and erecteth a city by iniquity. 13 Behold, is it not of the 1Lord of hosts, that the people shall labor in the very fire? the people shall even weary themselves for very vanity.
14 For the earth shall 1be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor 1drink: thou joinest thine heat, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest see their privities. 16 Thou art filled with shame 1for glory: drink thou also, and be made naked: the cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be for thy glory. 17 For the 1cruelty of Lebanon shall cover thee: so shall the spoil of the beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city, and unto all that dwell therein. 18 What profiteth the 1image? for the maker therefore hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumb idols. 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake, and to the dumb stone, Rise up, it shall teach thee: 1behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath in it. 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. 3 2 A prayer for the faithful.
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet for the 1ignorances. 2 1O Lord, I have heard thy voice, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy 2work in the midst of the people, in the midst of the years make it known: in wrath remember mercy.
2:3 1 Which contained the destruction of the enemy, and the comfort of the Church: which thing though God execute not according to man's hasty affections, yet the issue of both is certain at his time appointed. 2:4 1 To trust in himself, or in any worldly thing, is never to be quiet: for the only rest is to stay upon God by faith, Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11; Heb. 10:38. 2:5 1 He compareth the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense, whom God will punish and make him a laughing stock to all the world: and this he speaketh for the comfort of the godly, and against the Chaldeans. 2:6 1 Signifying, that all the world shall wish the destruction of tyrants, and that by their oppression and covetousness, they heap but upon themselves more heavy burdens: for the more they get, the more are they troubled. 2:7 1 That is, the Medes and Persians, that should destroy the Bab ylonians? 2:10 1 Signifying, that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house, when as he thinketh to enrich it by cruelty and oppression. 2:11 1 The stones of the house shall cry, and say that they are built of blood, and the wood shall answer and say the same of itself. 2:13 1 Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labors, as though they were consumed with fire.
2:14 1 In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory shall appear through all the world. 2:15 1 He reproacheth thus the king of Babylon, who as he was drunken with covetousness and cruelty, so he provoked others to the same, and inflamed them by his rage, and so in the end brought them to shame. 2:16 1 Whereas thou thoughtest to have glory of these thy doings, they shall turn to thy shame: for thou shalt drink of the same cup with others in thy turn. 2:17 1 Because the Babylonians were cruel not only against other nations, but also against the people of God, which is meant by Leba non and the beasts therein, he showeth that the like cruelty shall be executed against them. 2:18 1 He showeth that the Babylonians' gods could nothing avail them, for they were but blocks or stones, read Jer. 10:8. 2:19 1 If thou wilt consider what it is, and how that it hath neither breath nor life, but is a dead thing. 3:1 1 The Prophet instructeth his people to pray unto God, not only for their great sins but also for such as they had committed of ignorance. 3:2 1 Thus the people were afraid when they heard God's threaten ings, and prayed. 2 That is, the state of thy Church which is now ready to perish, before it come to half a perfect age, which should be under Christ.
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3 God cometh from 1Teman, and the holy One from mount Paran, Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise, 4 And his brightness was as the light: 1he had horns coming out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth before his feet. 6 He stood and measured the earth: he beheld and dissolved the nations, and the everlasting mountains were broken, and the ancient hills did bow: his 1ways are everlasting. 7 1For his iniquity I saw the tents of Cushan, and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 8 Was the Lord angry against the 1rivers? or was thine anger against the floods? or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride 2upon thine horses? thy chariots brought salvation. 9 Thy 1bow was manifestly revealed, and the 2oaths of the tribes were a sure word, Selah, thou 3didst cleave the earth with rivers. 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the stream of the water 1passed by: the deep made a noise, and lifted up his hand on high. 11 The 1sun and moon stood still in their habitation: 2at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the bright shining of thy spears. 12 Thou trodest down the land in anger, and didst
thresh the heathen in displeasure. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine 1Anointed: thou hast wounded the head of the house of the wicked, and discoveredst the foundations unto the 2neck, Selah. 14 Thou didst 1strike through with his own staves the heads of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst walk in the sea with thine horses upon the heap of great waters. 16 When I 1heard, my belly trembled: my lips shook at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in 2the day of trouble: for when he cometh up 3unto the people, he shall destroy them. 17 For the fig tree shall not flourish, neither shall fruit be in the vines: the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat: the sheep shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no bullock in the stalls. 18 But I will rejoice in the Lord: I will joy 1in the God of my salvation. 19 The Lord God is my strength: he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. 1To the chief singer on Neginoth.
3:3 1 Teman and Paran were near Sinai, where the Law was given: whereby is signified that his deliverance was as present now as it was then. 3:4 1 Whereby is meant a power that was joined with his brightness, which was hid to the rest of the world, but was revealed in mount Sinai to his people, Ps. 31:16. 3:6 1 Signifying, that God hath wonderful means, and ever had a marvelous power when he would deliver his Church. 3:7 1 The iniquity of the king of Syria in vexing thy people was made manifest by thy judgment, to the comfort of thy Church, Judg. 5:10, and also of the Midianites, which destroyed themselves, Judg. 7:22. 3:8 1 Meaning, that God was not angry with the waters, but that by this means he would destroy his enemies, and deliver his Church. 2 And so didst use all the elements as instruments for the destruc tion of thine enemies. 3:9 1 That is, thy power. 2 For he had not only made a covenant with Abraham, but renewed it with his posterity. 3 Read Num. 20:11. 3:10 1 He alludeth to the red sea and Jordan, which gave passage to
God's people, and showed signs of their obedience as it were by the lifting up their hands. 3:11 1 As appeareth, Josh. 10:11. 2 According to thy commandment, the sun was directed by the weapons of thy people, that fought in thy cause, as though it durst not go forward. 3:13 1 Signifying, that there is no salvation, but by Christ. 2 From the top to the toe thou hast destroyed the enemies. 3:14 1 God destroyed his enemies both great and small with their own weapons, though they were never so fierce against his Church. 3:16 1 He returneth to that which he spake in the second verse, and showeth how he was afraid of God's judgments. 2 He showeth that the faithful can never have true rest, except they feel before the weight of God's judgments. 3 That is, the enemy, but the godly shall be quiet, knowing that all things shall turn to good unto them. 3:18 1 He declareth wherein standeth the comfort and joy of the faithful, though they see never so great afflictions prepared. 3:19 1 The chief singer upon the instruments of music, shall have occasion to praise God for this great deliverance of his Church.
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1 4 Threatenings against Judah and Jerusalem, because of their idolatry.
company of the merchants is destroyed: all they that bear silver, are cut off. 12 And at that time will I search Jerusalem with 1lights, and visit the men that are frozen 2in their dregs, and say in their hearts, The Lord will neither do good nor do evil. 13 Therefore their goods shall be spoiled, and their houses waste: cthey shall also build houses, but not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof. 14 The great day of the Lord is near: it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: 1the strong man shall cry there bitterly. 15 dThat day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of obscurity and darkness, a day of clouds and blackness, 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the strong cities, and against the high towers. 17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord, and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. 18 eNeither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath, but the fwhole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land. 2 1 He moveth to return to God, 5 prophesying destruction against the Philistines, Moabites and others.
chapter 1
a 2 Kings 22:1
b 2 Kings 21:19
1 The word of the Lord, which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of aJosiah, the son of bAmon king of Judah. 2 I will surely destroy all things from off the land, saith the Lord. 3 I will destroy man and beast: I will destroy the 1fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and ruins shall be to the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord. 4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the 1Chemarims with the Priests, 5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and swear by 1Milcam. 6 And them that are turned back from the Lord, and those that have not sought the Lord, nor inquired for him. 7 Be still at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, and hath sanctified his guests. 8 And it shall be in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will visit the princes and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with 1strange apparel. 9 In the same day also will I visit all those that 1dance upon the threshold so proudly, which fill their masters' houses by cruelty and deceit. 10 And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a noise, and cry from the 1fish gate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hills. 11 Howl ye inhabitants of 1the low place: for the
c Deut. 28:30
Amos 5:11
d Jer. 30:7
Joel 2:11 Amos 5:18
e Ezek. 7:19
f Zeph. 3:1
1 Gather 1yourselves, even gather you, O nation not worthy to be loved, 2 Before the decree come forth, and ye be as chaff that passeth in a day, and before the fierce wrath of the Lord come upon you, and before the day of the
1:3 1 Not that God was angry with these dumb creatures, but because man was so wicked for whose cause they were created, God maketh them to take part of the punishments with him. 1:4 1 Which were an order of superstitious priests appointed to min ister in the service of Baal, and were as his peculiar chaplains, read 2 Kings 23:5; Hos. 10:5. 1:5 1 He alludeth to their idol Molech which was forbidden, Lev. 20:2, yet they called him, their king, and made him as a god: therefore he here noteth them that will both say they worship God, and yet will swear by idols and serve them: which halting is here condemned, as Ezek. 20:39; 1 Kings 18:21; 2 Kings 17:33. 1:8 1 Meaning, the courtiers, which did imitate the strange apparel of other nations to win their favor thereby, and to appear glorious in the eyes of all others, read Ezek. 23:14, 15.
1:9 1 He meaneth the servants of the rulers which invade other men's houses, and rejoice and leap for joy, when they can get any prey to please their master withall. 1:10 1 Signifying, that all the corners of the city of Jerusalem should be full of trouble. 1:11 1 This is meant of the street of the merchants which was lower than the rest of the place about it. 1:12 1 So that nothing shall escape me. 2 By their prosperity they are hardened in their wickedness. 1:14 1 They that trusted in their own strength and contemned the Prophets of God. 2:1 1 He exhorteth them to repentance, and willeth them to descend into themselves and gather themselves, lest they be scat tered like chaff.
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Lord's anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the Lord all the meek of the earth, which
desolate, and waste like a wilderness. 14 And flocks shall lie in the midst of her, and all the beasts of the nations, and the 1pelican and the 2owl shall abide in the upper posts of it: the voice of birds shall sing in the windows, and desolations shall be upon the posts: for the cedars are uncovered. 15 This is the 1rejoicing city that dwelt careless, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she made waste, and the lodging of the beasts! everyone that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand. 3 4 Against the governors of Jerusalem. 8 Of the calling of all the Gentiles. 13 A comfort to the residue of Israel.
chapter 3
a Ezek. 22:25,27
Mic. 3:11
1have wrought his judgment: seek righteousness, seek lowliness, if so be that ye may be hid in the day of the Lord's wrath. 4 For 1Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon desolate: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5 [Woe] unto the inhabitants of the sea 1coast. the nation of the Cherethims, the word of the Lord is against you: O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee without an inhabitant. 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds and sheepfolds. 7 And that coast shall be for the 1remnant of the house of Judah, to feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they judge toward night: for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the rebukes of the children of Ammon, whereby they upbraided my people, and 1magnified themselves against their borders. 9 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation, the residue of my folk shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. 10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached, and magnified themselves against the Lord of host's people. 11 The Lord will be terrible unto them: 1for he will consume all the gods of the earth, and every man shall worship him from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. 12 Ye Morians also shall be slain by my sword with them. 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh
b Hab. 1:8
1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the robbing 1city. 2 She heard not the voice: she received not correction: she trusted not in the Lord: she drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are as roaring alions: her judges are as bwolves in the evening, which 1leave not the bones till the morrow. 4 Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests have polluted the Sanctuary: they have wrested the Law. 5 The 1just Lord is in the midst thereof: he will do none iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not: but the wicked will not learn to be ashamed. 6 I have 1cut off the nations: their towers are desolate: I have made their streets waste, that none shall pass by, their cities are destroyed without man, and without inhabitant. 7 I said, surely thou wilt fear me: thou wilt receive instruction: so their dwelling should not be destroyed howsoever I visited them, but 1they rose early, and corrupted all their works. 8 Therefore 1wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for I am determined to gather the nations, and that I will
2:3 1 That is, which have lived uprightly and godly according as he prescribeth by his word. 2:4 1 He comforteth the faithful in that God would change his pun ishments from them unto the Philistines their enemies and other nations. 2:5 1 That is, Galilee: by these nations he meaneth the people that dwelt near to the Jews, and instead of friendship were their enemies: therefore he calleth them Canaanites whom the Lord appointed to be slain. 2:7 1 He showeth why God would destroy their enemies, because their country might be a resting place for his Church. 2:8 1 These nations presumed to take from the Jews that country which the Lord had given them. 2:11 1 When he shall deliver his people and destroy their enemies and Idols, his glory shall shine throughout all the world. 2:14 1 Read Isa. 34:11.
2 Or, hedgehog. 2:15 1 Meaning, Nineveh, which rejoicing so much of her strength and prosperity, should be thus made waste, and God's people deliv ered. 3:1 1 That is, Jerusalem. 3:3 1 They are so greedy that they eat up bones and all. 3:5 1 The wicked thus boasted that God was ever among them, but the Prophet answereth that that cannot excuse their wickedness: for God will not bear with their sins: yet that he did patiently abide and sent his Prophets continually to call them to repentance, but he profited nothing. 3:6 1 By the destruction of other nations he showeth that the Jews should have learned to fear God. 3:7 1 They were most earnest and ready to do wickedly. 3:8 1 Seeing ye will not repent, you shall look for my vengeance as well as other nations.
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assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce wrath: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. 9 Surely 1then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him 2with one consent. 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, the 1daughter of my dispersed, praying unto me, shall bring me an offering. 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for 1all thy works, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then will I take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice of thy pride, and thou shalt no more be proud of mine holy mountain. 12 Then will I leave in the midst of thee an humble and poor people: and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord. 13 The remnant of Israel shall do none iniquity, nor speak lies: neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall be fed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 14 Rejoice, O daughter Zion: be ye joyful, O Israel: be glad and rejoice with all thine heart, O daughter
Jerusalem. 15 The Lord hath taken away thy 1judgments: he hath cast out thine 2enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord is in the midst of 3thee: thou shalt see no more evil. 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not, O Zion, let not thine hands be faint. 17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty: he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy: he will quiet himself in 1his love: he will rejoice over thee with joy. 18 After a certain time will I gather the afflicted that were of thee, and them that bare the reproach for 1it. 19 Behold, at that time I will bruise all that afflict thee, and I will 1save her that halteth, and gather her that was cast out, and I will get them praise and fame in all the 2lands of their shame. 20 At that time will I bring you again, and then will I gather you: for I will give you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.
3:9 1 Lest any should think then that God's glory should have per ished when Judah was destroyed, he showeth that he will publish his grace through all the world. 2 Hebrew, with one shoulder, as Hos. 6:9. 3:10 1 That is, the Jews shall come as well as the Gentiles: which is to be understood under the time of the Gospel. 3:11 1 For they shall have full remission of their sins, and the hypo crites which boasted of the Temple, which was also thy pride in times past, shall be taken from thee. 3:15 1 That is, the punishment for thy sin.
2 As the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians and other nations. 3 To defend thee as by thy sins thou hast put him away, and left thyself naked, as Exod. 32:25. 3:17 1 Signifying, that God delighteth to show his love and great affection toward his Church. 3:18 1 That is, them that were had in hatred and reviled for the Church, and because of their religion. 3:19 1 I will deliver the Church, which now is afflicted, as Mic. 4:6. 2 As among the Assyrians and Chaldeans which did mock them and put them to shame.
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1 1 The time of the Prophecy of Haggai. 8 An exhortation to build the Temple again.
upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, upon all that the ground bringeth forth: both upon men and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands. 12 When Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, with all the remnant of the people, heard the 1voice of the Lord their God, and the words of the Prophet Haggai (as the Lord their God had sent him) then the people did fear before the Lord. 13 Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord. 14 And the Lord stirred up 1the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, a prince of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came, and did the work in the House of the Lord of hosts their God. 2 He showeth that the glory of the second Temple shall exceed the first.
1 In the second year of king 1Darius, in the sixth month, the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord (by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai) unto 2Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, a prince of Judah, and to Jehoshua the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, the time is not yet come, 1that the Lord's house should be built. 3 Then came the word of the Lord by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai, saying, 4 Is it time for yourselves to dwell in your 1ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your own ways in your hearts. 6 1Ye have sown much, and bring in little: ye eat, but ye have not enough: ye drink, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warm: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bag. 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your own ways in your hearts. 8 Go 1up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build this House, and 2I will be favorable in it, and I will 3be glorified, saith the Lord. 9 Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little: and when ye brought it home, I did blow 1upon it. And why, saith the Lord of hosts? Because of mine House that is waste, and ye turn every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you stayed itself from dew, and the earth stayed her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and
1 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of king Darius, 2 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai, saying, 3 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel prince of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, 4 Who is left among you that saw this 1House in her first glory, and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes, in comparison of it as nothing? 5 Yet now be of good courage, O Zerubbabel,
1:1 1 Who was the son of Histaspis and the third king of the Persians, as some think. 2 Because the building of the Temple began to cease, by reason that the people were discouraged by their enemies: and if these two notable men had need to be stirred up and admonished of their duties, what shall we think of other governors, whose doings are either against God, or very cold in his cause? 1:2 1 Not that they condemned the building thereof, but they pre ferred policy and private profit to religion, being content with small beginnings. 1:4 1 Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honor. 1:6 1 Consider the plagues of God upon you for preferring your poli cies to his religion, and because ye seek not him first of all. 1:8 1 Meaning, that they should leave off their own commodities,
and go forward in the building of God's Temple, and in the setting forth of his religion. 2 That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise, 1 Kings 8:21, 29. 3 That is, my glory shall be set forth by you. 1:9 1 And so bring it to nothing. 1:12 1 This declareth that God was the author of the doctrine, and that he was but the minister, as Exod. 14:31; Judg. 7:20; Acts 15:28. 1:14 1 Which declareth that men are inept and dull to serve the Lord, neither can they obey his word or his messengers, before God reform their hearts, and give them new spirits, John 6:44. 2:4 1 For the people according as Isa. 30:19 and Ezek. 41:1, had prophesied, thought this Temple should have been more excellent than Solomon's Temple, which was destroyed by the Babylonians, but the Prophets meant the spiritual Temple, The Church of Christ.
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saith the Lord, and be of good comfort, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak the high Priest: and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and 1do it: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. 6 According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt: so my Spirit shall remain among you, fear ye not. 7 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, 1Yet a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land: 8 And I will move all nations, and 1the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this House with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. 9 The 1silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. 10 The glory of this last House shall be greater than the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give 1peace, saith the Lord of hosts. 11 ¶ In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto the Prophet Haggai, saying, 12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Ask now the Priests concerning the Law, and say, 13 If one bear 1holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch the bread or the pottage, or the wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the Priests answered and said, No. 14 Then said Haggai, If a polluted person touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the Priests answered, and said, It shall be unclean. 15 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all the works of their hands, and that which they offer here, is unclean.
16 And now, I pray you, consider in your minds: from this 1day and afore, even afore a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of the Lord: 17 1Before these things were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the winepress, for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. 18 I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord. 19 Consider, I pray you, in your minds, from 1this day, and afore, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's Temple was laid: consider it in your minds. 20 Is the 1seed yet in the barn? as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. 21 And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, 22 Speak to Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, and say, I 1will shake the heavens and the earth. 23 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the 1kingdoms of the heathen, and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them, and the horse and the riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. 24 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a 1signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.
2:5 1 That is, go forward in building the Temple. 2:7 1 He exhorteth them to patience though see not as yet this Temple so glorious as the Prophets had declared: for this should be accomplished in Christ, by whom all things should be renewed. 2:8 1 Meaning, Christ whom all ought to look for and desire: or by desire he may signify all precious things, as riches, and such like. 2:9 1 Therefore when his time cometh he can make all the treasures of the world to serve his purpose: but the glory of this second Temple doth not stand in material things, neither can be built. 2:10 1 Meaning, all spiritual blessings and felicity purchased by Christ, Phil. 4:7. 2:13 1 That is, the flesh of the sacrifices, whereby he signifieth that thing which of itself is good, cannot make another thing so: and therefore they ought not to justify themselves by their sacrifices and ceremonies: but contrary he that is unclean and not pure of heart,
doth corrupt those things and make them detestable unto God, which else are good and godly. 2:16 1 Consider how God did plague you with famine afore you began to build the Temple. 2:17 1 That is, before the building was begun. 2:19 1 From the time they began to build the Temple, he promiseth that God would bless them: and albeit as yet the fruit was not come forth, yet in the gathering they should have plenty. 2:20 1 He exhorteth them to patience, and to abide till the harvest came, and then they should see God's blessings. 2:22 1 I will make a change, and renew all things in Christ, of whom Zerubbabel here is a figure. 2:23 1 Hereby he showeth that there shall be no let or hindrance, when God will make this wonderful restitution of his Church. 2:24 1 Signifying that his dignity should be most excellent, which thing was accomplished in Christ.
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1 He exhorteth the people to return to the Lord, and to eschew the wickedness of their fathers. 16 He signifieth the restitution of Jerusalem and the Temple.
the Prophet, saying, 8 I 1saw by night, and behold 2a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a bottom, and behind him were there 3red horses speckled and white. 9 Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the Angel that talked with me, said unto me, I will show thee what these be. 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees, answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to go through the world. 11 And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have gone through the world: and behold, all the world sitteth still and is at rest. 12 Then the 1Angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou be unmerciful to Jerusalem, and to the cities of Judah, with whom thou hast been displeased now these threescore and ten years? 13 And the Lord answered the Angel that talked with me, with good words and comfortable words. 14 So the Angel that communed with me, said unto me, Cry thou, and speak, thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am 1jealous over Jerusalem and Zion with a great zeal, 15 And am greatly angry against the careless heathen: for I was angry but 1a little, and they helped forward the affliction. 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will return unto Jerusalem with tender mercy: mine house shall be
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a Jer. 3:12 Ezek. 18:30
Hos. 14:2 Joel 2:12
1 In the eighth month of the second year of 1Darius, came the word of the Lord unto 2Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the Prophet, saying, 2 The Lord hath been 1sore displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 1Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former aProphets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your wicked works: but they would not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where 1are they? and do the Prophets live forever? 6 But did not my words and my statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, take hold of 1your fathers? and 2they returned, and said, As the Lord of hosts hath determined to do unto us according to our own ways, and according to our works, so hath he dealt with us. 7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month 1Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo
1:1 1 Who was the son of Histaspis. 2 This was not that Zechariah, whereof is mentioned 2 Chron. 24:20, but had the same name, and is called the son of Berechiah, as he was, because he came of those progenitors, as of Joiada or Berechiah, and Iddo. 1:2 1 He speaketh this to fear them with God's judgments, that they should not provoke him as their fathers had done, whom he so griev ously punished. 1:3 1 Let your fruits declare that you are God's people, and that he hath wrought in you by his Spirit, and mortified you: for else man hath no power to return to God, but God must convert him, as Jer. 31:18; Lam. 5:21; Isa. 21:8 and 31:6 and 45:21. 1:5 1 Though your fathers be dead, yet God's judgments in punish ing them ought still to be before your eyes: and though the Prophets be dead, yet their doctrine remaineth forever, 2 Pet. 1:15. 1:6 1 Seeing ye saw the force of my doctrine in punishing your fathers, why do ye not fear the threatenings contained in the same, and declared by my Prophets? 2 As men astonished with my judgments, and not that they were touched with true repentance. 1:7 1 Which containeth part of January and part of February.
1:8 1 This vision signifieth the restoration of the Church: but as yet it should not appear to man's eyes, which is here meant by the night, by the bottom, and by the myrrh trees which are black, and give a dark shadow, yet he compareth God to a King, who hath his posts and messengers abroad by whom he still worketh his purpose and bringeth his matters to pass. 2 Who was the chief among the rest of the horsemen. 3 These signified the divers offices of God's Angels by whom God sometimes punisheth and sometimes comforteth and bringeth forth his works in divers sorts. 1:12 1 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. 1:14 1 Though for a time God defer his help and comfort from his Church, yet this declareth that he loveth them still most dearly, as a most merciful father his children, or an husband his wife, and when it is expedient for them, his help is ever ready. 1:15 1 In destroying the reprobate, I showed myself but a little angry toward my church, but the enemy would have destroyed them also, and considered not the end of my chastisements.
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of 1fire round about, and will 2be the glory in the midst of her. 6 Ho, ho, come 1forth, and flee from the land of the North, saith the Lord: for I have scattered you into the four 2winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. 7 1Save thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babel. 8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, After this 1glory hath he sent me unto the nations, which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the 2apple of his eye. 9 For behold, I will lift up mine hand 1upon them: and 2they shall be a spoil to those that served them, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath 3sent me. 10 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Zion: for lo, I come, and will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. 11 And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. 12 And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. 13 Let all flesh be still before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy place. 3 A prophecy of Christ and of his kingdom.
built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line 1shall be stretched upon Jerusalem. 17 Cry yet, and speak, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, My cities shall yet 1be broken with plenty: the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. 18 Then lifted I up mine eyes and saw, and behold, 1four horns. 19 And I said unto the Angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And the Lord showed me four 1carpenters. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he answered, and said, These are the horns, which have scattered Judah, so that a man durst not lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, and to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. 2 The restoring of Jerusalem and Judah.
1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold, a 1man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, that I may see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 3 And behold, the Angel that talked with me, went forth, and another Angel went out to meet him, 4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this 1young man, and say, 2Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle therein. 5 For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall
1 And he showed me Joshua the high Priest, 1standing before the Angel of the Lord, and 2Satan stood at his right hand to resist him. 2 And the 1Lord said unto Satan, The Lord reprove thee, O Satan: even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, reprove thee. Is not this a 2[brand] taken
1:16 1 To measure out the buildings. 1:17 1 The abundance shall be so great, that the places of store shall not be able to contain these blessings that God will send, but shall even break for fullness. 1:18 1 Which signified all the enemies of the Church, East, West, North, South. 1:20 1 These Carpenters or Smiths are God's instruments, which with their mallets and hammers break these hard and strong horns which should overthrow the Church, and declare that none enemy's horn is so strong, but God hath an hammer to break it in pieces. 2:1 1 This is the Angel who was Christ: for in respect of his office he is ofttimes called an Angel, but in respect of his eternal essence, is God, and so called. 2:4 1 Meaning, himself Zechariah. 2 Signifying the spiritual Jerusalem and Church under Christ, which should be extended by the Gospel through all the world, and should need no material walls, nor trust in any worldly strength, but should be safely preserved and dwell in peace among all their enemies. 2:5 1 To defend my Church, to fear the enemies and to destroy them if they approach near. 2 In me they shall have their full felicity and glory. 2:6 1 He calleth to them, which partly for fear, and partly for their own case, remained still in captivity, and so preferred their own pri
vate commodities to the benefits of God promised in his Church. 2 As it was I that scattered you, so have I power to restore you. 2:7 1 By fleeing from Babylon, and coming to the Church. 2:8 1 Seeing that God had begun to show his grace among you by delivering you, he continueth the same still toward you, and therefore sendeth me his Angel and his Christ to defend you from your enemies, that they shall not hurt you, neither by the way nor at home. 2 Ye are so dear unto God, that he can no more suffer your enemies to hurt you, than a man can abide to be thrust in the eye, Ps. 17:8. 2:9 1 Upon the heathen your enemies. 2 They shall be your servants, as you have been theirs. 3 This must necessarily be understood of Christ, who being God equal with his Father, was sent as he was Mediator to dwell in his Church and to govern them. 3:1 1 He prayed to Christ the Mediator for the state of the Church. 2 Which declareth that the faithful have not only war with flesh and blood, but with Satan himself and spiritual wickedness, Eph. 6:12. 3:2 1 That is, Christ speaketh to God as the Mediator of his Church, that he would rebuke Satan: and here he showeth himself to be the continual preserver of his Church. 2 Meaning, that Joshua was wonderfully preserved in the captiv ity, and now Satan sought to afflict and trouble him when he was doing his office.
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out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was clothed with 1filthy garments, and stood before the Angel. 4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the 1filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have 2caused thine iniquity to depart from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. 5 And I said, Let them 1set a fair diadem upon his head. So they set a fair diadem upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord stood by. 6 And the Angel of the Lord testified unto Joshua, saying, 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my watch, thou shalt also 1judge mine house, and shalt also keep my 2courts, and I will give thee place among 3these that stand by. 8 Hear now, O Joshua the high Priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they 1are monstrous persons: but behold, I will bring forth the 2Branch my servant. 9 For lo, the 1stone that I have laid before Joshua: upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I 2will cut out the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will take 3away the iniquity of this land in one day. 10 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call
every man his neighbor under the 1vine, and under the fig tree. 4 The vision of the golden candlestick, and the exposition thereof.
1 And the Angel that talked with me, came again and waked me, as a man that is raised out of his sleep, 2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold, a 1candlestick all of gold with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps therein, and seven 2pipes to the lamps which were upon the top thereof, 3 And two olive trees over it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. 4 So I answered and spake to the Angel that talked with me, saying, What are these my Lord? 5 Then the Angel that talked with me, answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my Lord. 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto 1Zerubbabel, saying, Neither by 2an army nor strength, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. 7 Who art thou, O 1great mountain, before Zerubbabel? thou shall be a plain, and 2he shall bring forth the headstone thereof, with shoutings, crying,
3:3 1 In respect of the glorious garments and precious stones that the Priests did wear before the captivity: and by this contemptible state the Prophet signifieth, that these small beginnings should be made excellent when Christ shall make the full restitution of his Church. 3:4 1 See verse 3. 2 He showeth of what apparel he speaketh, which is, when our filthy sins are taken away, and we are clad with God's mercies, which is meant of the spiritual restitution. 3:5 1 The Prophet prayeth, that besides the raiment, the Priest might also have tyre for his head accordingly, that is, that the dignity of the Priesthood might be perfect: and this was fulfilled in Christ, who was both Priest and King: and here all such are condemned, that can con tent themselves with any mean reformation in religion, seeing the Prophet desireth the perfection, and obtaineth it. 3:7 1 That is, have rule and government in my Church, as thy prede cessors have had. 2 Whereby he meaneth to have the whole charge and ministry of the Church. 3 That is, the Angels, who represented the whole number of the faithful: signifying that all the godly should willingly receive him. 3:8 1 Because they follow my word, they are contemned in the world, and esteemed as monsters, Isa. 8:18. 2 That is, Christ, who did so humble himself, that not only he became the servant of God, but also the servant of men: and there fore in him they should have comfort, although in the world they were contemned, Isa. 11:1; Jer. 23:5 and 33:14, 15. 3:9 1 He showeth that the ministers cannot build, before God lay the first stone, which is Christ, who is full of eyes, both because he
giveth light unto all others, and that all ought to seek light at him, Zech. 4:10. 2 That is, I will make perfect in all points, as a thing wrought by the hand of GOD. 3 Though I have punished this land for a time, yet I will even now be pacified, and visit their sins no more. 3:10 1 Ye shall then live in peace and quietness, that is, in the king dom of Christ, Isa. 2:2; Mic. 4:4; Hag. 2:10. 4:2 1 Which was ever in the midst of the Temple, signifying that the graces of God's spirit should shine there in most abundance, and in all perfection. 2 Which conveyed the oil that dropped from the trees into the lamps, so that the light never failed: and this vision was to confirm the faithful that God had sufficient power in himself to continue his graces, and to bring his promise to pass though he had no help of man. 4:6 1 Who was a figure of Christ and therefore this doctrine was directed to all the Church who are his body and members. 2 He showeth that God's power only is sufficient to preserve his Church, though he use not man's help thereunto. 4:7 1 He compareth the power of the adversaries to a great moun tain, who thought the Jews nothing in respect of them, and would have hindered Zerubbabel, who represented Christ, whom the enemies daily labor to let in the building of his spiritual Temple, but all in vain. 2 Though the enemies think to stay this building, yet Zerubbabel shall lay the highest stone thereof, and bring it to perfection, so that all the godly shall rejoice, and pray unto God that he would continue his grace and favor toward the Temple.
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Grace, grace unto it. 8 Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house: his hands shall also finish it, and 1thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. 10 For who hath despised the day of the 1small things? but they shall rejoice, and shall see the stone of 2tin in the hand of Zerubbabel: 3these seven are the eyes of the Lord, which go through the whole world. 11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right and upon the left side thereof? 12 And I spake moreover, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes empty themselves into the gold? 13 And he answered me, and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my Lord. 14 Then said he, These are the two 1olive branches, that stand with the ruler of the whole earth. 5 1 The vision of the flying book, signifying the curse of thieves, and such as abuse the Name of God. 6 By the vision of the measure is signified the bringing of Judah's afflictions into Babylon.
that: and everyone that 3sweareth, shall be cut off, as well on this side, as on that. 4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that falsely sweareth by my Name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and stones thereof. 5 Then the Angel that talked with me, went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an 1Ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is the 2sight of them through all the earth. 7 And behold, there was lifted up a 1talent of lead: and this is a 2woman that sitteth in the midst of the Ephah. 8 And he said, This is 1wickedness, and he cast it into the midst of the Ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. 9 Then I lifted mine eyes, and looked: and behold, there came out two 1women, and the wind was in their wings (for they had wings like the wings of a stork) and they lifted up the Ephah between the earth and the heaven. 10 Then said I to the Angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the Ephah? 11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar, and it shall be 1established and set there upon her own place. 6 By the four chariots he describeth the four Monarchies.
1 Then I turned me, and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a flying book. 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying 1book: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the whole earth: for everyone that 1stealeth, shall be cut off, as well on this 2side, as on
1 Again, I turned and lifted up mine eyes, and looked: and behold, there came four 1chariots out from between 2two mountains, and the mountains
4:9 1 Meaning, the Prophet, that I am Christ sent of my Father for the building and preservation of my spiritual Temple. 4:10 1 Signifying, that all were discouraged at the small and poor beginnings of the Temple. 2 Whereby he signifieth the plummet and line, that is, that Zerub babel which represented Christ, should go forward with his building to the joy and comfort of the godly, though the world be against him, and though his for a while be discouraged, because they see not things pleasant to the eye. 3 That is, God hath seven eyes: meaning, a continual providence, so that neither Satan nor any power in the world, can go about to bring anything to pass to hinder his work, Zech. 5:9. 4:14 1 Which were ever green and full of oil, so that still they poured forth oil into the lamps: signifying, that God will continually maintain and preserve his Church, and endue it still with abundance and per fection of grace. 5:2 1 Because the Jews had provoked God's plagues by contemn ing his word, and casting off all judgment and equity, he showeth that God's curses written in this book had justly light both on them and their fathers: but now if they would repent, God would send the same among the Chaldeans their former enemies. 5:3 1 That is, useth any injury toward his neighbor.
2 Meaning, wheresoever he be in the world. 3 He that transgresseth the first table, and serveth not God aright but abuseth God's Name. 5:6 1 Which was a measure in dry things, containing about ten pot tels. 2 That is, all the wickedness of the ungodly is in God's sight, which he keepeth in a measure, and can shut it or open it at his pleasure. 5:7 1 To cover the measure. 2 Which representeth iniquity, as in the next verse. 5:8 1 Signifying, that Satan should not have such power against the Jews to tempt them, as he had in time past, but that God would shut up iniquity in a measure as in a prison. 5:9 1 Which declared that God would execute his judgment by the means of the weak and infirm means. 5:11 1 To remove the iniquity and affliction that came for the same from Judah, to place it forever in Babylon. 6:1 1 By chariots here, as by horses afore, he meaneth the swift mes sengers of God to execute and declare his will. 2 By the brazen mountains he meaneth the external counsel, and providence of God whereby he hath from before all eternity decreed what shall come to pass, and that which neither Satan nor all the world can alter.
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were mountains of brass. 2 In the first chariot were 1red horses, and in the second chariot 2black horses, 3 And in the third chariot 1white horses, and in the fourth chariot, horses of 2divers colors, and reddish. 4 Then I answered, and said unto the Angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord? 5 And the Angel answered, and said unto me, These are the four 1spirits of the heaven, which go forth from standing with the Lord of all the earth. 6 That with the black horse went forth into the land of the North, and the white went out after them, and they of divers colors went forth toward the 1South country. 7 And the 1reddish went out, and required to go, and pass through the world, and he said, Go, pass through the world. So they went throughout the world. 8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the North country, have pacified my 1spirit in the North country. 9 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, and of Tobijah, and Jedaiah, which are come from Babel, and come thou the same day, and go unto the house of 1Josiah, the son of Zephaniah. 11 Take even silver, and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the 1head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, 12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, and saith, Behold, the man whose
name is the 1Branch, and he shall grow 2up out of his place, and he shall 3build the Temple of the Lord. 13 Even he shall build the Temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the 1glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a Priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between 2them both. 14 And the crowns shall be to 1Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to 2Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a 3memorial in the Temple of the Lord. 15 And they that are 1far off, shall come and build in the Temple of the Lord, and ye shall know, that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will 2obey the voice of the Lord your God. 7 5 The true fasting. 11 The rebellion of the people is the cause of their affliction.
1 And in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in 1Chislev, 2 For 1they had sent unto the House of God Sharezer, and Regem-Melech and their men to pray before the Lord, 3 And to speak unto the Priests, which were in the House of the Lord of hosts, and to the Prophets, saying, Should I 1weep in the fifth month, and 2separate myself as I have done these so many 3years? 4 Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,
6:2 1 Which signified the great cruelty and persecution that the Church had endured under divers enemies. 2 Signifying, that they had endured great afflictions under the Babylonians. 6:3 1 These represented their state under the Persians, which restored them to liberty. 2 Which signified, that God would sometimes give his Church rest, and pour his plagues upon their enemies, as he did in destroying Nineveh and Babylon, and others their enemies. 6:5 1 Meaning, all the actions and motions of God's Spirit, which according to his unchangeable counsel he causeth to appear through all the world. 6:6 1 That is, toward Egypt, and other countries there about. 6:7 1 That is, they of divers colors, which ask […], to signify that Satan hath no power to hurt or afflict, till God gives it him, Job 1:12. 6:8 1 By punishing the Chaldeans mine anger ceased, and you were delivered. 6:10 1 To receive of him and the other three, money to make the two crowns: which were men of great authority among the Jews, and doubted of the restitution of the kingdom, and of the Priesthood, and hurt others by their example. 6:11 1 Because this could not be attributed to anyone according to the Law, therefore it followeth that Joshua must represent the Mes siah, who was both Priest and king. 6:12 1 Meaning, Christ, of whom Joshua was the figure: for in Greek they were both called Jesus.
2 That is, of himself without the help of man. 3 Which declareth, that none could build this Temple whereof Haggai speaketh, but only Christ: and therefore it was spiritual, and not material, Hag. 2:10. 6:13 1 Whereof Joshua had but a shadow. 2 The two offices of the kingdom, and Priesthood shall be so joined together, that they shall be no more dissevered. 6:14 1 Who was also called Heldai. 2 He was also called Joshiash. 3 That they may acknowledge their infirmity, which looked that all things should have been restored incontinently: and of this their infi delity these two crowns shall remain as tokens, Acts 1:16. 6:15 1 That is, the Gentiles by the preaching of the Gospel, shall help toward the building of the spiritual Temple. 2 If ye will believe and remain in the obedience of faith. 7:1 1 Which contained part of November and part of December. 7:2 1 That is, the rest of the people that remained yet in Chal dea, sent to the Church at Jerusalem, for the resolution of these questions, because these feasts were consented upon by the agreement of the whole Church, the one in the month that the Temple was destroyed, and the other when Gedaliah was slain, Jer. 41:2. 7:3 1 By weeping and mourning, appear what exercises they used in their fasting. 2 That is, prepare myself with all devotion to his fast. 3 Which was now since the time the Temple was destroyed.
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8 2 Of the return of the people unto Jerusalem, and of the mercy of God toward them. 16 Of good works. 20 The calling of the Gentiles.
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the 1Priests, and say, When ye fasted, and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even the seventy years, did ye fast unto me? 2do I approve it? 6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did ye not eat1for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7 Should ye not hear the words which the Lord 1hath cried by the ministry of the former Prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited, and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when the South and the plain was inhabited? 8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, 1Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion, every man to his brother, 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger nor the poor, and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to hearken, and 1pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the Law and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his 1Spirit by the ministry of the former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear, so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts. 14 But I scattered them among all the nations, whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate
1 Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I was 1jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great wrath. 3 Thus saith the Lord, I will return unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a 1city of truth, and the Mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy Mountain. 4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, There shall yet old 1men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof. 6 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Though it be 1impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it therefore be impossible in my sight, saith the Lord of hosts? 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will deliver my people from the East country, and from the West country. 8 And I will bring them, and they shall 1dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth, and in righteousness. 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Let your 1hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the Prophets, which were in the day, that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the Temple might be built. 10 For before these days there was no hire for 1man, nor any hire for beast, neither was there any
1after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land 2waste.
7:5 1 For there were both of the people, and of the Priests, which doubted as touching this controversy, besides them which as yet remained in Chaldea, and reason of it, as of one of the chief points of their religion. 2 For they thought they had deserved toward God because of this fast, which they invented of themselves: and though fasting of itself be good, yet because they thought it a service toward God, and trusted therein, it is here reproved. 7:6 1 Did ye not eat and drink for your own commodity and neces sity, and so likewise ye did abstain according to your own fantasies, and not after the prescript of my Law. 7:7 1 Hereby he condemneth their hypocrisy, which thought by their fasting to please God and by such things as they invented, and in the mean season would not serve him as he had commanded. 7:9 1 He showeth that they did not fast with a sincere heart, but for hypocrisy, and that it was not done of a pure religion, because that they lacked these offices of charity, which should have declared that they were godly, Matt. 23:23. 7:11 1 And would not carry the Lord's burden, which was sweet and easy, but would bear their own, which was heavy and grievous to the flesh, thinking to merit thereby: which similitude is taken of oxen, which shrink at the yoke, Neh. 9:29.
7:12 1 Which declareth that they rebelled not only against the Prophets, but against the Spirit of God that spake in them. 7:14 1 That is, after they were called captive. 2 By their sins whereby they provoked God's anger. 8:2 1 I loved my city with a singular love, so that I could not abide that any should do her any injury. 8:3 1 Because she shall be faithful and loyal toward me her husband. 8:4 1 Though their enemies did greatly molest and trouble them, yet God would come and dwell among them, and so preserve them so long as nature would suffer them to live, and increase their children in great abundance. 8:6 1 He showeth wherein our faith standeth, that is, to believe that God can perform that which he hath promised, though it seem never so impossible to man, Gen. 18:14; Rom. 4:20. 8:8 1 So that their return shall not be in vain: for God will accomplish his promise, and their prosperity shall be sure and stable. 8:9 1 Let neither respect of your private commodities neither coun sel of others, nor fear of enemies discourage you in the going for ward with the building of the Temple, but be constant and obey the Prophets, which encourage you thereunto. 8:10 1 For God cursed your work, so that neither man nor beast had profit of their labors.
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peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men, everyone against his neighbor. 11 But now, I will not entreat the residue of this people as aforetime, saith the Lord of hosts. 12 For the seed shall be prosperous: the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. 13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel, so will I deliver you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong. 14 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I thought to punish1you, when your fathers provoked me unto wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and repented not, 15 So again have I determined in these days 1to do well unto Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah: fear ye not. 16 These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every man the truth unto his neighbor: execute judgment truly, and uprightly in your gates, 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord. 18 And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the 1tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and prosperous high feasts: therefore love the truth and peace. 20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, That there shall yet come 1people, and the inhabitants of great cities. 21 And they that dwell in one city, shall go to another, saying, aUp, let us go and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also. 22 Yea great people and mighty nations shall come
to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. 23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, In those days shall ten men take hold out of all languages of the nations, even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, and say, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. 9 The threatenings of the Gentiles. 9 The coming of Christ.
chapter 8
a Isa. 2:2
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1 The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of 1Hadrach: and Damascus shall be his 2rest: when the 3eyes of man, even of all the tribes of Israel shall be toward the Lord. 2 And Hamath also shall border 1thereby: Tyre also and Sidon, though they be 2very wise. 3 For Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and gold as the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the Lord will spoil her, and he will smite her 1power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, and Gaza also shall be very sorrowful, and Ekron: for her countenance shall be ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. 6 And the 1stranger shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his 1teeth: but he that remaineth, even he shall be for our God, and he shall be as a prince in Judah, but 2Ekron shall be as a Jebusite. 8 And I will camp about 1mine House against the army, against him that passeth by, and against him that returneth, and no oppressor shall come upon them anymore: for now 2have I seen with mine eyes. 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion: shout for
8:14 1 Read Ezek. 18:20. 8:15 1 Which declareth that man cannot turn to God till he changes man's heart by his spirit, and so begin to do well, which is to pardon his sins and to give him his graces. 8:19 1 Which fast was appointed when the city was besieged, and was the first fast of these four: and here the Prophet showeth, that if the Jews will repent, and turn wholly to God, they shall have no more occasion to fast, or to show signs of heaviness: for God will send them joy and gladness. 8:20 1 He declareth the great zeal that God should give the Gentiles to come to his Church, and to join with the Jews in his true religion, which should be in the kingdom of Christ. 9:1 1 Whereby he meaneth Syria. 2 God's anger shall abide upon their chief city, and not spare so much as that. 3 When the Jews shall convert and repent, then God will destroy their enemies. 9:2 1 That is, by Damascus: meaning, that Hamath or Antioch should
be under the same rod and plague. 2 He secretly showeth the cause of their destruction, because they deceived all others by their craft and subtlety, which they cloaked with this name of wisdom. 9:4 1 Though they of Tyre think themselves invincible by reason of the sea that compass them round about, yet they shall not escape God's judgments. 9:6 1 Meaning, that all should be destroyed, save a very few, that should remain as strangers. 9:7 1 He promiseth to deliver the Jews when he shall take vengeance on their enemies for their cruelty and wrongs done to them. 2 As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so should Ekron and all the Philistines. 9:8 1 He showeth that God's power only shall be sufficient to defend his Church against all adversaries be they never so cruel, or assemble their power never so often. 2 That is, God hath now seen the great injuries and afflictions wherewith they have been afflicted by their enemies.
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joy, O daughter Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee: 1he is just, and saved himself, poor and riding upon an 2ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 10 And I will cut off the 1chariots from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem: the bow of the battle shall be broken, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen, and his dominion shall be from 2sea unto sea, and from the 3River to the end of the land. 11 1Thou also shall be saved through the blood of thy covenant. I have loosed thy 2prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. 12 Turn you to the 1stronghold, ye 2prisoners of hope: even today do I declare, that I will render the 3double unto thee. 13 For Judah have I bent as a 1bow for me: Ephraim's hand have I filled, and I have raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and have made thee as a giant's sword. 14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall come forth with the whirlwinds of the South. 15 The Lord of hosts shall defend them, and they shall devour them, 1and subdue them with sling stones, and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine, and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the horns of the Altar. 16 And the Lord their God shall deliver them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as
the 1stones of the crown lifted up upon his land. 17 For how great is his goodness! and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. 10 1 The vanity of Idolatry. 3 The Lord promiseth to visit and comfort the house of Israel.
1 Ask you of the 1Lord rain in the time of the latter rain: so shall the Lord make white clouds, and give you showers of rain, and to everyone grass in the field. 2 Surely the 1idols have spoken vanity, and the soothsayers have seen a lie, and the dreamers have told a vain thing: they comfort in vain: therefore 2they went away as sheep: they were troubled, because there was no shepherd. 3 My wrath was kindled against the shepherds, and I did visit the 1goats: but the Lord of hosts will visit his flock the house of Judah, and will make them as 2his beautiful horse in the battle. 4 Out 1of him shall the corner come forth: out of him the nail, out of him ye bow of battle, and out of him every 2appointer of tribute also. 5 And they shall be as the mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will preserve the 1house of Joseph, and I will bring
9:9 1 That is, he hath righteousness and salvation in himself for the use and commodity of his Church. 2 Which declareth that they should not look for such a king as should be glorious in the eyes of man, but should be poor, and yet in himself have all power to deliver his: and this is meant of Christ, as Matt. 21:5. 9:10 1 No power of man or creature shall be able to let this kingdom of Christ, and he shall peaceably govern them by his word. 2 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 com pass over the whole world. 3 That is, from Euphrates. 9:11 1 Meaning, Jerusalem, or the Church which is saved by the blood of Christ whereof the blood of the sacrifices was a figure, and is here called the covenant of the Church, because God made it with his Church: and left it with them for the love that he bare unto them. 2 God showeth that he will deliver his Church out of all dangers, seem they never so great. 9:12 1 That is, into the holy land where the city and the Temple are, where God will defend you. 2 Meaning the faithful, which seemed to be in danger of their enemies on every side, and yet lived in hope that God would restore them to liberty. 3 That is, double benefits and prosperity, in respect of that which your fathers enjoined from David's time to the captivity. 9:13 1 I will make Judah and Ephraim, that is, my whole Church, victo rious against all enemies, which he here meaneth by the Greecians.
9:15 1 He promiseth that the Jews shall destroy their enemies, and have abundance and excess of all things, as there is abundance on the altar when the sacrifice is offered: Which things are not to move them to intemperancy, but to sobriety, and a thankful remembrance of God's great liberality. 9:16 1 The faithful shall be preserved, and reverenced of all, that the very enemies shall be compelled to esteem them: for God's glory shall shine in them, as Josephus declareth of Alexander the great when he met Jadi the high Priest. 10:1 1 The Prophet reproveth the Jews, because by their own infi delity they put back God's graces promised, and so famine came by God's just judgment: therefore to avoid this plague, he willeth them to turn to God, and to pray in faith to him, and so he will give them abundance. 10:2 1 He calleth to remembrance God's punishments in times past, because they trusted not in him, but in their idols and sorcerers who ever deceived them. 2 That is, the Jews went into captivity. 10:3 1 Meaning, the cruel governors which did oppress the poor sheep, Ezek. 34:16, 17. 2 He will be merciful to his Church and cherish them as a king or prince doth his best horse which shall be for his own use in war. 10:4 1 Out of Judah shall the chief governor proceed, who shall be as a corner to uphold the building, and as a nail to fasten it together. 2 Over their enemies. 10:6 1 That is, the ten tribes, which should be gathered under Christ to the rest of the Church.
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herds: for their 1glory is destroyed: the voice of the roaring of lion's whelps: for the pride of Jordan is destroyed. 4 Thus saith the Lord my God, Feed the sheep of the 1slaughter. 5 They that possess them, slay them 1and sin not: and they that sell them, say, 2Blessed be the Lord: for I am rich, and their own shepherds spare them not. 6 Surely I will no more spare those that dwell in the land, saith the Lord: but lo, 1I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his 2king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hands I will not deliver them. 7 For I fed the sheep of slaughter, even the 1poor of the flock, and I took unto me 2two staves: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands, and I fed the sheep. 8 1Three shepherds also I cut off in one month, and my soul loathed 2them, and their soul abhorred me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die: and that that perisheth, let it perish: and let the remnant eat, everyone the flesh of his neighbor. 10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and brake it, that I might disannul my covenant, which I had made with all people. 11 And it was broken in that day: and so the 1poor of the sheep that waited upon me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12 And I said unto them, If ye think it good, give me 1my wages: and if no, leave off: so they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the
them again, for I pity them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them. 7 And they of Ephraim shall be as a giant: and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad: and their heart shall rejoice in the Lord. 8 I will 1hiss for them: and gather them: for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase, as they have increased. 9 And I will 1sow them among the people, and they shall remember me in far countries: and they shall live with their children and 2turn again. 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria: and I will bring them into the land of Gilead, and Lebanon, and place shall not be found for them. 11 And he 1shall go into the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be cast down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. 12 And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his Name, saith the Lord. 11 The destruction of the Temple. 4 The care of the faithful is committed to Christ. 7 A grievous vision against Jerusalem and Judah.
1 Open thy doors, O 1Lebanon, and the fire shall devour thy cedars. 2 Howl, 1fir trees: for the cedar is fallen, because all the mighty are destroyed: howl ye, O oaks of Bashan, for the 2defenced forest is cut down. 3 There is the voice of the howling of the shep-
10:8 1 Whereby he declareth the power of God, who needeth no great preparation when he will deliver his: for with a beck or hiss he can call them from all places suddenly. 10:9 1 Though they shall yet be scattered and seem to be lost, yet it shall be profitable unto them: for there they shall come to the knowledge of my Name, which was accomplished under the Gospel, among whom it was first preached. 2 Not that they should return into their country, but be gathered and joined in one faith by the doctrine of the Gospel. 10:11 1 He alludeth to the deliverance of the people out of Egypt, whereas the Angel smote the floods and rivers. 11:1 1 Because the Jews thought themselves so strong by reason of this mountain, that no enemy could come to hurt them, the Prophet showeth that when God sendeth the enemies, it shall show itself ready to receive them. 11:2 1 Showing, that if the strong men were destroyed, the weaker were not able to resist. 2 Seeing that Lebanon was destroyed, which was the strongest munition, the weaker places could not think to hold out. 11:3 1 That is, the renown of Judah and Israel should perish. 11:4 1 Which being now destinate to be slain, were delivered as out of the lion's mouth. 11:5 1 Their governors destroy them without any remorse of con
science, or yet thinking that they do evil. 2 He noteth the hypocrites, which ever have the Name of God in their mouths, though in their life and doings they deny God, attribut ing their gain to God's blessings, which cometh of the spoil of their brethren. 11:6 1 I will cause one to destroy another. 2 Their governors shall execute cruelty over them. 11:7 1 That is, the small remnant, whom he thought worthy to show mercy unto. 2 God showeth his great benefits toward his people to convince them of greater ingratitude, which would neither be ruled by his most beautiful order of government, neither continue in the bands of brotherly unity, and therefore he breaketh both the one and the other. Some read, for Bands, Destroyers, but in verse 14 the first read ing is confirmed. 11:8 1 Whereby he showeth his care and diligence that he would suffer them to have no evil rulers, because they should consider his great love. 2 Meaning, the people, because they would not acknowledge these great benefits of God. 11:11 1 He showeth that the least part ever profit by God's judgments. 11:12 1 Besides their ingratitude God accuseth them of malice and wickedness, which did not only forget his benefits, but esteemed them as things of naught.
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1potter: a goodly price, that I was valued at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. 14 Then brake I mine other staff: even the Bands, that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 15 And the Lord said unto me, Take to thee yet 1the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 16 For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not look for the thing that is lost, nor seek the tender lambs, nor heal that that is hurt, nor feed that that 1standeth up, but he shall eat flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 17 O idol shepherd that leaveth the flock: the sword shall be upon his 1arm, and upon his right eye. His arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. 12 Of the destruction and building again of Jerusalem.
hearts, The 1inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. 6 In that day will I make the princes of Judah like coals of fire among the wood, and like a firebrand in the sheaf, and they shall devour all the people round about on the right hand, and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. 7 The Lord also shall preserve the 1tents of Judah, as afore time: therefore the glory of the house of David shall not boast, nor the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem against Judah. 8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that is feeble among them, in that day shall be as David: and the house of David shall be as God's house, and as the Angel of the Lord before them. 9 And in that day will I seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of 1grace and of compassion, and they shall look upon me, whom they have 2pierced, and they shall lament for 3him, as one mourneth for his only son, and be sorry for him as one is sorry for his firstborn. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the 1mourning of 2Hadad Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo. 12 And the 1land shall bewail every family 2apart, the family of the 3house of David apart, and their wives apart: the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart: 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart: the family of 1Shemei apart, and their wives apart: 14 All the families that 1remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
1 The burden of the word of the Lord upon 1Israel, saith the Lord, which spread the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him. 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a1cup of poison unto all the people round about: and also with Judah will he be in the siege against Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem an heavy stone for all people: all that lift it up, shall be torn, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness, and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. 5 And the princes of Judah shall say in their
11:13 1 Showing that it was too little to pay his wages, which could scarce suffice to make a few tiles to cover the Temple. 11:15 1 Signifying that they should have a certain kind of regiment and outward show of government: but in effect it should be nothing: for they should be wolves, and devouring beasts instead of shepherds. 11:16 1 And is in health and sound. 11:17 1 By the arms he signifieth strength, as he doth wisdom and judgments by the eye: that is, the plague of God shall take away both thy strength and judgment. 12:1 1 That is, the ten tribes, which neglected God's benefit in deliv ering their brethren, and had rather remain in captivity, than to return home when God called them. 12:2 1 Jerusalem shall be defended against all her enemies: so shall God defend all Judah also, and shall destroy the enemies. 12:5 1 Every captain, that had many under him afore, shall now think that the small power of Jerusalem shall be sufficient to defend them against all enemies, because the Lord is among them. 12:7 1 The people which are now as it were dispersed by the fields, and lie open to their enemies, shall be no less preserved by my power, than if they were under their kings (which is meant by the
house of David) or in their defensed cities. 12:10 1 They shall have the feeling of my grace by faith, and know that I have compassion on them. 2 That is, whom they have continually vexed with their obstinacy, and grieved my Spirit, John 19:37, where it is referred to Christ's body, which here is referred to the Spirit of God. 3 They shall turn to God by true repentance, whom before they had so grievously offended by their ingratitude. 12:11 1 They shall lament and repent exceedingly for their offences against God. 2 Which was the name of a town and place near to Megiddo where Josiah was slain, 2 Chron. 35:22. 12:12 1 That is, in all places where the Jews shall remain. 2 Signifying, that this mourning or repentance should not be a vain ceremony: but everyone touched with his own griefs, shall lament. 3 Under these certain families he containeth all the tribes, and showeth that both the Kings and the Priests had by their sins pierced Christ. 12:13 1 Called also Simeon. 12:14 1 To wit, which were elected by grace, and preserved from the common destruction.
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9 And I will bring that third part through the fire, and will fine them as the silver is fined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The Lord is my God. 14 8 Of the doctrine that shall proceed out of the Church, and of the restoration thereof.
1 In that day there 1shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. 2 And in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the 1names of the idols out of the land: and they shall no more be remembered: and I will cause the 2prophets, and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land. 3 And when any shall yet 1prophesy, his father and his mother that begat him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live: for thou speakest lies in the Name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, 2shall thrust him through, when he prophesieth. 4 And in that day shall the prophets 1be ashamed everyone of his vision, when he hath prophesied: neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive. 5 But he shall say, I am no 1Prophet: I am an husbandman: for man taught me to be an herdsman from my youth up. 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these 1wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Thus was I wounded in the house of my friends. 7 ¶ Arise, O sword, upon my 1shepherd, and upon the man, that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 8 And in all the land, saith the Lord, 1two parts therein shall be cut off, and die: but the third shall be left therein.
1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be 1divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses spoiled, and the women defiled, and half of the city shall go into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the Lord shall go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he 1fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the 1mount of olives, which is before Jerusalem on the Eastside, and the mount of olives shall cleave in the midst thereof: toward the East and toward the West there shall be a very great 2valley, and half of the mountain shall remove toward the North, and half of the mountain toward the South. 5 And ye shall flee unto the 1valley of the mountains: for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee like as ye fled from the 2earthquake, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord 3my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee. 6 And in that day shall there be no clear light but dark.
13:1 1 He showeth what shall be the fruit of their repentance, to wit, remission of sins by the blood of Christ, which shall be a continual running fountain, and purge them from all uncleanness. 13:2 1 He promiseth that God will also purge them from all supersti tion, and that their religion shall be pure. 2 Meaning, the false prophets and teachers, who are the corrupt ers of all religion, whom the Prophet here calleth unclean spirits. 13:3 1 That is, when they shall prophesy lies, and make God, who is the author of truth, a cloak thereunto. 2 He showeth what zeal the godly shall have under the kingdom of Christ, Deut. 13:6, 9. 13:4 1 God shall make them ashamed of their errors and lies, and bring them to repentance, and they shall no more wear Prophet's apparel to make their doctrine seem more holy. 13:5 1 They shall confess their former ignorance, and be content to labor for their living. 13:6 1 Hereby he showeth that though their parents and friends dealt more gently with them, and put them not to death, yet they would so punish their children, that became false prophets, that the marks and signs should remain forever. 13:7 1 The Prophet warneth the Jews, that before this great comfort should come under Christ, there should be an horrible dissipation among the people: for their governors and pastors should be destroyed, and the people should be as scattered sheep: and the Evangelist applieth this to
Christ, because he was the head of all Pastors, Matt. 26:31. 13:8 1 The greatest part shall have no portion of these blessings, and yet they that shall enjoy them, shall be tried with great afflictions, so that it shall be known that only God's power and his mercies do preserve them. 14:1 1 He armeth the godly against the great tentations that should come, before they enjoyed this prosperous estate promised under Christ, that when these dangers should come, they might know that they were warned of them afore. 14:3 1 As your fathers and you have had experience both at the red sea, and at all other times. 14:4 1 By this manner of speech the Prophet showeth God's power and care over his Church, and how he will as it were by miracle save it. 2 So that out of all the parts of the world, they shall see Jerusalem, which was before hid with this mountain: and this he meaneth of the spiritual Jerusalem the Church. 14:5 1 He speaketh of the hypocrites, which could not abide God's presence, but should flee into all places, where they might hide them among the mountains. 2 Read Amos 1:1. 3 Because they did not credit the Prophet's words, he turneth to God and comforteth himself in that that he knew that these things should come, and saith, Thou, O God, with thine Angels wilt come to perform this great thing.
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7 And there shall be a day (it is known to the Lord) 1neither day nor night, but about the evening time it shall be light. 8 And in that day shall there 1waters of life go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the East sea, and half of them toward the uttermost sea, and shall be, both in summer and winter. 9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one 1Lord, and his Name shall be one. 10 All the land shall be turned 1as a plain from Geba to Rimmon, toward the South of Jerusalem, and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place: from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananiel unto the king's winepresses. 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more destruction, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all people, that have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away, though they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume in their holes, and their tongue shall consume in their mouth. 13 But in that day 1a great tumult of the Lord shall be among them, and everyone shall take 2the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14 And Judah shall fight also against Jerusalem, and the arm of all the heathen shall be gathered round
about, with 1gold and silver, and great abundance of apparel. 15 Yet this shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel and of the ass, and of all the beasts that be in these tents at this 1plague. 16 But it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations, which came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of Tabernacles. 17 And who so will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall come no rain. 18 And if the family of 1Egypt go not up, and come not, it shall not rain upon them. This shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the heathen, that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that come not up to keep the feast of Tabernacles. 20 In that day shall there be written upon the 1bridles of the horses, The holiness unto the Lord, and the 2pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy unto the Lord of hosts, 1and all they that sacrifice, shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
14:7 1 Signifying, that there should be great troubles in the Church, and that the time hereof is in the Lord's hands, yet at length (which is here meant by the evening) God would send comfort. 14:8 1 That is, the spiritual graces of God, which should ever con tinue in most abundance. 14:9 1 All idolatry and superstition shall be abolished, and there shall be one God, one faith, and one religion. 14:10 1 This new Jerusalem shall be seen through all the world, and shall excel the first in excellency, wealth, and greatness. 14:13 1 God will not only raise up war without, but sedition at home to try them. 2 To hurt and oppress him.
14:14 1 The enemies are rich, and therefore shall not come for a prey, but to destroy and shed blood. 14:15 1 As the men should be destroyed, verse 12. 14:18 1 By the Egyptians, which were greatest enemies to true reli gion, he meaneth all the gentiles. 14:20 1 Signifying, that to what service they were put now (whether to labor, or to serve in war) they were now holy, because the Lord had sanctified them. 2 As precious the one as the other, because they shall be sanc tified. 14:21 1 But all shall be pure and clean, and there shall neither be hypocrites, nor any that shall corrupt the true service of God.
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1 A complaint against Israel, and chiefly the Priests.
evil: and if ye offer the lame and sick, it is not evil: offer it now unto thy princes: will he be content with thee, or accept thy person, saith the Lord of hosts? 9 And now I pray you, 1pray before God that he may have mercy upon us: this hath been by your means: will he regard 2your persons, saith the Lord of hosts? 10 Who is there even among you 1that would shut the doors, and kindle not fire on mine altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, my Name is 1great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my Name, and a pure offering: for my Name is great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts. 12 But ye have polluted it, in that ye say, 1The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof even his meat is not to be regarded. 13 Ye said also, Behold, it is a 1weariness, and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts, and ye offered that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick: thus ye offered an offering: should I accept this of your hand, saith the Lord? 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his
1 The 1burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the ministry of Malachi. 2 I have loved you, saith the Lord: yet ye say, 1Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? Yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I 1,2hated Esau, and made his mountains waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons. 4 Though Edom say, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places: yet saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will destroy it, and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and the people, with whom the Lord is angry forever. 5 And your eyes shall see it, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified upon the border of Israel. 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master. If then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear, saith the Lord of hosts unto you, 1O Priests that despise my Name? and ye say, 2Wherein have we despised thy Name? 7 Ye offer 1unclean bread upon mine altar: and you say, Wherein have we polluted thee? in that ye say, The table of the Lord is not 2to be regarded. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is 1not
1:1 1 Read Isa. 13:1. 1:2 1 Which declareth their great ingratitude that did not acknowl edge this love, which was so evident, in that he chose Abraham from out of all the world, and next chose Jacob the younger brother of whom they came, and left Esau the elder. 1:3 1 For beside here the signs of mine hatred appeared even when he was made servant unto his younger brother, being yet in his mother's belly, and also afterward in that he was put from his birth right, yet even now before your eyes the signs hereof are evident, in that that his country lieth waste and he shall never return to inhabit. 2 Whereas ye my people, whom the enemy hated more than them, are by my grace and love toward you delivered, read Rom. 9:13. 1:6 1 Besides the rest of the people he condemneth the Priests chiefly, because they should have reproved others for their hypocrisy, and obstinacy against God, and not have hardened them by their example to greater evils. 2 He noteth their gross hypocrisy, which would not see their faults, but most impudently covered them, and so were blind guides. 1:7 1 Ye receive all manner offerings for your own greediness, and do not examine whether they be according to my Law, or no. 2 Not that they said thus, but by their doings they declared no less. 1:8 1 You make it no fault: whereby he condemneth them, that think it sufficient to serve God partly as he hath commanded, and partly after man's fantasy: and so come not to the pureness of religion, which he requireth, and therefore in reproach he showeth them that a mortal man would not be content to be so served.
1:9 1 He derideth the Priests who bare the people in hand that they prayed for them, and showeth that they were the occasion, that these evils came upon the people. 2 Will God consider your office and state, seeing you are so covet ous and wicked? 1:10 1 Because the Levites who kept the doors did not try whether the sacrifices that came in, were according to the Law, God wisheth that they would rather shut the doors, than to receive such as were not perfect. 1:11 1 God showeth that their ingratitude, and neglect of his true service shall be the cause of the calling of the Gentiles: and here the Prophet that was under the Law, framed his words to the capacity of the people, and by the altar and sacrifice he meaneth the spiri tual service of God, which should be under the Gospel, when an end should be made to all these legal ceremonies by Christ's only sacrifice. 1:12 1 Both the Priests and the people were infected with this error, that they passed not what was offered: for they thought that God was as well content with the lean, as with the fat: but in the mean season they showed not that obedience to God, which he required, and so committed both impiety, and also showed their contempt of God, and covetousness. 1:13 1 The Priests and people were both weary with serving God, and passed not what manner of sacrifice and service they gave to God: for that which was least profitable, was thought good enough for the Lord.
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8 But ye are gone out of the way: ye have caused many to fall by the Law: ye have broken the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because ye kept not my ways, but have been partial in the Law. 10 Have we not all one 1father? hath not one God made us? why do we transgress everyone against his brother, and break the covenant of 2our fathers? 11 Judah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: for Israel hath defiled the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the 1daughter of a strange god. 12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this: both the master and the servant out of the Tabernacle of Jacob, and him that 1offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts. 13 And this have ye done again, and 1covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with mourning: because the offering is no more regarded, neither received acceptably at your hands. 14 Yet ye say, 1Wherein? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast transgressed: yet is she thy 2companion, and the wife of thy 3covenant. 15 And did not 1he make one? yet had he 2abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly 3seed: therefore keep yourselves in your 4spirit, and let none trespass against the wife of his youth. 16 If thou hatest her, 1put her away, saith the Lord God of Israel, yet he covereth 2the injury under his
flock 1a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great king, saith the Lord of hosts, and my Name is terrible among the heathen. 2 1 Threatenings against the Priests, being seducers of the people.
1 And now, O ye 1Priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear it, nor consider it in your heart, to give glory 1unto my Name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and will curse your 2blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not consider it in your heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt 1your seed, and cast dung upon your faces, even the 2dung of your solemn feasts, and you shall be like unto it. 4 And ye shall know, that I have 1sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant, which I made with Levi, might stand, saith the Lord of hosts. 5 My 1covenant was with him of life and peace, and I 2gave him fear, and he feared me, and was afraid before 3my Name. 6 The Law of 1truth was in his mouth, and there was no iniquity found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. 7 For the Priest's 1lips should preserve knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth: for he is the 2messenger of the Lord of hosts.
1:14 1 That is, hath ability to serve the Lord according to his word, and yet will serve him according to his covetous mind. 2:1 1 He speaketh unto them chiefly, but under them he containeth the people also. 2:2 1 To serve me according to my word. 2 That is, the abundance of God's benefits. 2:3 1 Your seed sown shall come to no profit. 2 You boast of your holiness, sacrifices and feasts, but they shall turn to your shame and be as vile as dung. 2:4 1 The Priests objected against the Prophet that he could not reprove them, but he must speak against the Priesthood, and the office established of God by promise, but he showeth that the office is nothing slandered, when these villains and dung are called by their own names. 2:5 1 He showeth what were the two conditions of the covenant made with the tribe of Levi on God's part, that he would give them long life and felicity, and on their part, that they should faithfully serve him according to his word. 2 I prescribed Levi a certain Law to serve me. 3 He served me and set forth my glory with all humilitude and submission. 2:6 1 He showeth that the Priests ought to have knowledge to instruct others in the word of the Lord. 2:7 1 He is as the treasure house of God's word, and ought to give to everyone according to their necessity, and not to reserve it for himself. 2 Showing that whosoever doth not declare God's will, is not his
messenger, and Priest. 2:10 1 The Prophet accuseth the ingratitude of the Jews toward God and man: for seeing they were all born of one father Abraham, and God had elected them to be his holy people, they ought neither to offend God nor their brethren. 2 Whereby they had bound themselves to God to be an holy people. 2:11 1 They have joined themselves in marriage with them that are of another religion. 2:12 1 That is, the Priest. 2:13 1 Yet cause the people to lament, because that God doth not regard their sacrifices, so that they seem to sacrifice in vain. 2:14 1 This is another fault, whereof he accuseth them, that is, that they broke the laws of marriage. 2 As the one half of thyself. 3 She that was joined to thee by a solemn covenant, and by the invocation of God's name. 2:15 1 Did not God make man and woman as one flesh and not many? 2 By his power and virtue he could have made many women for one man. 3 Such as should be born in lawful and moderate marriage, wherein is no excess of lusts. 4 Contain yourselves within your bounds, and be sober in mind, and bridle your affections. 2:16 1 Not that he doth allow divorcement, but of two faults he showeth, which is the less. 2 He thinketh it sufficient to keep his wife still, albeit he take others, and so as it were covereth his fault.
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garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore keep yourselves in your spirit, and transgress not. 17 Ye have 1wearied the Lord with your words: yet ye say wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Everyone that doeth 2evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them. Or where is the God of 3judgment? 3 1 Of the messenger of the Lord, John Baptist, and of Christ's office.
from mine ordinances, and have not kept them: 1return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts: but ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a 1man spoil his gods? yet have ye spoiled me: but ye say, Wherein have we spoiled thee? In 2tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have spoiled me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven unto you, and pour you out a blessing 1without measure. 11 And I will rebuke the 1devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground, neither shall your vine be barren in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a pleasant land, saith the Lord of hosts. 13 Your words have been stout 1against me, saith the Lord: yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is in vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his commandment, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hosts? 15 Therefore we count the proud blessed: even they that work wickedness, are set up, and they that tempt God, yea, they are 1delivered. 16 1Then spake they that feared the Lord, everyone to his neighbor, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a 2book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his Name. 17 And they shall be to me, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day 1that I shall do this, for a flock,
1 Behold, I will send my 1messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the 2Lord whom ye seek, shall speedily come to his Temple: even the
3messenger of the Covenant, whom ye desire: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. 2 But who 1may abide the day of his coming? and who shall endure, when he appeareth? for he is like a purging fire, and like fuller's soap. 3 And he shall sit down to try and fine the silver: he shall even fine the sons of 1Levi and purify them as gold and silver, that they may bring offerings unto the Lord in righteousness. 4 Then shall the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be acceptable unto the Lord, as in old time and in the years afore. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's wages, and vex the widow, and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. 6 For I am the Lord: I change not, and ye sons of Jacob 1are not consumed. 7 From the days of your fathers, ye are gone away
2:17 1 Ye murmur against God, because he heard not you as soon as ye called. 2 In thinking that God favored the wicked, and hath no respect to them that serve him. 3 Thus they blasphemed God in condemning his power and jus tice, because he judged not according to their fantasies. 3:1 1 This is meant of John Baptist, as Christ expoundeth it, Luke 7:27. 2 Meaning, Messiah, Ps. 40:1, 7; Dan. 9:17, 25. 3 That is, Christ, by whom the covenant was made and ratified, who is called the Angel or messenger of the covenant, because he reconcileth us to his father and is Lord or king, because he hath the government of his Church. 3:2 1 He showeth that the hypocrites which wish so much for the Lord's coming will not abide when he draweth near: for he will con sume them, and purge his and make them clean. 3:3 1 He beginneth at the Priests that they might be lights, and shine unto others. 3:6 1 They murmured against God, because they saw not his help ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuseth them of ingratitude, and showeth that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a token, that he doth still defend them, and so his mercy toward them never changeth.
3:7 1 Read Zech. 1:3. 3:8 1 There are none of the heathen so barbarous, that will defraud their gods of their honor, or deal deceitfully with them. 2 Whereby the service of God should have been maintained, and the Priests and the poor relieved. 3:10 1 Not having respect how much ye need, but I will give you in all abundance: so that ye shall lack place to put my blessings in. 3:11 1 Meaning, the caterpillar, and whatsoever destroyeth corn and fruits. 3:13 1 The Prophet condemneth them of double blasphemy against God: first, in that they said that God had no respect to them that served him, and next, that the wicked were more in his favor than the godly. 3:15 1 They are not only preferred to honor, but also delivered from dangers. 3:16 1 After these admonitions of the Prophet, some were lively touched, and encouraged others to fear God. 2 Both because the thing was strange that some turned to God in that great and universal corruption, and also that this might be an example of God's mercies to all penitent sinners. 3:17 1 When I shall restore my Church according to my promise, they shall be as mine own proper goods.
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and I will 2spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and wicked, between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not. 4 The day of the Lord before the which Elijah should come.
righteousness arise, and health shall be under his wings, and ye shall go 2forth and grow up as fat calves. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked: for they shall be dust under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. 4 1Remember the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you 1Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and 2fearful day of the Lord. 6 And he shall 1turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and 2smite the earth with cursing.
1 For behold, the day cometh that shall 1burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that cometh, shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, and shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name, shall the 1sun of
3:17 2 That is, forgive their sins, and govern them with my Spirit. 4:1 1 He prophesieth of God's judgments against the wicked, who would not receive Christ, when as God should send him for the res toration of his Church. 4:2 1 Meaning, Christ, who with his wings or beams of his grace should lighten and comfort his Church, Eph. 5:14, and he is called the sun of righteousness, because in himself he hath all perfection and also the justice of the Father dwelleth in him: whereby he regener ateth us unto righteousness, cleanseth us from the filth of this world, and reformeth us to the image of God. 2 Ye shall be set at liberty, and increase in the joy of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 3:17. 4:4 1 Because the time was come that the Jews should be destitute of Prophets until the time of Christ, because they should with more fervent minds desire his coming, the Prophet exhorteth them to
exercise themselves diligently in studying the Law of Moses in the mean season, whereby they might continue in the true religion, and also be armed against all tentations. 4:5 1 This Christ expoundeth of John Baptist, Matt. 11:13, 14, who both for his zeal, and restoring of religion, is aptly compared to Eli jah. 2 Which as it is true for the wicked, so doth it waken the godly, and call them to repentance. 4:6 1 He showeth wherein John's office should stand: in the turning of men to God, and joining the father and children in one voice of faith: so that the father shall turn to the religion of his son which is converted to Christ, and the son shall embrace the faith of the true fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 2 The second point of his office was to denounce God's judgments against them that would not receive Christ.
The New Testament
T h e H o ly G o s p e l O f J e s u s C h r i s t,
A c c o r d i n g T o m a t t h e w
1 1 That Jesus is that Messiah, the Savior promised to the Fathers. 18 The nativity of Christ.
15 And Eliud begat Eleazar. And Eleazar begat Matthan. And Matthan begat Jacob. 16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, that is called Christ. 17 So 1all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David until they were carried away into Babylon, fourteen generations: and after they were carried away into Babylon until Christ, fourteen generations. 18 ¶ Now the birth of 1Jesus Christ was thus, When as his mother Mary was nbetrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the holy Ghost. 19 Then Joseph her husband being a just man, and not willing to omake her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. 20 But while he thought these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, the son of David, fear not to 1take Mary thy 2wife: for that which is 3conceived in her, is of the holy Ghost. 21 And she shall bring 1forth a son, and thou shalt pcall his name JESUS: for he shall q,2save his people from their sins. 22 And all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, 23 rBehold, a 1virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, God with us. 24 ¶ Then Joseph being raised from sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had enjoined him, and took his wife. 25 But he knew her not, 1till she had brought forth
chapter 1
a Luke 3:23
b Gen. 21:2
1 The a,1,2book of the 3generation of Jesus Christ the son of David, the 4son of Abraham. 2 bAbraham begat Isaac. cAnd Isaac begat Jacob. And dJacob begat Judah and his brethren. 3 eAnd Judah begat Perez, and Zerah of Tamar. And Perez begat Hezron. And Hezron begat Ram. 4 And Ram begat Amminadab. And Amminadab begat Nahshon. And Nahshon begat Salmon. 5 And Salmon begat fBoaz of Rahab. And Boaz begat Obed of Ruth. And Obed begat Jesse. 6 And gJesse begat David the King. And David the King begat Solomon of her that was hthe wife of Uriah. 7 And iSolomon begat Rehoboam. And Rehoboam begat Abijah. And Abijah begat Asa. 8 And Asa begat Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat begat Joram. And Joram begat Uzziah. 9 And Uzziah begat Jotham. And Jotham begat Ahaz. And Ahaz begat Hezekiah. 10 And jHezekiah begat Manasseh. And Manasseh begat Amon. And Amon begat Josiah. 11 And kJosiah begat Jakim. And Jakim 1begat Jeconiah and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon. 12 And after they were carried away into Bab ylon, lJeconiah begat Shealtiel. And mShealtiel begat Zerubbabel. 13 And Zerubbabel begat Abiud. And Abiud begat Eliakim. And Eliakim begat Azor. 14 And Azor begat Zadok. And Zadok begat Achim. And Achim begat Eliud.
c Gen. 25:14
d Gen. 29:35
e Gen. 38:27
1 Chron. 2:5 Ruth 4:18-19
f Ruth 4:21
g 1 Sam. 16:1
1 Sam. 17:12
h 2 Sam. 12:24
i 1 Kings 11:43
2 Chron. 3:10-11
j 2 Kings 20:21
2 Kings 28:11 1 Chron. 3:13-15
k 2 Kings 23:34
2 Kings 24:1-6 2 Chron. 36:4-9
l1 Chron. 3:16
m 1 Chron. 3:17
Ezra 3:2 Ezra 5:2
n Luke 1:27
o Deut. 14:1
p Luke 1:31
q Acts 4:12
r Isa. 7:14
1:1 1 Jesus Christ came of Abraham of the tribe of Judah, and of the stock of David as God promised. 2 Rehearsal: As the Hebrews used to speak: as Gen. 5:1, The book of the generations. 3 Of the ancestors of whom Christ came. 4 Which Christ is also the son of Abraham. 1:11 1 That is, the captivity fell in the days of Jakim and Jeconiah: for Jeconiah was born before their carrying away into captivity. 1:17 1 All those which are reckoned up in this pedigree of David's stock, as they begat one another orderly in their degrees. 1:18 1 Christ is the true Emmanuel, and therefore, Jesus (that is, Sav ior) is conceived in the Virgin by the holy Ghost, as it was foretold by the Prophets.
1:20 1 Receive her at her parents' and kinsfolk's hands. 2 Which was promised, and made sure to thee to be thy wife. 3 Of the mother's substance by the holy Ghost. 1:21 1 Christ is born of the same Virgin which never knew man: and is called Jesus of God himself, by the Angel. 2 Deliver, and this showeth us the meaning of this name Jesus. 1:23 1 There is in the Hebrew and Greek text, an article added, to point out the woman, and set her forth plainly: as you would say, that Virgin, or a certain virgin. 1:25 1 This little word Till, in the Hebrew tongue, giveth us to under stand also, that a thing shall not come to pass in time to come: as Michal had no children Till her death day, 2 Sam. 6:23. And in the last Chapter of this Evangelist: Behold, I am with you till the end of the world.
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her first born son, and he called his name JESUS. 2 The wise men, who are the firstfruits of the Gentiles, worship Christ. 14 Joseph fled into Egypt with Jesus and his mother. 16 Herod slayeth the children.
12 And after they were 1warned of God in a dream, that they should not go again to Herod, they returned into their country another way. 13 ¶ 1After their departure, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the babe and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the babe to destroy him. 14 So he arose and took the babe and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt. 15 And was there unto the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by the cProphet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. 16 ¶ Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the Wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the Wise men. 17 Then was that fulfilled which is spoken 1by the Prophet Jeremiah, saying, 18 dIn Ramah was 1a voice heard, mourning, and weeping, and great howling: 2Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. 19 1And when Herod was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 Saying, Arise, and take the babe and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the babe's life. 21 Then he arose up, and took the babe and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: yet after he was warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee. 23 And went and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets, which was, That he should be called a Nazarite.
chapter 2
a Luke 2:6
b Mic. 5:2 John 7:42
c Hos. 11:1
d Jer. 31:15
1 When a,1Jesus then was born at Bethlehem in 2Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came 3Wise men from the East to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is the King of the Jews that is born? for we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him. 3 When king Herod heard this, he was 1troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And gathering together all the 1chief Priests and 2Scribes of the people, he asked of them, where Christ should be born. 5 And they said unto him, At Bethlehem in Judea: for so it is written by the Prophet, 6 bAnd thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah, art not the 1least among the Princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come the governor that 2shall feed my people Israel. 7 Then Herod privily called the Wise men, and diligently inquired of them the time of the star that appeared, 8 And sent them to Bethlehem, saying, Go, and search diligently for the babe: and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come also, and worship him. 9 ¶ So when they had heard the king, they departed: and lo, the star which they had seen in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over the place where the babe was. 10 And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with an exceeding great joy, 11 And went into the house, and found the babe with Mary his mother, and 1fell down, and worshipped him, and opened their 2treasures, and presented unto him gifts, even gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
2:1 1 Christ a poor child, laid down in a crib, and nothing set by of his own people, receiveth notwithstanding a noble witness of his divin ity from heaven, and of his kingly estate of strangers: which his own also unwittingly allow of, although they do not acknowledge him. 2 For there was another in the tribe of Zebulun. 3 Wise and learned men: It is a Persian word which they use in good part. 2:3 1 Was much moved, for he was a stranger, and came to the king dom by force: and the Jews were troubled: for wickedness is mad and raging. 2:4 1 The chief priests, that is, such as were of Aaron's family, which were divided into four and twenty orders, 1 Chron. 14:5 and 2 Chron. 36:14. 2 They that expound the Law to the people, for the Hebrews take this word of another, which signifieth as much as to expound and declare. 2:6 1 Though thou be a small town, yet shalt thou be very famous and
notable through the birth of the Messiah, who shall be born in thee. 2 That shall rule and govern: for Kings are fitly called leaders and shepherds of the people. 2:11 1 A kind of humble and lovely reverence. 2 The rich and costly presents, which they brought him. 2:12 1 God warned and told them of it, whereas they asked it not. 2:13 1 Christ being yet scarce born, beginneth to be crucified for us, both in himself, and also in his members. 2:17 1 For God speaketh by the mouth of the Prophets. 2:18 1 A voice of lamenting, weeping, and howling. 2 That is to say, All that compass about Bethlehem: for Rachel Jacob's wife, who died in childbirth, was buried in the way that lead eth to this town, which is also called Ephrathah, because of the fruit fulness of the soil, and plenty of corn. 2:19 1 Christ is brought up in Nazareth, after the death of the tyrant by God's providence: that by the very name of the place, it might plainly appear to the world, that he is the Lord's true Nazarite.
953 Matthew 4:1 3 1 John preacheth. 4 His apparel and meat. 5 He baptizeth. 8 The fruits of repentance. 10 The axe at the root of the trees. 12 The fan and the chaff. 13 Christ is baptized.
trees: gtherefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11 h,1Indeed I baptize you with water to 2amendment of life, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire. 12 1Which hath his fan in his hand, and will 2make clean his floor, and gather his wheat into his garner, but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 13 ¶ i,1Then came Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him. 14 But John earnestly put him back, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15 Then Jesus answering, said to him, Let be now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill 1all righteousness. So he suffered him. 16 And Jesus when he was baptized, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened unto 1him, and John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and [lighting] upon him. 17 1And lo, a voice came from heaven, saying, jThis is my beloved Son, in whom I am 2well pleased. 4 1 Christ is tempted. 4 He vanquisheth the devil with Scripture. 11 The Angels minister unto him. 12 He preacheth repentance, and that himself is come. 18 The calling of Peter, Andrew. 21 James and John. 24 He preacheth the Gospel, and healeth the diseased.
chapter 3
a Mark 1:4
Luke 3:3
b Isa. 40:3
Mark 1:3 Luke 3:4 John 1:23
1 And ain 1those days, 2John the Baptist came and preached in the 3wilderness of Judea, 2 And said, 1Repent: for the 2kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3 For this is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah, saying, bThe voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: 1make his paths straight. 4 cAnd this John had his garment of camel's hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins, his meat was also 1locusts and wild honey. 5 dThen went out to him 1Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And they were baptized of him in Jordan, 1confessing their sins. 7 1Now when he saw many of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, eO generation of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the anger to come? 8 1Bring forth therefore fruit worthy amendment of life, 9 1And 2think not to say 3with yourselves, fWe have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able even of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also is the axe put to the root of the
c Mark 1:6
d Mark 1:5
Luke 1:7
e Matt. 12:34
f John 8:39
Acts 13:26
g Matt. 7:19
h Mark 1:8
Luke 5:16 John 1:26
Acts 1:5 Acts 2:4 Acts 8:17 Acts 19:4-5
i Mark 1:9
Luke 3:21
j Col. 1:13 2 Pet. 1:17
chapter 4
a Mark 1:12
Luke 4:1
1 Then awas 1Jesus led aside of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil.
3:1 1 Not when Joseph went to dwell at Nazareth, but a great while after, about the space of 15 years: for in the 30 year of his age was Jesus baptized of John: therefore by those days is meant, at that time that Jesus remained as yet an inhabitant of the town of Nazareth. 2 John, who through his singular holiness and rare austereness of life caused all men to cast their eyes upon him, prepareth the way for Christ following fast on his heels, as the Prophet Isaiah foretold, and delivereth the sum of the Gospel, which in short space after should be delivered more fully. 3 In a hilly country, which was notwithstanding inhabited, for Zechariah dwelt there, Luke 1:40, and there was Joab's house, 1 Kings 2:34; and besides these, Joshua maketh mention of six towns that were in the wilderness, Josh. 15:62. 3:2 1 The word in the Greek tongue signifieth a changing of our minds and heart from evil to better. 2 The kingdom of Messiah, whose government shall be heavenly, and nothing but heavenly. 3:3 1 Make him a plain and smooth way. 3:4 1 Locusts were a kind of meat which certain of the East people use, which were therefore called devourers of Locusts. . . . 3:5 1 The people of Jerusalem. 3:6 1 Acknowledging that they were saved only by free remission and forgiveness of their sins. 3:7 1 There is nothing that stoppeth up the way of mercy and salvation against us so much as the opinion of our own righteousness doth. 3:8 1 True repentance is an inward thing which hath its seat in the mind and heart.
3:9 1 The faith of the fathers availeth their unbelieving children nothing at all: and yet for all that God playeth not the liar, nor dealeth unfaithfully in his league which he made with the holy fathers. 2 Think not that you have any cause to be proud of Abraham. 3 In your hearts. 3:11 1 We may neither dwell upon the signs which God hath ordained as means to lead us unto our salvation, neither upon them: but we must climb up to the matter itself, that is to say, to Christ, who inwardly worketh that effectually, which is outwardly signified unto us. 2 The outward sign putteth us in mind of this, that we must change our lives and become better, assuring us as by a seal, that we are engrafted into Christ; whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth up, Rom. 6:4. 3:12 1 The triumphs of the wicked shall end in everlasting torment. 2 Will cleanse it thoroughly, and make a full riddance. 3:13 1 Christ sanctified our baptism in himself. 3:15 1 All such things as it hath appointed us to keep. 3:16 1 To John. 3:17 1 Christ's full consecration and authorizing to the office of mediatorship, is showed by the father's own voice, and a visible sign of the holy Ghost. 2 The Greek word betokeneth a thing of great account, and such as highly pleaseth a man. So then the Father saith, that Christ only is the man whom when he beholdeth, look what opinion he had conceived of us, he layeth it clean aside. 4:1 1 Christ was tempted all manner of ways and still overcometh, that we also through his virtue may overcome.
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2 And when he had fasted 1forty days, and forty nights, he was afterward hungry. 3 Then came to him the tempter, and said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answering, said, It is written, bMan shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a 1pinnacle of the Temple. 6 And said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, cthat he will give his Angels charge over thee, and with their hands they shall lift thee up, lest at any time thou shouldest dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, dThou shalt not 1tempt the Lord thy God. 8 Again the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, 9 And said to him, All these will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down, and worship me. 10 Then said Jesus unto him, Avoid Satan: for it is written, eThou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 fThen the devil left him: and behold, the Angels came, and ministered unto him. 12 ¶ g,1And when Jesus had heard that John was committed to prison, he returned into Galilee, 13 And leaving Nazareth, went and dwelt in 1Capernaum, which is near the sea in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet, saying, 15 hThe land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali
by the way of the 1sea, beyond Jordan, 2Galilee of the Gentiles: 16 The people which sat in darkness, saw great light: and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is risen up. 17 iFrom that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Amend your lives: for the kingdom of heaven is at 1hand. 18 ¶ 1And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee saw two brethren, Simon, which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers.) 19 jAnd he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. 20 And they straightway leaving the nets, followed him. 21 And when he was gone forth from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 And they without tarrying, leaving the ship and their father, followed him. 23 So 1Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in 2their 3Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the 4kingdom, and healing 5every sickness, and every 6disease among the people. 24 And his fame spread abroad through all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people, that were taken with divers diseases, and 1torments, and them that were possessed with devils, and those which were 2lunatic, and those that had the 3palsy: and he healed them. 25 And there followed him great multitudes out of Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.
b Deut. 8:3
c Ps. 91:11
d Deut. 6:16
e Deut. 16:13
Deut. 10:20
f Mark 1:13
Luke 4:13
g Mark 1:14
Luke 4:14 John 4:43
h Isa. 9:1
i Mark 1:15
j Mark 1:16
1 Cor. 1:27
4:2 1 Full forty days. 4:5 1 The battlement wherewith the flat roof of the temple was com passed about, that no man might fall down: as was appointed by the Law, Deut. 22:8. 4:7 1 Word for word, Thou shalt not go on still in tempting. 4:12 1 When the Herald's mouth is stopped, the Lord revealeth him self, and bringeth full light into the darkness of this world, preaching free forgiveness of sins to them that repent. 4:13 1 Which was a town a great deal more famous than Nazareth was. 4:15 1 Of Tiberias, or because that country bended toward Tyre, which standeth upon the sea that cutteth the midst of the world. 2 So called, because it bordered upon Tyre and Sidon, and because Solomon gave the king of Tyre twenty cities in that quarter, 1 Kings 9:11. 4:17 1 Is come to you. 4:18 1 Christ thinking by time, that he should at length depart from us, even at the beginning of his preaching getteth him disciples after an heavenly sort, men indeed poor, and utterly unlearned, and there fore such as might be least suspected witnesses of the truth of those things which they heard and saw.
4:23 1 Christ assureth the hearts of the believers of his spiritual and saving virtue, by healing the diseases of the body. 2 Their, that is, the Galileans'. 3 Synagogues, the Jews' Churches. 4 Of Messiah. 5 Diseases of all kinds, but not every one: that is, as we say, some of every one. 6 The word signifieth properly the weakness of the stomach: but here it is taken for those diseases which make men faint, and wear away, that have them. 4:24 1 The word signifieth properly, the stone wherewith gold is tried: and by a borrowed kind of speech is applied to all kinds of examination by torture, when as by rough dealing and torments, we go about to draw out the truth of men, which otherwise they would not confess: and in this place it is taken for those diseases, which put sick men to great woe. 2 Which at every full Moon, or other changes of the Moon, are shrewdly troubled and diseased. 3 Weak and feeble men, who have the parts of their body loosed, and so weakened, that they are neither able to gather them up together, nor put them out as they would.
955 Matthew 5:22 5 1 Who are blessed. 13 The Apostles are the salt and light of the world. 14 The city set on an hill. 15 The candle. 16 Good works. 19 The fulfilling of Christ's commandments. 21 What killing is. 23 Reconciliation is set before sacrifice. 27 Adultery. 29 The plucking out of the eye. 30 Cutting off of the hand. 31 The bill of divorcement. 33 Not to swear. 44 To love our enemies. 48 Perfectness.
were before you. 13 hYe 1are the salt of the 2earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be 3salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the 1light of the world. A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid. 15 iNeither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 jLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven. 17 1Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy them, but to 2fulfill them. 18 kFor truly I say unto you, Till heaven and earth perish, one jot or one tittle of the Law shall not escape, till all things be fulfilled. 19 l,1Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and teach men so, he shall be called the 2least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall observe and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, except your righteousness
chapter 5
a Luke 6:20
b Isa. 61:2-3
Luke 6:21
c Ps. 37:11
d Isa. 65:13
e Ps. 24:4
f 1 Cor. 14:33
1 Pet. 3:14
g Acts 5:41
1 Pet. 4:14
1 And when he saw the multitude, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came to him. 2 1And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 aBlessed are the 1poor in 2spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 bBlessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 cBlessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 dBlessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the e,1pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed are they fwhich suffer persecution for righteousness' sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 gBlessed shall ye be when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you for my sake, falsely. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the Prophets which
h Mark 9:50
Luke 14:34
i Mark 4:21
Luke 8:16 Luke 11:33
j 1 Pet. 2:12
k Luke 16:17
l James 2:10
m Luke 11:39
n Exod. 20:13
Deut. 5:17
mexceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 21 1Ye have heard that it was said unto them of the old time, nThou shalt not kill: for whosoever killeth shall be culpable of judgment. 22 But I say unto you, whosoever is angry with his brother unadvisedly, shall be 1culpable 2of judgment. And whosoever saith unto his brother, Raca, shall be worthy to be punished by the 3Council.
5:2 1 Christ teacheth that the greatest joy and felicity is not in the commodities and pleasures of this life, but is laid up in heaven for them that willingly rest in the good will and pleasure of God, and endeavor to profit all men, although they be cruelly vexed, and troubled of the worldlings, because they will not fashion themselves to their manners. 5:3 1 Under the name of poverty are all such miseries meant, as are joined with poverty. 2 Whose minds and spirits are brought under, and tamed, and obey God. 5:8 1 Fitly is this word Pure, joined with the heart, for as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and pure looking glass, even so doth the face (as it were) of the everlast ing God, shine forth, and clear appears in a pure heart. 5:13 1 The ministers of the word, especially (unless they will be the most caitiff of all) must needs lead others both by word and deed to this greatest joy and felicity. 2 Your doctrine must be very sound and good, for if it be not so, it shall be naught set by, and cast away as a thing unsavory and vain. 3 What shall you have to salt withal? And so are fools in the Latin tongue called saltless, as you would say, men that have no salt, or savor and taste in them. 5:14 1 You shine and give light, by being made partakers of the
true light. 5:17 1 Christ came not to bring any new way of righteousness and salvation into the world, but to fulfill that in deed which was shad owed by the figures of the Law, by delivering men through grace from the curse of the Law: and moreover to teach the true use of obedience which the Law appointed, and to engrave in our hearts the force of obedience. 2 That the prophecies may be accomplished. 5:19 1 He beginneth with the true expounding of the Law, and setteth it against the old (but yet false) glosses of the Scribes: So far is he from abolishing the least commandment of his Father. 2 He shall have no place in the Church. 5:21 1 The true meaning of the first commandment. 5:22 1 He speaketh of the judgment of God, and of the difference of sins, and therefore applieth his words to the form of civil judgments, which were then used. 2 Of that judgment which was ruled by three men, who had the hearing and deciding of money matters, and such other small causes. 3 By that judgment which stood of 23 Judges, who had the hear ing and deciding of weighty affairs and matters of life and death: as the highest Judges of all, were to the number of 71, which had the hearing of most weighty affairs, as the matter of a whole tribe or of an high Priest, or of a false prophet.
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And whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be worthy to be punished with 4hell 5fire. 23 1If then thou bring thy gift to the 2altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee, 24 Leave there thine offering before the altar, and go thy way: first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 25 o,1Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thine adversary deliver thee to the Judge, and the Judge deliver thee to the sergeant, and thou be cast into prison. 26 Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt not come out thence, till thou hast 1paid the utmost farthing. 27 ¶ 1Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, pThou shalt not commit adultery. 28 But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 qWherefore if thy 1right eye cause thee 2to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee, that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 Also if thy right hand make thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee, that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 31 It hath been said also, rWhosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorcement. 32 But I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife (except it be for fornication) causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her
that is divorced, committeth adultery. 33 1Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, sThou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform thine oaths to the Lord. 34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God: 35 Nor yet by the earth, for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem: for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thine head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 tBut let your communication be 1Yea, yea: Nay, nay. For whatsoever is more than these, cometh of 2evil. 38 ¶ 1Ye have heard that it hath been said, An ueye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. 39 But I say unto you, vResist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 41 And whosoever will compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42 wGive to him that asketh, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, xThou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, yLove your enemies: bless them that curse you: do good to them that hate you, zand pray for them which hurt you, and persecute you, 45 a,1That ye may be the children of your father
o Luke 12:58
p Exod. 20:14
Rom. 13:9
q Matt. 18:8-9
Mark 9:47
r Matt. 19:7
Deut. 24:1 Mark 10:4 Luke 16:18 1 Cor. 7:10
s Exod. 20:7
Lev. 19:12 Deut. 5:11
t James 5:12
u Exod. 21:24
Lev. 24:20 Deut. 19:21
v Luke 6:29
Rom. 12:17
1 Cor. 6:7
w Deut. 15:8
x Lev. 19:18
y Luke 6:27
z Luke 23:34
Acts 7:60 1 Cor. 4:13
a Luke 6:35
5:22 4 Whereas we read here, Hell, it is in the text itself, Gehenna, which is an Hebrew word made of two, and is as much to say, as the Valley of Hinnom, which otherwise the Hebrews called Tophet: it was a place where the Israelites were wont most cruelly to sacrifice their children to false gods, whereupon it was taken for a place appointed to torment the reprobates in Jer. 7:31. 5 The Jews used four kinds of punishments, before their govern ment was taken away by Herod, hanging, heading, stoning, and burning: this is it that Christ shot at, because burning was the great est punishment, therefore in that he maketh mention of a judgment, a council, and a fire, he showeth that some sins are worse than other sins, but yet they are all such that we must give account for them, and will be punished for them. 5:23 1 The covetous Pharisees taught that God was appeased by the sacrifices appointed in the Law, which they themselves devoured. But Christ on the contrary side denieth that God accept eth any man's offering, unless he maketh satisfaction to his brother whom he hath offended: and saith moreover, that these stubborn and stiffnecked despisers of their brethren, shall never escape the wrath and curse of God, before they have made full satisfaction to their brethren. 2 He applieth all this speech to the state of his time, when as there was an altar standing in Jerusalem, and therefore they are very fool ish, that gather hereupon, that we must build altars, and use sacri fices: but they are more fools, which draw that to purgatory, which is
spoken of peacemaking and atonement one with another. 5:25 1 Cut off all cause for enmity. 5:26 1 Thou shalt be dealt withall to the utmost extremity. 5:27 1 He is taken for an adulterer before God, whatsoever he be, that coveteth a woman: and therefore we must keep our eyes chaste, and all the members we have, yea, and we must eschew all occasions which might move us to evil, how dear soever it cost us. 5:29 1 He nameth the right eye and the right hand, because the parts of the right side of our bodies are the chiefest, and the readiest to commit any wickedness. 2 Word for word, do cause thee to offend: for sins are stumbling blocks as it were, that is to say, rocks which we are cast upon. 5:33 1 The meaning of the third commandment against the froward opinion and judgment of the Scribes, which excused by oaths or indirect forms of swearing. 5:37 1 Whatsoever you vouch, vouch it barely, and whatsoever you deny, deny it barely without any more words. 2 From an evil conscience, or from the devil. 5:38 1 He showeth clean contrary to the doctrine of the Scribes, that the sum of the second table must be understood, that we may in no wise render evil for evil, but rather suffer double injury, and do well to them that are our deadly enemies. 5:45 1 A double reason: the one is taken of relatives, that children must be like their father: the other is taken of comparison, The chil dren of God must be better, than the children of this world.
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that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and unjust. 46 For if ye love them, which love you, what reward shall you have? Do not the Publicans even the same? 47 And if ye be friendly to your brethren only, what singular thing do ye? do not even the 1Publicans likewise? 48 Ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father which is in heaven, is perfect. 6 1 Alms. 5 Prayer. 14 Forgiving our brother. 16 Fasting. 19 Our treasure. 20 We must succor the poor. 24 God and riches. 25 Careful seeking for meat and drink, and apparel, forbidden. 33 The kingdom of God and his righteousness.
much babbling. 8 Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye have need, before ye ask of him. 9 1After this manner therefore pray ye, bOur father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done even in earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our 1daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us cfrom 1evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen. 14 d,1For if ye do forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if ye do not forgive men their trespasses, no more will your father forgive you your trespasses. 16 1Moreover, when ye fast, look not sour as the hypocrites: for they 2disfigure their faces, that they might seem unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you that they have their reward. 17 But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, 18 That thou seem not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret, will reward thee openly. 19 ¶ 1Lay not up treasures for yourselves upon the earth, where the moth and canker corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal. 20 eBut lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither the moth nor canker corrupteth, and where thieves neither dig through nor steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 ¶ f,1The light of the body is the eye: if then thine 2eye be single, thy whole body shall be light. 23 But if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shall be dark. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkness, how great is that darkness? 24 g,1No man can serve 2two masters: for either
chapter 6
a Rom. 2:8
b Luke 11:2
c Matt. 13:19
d Mark 11:25
e Luke 12:33
1 Tim. 6:19
f Luke 11:34
g Luke 16:13
1 Take heed that ye give not your 1alms before men to be seen of them, or else ye shall have no 2reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 aTherefore when thou givest thine alms, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee, as the 1hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets, to be praised of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. 3 But when thou doest thine alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, 4 That thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father that seeth in secret, he will reward thee openly. 5 1And when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, because they would be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. 6 But when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber: and when thou hast shut thy door, pray unto thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. 7 Also when ye pray, use no 1vain repetitions as the Heathen: for they think to be heard for their
5:47 1 They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of trib utes and customs: a kind of men that the Jews hated to death, both because they served the Romans in these offices, (whose yokeful bondage they could hardly away withall) and also because these toll masters are for the most part given to covetousness. 6:1 1 Ambition maketh alms vain. 2 This word, Reward, is always taken in the Scriptures for a free recompense, and therefore the schoolmen do fondly set it to be answerable to a deserving, which they call merit. 6:2 1 Counterfeits, for Hypocrites were players that played a part in a play. 6:5 1 He reprehendeth two foul faults in prayer, ambition, and vain babbling. 6:7 1 Long prayers are not condemned, but vain needless, and superstitious. 6:9 1 A true sum and form of all Christian prayers. 6:11 1 That, that is meet for our nature for our daily food, or such, as
may suffice our nature and complexion. 6:13 1 From the Devil, or from all adversity. 6:14 1 They that forgive wrongs, to them sins are forgiven, but revenge is prepared for them that revenge. 6:16 1 Against such as hunt after a name of holiness, by fasting. 2 They suffer not their first hue to be seen, that is to say, they mar the natural color of their faces, that they may seem lean and palefaced. 6:19 1 Those men's labors are shown to be vain which pass not for the assured treasure of everlasting life, but spend their lives in scrap ing together frail and vain riches. 6:22 1 Men do maliciously and wickedly put out even the little light of nature that is in them. 2 The judgment of the mind: that as the body is with the eyes, so our whole life may be ruled with right reason, that is to say, with the Spirit of God wherewith we are lightened. 6:24 1 God will be worshipped of the whole man. 2 Which be at jar together, for if two agree, they are as one.
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he shall hate the one, and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and 3riches. 25 h,1Therefore I say unto you, be not careful for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth than meat? and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the 1heaven: for they sow not, neither reap, nor carry into the barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by 1taking care is able to add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why care ye for raiment? Learn how the Lilies of the field do grow: they 1are not wearied, neither spin: 29 Yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not do much more unto you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or wherewith shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things seek the Gentiles) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be ministered unto you. 34 Care not then for the morrow, for the morrow shall care for itself: the day hath enough with his own grief. 7 1 We may not give judgment of our neighbors, 6 Nor cast that which is holy unto dogs. 13 The broad and strait way. 15 False prophets. 18 The tree and fruit. 24 The house built on a rock, 26 and on the sand.
judged, and with what bmeasure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you again. 3 And why seest thou the mote, that is in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 cOr how sayest thou to thy brother, Suffer me to cast out the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Hypocrite, first cast out that beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 6 ¶ 1Give ye not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your 2pearls before swine, lest they tread them under their feet, and turning again, all to rent you. 7 ¶ d,1Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 8 For whosoever asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. 9 For what man is there among you, which if his son ask him bread, would give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him? 12 e,1Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do to you: even so do ye to them: for this is the 2Law and the Prophets. 13 ¶ f,1Enter in at the strait gate: for it is the wide gate, and broad way that leadeth to destruction: and many there be which go in thereat. 14 Because 1the gate is strait, and the way narrow that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15 ¶ 1Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. gDo men gather grapes of thorns? or figs of thistles? 17 So every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
h Luke 12:22
Phil. 4:6 1 Tim. 6:8 1 Pet. 5:7 Ps. 55:23
chapter 7
a Luke 6:37-38
Rom. 2:1 1 Cor. 4:3
b Mark 4:24
Luke 6:38
c Luke 6:41
d Matt. 21:22
Mark 11:24
Luke 11:9 John 24:13 John 16:23
James 1:5
e Luke 6:31
Job 4:16
f Luke 13:14
g Luke 6:44
1 Judge 1not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what ajudgment ye judge, ye shall be
6:24 3 This word is a Syrian word, and signifieth all things that belong to money. 6:25 1 The froward carking carefulness for things of this life is cor rected in the children of God by an earnest thinking upon the provi dence of God. 6:26 1 Of the air, or that live in the air: for in all tongues almost this word Heaven is taken for the air. 6:27 1 He speaketh of care which is joined with thought of mind, and hath for the most part difficult yoke with it. 6:28 1 By labor. 7:1 1 We ought to find fault one with another, but we must beware we do it not without cause, or to seem holier than they, or in hatred of them. 7:6 1 The stiffnecked and stubborn enemies of the Gospel are
unworthy to have it preached unto them. 2 A pearl hath his name among the Grecians, for the orient bright ness that is in it: and a pearl was in ancient time in great estimation among the Latins: for a pearl that Cleopatra had, was valued at two hundred and fifty thousand crowns, and the word is now borrowed from that, to signify the most precious heavenly doctrine. 7:7 1 Prayers are a sure refuge in all miseries. 7:12 1 A rehearsal of the meaning of the second table. 2 That is to say, the doctrine of the Law and Prophets. 7:13 1 Example of life must not be taken from a multitude. 7:14 1 The way is straight and narrow we must pass through this rough way, and suffer and endure, and be thronged, and to enter into life. 7:15 1 False teachers must be taken heed of, and they are known by false doctrine and evil living.
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18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 hEvery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 ¶ 1Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, ibut he that doeth my Father's will which is in heaven. 22 jMany will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not by thy 1Name prophesied, and by thy name cast out devils? and by thy name done many 2great works? 23 And then will I profess to them, k,1I never knew you, ldepart from me 2ye that work iniquity. 24 1Whosoever then heareth of me these words, mand doeth the same, I will liken him to a wise man, which hath builded his house on a rock: 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rock, 26 But whosoever heareth these my words, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which hath builded his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and the fall thereof was great. 28 ¶ nAnd it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these words, the people were astonished at his doctrine. 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the Scribes. 8 1 The Leper cleansed. 5 The Centurion's faith. 11 The calling of the Gentiles, 12 and casting out of the Jews. 14 Peter's mother-in-law healed. 19 A Scribe desirous to follow Christ. 23 The tempest on the sea. 28 Two possessed with devils cured. 32 The devils go into swine.
him, saying, I will, be thou clean: and immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 Then Jesus said unto him, See thou tell no man, but go, and show thyself unto the Priest, and offer the gift that bMoses commanded, for a witness to them. 5 ¶ c,1When Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a Centurion, beseeching him, 6 And said, Master, my servant lieth sick at home of the palsy, and is grievously pained. 7 And Jesus said unto him, I will come and heal him. 8 But the Centurion answered, saying, Master, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man also under the authority of another, and have soldiers under me: and I say to one, Go, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he cometh: and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 When Jesus heard that, he marveled, and said to them that followed him, Verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, even in Israel. 11 But I say unto you, that many shall come from the East and West, and shall 1sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12 And the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into 1utter ddarkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13 Then Jesus said unto the Centurion, Go thy way, and as thou hast believed, so be it unto thee. And his servant was healed the same hour. 14 ¶ e,1And when Jesus came to Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid down, and sick of a fever. 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: so she arose, and ministered unto them. 16 fWhen the Even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed 1all that were sick,
h Matt. 3:10
i Rom. 2:13
j James 1:22
k Luke 13:27
l Ps. 6:8
m Luke 6:47-48
n Mark 4:22
Luke 4:32
chapter 8
a Mark 2:40
Luke 5:12
b Lev. 14:3-4
c Luke 7:1
d Matt. 22:13
e Mark 1:29
Luke 4:38
f Mark 1:32
Luke 4:40
1 Now when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 2 a,1And lo, there came a Leper and worshipped him, saying, Master, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3 And Jesus putting forth his hand, touched
7:21 1 Even the best gifts that are, are nothing without godliness. 7:22 1 By Name here, is meant that mighty working power of God, which every man witnesseth that calleth upon him. 2 Properly powers: Now these excellent works wrought are called Powers, by occasion of these things which they bring to pass, for by them we understand, how mighty the power of God is. 7:23 1 This is not of ignorance, but because he will cast them away. 2 You that are given to all kind of wickedness, and seem to make an art of sin. 7:24 1 True godliness resteth only upon Christ, and therefore always remaineth invincible. 8:2 1 Christ in healing the leprous with the touching of his hand, showeth that he abhorreth no sinners that come unto him, be they
never so unclean. 8:5 1 Christ by setting before them the example of the uncircum cised Centurion, and yet of an excellent faith, provoketh the Jews to emulation, and together forewarneth them of their casting off, and the calling of the Gentiles. 8:11 1 A Metaphor taken of banquets, for they that sit down together are fellows in the banquet. 8:12 1 Which are without the kingdom: For in the kingdom is light, and without the kingdom darkness. 8:14 1 Christ, in healing divers diseases, showeth that he was sent of his Father, that in him only we should seek remedy in all our miser ies. 8:16 1 Of all sorts.
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17 That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by gIsaiah the Prophet, saying, He took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. 18 ¶ hAnd when Jesus saw great multitudes of people about him, he commanded them to go 1over the water. 19 1Then came there a certain Scribe, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. 20 But Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have 1nests, but the Son of man hath not whereon to rest his head. 21 ¶ 1And another of his disciples said unto him, Master, suffer me first to go, and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead. 23 ¶ i,1And when he was entered into the ship, his disciples followed him. 24 And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was covered with waves: but he was asleep. 25 Then his disciples came, and awoke him, saying, Master, save us: we perish. 26 And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea: and so there was a great calm. 27 And the men marveled, saying, What man is this, that both the winds and the sea obey him? 28 ¶ j,1And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils which came out of the graves very fierce, so that no man might go by that way. 29 And behold, they cried out, saying, Jesus the son of God, what have we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30 Now there was 1afar off from them, a great herd of swine feeding. 31 And the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine. 32 And he said unto them, Go. So they went out and departed into the herd of swine: and behold,
the whole herd of swine ran headlong into the sea, and died in the water. 33 Then the herdmen fled: and when they were come into the city, they told all things, and what was become of them that were possessed with the devils, 34 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him to 1depart out of their coasts. 9 1 One sick of the palsy, is healed. 5 Remission of sins. 9 Matthew called. 10 Sinners. 17 New wine. 18 The ruler's daughter raised. 20 A woman healed of a bloody issue. 28 Two blind men by faith receive sight. 32 A dumb man possessed is healed. 37 The harvest and workmen.
g Isa. 53:4 1 Pet. 2:24
h Luke 9:57-58
i Mark 4:37
Luke 8:23
j Mark 5:1-2
Luke 26:27
chapter 9
a Mark 2:3
Luke 5:18
b Mark 2:14
Luke 5:27
1 Then he 1entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his 2own city. 2 And alo, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy laid on a bed. And Jesus 1seeing their faith, said to the sick of the palsy, Son be of good comfort: thy sins are forgiven thee. 3 And behold, certain of the Scribes said with themselves, This man 1blasphemeth. 4 But when Jesus saw their thoughts, he said, Wherefore think ye evil things in your hearts? 5 For whether is it easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise, and walk? 6 And that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority in earth to forgive sins (then said he unto the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go to thine house. 7 And he arose, and departed to his own house. 8 So when the multitude saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, which had given such authority to men. 9 ¶ b,1And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man sitting at the 2custom, named Matthew, and said to him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in his
8:18 1 For Capernaum was situated upon the lake of Tiberias. 8:19 1 The true disciples of Christ must prepare themselves to all kind of miseries. 8:20 1 Word for word, shades made with boughs. 8:21 1 When God requireth our labor, we must leave off all our duty to men. 8:23 1 Although Christ seemeth oftentimes to neglect his, even in most extreme danger, yet in time convenient he assuageth all tem pests, and bringeth them to the haven. 8:28 1 Christ came to deliver me from the miserable thraldom of Satan: but the world had rather lack Christ, than the vilest and least of their commodities. 8:30 1 Of an hill, as Mark and Luke witness: Now Gadara as Josephus recordeth, book 17 chapter 13, lived after the order of the Grecians,
and therefore we may not marvel if there were swine there. 8:34 1 Where men live as swine, there doth not Christ tarry, but devils. 9:1 1 Sins are the causes of our afflictions, and Christ only forgiveth them if we believe. 2 Into Capernaum, for as Theophylact saith, Bethlehem brought him forth, Nazareth brought him up, and Capernaum was his dwell ing place. 9:2 1 Knowing by a manifest sign. 9:3 1 To blaspheme, signifieth amongst the divines to speak wick edly: and amongst the more eloquent Grecians, to slander. 9:9 1 Christ calleth the humble sinners unto him, but he con demneth the proud hypocrites. 2 At the customer's table, where it was received.
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house, behold, many Publicans and 1sinners that came thither, sat down at the table with Jesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw that, they said to his disciples, Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners? 12 Now when Jesus heard it, he said unto them, The whole need not the Physician, but they that are sick. 13 But go ye and learn what this is, cI will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but the dsinners to repentance. 14 ¶ e,1Then came the disciples of John to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, and thy disciples fast not? 15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the 1children of the marriage chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. 16 Moreover, no man pieceth an old garment with a piece of 1new cloth: for that that should fill it up, taketh away from the garment, and the breach is worse. 17 Neither do they put new wine into old vessels: for then the vessels would break, and the wine would be spilt, and the vessels would perish: but they put new wine into new vessels, and so are both preserved. 18 ¶ f,1While he thus spake unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is now deceased: but come and lay thine hand on her, and she shall live. 19 And Jesus arose and followed him with his disciples. 20 (And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. 21 For she said in herself, If I may touch but his garment only, I shall be whole. 22 Then Jesus turned him about, and seeing her, did say, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole at that same moment.) 23 1 Now when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the 2minstrels and the multitude making
noise, 24 He said unto them, Get you hence: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. 25 And when the multitude were put forth, he went in and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. 26 And this bruit went throughout all that land. 27 1And as Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, O son of David, have mercy upon us. 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind came to him, and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? And they said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. 30 And their eyes were opened, and Jesus gave them great charge, saying, See that no man know it. 31 But when they were departed, they spread abroad his fame throughout all that land. 32 ¶ g,1And as they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. 33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: then the multitude marveled, saying, The like was never seen in Israel. 34 But the Pharisees said, hHe casteth out devils, through the prince of devils. 35 ¶ And iJesus went about all cities and towns, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 1But jwhen he saw the multitude, he had compassion upon them, because they were dispersed, and scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then said he to his disciples, kSurely the harvest is great, but the laborers are few. 38 Wherefore pray the Lord of the harvest, that he would 1send forth laborers into his harvest. 10 1 The gift of healing given to the Apostles. 5 They are sent to preach the Gospel. 13 Peace. 14 Shaking off the dust. 18 Affliction. 22 Continuance unto the end. 23 Fleeing from persecution. 28 Fear. 29 Two sparrows. 30 Hairs of our head. 32 To acknowledge
c Hos. 6:6 Matt. 12:7
d 1 Tim. 1:15
e Mark 2:18
Luke 5:33
f Mark 5:22
Luke 8:41
g Luke 11:14
h Matt. 12:24
Mark 3:22 Luke 11:15
i Mark 6:6 Luke 13:22
j Mark 6:34
k Luke 10:2 John 4:35-36
9:10 1 The customers fellows which were placed by the Romans, after that Judea was brought into the form of a province, to gather the customs, and therefore of the rest of the Jews, they were called sinners, that is to say very vile men. 9:14 1 Against naughty emulation in matters indifferent. 9:15 1 An Hebrew kind of speech, for they that are admitted into a marriage chamber are as the nearest about the bridegroom. 9:16 1 Raw, which was never put to the fuller. 9:18 1 There is no evil so old and incurable, which Christ cannot heal by and by, if he be touched with true faith, but lightly as it were with
the hand. 9:23 1 Even death itself giveth place to the power of Christ. 2 It appeareth that they used minstrels at their mournings. 9:27 1 By healing these two blind, Christ showeth that he is the light of the world. 9:32 1 An example of that power that Christ hath over the devil. 9:36 1 Although the ordinary pastors cease, yet Christ hath not cast off the care of his Church. 9:38 1 Word for word, cast them out: for men are very slow in so holy a work.
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14 gAnd whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house, or that city, hshake off the dust of your feet. 15 Truly I say unto you, it shall be easier for them of the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. 16 ¶ i,1Behold, I send you as 2sheep in the midst of the wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and 3innocent as doves. 17 But beware of 1men, for they will deliver you up to the Councils, and will scourge you in their Synagogues. 18 And ye shall be brought to the governors and kings for my sake, in witness to them, and to the Gentiles. 19 jBut when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour, what ye shall say. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. 21 And the kbrother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son, and the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die. 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my Name: lbut he that endureth to the end, he shall be saved. 23 And when they persecute you in this city, flee into another: for verily I say unto you, ye shall not 1go over all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. 24 mThe disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple to be as his master is, and the servant as his Lord. nIf they have called the master of the house 1Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? 26 1Fear them not therefore: ofor there is nothing covered, that shall not be disclosed, nor hid, that shall not be known. 27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye on the 1houses.
Christ. 34 Peace and the sword. 35 Variance. 37 Love of parents. 38 The cross. 39 To lose the life. 40 To receive a Preacher.
chapter 10
a Mark 3:13-15
Luke 9:1-2
b Acts 13:46
c Luke 10:9-11
1 And a,1he called his twelve disciples unto him, and gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every sickness, and every disease. 2 Now the names of the twelve Apostles are these. The 1first is Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, 3 Philip and Bartholomew: Thomas, and Matthew that Publican: James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus whose surname was Thaddaeus: 4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas 1Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5 These twelve did Jesus send forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the cities of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go rather bto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 c,1And as ye go preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8 1Heal the sick: cleanse the lepers: raise up the dead: cast out the devils. Freely ye have received, freely give. 9 d,1Possess 2not gold, nor silver, nor money in your girdles, 10 Nor a scrip for the journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor a staff: efor the workman is worthy of his 1meat. 11 1And into fwhatsoever city or town ye shall come, inquire who is worthy in it, and there abide till ye go thence. 12 And when ye come into an house, salute the same. 13 And if the house be worthy, let your 1peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
d Mark 6:8-9
Luke 9:3 Luke 22:35
e 1 Tim. 5:15
f Luke 10:8
g Mark 6:11
Luke 9:5
h Acts 13:51
i Luke 10:3
j Mark 13:11
Luke 12:11
k Luke 21:16
l Mark 13:13
m Luke 6:40
John 13:16 John 15:20
n Matt. 12:24
o Mark 4:22
Luke 8:17 Luke 12:1
10:1 1 The Apostles are sent to preach the Gospel in Israel. 10:2 1 Theophylact saith that Peter and Andrew are called the first, because they were first called. 10:4 1 A man of Kerioth. Now Kerioth was in the tribe of Judah, Josh. 15:25. 10:7 1 The sum of the Gospel: or preaching of the Apostles. 10:8 1 Miracles are dependences of the word. 10:9 1 The ministers of the word must cast away all cares that might hinder them the least wise that might be. 2 For this journey, to wit, both that nothing might hinder them, and also that they might feel some taste of God's providence: for at their return back, the Lord asketh of them, whether they lacked any thing by the way, Luke 22:35. 10:10 1 God will provide you meat. 10:11 1 Happy are they that receive the preaching of the Gospel: and unhappy are they, that refuse it.
10:13 1 It is manner of speech taken from the Hebrews, whereby they meant all kind of happiness. 10:16 1 Christ showeth how the ministers must behave themselves under the cross. 2 You shall be in great dangers. 3 You shall not so much as revenge an injury: and by the mixing of these beasts' natures together, he will not have our wisdom to be malicious, nor our simplicity mad, but a certain form of good nature as exquisitely framed of both of them, as may be. 10:17 1 For in the cause of religion men are wolves one to another. 10:23 1 Bring to an end, that is, you shall not have gone through all the cities of Israel, and preached in them. 10:25 1 It was the idol of the Acronites, which we call the god of flies. 10:26 1 Truth shall not always be hid. 10:27 1 Openly, and in the highest places. For the tops of their houses were so made, that they might walk upon them, Acts 10:9.