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A55363	Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2820; ESTC R39678	6,571,344	1,258

that land to wit the land of Goshen now spoken of to defend and preserve it For God is said to be in the midst of them whom he protects Deut. 7. 21. and 23. 14. Ios. 3. 10. Psal. 46. 5. and not to be in the midst of others whom he forsakes and designs or threatens to destroy Num. 14. 42. Deut. 1. 42. and 31. 17. Compare Exod. 33. 3. with 34. 9. 23 And I will put † Heb. a redemption a division a Heb. a redemption or deliverance i. e. a token or mean of deliverance by a Metonymy a wall of partition by which I will preserve the Israelites whilest I destroy the Egyptians between my people and thy people ‖ Or by to morrow to morrow shall this sign be b This he ●…aith ●…y t●… gain the more belief to himself in what he now 〈◊〉 should further speak in Gods name to them and par●…●…o warn them of their danger and make their disobedience more inexcusable 24 And the LORD did so c Immediately by his own word and not by M●…ses his rod le●…t the Egyptians should think it was a Magicians wand and that all Moses his works were done by the power of the Devil and * Wisd. 16. 9. Psal. 105. 31. there came a grievous swarm of flies d Heb. an heav●… mixture of flies heavy i. e. either great as this Hebrew word is used Gen. 41. 31. Isa. 32. 2. or mischievous and troubles●…me or rather numerous as it is taken Gen. 50. 9. Numb 11. 14. 1 King 3. 9. compared with 2 Chron. 1. 10. into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants houses and into all the land of Egypt the land e i. e. Either the fruits and products of the land or rather the inhabitants of the land as the word land is taken Gen. 41. 36. 1 Sam. 27. 9. many of the people were poisoned or stung to death by them as appears from Psal. 78. 45. See also the book of Wisedom chap. 16. 9. was ‖ Or destroyed corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies 25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said Go ye sacrifice to your God in the land 26 And Moses said It is not meet f Heb. Not right neither in Gods eyes who hath appointed us the place as well as the thing nor in the Egyptians eyes as it follows so to do for we shall sacrifice the * Gen. 43. 32. and 46. 34. abomination of the Egyptians g That which the Egyptians abhor to kill or to see killed as not onely Scripture but profane Authours as Diodorus and Tully and Iuvenal witness because they worshipped them as Gods as is notoriously known to the LORD our God Lo shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us h It was a just fear For when once a Roman had but killed a cat though imprudently the people tumultuously met together and beset his house and killed him in spight of the King and his Princes who used their utmost power and diligence to prevent it 27 We will go * chap. 3. 12. three dayes journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as * chap. 3. 18. he shall command us i For we know not what kind or number of sacrifices to offer to him till we come thither 28 And Pharaoh said I will let you go that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness only you shall not go very far away intreat for me 29 And Moses said Behold I go out from thee and I will intreat the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh from his servants and from his people to morrow but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice unto the LORD 30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh and intreated the LORD 31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh from his servants and from his people there remained not one 32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also neither would he let the people go CHAP. IX 1 THEN the LORD said unto Moses Go in unto Pharaoh and tell him Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews Let my people go that they may serve me 2 For if thou refuse to let them go and wilt hold them still 3 Behold the hand of the LORD a In an immediate manner not by my rod that thou mayest know it is not I but the Lord which doth all these things to thee is upon thy cattel b Which they kept for their wool or milk or manifold uses and services though not for food and sacrifice which is in the field upon the horses upon the asses upon the camels upon the oxen and upon the sheep there shall be a very grievous murrain 4 And * chap. 8. 22. the LORD shall sever between the cattel of Israel and the cattel of Egypt and there shall nothing die of all that is the childrens of Israel 5 And the LORD appointed a set time saying To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land 6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow and * Psal. 78. 48. all c Either of all sorts or a very great number of them as the word all is frequently used or rather all that were in the field as it is expresly limited ver 3. but not all absolutely as appears from ver 9. 19 25. and chap. 14. 23. the cattel of Egypt died but of the cattel of the children of Israel died not one 7 And Pharaoh sent and behold there was not one of the cattel of the Israelites dead And * chap. 7. 14. the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the people go 8 And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace d To mind them of their cruel usage of the Israelites in their furnace of which see Deut. 4. 20. Ier. 11. 4. and let Moses e Both were to take them up but M●…ses onely to sprinkle them as at other times Aaron onely did the work to shew that they were but instruments which God could use as he pleased and God was the principal Authour of it sprinkle it towards the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh 9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt and shall be a * Rev. 16. 2. boil breaking forth with blains f A burning scab which quickly raised blains and blisters whereby they were both vehemently inclined to scratch themselves and yet utterly disenabled from it by its great soreness upon man and upon beast throughout all the land of Egypt 10 And they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven and it became a * Deut. 28.

impostures and the real miracles wrought by Moses and Aaron as appears from the next verse and from chap. 8. 18. and from other passages And this is a great evidence of the truth of Scripture-story and that it was not written by fiction and design For if Moses had written these books to deceive the world and to advance his own reputation as some have impudently said it is ridiculous to think that he would have put in this and many other passages which might seem so much to eclipse his honour and the glory of his works with their inchantments 12 For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents l Either 1. in appearance For the Scripture oft speaks of things otherwise then they are because they seem to be so And therefore as the Devil appearing to Saul in the likeness of Samuel is called Samuel so may these rods upon the same account be called Serpents because through Diabolical illusion they seemed to be so Or 2. really in manner expressed ver 11. but Aarons rod swallowed up their rods m By which it was evident either that Aarons rod was turned into a real serpent because it had the real properties and effects of a serpent viz. to devour or at least that the God of Israel was infinitely more powerful then the Egyptian Idols or Devils 13 And he † The Lord to whom this act of hardening is frequently ascribed both in this book and elsewhere hardened Pharaohs heart that he hearkened not unto them * chap. 4. 21. as the LORD had said 14 And the LORD said unto Moses * chap. 8. 15. 〈◊〉 1 20 27. Pharaohs heart is hardened n Is obstinate and resolved in his way so as neither my word nor works can make any impression upon him he refuseth to let the people go 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning lo he goeth out unto the water o i. e. Nilus whither he went at that time either for his recreation or to pay his morning-worship to that river which the Egyptians had in great veneration as Plutarch testifies and thou shalt stand by the rivers brink against he come and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take into thine hand 16 And thou shalt say unto him The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying Let my people go * chap. 3. 12 18. 5. 1 3. that they may serve me in the wilderness and behold hitherto thou wouldest not hear 17 Thus saith the LORD In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD p Because th●… saidst 〈◊〉 is the Lord and I know not the lord chap. 5. 2. thou 〈◊〉 know him experimentally and to thy cost * chap. 4. 9. behold I will smite q viz. by Aarons hand who shall do it by my command and direction Thus Pilate is said to give Christs body to Ioseph Mark 15. 45. because he commanded it to be delivered by others to him The same action is ascribed to the principal and instrumental cause with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river r Nilus which was one of their principal Gods and therefore it was inexcusable in them that they would not renounce those ●…eeble Gods which were unable to help not onely their worshippers but even themselves nor embrace the service and commands of that God whose almighty power they saw and felt and they shall be turned * Rev. 16. 6. to blood s Which was a very grievous Plague to them both because it was an eternal dishonour to their Religion and because from hence they had both their drink Deut. 11. 10 11. Ier. 2. 18. and their meat Numb 11. 5. for greater and lesser cattel they would not eat Exod. 8. 26. And it was a very proper punishment for them who had made that river an instrument for the execution of their bloody design against the Israelitish infants Exod. 1. 22. 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die and the river shall stink and the Egyptians t Therefore the Israelites were free from this plague and those branches of Nilus which they used were uncorrupted when all others were turned into bloud shall loath u Or shall weary themselves in running hither and thither in hopes of finding water in some parts or branches of the river to drink of the water of the river 19 And the LORD spake unto Moses Say unto Aaron Take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt upon their streams upon their rivers and upon their ponds and upon all their † Heb. gathering of their waters pooles of water x Not that he was to go to every pool to use this ceremony there but he stretched his hand and rod over some of them in the name of all the rest which he might signifie either by his words or by the various motions of his rod several ways that they may become blood and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone 20 And Moses and Aaron did so as the LORD commanded and he * chap. 17. 5. lift up the rod and smote the waters that were in the river in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants and all the * Psal. ●…8 44. and 105. 29. waters that were in the river were turned to blood 21 And the fish that was in the river died and the river stunk and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt 22 * Wisd. 17. ●… And the Magicians of Egypt did so with their inchantments y It was not difficult for the Devil to convey bloud speedily and unperceivably and that in great quantity which might suffice to infect with a bloody colour those small parcels of water which were left for them to shew their art in Qu. Whence could they have water when all their waters were turned into blood Ans. 1. It might be had either 1. by rain which at that time God was pleased to send down either for this purpose or to mitigate the extremity of the plague or for other reasons known to him though not to us For that rain sometimes falls in Egypt though not much nor often is affirmed by antient writers and late travellers Or 2. from Goshen which was not far from the Court or from some houses of the Israelites who dwelt amongst the Egyptians as appears from many places of this history and who were free from these Plagues See Exod. 8. 22. and 9. 26. and 10. 23. and 12. 13. c. Or 3. from the pits which they digged ver 24. Or 4. from some branch of Nilus or some vessels in their houses whose waters were not yet changed For this change might be wrought not suddenly

the same power seems to have been continued and some kind of League made between the King of Babylon and Manasseh who thereupon was restored to his Kingdom 2 Chron 33. 13. and after him Iosiah who therefore was so zealous in his quarrel against the King o●… Egypt 2 Chron. 35. 20 c. Or Fourthly He did it in purseance of God's prediction concerning this action 1 King 13. 2. which in a matter so good and so agreeable to God's wi●… and word as the extirpation of Idolatry unquestionably was had the force of a warrant or command upon him to do it as God's prediction of the Conversion of the Gentiles by the Messias was a command to his Apostles to Preach to them Act. 13. 47. and the high place * 1 〈◊〉 which Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin had made both that altar and the high place z Which seems to have been some little Temple or House erected for that Worship or for the Priests attending upon it he brake down and burnt the high place and stampt it small to powder and burnt the grove 16 And as Josiah turned himself a Iosiah's care and zeal was so great that he would not trust his Officers with these things but would see them done with his own Eyes he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it according to the * 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed who proclaimed these words b 300 years before it was done 17 Then he said What title is that that I see c It was the manner then as now it is to set up little Pillars or Stones by or upon the Graves of the higher sort of Men upon which the name of the Person and some Remarkable passages relating to him were Engraven And the men of the city told him It is the sepulchre of * 〈◊〉 13. the man of God which came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el 18 And he said Let him alone let no man move his bones so they let his bones ‡ 〈◊〉 escape alone with the bones of * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 13. the prophet that came d Which were now mixed together out of Sa●…aria e The place of his Birth or former abode though now he were in Bethel 1 Sam. 13. 11. 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria f By what Authority he did this see on ver 15. which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger Josiah took away and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el 20 And he ‖ 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 11. 18. slew all the priests of the high places g Either 1. The Priests which Ieroboam had made of the meanest of the People whom he ●…ew both for their Pre●… Usurpation of that Sacred Office which of it self ●…as Punishable with Death by God's Law 〈◊〉 3. 10. and for their Idolatry Or rather 2. The Priests of Baalim by comparing this Verse with the former where speaking of these same High Places he ●…oth not say which Ieroboam made as is usual when he speaks of the High Places of the Calves but which the other kings of Israel made who were divers of them Worshippers of Baal and by considering the Parallel place 2 Chron. 34. 4. where it is said they brake down the altars of Baalim c. By this Relation it appears and from the nature of the thing and common practise in like cases it is more than probable that after the departure of the King of Assyria divers of the Israelites who had retired to other parts and kept themselves out of the Conquerors hands returned together with their Priests to their own Land and to their old trade of Worshipping Idols to whom peradventure they ascribed this their Deliverance from that Judgment which Iehovah had brought upon them that were there upon the altars h According to that Famous Prophecy 1 King 13. 1 2. and burnt mens bones upon them and returned to Jerusalem 21 ¶ And the king commanded all the people saying * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Keep the passover i Having abolished False Worship he now endeavours to set up the True Worship of the True God unto the LORD your God * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is written in this book of the covenant k In this Book which I have found wherein is contained the Covenant made between God and Israel and the terms of it 22 Surely there was not holden such a passover l i. e. Celebrated with such Solemn care and great Preparation and numerous Sacrifices 2 Chron. 35. 7 8 9. and universal Joy of all good men which was much the greater because of their remembrance of the former wicked and miserable times under Manasseh and Amon and the good hopes they now had of the happy Establishment of their Nation and the True Religion and of the prevention of God's Judgments denounced against them from the days of the judges m Or from the days of Samuel the last of the Judges as it is expressed 2 Chron. 35. 18. None of the Kings had taken such care to prepare themselves the Priests and People and accurately to observe all the Rites and diligently to purge out all uncleanness and to renew their Covenant with God so solemnly as Iosiah now did that judged Israel nor in all the days of the kings of Israel nor of the kings of Judah 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem 24 ¶ Moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards n Of which see on Levit. 19. 31. and 20. 27. Numb 22. 5. Deut. 18. 11. and the ‖ 〈◊〉 images and the idols and all the abominations o Three words noting the same thing to shew That all the Instruments and Monuments of Idolatry were Destroyed as God had Commanded that were spied p i. e. All that were discovered not onely such as were in the place and state of Worship but such as their Priests or Zealot●… had removed and indeavoured to hide and secure in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem did Josiah put away that he might perform the words of * 〈◊〉 ●…0 27. 〈◊〉 18. 11. the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD 25 And * Chap. 18. ●… like unto him was there no king before him q To wit for his diligent Study in God's Law and 〈◊〉 exact Care and unwearied Industry and fervent Zeal in rooting out of Idolaters and all kinds and appearances of Idolatry not onely