17 In this Chapter Ieremie directs his speech and Sermon to the whole body of the State chapter II as in the name and person of God debating the case and expostulating with them thus viz. minding them of Gods mercies and favours towards them taxing them for their base and unworthy thy carriage towards him convincing them of their extreme folly and madnesse in bringing mischief and misery upon themselves and forewarning them of the sorry successe they should finde by relying on such as would not be able to relieve them the kindnesse of thy youth What kindnesse verse 2 and love God then had shewed them As Psal. CVI. 4. Esay XLVI 3. when thou wentest Gods kindnesse to them then even though they then did but ill deserve it Psal. CVI. 7 32 33. Amos V. 25 26. what iniquity No fault in God verse 5 that he is now changed towards them mine heritage As dear to me verse 7 as mine heritage and by me assigned to you for an heritage and with your childrens children will I plead As I formerly pleaded the cause with your forefathers verse 9 chap. VII 25. 2 Chron. XXXVI 14 15. Pleads here upon a new ground verse 10 11. Though they had no cause to plead with him v. 29. Kedar In Arabia verse 10 a kinde of savage people desolate Lose your lustre verse 12 Is Israel a servant That he is so servilely verse 14 slavishly used by his enemies The young lions Former judgements upon them verse 15 as by the Syrians and Assyrians Noph and Tahapanes Cities in Egypt verse 16 Sihor Nilus verse 18 river Euphrates The two broken Cisterns v. 13. when upon every high hill Notwithstanding thy Promises and engagements verse 20 see thy way in the valley God points them verse 23 as it were with his finger to the particular places of their idolatries dromedarie A swift beast whence in Greek it hath its name A lesser and lower kinde of Camel very rife in Arahia and much used by Curriers there Strabo l. 15. Diodore l. 2. c. 54. Leo Afric l. 9. A wilde Asse Male verse 24 or female For Genders in the names of beasts are often promiscuously used by the Hebrews And we finde both Genders used sometimes of the very self-same thing as Ezek. II. 9. Jonah I. 17. and II. 1. snuffeth up the winde Of lust after the male or female in her moneth they shall finde her When she is heavie with young goeth near her time and cannot so easily shift for her self withhold A wholesom admonition and Caveat verse 25 to break off their wicked courses in gadding after strange people and strange gods lest they suffer for it will I go Whatsoever comes of it And so they are past cure and past care to a stock The ignorant idolatrous Jew no worse then the ignorant idolatrous Papist verse 27 And the learned Papist not much differing herein from the learned idolatrous Jew Arise and save us Judges X. 10 13 14 15. of thy Cities verse 28 are thy gods Tutelar gods As Papists had their Tutelar Saints to every Citie Parish Corporation trade sicknesse c. See the Word of the Lord As verse 31 hear the rod Micah VI. 9. See Deut. XXIX 2 3 4. Prov. XX. 12. Eccles. I. 16. Psal. XVII 2. and LXVI 18. Jer. II. 19. we will come no more unto thee We have no further need now of thy support we can do well enough without thee forgotten me Their ornament verse 32 and attire why trimmest Esay LVII verse 33 9 10. thou also taught Wicked Harlots may learne of thee by thy evil example but upon all these The skirts of thy garments verse 34 it is openly to be seene to change thy way Ranging up and downe verse 36 to seek aide and auxiliaries abroad ashamed 2 Chron. XXVIII 20. from him Heb. verse 37 this place into captivity The five first verses seeme to belong to the former Chapter and Sermon chapter III shall he returne unto her againe Clearly No. verse 1 And the Law expressely forbids it Deut. XXIV 1 4. Neither could his heart brook it lien with So verse 2 Deut. XXVIII 30. In both places the over-mannerly Masorets check the Pen-men of Scripture in appointing an honester terme to be read in the roome of that they found written See the Observations on 2 Kings X. 27. as the Arabian As Thamar did Gen. XXXVIII 14. See Ezek. XVI 24 25 31. or to truck and trade with them from this time Of my Correcting thee verse 4 and admonishing thee v. 3. and chap. II. 25. My Father Lamenting as a childe to his father offended thou hast spoken As formerly verse 5 v. 4 5. and done evil things But still doest evily and wickedly as thou couldest Get opportunity and have ability As Micah II. 1. A new Sermon in Josiah's dayes verse 6 backsliding Israel The revolt of the then Tribes and Gods Bill of divorce thereupon given her her treacherous sister Judah Not fearing verse 7 or mending by that example proves worse then Israel v. 11. but feignedly In the dayes of good Josiah verse 10 For all that he could do yet the generality of the people never turned unto God with their whole heart as too well appeared by their sudden relapse and revolt presently after his death 2 Kings XXIII 32 37. 2 Chron. XXXVI 12 14. North Whither the ten Tribes were carried verse 12 Not that he was to go thither but to proclaime setting his face towards it So Ezek. XX. 46. and XXI 2. one of a Citie God would make such an exact enquirie and search for them verse 14 upon their sincere turning to him in all places of their dispersion that though there should be but some one only of them in a Citie or some two only in a whole Countrey yet he would c. See a parallel place Esay XXVII 12. in those dayes After the enlargement and growth of the Church under the Messias verse 16 The Arke An utter cessation of Legal Rites under the Messias Now they should have no misse of it no want or use of it at all Jerusalem Gods Church verse 17 whereof that was a Type Cal. IV. 26. Apoc. XXI 2. See Esay LX. 14. and all the Nations Esay II. 2. neither shall they Israelites or Proselyte-Gentiles Iudah walk with the house of Israel They shall be reconciled together verse 18 land of the North From Chaldea and Assyria The spiritual deliverance and restitution of them by Christ being shadowed out in these Prophetical Sermons by those temporal deliverances and restaurations So chap. XXXI and XXXIII Esay XI and LIV. and LX. But I said I had such thoughts as these with my self verse 19 How shall I Demanding of them how he should do so great things for them whenas they had dealt so perfidiously with him in times past verse 6 9 13 20. Somewhat like that Hosea VI. 4. and XI 8. and I said After such crosse thoughts to disswade me yet at length I resolved to
Judg. 1. 1 2. 20. 18. 3. 9. in Othniel David Solomon and perfectly in Christ 2 Sam. 22. 41. Psal. 78. 68. 89. 20. thy fathers children By all his wives chap. 27. 29. thy mothers sonnes because Isaac had but one wife shall bow down before thee Thy Regal power Every knee to Christ. Phil. 2. 10. the Lion of the tribe of Judah Apoc. 5. 5. V. 9. Lions whelp True in Judahs Kings most true in Christ. Lions are kingly beasts stout bold strong terrible Lions in Kings armes Lions were stays for the steps of King Solomons throne he couched Varies the person as the Prophetick Spirit moved him After victories he shall lie down and rest securely So in Solomons dayes after Davids victories 1 King 4. 25. Numb 23. 24. V. 10. The Scepter Or tribe so the word signifieth v. 16 28. after once the regal dignity should be setled in this tribe 1 Chron. 5. 2. as in David the Government should never be taken from him at least so far but that there should be a Law-giver from between his feet nor his Kingdome and Common-wealth be utterly ruined and the distinction of his tribe taken away and confounded till the coming of Shiloh There were no more Kings of that tribe after Jechoniah and Zedekiah Jer. 22. 30. Ezech 21. 27. After their returne from that captivity the principality was in Zerubbabel and likely in others of the tribe of Judah And when some while after the Maccabees of the tribe of Levi got the rule yet then the Sanhedrin or great counsel of LXX Elders consisted of the tribe of Judah And the Maccabees had thâ—ir supreme power by the choice and appointment of the people of Judah and continued therein till a little before the birth of Christ when Herod a meer stranger was King and rooted them quite out in the thirtieth yeare of his reigne And if that Sanhedrin were not all chosen out of the tribe of Judah though most of them doubtlesse were yet the Maccabees themselves of the tribe of Levi were of the Kingdome of Judah as distinct from the Kingdome of Israel or of the ten tribes the tribes of Benjamin and Levi were amongst the tribe of Judah and adhered to them yet were but as incorporated into the tribe and Kingdome of Judah which is therefore said 1 Kings 11. 1â— 32 36. three times to consist but of one tribe viz Judah only so also 1 Kings 12. 20. And when they returned out of captivity the greatest part by far that returned were of that tribe yea and after their return out of captivity they were all chiefly planted in the lot and territorie that appertained to the tribe of Judah and the People Kingdome and Common-wealth were still called by the name of Judah and therefore still the Government may be said to be in Judah wher as those of the ten tribes once carried into Assyria never returned to become a Kingdome or Common-wealth as before and had also their tribes confused and confounded Shebet Signifies a rod a rod of iron a rod of authority a Mace or Scepter of Kings a Kingdome Esay 14. 5 a tribe Judges 18. 19. shall not depart When once come to it It was long ere it came to it Moses was of the tribe of Levi Joshuah of the tribe of Ephraim of the fifteen Judges only two Othniel and Ibzan were of the tribe of Judah Saul was of Benjamin David the first King of this tribe Therefore Jacob saith not when Judah should begin to sway the Scepter but having begun how long it should hold on from Judah Not his person v 1. in the last dayes but the tribe of Judah or the Nation of the Jews with relation to that tribe nor a Law-giver Ps 60. 7. or Scribe writing Laws for Rules from between his feet Deut. 28. 57. until And then it should The authority of the Synedrion in their Synagogues in our Saviour Christâ— time was but precaâ—io under the Romanes and restrained in capital crimes Mat 23 34. Acts 5. 17. 9. 1 2. 23. 5. John 18. 3â— 19. 7. Acts 7 59. Ananias was deposed from the High Priesthood for stoning James the brother of Jesus Joseph antiq l. 20. c. 8. The Jewish Scepter was much weakened by Pompey much shaken by Herods intrusion finally broken and abolished at the distruction of Jerusalem After which they had no forme nor face of a Common-wealth Therefore it is evident against the Jewes that the Messiah is come until Shiloh come The Prosperer Safe-maker or his Sonne viz of a Virgin i. e. Christ Heb. 7. 14. secundae ejus the tunicle or skin wherein the childe is wrapt in its mothers belly and so taken for the childe it self the continent for the thing contained in it Then it shall depart God appoints the periods of Kingdomes and States and so the pâ—uses and stops by rebellions and insurrections wherein Gods Providence is not asleep but his Justice awake shall the gathering Jews and Gentiles shallobey him Is. 11. 10. 42. 4. Mat. 12. 21. Rom. 15. 12. He is the desire of all Nations Hag. 2. 7. Esay 2. 1 2. V. 11. Binding his foale unto the vine Wondrous fruitful for wine especially should Judahs lot in Canaan fall out to be full of vines and abounding in pastures lying all in the South-part of Canaan V. 12. Red with wine Prov. 23. 29 30. No allowance to drunkennesse no more then to theft in that saying Apoc 3. 3. white with milke Through plenty of pasturage and kine V. 13 Zebulun Before Issachar so his lot before him in the division of the land Josh. 19. 10 17. though Issachar the elder So Deut. 33. 18. at the Haven of the sea The Ocean westward neare Mount Carmel and the sea of Gal lee Eastward Josh. 19. 10. Esay 9. 1. Thus the lot for Zebulun fell out not by chance but by Gods Providence according to Jacobs prediction so many ages before Nazareth was in this tribe and Mount Tabor and here Christ began to preach Mat. 4. 15. unto Zidon Josh. 19. 10. to the 16. the coaâ—â—s of it were over against Zidon and fit for easie commerce with Zidon V. 14. Issachar is a strong Asse Of strong force but small courage Deut. 33. 18. Judges 5. 16. between two burdens Or bounds borders In a fertile and fat soile loving husbandry and a quiet life and not trafficking abroad as Zebulun V. 15. And bowed his shoulder Rather servilely subject themselves to toile and tribute then forego their quiet peaceable kinde of life Yet some of Issachar were of more noble and heroick spirits Judg. 5. 15. 1 Chron. 12. 13 32. 16. Dan shall judge Ch. 30. 6. Alludes to his name of judging as v. 8. and ch 9. 27. He shall enjoy the priviledge of a tribe as well as his free-born sonnes And as other tribes had their Heads and Elders to judge and decide causes amongst them so should they Numb 1. 4 16. And Sampson of Dan was an extraordinary Judge And the
the year of Jubile began with Blowing of Trumpets on the tenth day of that moneth which also was the day of Expiation Levit. XXV 9. And the Feast of Tabernacles for seven dayes followed after in the same moneth Twelve Cakes The twelve Cakes of Shew bread chapter XXIV verse 5 each of an equall and of a good bignesse set in two rows six on a row seeme to be two rows in Longitude upon the Table one by another And so the Frankincense upon each Cake rather then in Altitude one upon another And so but one Frankincense upon either row See v. 6 7. The Table being two Cubits long and one Cubit broad Exod. XXV 23. And the Frankincense being to be burned every Sabbath Levit XXIV 7 9. yet some make them to be two rows six upon one another in either row on heaps in height In the Temple there were ten Tables of Shew-bread five on the right hand and five on the left 1 Chron. 28. 16. 2 Chron. IV. 8. A Jubile The Jubile-year had all the priviledges of the Sabbath-year chapter XXV verse 11 and more besides Levit. XXV Fruit for three years Viz verse 21 the year before the Sabbath-year and the Sabbath-year and the year after it till the plowing and sowing at the end of the Sabbath-year came to an harvest in the end of the third year Esay XXXVII 10. Numbers THis Book begins with the year of the World Not the 2455 or 2544 But the 2514 or rather 2510 and a little over Thus 2369 to the end of Genesis and death of Joseph Thence 60 to the birth of Moses Thence 80 to the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt And thence 1 year and one moneth to the beginning of this Book which is the second year second moneth first day of their coming out It containes an History not of 39 years but expressely of 38. years and 9 moneths Num. I. 1. and Ch. XXXIII 48 49. compared with Deut. I. 3 4 5. That in Num. IX 1 c. is but a Rehearsal of what was both given in charge and was done before And some other like Repetitions there are 603550. chapter I verse 46 From twenty years old and upwards besides the Levites A wonderful multiplication from seventy persons in 211. yeares yet fairly possible Whereas if they had been in Egypt it self 400 years then their spawning or multiplying there had been very small considering that from three persons that came out of the Arke with Noah within the space of 400 years to the time of Abraham issued such infinite numbers and troops of people in severall Kingdomes and Countreys in the world as out of the Sacred Text and Storie doth plainly appear The Order of the Camp chapter II III and march of the Israelites in the Wildernesse Ch. II. and III. is thus viz The Tabernacle in the middest and Center of all the Hoast Round about the Tabernacle the Levites camped and marched viz On the West the Gershonites Num. III. 23. South the Kohathites Num. III. 29. North the Merarites Num. III. 35. East Moses Aaron his sons Num. III. 38 Males from a moneth old and upwards 7500. 8600. 6200. 22300. Round about the Levites at a good distance Josh. III. 4. Camped and Marched on the East-side Judah and in his Camp Issachar and Zebulun likely on either side or each hand of Judah he being in the midst And so in the other Camps following South-side Reuben and in his Camp Simeon and Gad. West-side Ephraim and in his Camp Manasse and Benjamin North-side Dan and in his Camp Asher and Naphtali Num. II. and X. Chap. In all 603550. And this is the same number of Males from twenty years old and upwards when they gave a Bekah or ten Gerahs each man that is half a Shekel after the Shekel of the Sanctuary to the building of the Tabernacle Exod. XXXVIII 26. As was commanded Exod. XXX 11 16. In the last numbering in the wildernesse in the fourtieth year after the death of Aaron and the death of that Generation for their rebellion and murmuring Num. XIV 29 35. The males from 20 years old and upwards all that were able to go to warre were 601730. The Levites still numbered not with them but by themselves Num. XXVI 51. 22000. chapter III verse 39 300 Male-Levites are omitted in this summe as appears out of ver 22 28 34. which make up 22300. being all the males from a moneth old and upwards And the First-born males of all the children of Israel in the twelve Tribes from a moneth old and upwards being 22273. Ch. III. 43. which argues at least twenty seven males in each family And the surplusage of 273. verse 46. being redeemed at five Shekels apiece amounting to 1375. Shekels verse 50 All this argues the foresaid 300. male-Levites to be wittingly left out in the casting up of the summe most likely omitted so Because they were such First-born of the Levites as were born from the time of the coming out of Egypt to the time of this reckoning and in that regard were sanctified to God as his own by his Law and challenge Exod. XIII 2. and so could not come into the number of the other Levites which were to be changed for the First-borne of the other Tribes and in their stead to be substituted and appropriated to God and his service This number of the Levites was very farre lesse then were of each other Tribe Ch. III. with Ch. I. The number of the least Tribe from twenty years old and upward males able to go forth to warre being 3200. Of the greatest 74600. And the number of the male-Levites from a moneth old and upwards being onely 22300. The charge of Aaron chapter III IV and his sons joyntly and of Eleazar and Ithamar distinctly and of the Kohathites Gershonites and Merarites severally is prescribed in the taking down and carrying and setting up of the Tabernacle See Ch. X. 17 21. From thirty The Levites at the age of thirty years chapter IV verse 3 entered into the full possession of their Offices to waite upon the service of the Tabernacle Num. IV. 3. At the age of twenty five they entered or might enter upon them as Novices and subservients in some secondary or inferiour administrations as Probationers and Proficients Num. VIII 24. And when the Temple should be builded they were ordered to begin and enter at twenty years of age 1 Chron. XXIII ver 24 27. Ezra III. 8. And that by Davids appointment together with the Prophets Gad and Nathan 2 Chron. VIII 14. and Ch. XXIX 25. They continued in their Offices till fifty Num. IV. 3 47. At fifty they ceased waiting upon the service of the Tabernacle but were Overseers there Ch. VIII 25 26. And in their several Cities as being well experienced in the Judicial Laws they judged of matters brought before them The Levites Offices distinct from the Priests are set down in many particulars 1 Chron. XXIII 28 32. David
making this voice and noise by his Almighty power in the coole of the day Coole winde at evening tyde which brought the voice and noise to their hearing hid themselves With as much folly as faultinesse through the horror and amazednesse wherewith they were stricken at Gods approach V. 10. I heard He toucheth not but dissembleth the true and maine cause V. 11. hast thou eatâ—n c q. â— I appeale to thy conscience whether this be not the true cause of thy fear and present shame at thy nakednesse now V. 13. What is this c How heynous an offence as chap 44. 15. V. 14. unto the Serpent Curseth him as the Devils instrument Such is Gods hatred of sinne punishing the bare instruments of it as in Exod 32. 20. Levit 20. 15 16. as a father breaks the sword wherewith his childe was shine Yet this curse upon the Serpent is so expressed as fitly in a Mystical sense relates to and includes the curse inflicted on the Devil the chief agent and author upon thy belly This going on his belly and feeding on dust was not the natural gate and food of the Serpent before For he is numbered among the beasts chap. 3. 1. distinguished from creeping things chap. 1. 25. And the greene herbs was given him for meate chap. 1. 30. But now he is adjudged to go on his belly and breast and that with more paine and difficulty then other creeping things As to Adams labours and Eves conception and sujection to her husband paine and â—orrow were added for their sinne And for meat he must lick the dust Miâ—â—h 7. 17. Esay 65. 22. Whence they are called Serpents of the dust Deut. 32. 24. The Sovereignty of Gods power and authority over all his creatures doth clear the justnesse of his proceeding and doome here against all Serpents V. 15. enmity A natural antipathy betweene Mankinde and Serpents A greater enmity betweene Mankinde and the Devil His enmity to Mankinde is too apparent And mans to him so farre as he is rightly knowne and discerned to be the Devil though by his cunning conveyances as here with Eve he reignes since the fall as a God over a great part of Mankinde 1 Cor. 4. 4. It Or He the World for Seed and the Verb for shall break being both in the Hebrew of the masculine gender pointing to Christ the Seed of a woman Gal. 4 4. Luke 1. 42. 2. 7. the promised Seed Gal. 3. 16. who destroyed the Devil Heb. 2. 14. John 12. 31 and his works 1 John 3. 8. triumphing over him on his Crosse Col. 2. 15. And in Christ our Head we resist and overcome the Devil 1 Pet. 5. 9. 1 John 2. 13 14. The God of Peace bruising Satan under our feet Rom. 16. 20. V. 16. thy desire Shall be subject to thine husband as Gen. 4. 7. As Abels to Cain as the first-borne and he shall rule over thee By Creation she was to live in subordination to man 1 Tim. 2. 13. 1 Cor. 11. 9. But now a further rule in the man and desire of subjection in the woman is required here as a punishment or chastisement on her then he had over her by Creation and with more grief unto woman-kinde 1 Tim. 2. 12. 1 Pet. 3. 1 5 6. 1 Cor. 14. 34. Tit. 2. 5. V. 17. Cursed is the ground The earth which he gave to the children of men Psal. 115. 16. and to their use is now by Curse made more unprofitable to them and their use verse 18 19. chap. 5. 29. Yea the Creature was made subject to vanity by mans sin subject to a vanishing flitting and perishing estate subject to the corruption and abuse of man subject to serve for the object and instrument of sin Esay 24. 5. And therefore the heavens and the earth which are now are reserved unto fire against the day of judgement 2 Pet 3. 7 10. And the whole Creation groaneth and travelleth in paine together untill now The earnest expectation of the creature waiting for the manifestation of the sonnes of God that it may be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God that all the steps and traces of that malediction put upon it for mans sin may be utterly rased out of the world and new heavens and a new earth created as the Scripture phraseth it every creature according to every ones degree and nature partaking of that glorious liberty of the children of God being fully delivered from all vanity slavery abuse and evill Rom. 8. 19 20 21 22. V. 18. the herb of the field Not the herbs and fruits of Paradise v. 23 24. V. 20. Eve Here first so called God calls her Adam chap. 5. 2. because she was To be thus Propheticaly he foretels it else it is Moses that gives the reason of the name V. 21. coats of skins In likelihood of the skins of beasts which God taught him to kill for sacrifice being that Abel did so soone sacrifice chap. 4. 4. V. 22. And now lest c. Spoken by an ironie For it was not the eating of the fruit that could recover him or preserve him from the sentence of death whereunto God for his sin had now doomed him Both the Trees were Sacraments of the first Covenant of works to confirme the Promise and threatening there unto appertaining which Sacramental tree of Life he had now nothing to do withal no right to it having broken the Covenant and incurred the Curse no more then he ought to have medled with the other Tree in the state of innocencie V. 24. drove out The day not so certainly knowne But in all probability the same day of his creation For Satan would omit no time The woman if she had beene better practised and not taken at the first would not so soone have â—râ—ed or if she had knowne the Fall of the Angels she would have suspected the more Her speech v. 2. We may eate seemes to shew that no fruit had been eaten before And doubtlesse she fell a Virgin And accordingly Jewes Caldeans Aâ—abians Greeks Latines Barbarians hold that they fell the day they were created at the East Where the entrance was into Paradise Cheruâ—ims Angels Moses in the use of this word applying himself to the capacity of the people to whom the Cherubims in the Tabernacle were well known representing the Angels In Ezekiels Vision we read of Cherubims as living creatures with wings chap. 1. 5. and 10. 1 15. In Daniel the Angel Gabriel flying and a flaming sword Haply to each if there were more Angels then one Cherubims being of the plural number We read of an Angel with a drawn sword in Davids time 1 Chron. 21. 16. which turned every way All for the more terror thatâ— man should not dare to attempt re-entrance CHAP. IV. Verse 2. ABel So the New Testament writes him Matth. 23. 35. Luke 11. 5â— Heb 11. 4. and 12. 24. The Hebrew still is Hebel Saith David Psal.
between the two rivers Tygris and Euphrates and the countreys adjacent ch 11. 2. V. 11. Out of the land went forth Ashur He Shents sonne v. 22. went out of Shinar by Nimrods invasion and built Nineveh and gave the name to the Assyrian Monarchy Or else Nimrod inlarging his Conquests and Dominions went from Shinar to Ashur and built Nineveh V. 12. The same is a great city Not Calah but Nineveh Jonah 1. 2. 3. 2. 3. 4. 11. specially in the Prophet Jonahs time who lived in the dayes of Jeroboam the second the son of Joash 2 Kings 14. 25. 14. Out of whom came Philistiim The Philistines not of the off-spring of Canaan but expelling some of them made roome for themselves in part of the land of Canaan Amos 9. 7. Jer. 47. 4. V. 15. And Heth Whence come the Hittites ch 23. 3 5 7 10. Girgasite Mat. 8. 28 34. Gadarenes Luke 8. 26. V. 16. Jebusite 2 Sam. 5. 6. 1 Chron. 11. 4. V. 19. The border of the Canaanites Set down particularly because it was promised to Abraham and his seed the Israelites V. 20. These are the sounes of Ham Many more of them are set down here then either of Shem or of Japheth But most likely it is that all these children or Grand-children of Shem Cham and Japheth are not here set down but only such as were famous and by their several Plantations gave names to several Nations descending from their loines V. 21. Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber Great Grand-father to Eber yet Eber thus mentioned because of him afterwards they were called Hebrewes so Abraham ch 14. 13. so ch 40. 15. Phil. 3. 5. and so frequently of Japhet the elder Because Shem was begotten in the five hundred and second yeare of Noah's life he being one hundred yeare old two yeares after the flood ch 11. 10. Therefore Japhet was two yeare older V. 22. Elam Hence came the Elamites or Persians Acts 2. 9. Aram From him came the Aramites Syrians There is Padan-Aram ch 25. 20. Aram-Naharaim ch 24. 10. Aram-Dammesek 2 Sam. 8. 5 6. Araâ—-Zobah Psal. 60. tit Aram Maachah 1 Chron. 19. 6. Aram-Beth-Rehob 2 Sam. 10 6. all these being several Provinces of Syria V. 23. Uz Job 1. 1. There dwelt the Edomites or the Idumeans Lam. 4. 21. V. 25. For in his dayes was the earth divided About the time of his birth was the division of tongues at the building of Babel which occasioned their dispersion into several parts of the earth for habitation And the language before used of all continuing in Eber the father of Peleg might occasion his posterity to be distinguished from all others by the name of Hebrewes V. 29. Ophir From this mans land in India it is likely Solomons ships fetched fine gold 2 Chron. 9. 10. called also gold of Parvaim 2 Chron. 3. 6. This is supposed to be in Havilah near Ophir See the Tree in the beginning of Speeds Genealogies CHAP. XI Ver. 1. OF one language Since the flood no doubt Whether the Hebrew language which was Adams continued the same among all men for the space of one thousand six hundred fifty six yeares before the flood may be more questionable And it came to passe One hundred yeares after the flood v. 10 11 12 13 14. and ch 10. 25. V. 2. They journeyed Nimrod and his company Not Noah Shem Arphaxad Salah Eber and their godly posterities from the East Likely from about the mountaines of Ararat which parts are much North-eastward from Shinar or Chaldea or Mesopotamia Or from other Easterne parts Shinar Containes Babylon Mesâ—potamia and the Countries adjacent foure Cities afterwards built there by Nimrod ch 10. 10. V. 3. Slime A pitchy slime V. 4. Unto Heaven An Hyperbole for the chief haply to escape another flood lest we be scattered Lest this company be the sooner dispersed Or when by multiplication they should in after-times be scattered yet this might remaine as an honourable monument and memorial of their former co-habitation V. 6. And now nothing Ironically as ch 3. 22. V. 7. Let us go down See ch 1. 26. God speaks of himself after the manner of men for mans better understanding A while he suffered them to go on in building and confound their language The number of the several languages now made is uncertain V. 8. Scattered them The thing they sought to prevent by their proud project v. 4. God for it brings upon them presently V. 10. Generations of Shem Those ch 10. 22 c. were without any mention of the age of the Patriarchs descended from him when they begat their eldest sonnes or those by whom the holy line is drawn and of whom our Saviour descended And if they had been passed over so the Chronology of the world had beed lost But now here they are resumed and the chaine of Chronology carefully continued And as there were ten Patriarchs before the flood counting in Noah so there are ten after the flood from Shem to Abraham inclusively The yeares of the world in the former ten to the six hundredth yeare of Noah when the flood came amounted to the number of 1656. The years from the flood which was in the ninety eighth yeare of Shems age to the birth of Abram the tenth Patriarch after the flood came but to the number of three hundred fifty two yeares For mans age was shortened about the half at the time of the flood And again shortened about the half in Pelegs time at the building of Babel And yet the third time shortened somewhat near the half in the time of Nahor as may be seen and observed in the ages of the Patriarchs at their deaths in this chapter Arphaxad The third son of Shem 1 Chron. 1. 17. V. 12. Arphaxad begat Salah Betwixt these is inserted Cainan as the sonne of Arphaxad and father of Salah Luke 3. 35 36. which would break the chaine of Chronology and leave unknown the age of the world The LXX-Translation hath here in Genesis put in that Cainan And that Translation was much more known much more in use in publick Synagogues in private Libraries and Houses in our Saviours time then the Authentical Hebrew Text was yea thereupon the Holy Writers of the New Testament in their quotations out of the Old Testament do follow much the said Translation even with some variation from the Hebrew Text though not in any material thing as the learned well know This may seem to occasion St. Luke in this of Cainan to follow the LXX Translation though he knew that this Cainan was never in the world condescending so to the times and weakness of men therein lest otherwise he might have given occasion of offence or rather they have taken it V. 22. Nahor The first idolater of the line ch 31. 53. Josh. 24. 2. And so after him were Terah and Abraham till God called him out of that place chap. 11. 31. 12. 1. Rom. 4. 2 5. V. 26.
ch 19. 1. stood yet before the Lord Jehovah This Abraham now knew V. 23. Drew near A signe and fruit of saith in prayer Heb. 7. 19. 10. 22. V. 24. Within the City Implying the like for the other three Cities V. 25. That be far from thee That the righteous should be as the wicked taken away in justice wrath and vengeance as the wicked Sodomites here were though in publick calamities they are sometimes taken away as the wheat is thrashed with the chaffe yet it is in mercy to them V. 32. Ten Jer. 5. 1. God offers mercy if there were but one Esay 65. 8. sometimes again he forbids his Prophets to pray for such Jer 15. 1. Ezech. 14. 14. CHAP. XIX Verse 1. TWo Angels Two of the three chap. 18. 2 22. in the gate As Abraham in the tent door ch 18. 1. Both entertain Angels at unawares Heb. 13. 2. V. 2. Behold now Now that the night is come on Nay To try his affection and haply they would have done so otherwise to see the behaviour of the people and their carriage ch 18. 21. V. 3. They turned in Upon his pressing of them A sleight invitation may be seriously refused and yet that which is pressing be accepted afterwards so Luke 24. 28 29. and this without Popish equivocation or mental reservation unleavened For haste And so unleavened is to be understood ch 18. 6. See Exod. 12. 39. V. 4. But before they lay down Likely the rare beauty of the two men Angels being soon noted and spread abroad occasioned this all the people So vile were they all V. 5. called unto Lot Esay 3. 9. proclaim their sin impudence know them Hence that sin is called Sodomy or Sodometry as from Simon is the name Simony Acts 8. 18. Jude v. 7. Rom. 1. 23 to 27. V. 7. Brethren In nature Act. 17. 26. Esay 58 7 Gen. 29. 4. 1 Sam. 30. 22 23. And in neighbourhood V. 8. Two daughters Virgins yet betrothed v. 14. This sinful in Lot Rom. 3. 8. Neither had he such power over his daughters nor ought they to have yielded to him herein Haply he might think and hope by this strange offer to take off their mindes qualifie their present heat by some delayes and alter them from their whole purpose by degrees As Reuben sought by his strange offer Gen. 42. 37. to alter his fathers minde and so indeed brought him at last to let Benjamin go with them chap. 43. 9 10. V. 9 Stand further Spoken in disdain as Esay 65. 5. needs be a Judge Now and heretofore 2 Pet. 7. 8. pressed sore To impudence they joyne violence as Judg. 19. 22. 20. 5. Their other sins are mentioned elsewhere as Ezech. 16. 49. V. 11. With blindnesse Such as they could not see the door though likely the house and the way to their owne houses so dazled such a blindnesse likely as that of those Aramites 2 Kings 6. 18. which could see to follow the Prophet though they could not distinctly discern who he was nor the way they went nor the City whereto they came v. 20. Mar. 8. 24. Luke 24. 16. wearied themselves Infinite impudence in sin V. 14. Which married Shortly should being about to marry them and already betrothed Deut. 22. v. 23 24. Mat. 1. 18 20 23 24 25. V. 15. Which are here Possibly he had other daughters which were married and were dead or else refused and perished with their husbands But this not so likely V. 16. Laid hold John 6. 44. V. 17. That he said Jehovah most likely by the passages in the ensuing verses He had now left Abraham met them and made himself known to Lot Look not Thou or any in thy company v. 26. Luke 17. 22. See Luke 9. 62. Mat. 24. 16 17 18. Phil. 3. 13 14. V. 19. I cannot escape to the mountain In so hasty a flight make so long a journey lest ere I get thither the judgement poured out should overtake me His infirmity of faith and fearfulnesse out of which he left Zoar also v. 30. V. 22. I cannot Mar. 6. 5. Exod. 32. 10. Deut. 9. 14. Gen. 32. 26. Zoar Little before Bela ch 14. 2. V. 23. The Sun was risen Hasty flight from break of day v. 15. to Sun-rising and speedy execution of justice V. 24. Then the Lord Jehovah from Jehovah Suites well with a plurality of persons in the unity of the Deity brimstone and fire Luke 17. 28 29 30. Fit judgement for their stinking burning lusts and fire unnaturally descending to punish their unnatural lusts And this but a forerunner of their everlasting punishment in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone for ever Rev. 21. 8. Jude v 7. V 25. Overthrew these Cities Deut. 29. 23 Esay 13 19. Jer. 50. 40. Amos 4. 11. V. 26. From behinde him Either Lot going before and she following behinde him looked back or Lot coming hindmost to haste them forward she looked back behinde and beyond him a pillar of salt A statue of salt not such salt as will melt with raine and turne into water but a kinde of rockie mineral salt which will endure all weathers and serve for a lasting monument Numb 18. 19 2 Chron 13. 5. This place of this Plaine is called the salt sea ch 14. 3. Salt to season us with better wisdome Luke 17. 32. 9. 62. V. 27. Stood Ch. 18. 22. V. 28. The smoak Before it was as the Garden of the Lord ch 13. 10. but now fearfully destroyed Psal. 107. 34. V. 29. Remembred Abraham Ch. 12. 1. 14. 14. 16. 18. 23 c. yet this excludes not a regard had to the righteousnesse of Lot 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. V. 30. In the mountain Whare the Lord appointed him first v. 17. so now he findes it had been best to have followed Gods Will at the first feared to dwell in Zoar and he dwelt in a cave Weaknesse of faith and other causes might occasion this feare two daughters Maidens v. 8. V. 31. In the earth She knew there were people in Zoar and saw the judgement to be particular not universal over the earth or Canaan and that Abraham and his family were not far off But she complaines as for the present mured up in a cave and in this solitary life without society of any but themselves like to be deprived of all hope of marriage and this feare and passion blinding her drives her to this desperate damnable course V. 32. Wine Which they had brought from Zoâ—r conceiving that unlesse drunk he would never sin so foully perceived not Drunkennesse drownes all understanding sense and conscience He did prostitute their chastity v. 8. They overthrow his This just as from God though evil in them He righteous in Sodom and almost Sodomitical here seed of our father They seem to be greedy of having children of their own kin and not of the faithlesse and cursed Nations And by giving the names of Moah and Ben-ammi v. 37 38. even to boast of
that God is ignorant of what is in man but to make it the better known to himself and others So Exod. 15. 25. 16. 4. Deut. 8. 2 16. 13. 3. Indeed God and Satan may both have an hand in one and the same tentation as in Davids numbring the people 2 Sam. 24. 1â— 1 Chron. 21. 1. But to far different ends both Satan and wicked men tempted our Saviour often in the Gospels with an evil minde to an evil end And the sinful Israelites are said often to tempt God by making doubt and trial of his presence Providence Wisdome Power and so by unbelief and murmurings tempting and provoking him to wrath And so Ananias and Sapphira tempted the Spirit of the Lord. And Paul gives the caveat that we tempt not Christ 1 Cor. 10. 9. And again tentations are taken for troubles afflictions persecutions which try the truth and strength of Gods graces in his children And so if God lead into temptation Matth. 26 13. he will with it give you the issue and outgate 1 Cor. 10. 13. Here God doth so wiâ—h Abraham in a marvellous trial of his faith and obedience V. 2. And he said In such a manner as he could not doubt but it was God and no Satanical illusion thy only sonne Isaac Only in thy family Ishmael was gone and we never read he returned but to the burial of his father ch 25. 9. And it seems at this time Abraham had not taken Keturah or had no children by her Thy only Isaac that childe of Promise Heb. 11. 18. Thy only begotton son Heb. 11. 17. namely of Sarah thy lawful wise the freeâ—woman wâ—om thou lovest Above all and that for many good reasons land of Moriah Here afterwards Solomon built the Temple 2 Chron. 3. 1. Moriah had this name afterwards upon the occasion in the fourteenth verse a burnt-offering Not that God intended he should do it But this was for trial of his rare faith and obedience and that in a most extraordinary way and manner For indeed here all that was in Abraham as a Man Father Husband Believer Professor of Religion were put to trial Heb. 11. 19. one of the mountaines It was a mountainous countrey Psal. 125 2. The mountaine or hill Sion was close by it V. 3. Rose up early It seemes the command was given in the night Here in this strange trial is his strange and ready quick obedience and went From Beer-sheba in the land of the Philistines ch 21. 31. 33 34. and v. 19. of this chapter God had told him More particularly then at first v. 2. 4 9. V. 4. The third day Either he went leisurely or some occasions might let and hinder him in his travel V. 5. Abide you here Lest they should hinder him lad The same word used of Joshuah when he was thirty yeares old ch 41. 12. and of Joseph when he was fifty three yeares old as appears in that he lived fourty yeares in the wildernesse and seventeen yeares after Moses death and his whole life was one hundred and ten Josh. 24. 29. and so of Benjamin Gen. 43. 8. when at that time he had nine or ten sons ch 46. 21. And so of Absalom at the time of his death 2 Sam. 18. 29. and come again to you He speaks this as a man astonished and amazed or in humane frailty or as Prophet as Caiaphas did John 11. 49. 50 51. not knowing or meaning what his words would bear Heb. 11. 19. and so v. 8. V. 6. And laid it upon Isaac Isaac a type of Christ in many things Christ the only Sonne of his Father Well-beloved Son in whom he is well-pleased the promised seed bore his Crosse was bound sacrificed meekly submitted being obedient unto death rose again as Isaac from the Altar V. 9. And bound Isaac Telling him no doubt at this time Gods whole command and he having only his fathers word for it yet readily submits and obeyes V. 10. To slay his sonne Heb. 11. 17 18. James 2. 21 22 23. V. 11. And the Angel Christ the Angel of the Covenant who speaks of himself as God v. 12. sweareth by himself and promiseth as God and is called Jehovah v. 16 17 18. Out of Heaven So to Hagar ch 21. 17. V. 12. Lay not thine hand Heb. 11. 19. God accepts the Will for the deed 2 Cor. 8. 12. Against idolaters sacrificing their children both Jewes and Gentiles haply upon this pretended example V. 13. Behinde him Likely that way the Angels voice sounded aram This is for the Lamb mentioned v. 7 8. This he toâ—k as sent from God 1 Pet. 1. 19. V. 14. Jehovah Jirch The Lord will see or will be seen answerable to that v. 8. Mori-Jah is of the same signification so Jehovah-Nissi Exod. 17. 15. Jehovah Shammah Ezech. 48. 35. in the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen The meaning of the proverb is that in due time and place God will help and provide for his children and they shall see it V. 16. By my self have I sworne Heb. 6. 13 14 17 18. Sometimes God doth swear by his Soul Jer. 51. 14. by his Holinesse Amos 4. 2. by his Name Jer. 44. 26. And all this is to swear by himself saith the Lord Thus saith Christ of himself In like manner Ps. 2. 7. for because Not for the merit of this prompt obedience The Promise was freely made afore ch 12. 2. 13. 16. 15. 5. 17. 2 4 5 6 16. But as an occasion of repeating and confirming the Promise finding him rightly qualified and to encourage him and others to the execution of faith and obedience V. 17. In blessing Surely under the name blessing is meant the Promise of eternal salvatation thy seed Isaacs posterity ch 21. 12. possesse the gate Ch. 24. 60. where all publick places were for consultation for judgement Job 31. 21. Deut. 22. 15. 21. 19. Amos 5 12 15. and which were the strongest fortifications The meaning is thy seed shall subject them and bring their strength and government under command their holds and cities Mat 16. 18. V. 18. In thy seed Christ. So the Apostle applies it Gal. 3. 16 18. Jer. 4. 2. Ps. 72 17. Beer-sheba Ch. 21. 31 33 34. V. 20 Milcah Ch. 1. 29. Abraham sends thither for a wife for Isaac ch 24. 15 47. V. 21. Uz In this land Job dwelled Job 1. 1. There is another Uz ch 10. 23. and another ch 36. 28. Buz Job 32. 2. dwelt by his elder brother Uz in Arabia Jer. 25. 20 23 24. Kemuel the father of Aram Aram throughout the Bible is turned in Greek Syria and Syrians as Mizraim is Egypt and Cush Ethiopia V. 22. Bethuel Ch. 24. 15. V. 23. Rebekah Isaacs wife ch 24. 15 67 For this cause chiefly is this Genealogy here set down V. 24. And his Concubine An half wife sometimes called by the name of a wife yet not solemnly betrothed nor taken with dowry nor Partner in the Government of the family but subject to
the lawful wife and whose children did not inherit ch 16. 6 9. 25. 5 6. 21. 10. 1 Kings 11. 3. yet Bilhahs and Zilpahs did extraordinarily becoming Heads of Tribes CHAP. XXIII Verse 1. THese were the yeares of the life of Sarah How long any other woman lived is not recorded in Scripture She lived sixty yeares in Ur five in Haran twenty five in Canaan almost all before she had Isaac and thirty seven after in Canaan most at Geraa and Beer-sheba until her death in Kiriath-arba or Hibron V. 2. Kiriath-arba the same is Hebron V. 19. Judges 1. 10. This city was first called Mamre ch 13 18. Here Abraham and Isaac sojourned and hither Jacob came to his father Isaac after his returne from Laban ch 35. 27. This afterwards fell by lot in the tribe and mountain or hill-countrey of Judah Josh. 15. 54. And was given to the Priests for a City of Refuge Josh. 20. 7. But the fields of the City excepting the subuths and the villages thereof were given to Caleâ— Josh. 21. 11 12 13 14 15. and Abrahem came Out of his own Tent into Sarahs Tent for they had several Tents separated from each other ch 24. 67. So ch 31 33. It is possible that Abraham had not removed his dwelling from Beer-sheba to Hebron but that Sarah upon some occasion travelling thither there from home fell sick and died And that from Beer-sheba Abraham should come and mourne for her and take order for her burial But it is not likely she should so travel in her extream old age nor so likely he would have in that manner buried her there if they both had not removed and dwelled there it being their ancient place of habitation And wherever Abraham had been as at Beer-sheba as at Hebron he must have bought an inheritance if any he would have for any use he being but a stranger and sojourneâ— in the land Acts 7. 5. to mourn and to weep So our Saviour wept for Lazarus John 11. 35. but it must be with moderation as in hope and belief of the Resurrection 1 Thess. 4 13. A little letter is here in the Original to note his moderation in weeping without excesse V. 3. Stood up from before his dead Where likely he had sitten awhile on the earth Job 2. 12 13. Esay 47. 1. the sonnes of Heth The Governours and Elders of the Hittites the inhabitants of Hebron of the progeny of Cham ch 10. 15. V. 4. Sojourner Heâ— 11. 13 14 16. a possession Leave to purchase it burying place Abraham having lived sixty two yeares in this land yet never purchased foot of inheritance till now a burying place This was a kinde of taking possession of this promised land Esay 22. 16. or a kinde of pledge or prophetical signe that his posterity should come and inherit the land as Jeremies buying his Uncles field was a signe of the Jewes returne into the possession of this land Jer. 32. This made Jacob give charge to be buried here And Joseph to have his bones carried into this land not a foot by Gods gift Acts 7. 5. bury my dead Sowe it as seed in the ground till the Resurrection where they rest as in their beds till their change come out of my sight Death makes lovely Sarah the desire of his eyes now â—athsome to his sight V. 6. A mighty Prince ch 2 1. v. 22. V. 9. For a possession Though they offered him the free use of the choice of their sepulchres v. 6. yet he had rather pay for a propriety then hold such a community with the heathen V. 9. Machpelah Before Kiriath-arba or Hebron or Mamre v. 17 â—9 V. 10. And Ephron dwelt Or sate being present in that assembly though likely not known by face to Abraham v. 8. at the gates of the City There Assemblies used to be and places of Judicature v. 18. ch 34. 20. Deut. 17. 5. 21. 19. 22. 15 24. 25. 7. Ruth 4. 1 11. and in many other places Prov. 31. 23. V. 13. If thou Wilt give it or be that Ephron I will giveâ— v. 9 The like striviâ—g in kindnesse is between David and Araunah 2 Sam â—4 21 22 23 24. V. 15. Shekels of silver See ch 20. 16. The common shekel little more then our shilling viz. three pence foure hundred common shekels come to twenty five pounds some make the common shekel to be one shilling eight pence and the Royal or Kings shekel to be one shilling three pence 2 Sam. 14. 26. V. 16 Weighed Money paid by weight not by tale so ch 43. 21. Esay 55. 2. Jer. 22. 9. Zech. 11. 12. V. 17 And the field of Ephron This is not that mentioned Acts 7 â—6 were made 〈◊〉 By payment and Witnesses without Deeds and Writings after Writings were used Jer. 32 Now hardly will skilful Writings serve the turne V. 18. For a possession And monument to posterity without distrust of Gods Promises or a renunciation of his own right he buyeth a parcel of the land for his present necessity The time of possession according to the grant and promise being not yet come V. 19. Buried Sarah And so after himself was buried there and Isaac and Rebecca Jacob and Leah ch 25. 9 49. 31. 50. 13. They testifying hereby their faith in Gods promises for the inheritance of this land and of the heavenly Canaan figured by it Mat. 27. 7. V. 20. A burying place A seemly care is to be had of burial places CHAP. XXIV Verse 1. WAs old One hundred and fourty yeares old as may be gathered out of chap. 25. 20. V. 2. His eldest servant Most likely his Steward Eleezer ch 15. 2. And this not without Isaacs consent he being now fourty yeares old thy hand under my thigh So Jacob required of Joseph ch 47. 29. It is a signe of subjection 1 Chron 29. 24. yet in Scripture the most frequent ceremony used at swearing is the lifting up the hand as ch 1â— 22. Exod. 6. 8. Numb 14. 30. Deut. 32. 40. Ezech. â—0 15. Dan. 12. 7. Rev. 10. 5 6. The custome of several countreys and religions hath been and is very various for rites and gestures in this case That Abraham by this gesture here should have any relation to the promised seed to proceed out of his loines is a reach I feare too far fetch 't V. 3. Sweare A thing lawful forbidden in vain and light causes and such was Herods oath to the dancing damâ—sel Mar. 6. 23. forbidden in ordinary communication Mat. 5. 34 37. James 5. 12. But in weighty causes we may swear and being thereunto lawfully called and warranted so here And so for ratification of Covenants and Promises of importance so did Abraham and Abimelech sware ch 21. 31. so Isaac and Abimelech ch 26. 31. so Jacob and Laban ch 31. 53. so David and Jonathan 1 Sam. 20. 17. And â—o God commands it for removal of suspitions of jealousie Nâ—mh 52â— of theft Exod. 22. 11. 1 Kings 8. 31. 2 Chron.
mothers sonnes Cursed Ch. 12. 3. Numb 24 9. The efficacy of the blessing here did not depend upon the intention of Isaac And no more doth the truth and efficacy of the Sacrament depend upon the intention of the Minister V. 33. Trembled As one perplexed astonished between wonder and feare lest he had done amisse Yea and he shall be blessed By that trembling as by a bit and bridle God restraines him from revoking the blessing And recollecting himself he doth now by faith re-establish it Heb. 11. 20. And after more advisedly chap. 28. 3 4. V. 34. Exceeding bitter cry Yet found no place of repentance no way to change his fathers minde to recal what he had done though he sought it carefully with tears Hebr. 12. 17. Prov. 1. 24 28. V. 35. Thy blessing Which I intended thee and by birth-right pertained to thee V. 36. And he said These words shew no true repentance in Esau. he took away Nay Esau sold it and despised it ch 25. 33 34. my blessing Not his then when the birth-right was none of his V. 37. Thy Lord V. 29. and what shall I do As if he should say comparatively all other blessings are nothing V. 39. The fatnesse of the earth Not unlike that v. 28. Mount Seir was such a place Josh. 24. 4. By faith Isaac blessed Esau concerning things to come Hebr. 11. 20. yet Canaan far surpassed Idumea Besides that Canaan was a type of the heavenly Canaan V. 40. And by this sword shalt thou live With warres and troubles defend thy state and countrey Mat. 10. 34. And not enjoy peace as Jacob Deut. 33. 27 28. Esay 2. 4. and shalt serve thy brother In thy posterity Deut. 33. 29. Gen. 25. 23. 2 Sam. 8. 14. 1 Kings 22. 47. Obad. v. 18 19 21. when thou shalt have the dominion Because of Israels sins as in the days of Jehoram 2 Kings 8. 20. 22. 2. break his yoke Of thy servitude 2 Chron. 21. 8. under which thou wast from Davids dayes till then above one hundred yeares Esay 9. 4. 10. 27. Jer. 27. 8 11. Herod was an Idumean V. 41. Hated Spitefully This shewes no true repentance in him 1 John 3. 12 15. This hatred continued in his posterity Obad v. 10 11 12 13 14 18 19 21. said in his heart Afterwards uttered it in words v. 42. are at hand In his wish and opinion Isaac being now blinde and yet he lived fourty foure yeares after V. 42. Comfort himself To receive his birth-right by killing of thee Revenge is sweet to the enraged wicked man yea the very purpose of it And thus they harden their heart in evil against Gods known Will so did Saul against David 1 Sam. 18. 28. God useth a like speech of himself in an holy sense Ezech. 5. 13. V. 44. A few dayes It proved to be above twenty yeares ch 31. 38. Doubtful whether ever Rebekah saw him again She sent not for Jacob because she saw Esaus rage and malice continue ch 32. 6. V. 45. Both in one day By fighting they might kill each other or if Esau lived they should and would then count him as dead and no better And the Law was such chap. 9. 6. V. 46. Of the daughters of Heth Esaus wives ch 26. 35 34. A wise godly and crafty counsel she conceales from Isaac the hatred of Esau and dangerous discord between his sons CHAP. XXVIII Ver. 1. ANd blessed him Isaac was constant to his first blessing notwithstanding Jacobs craft in getting it Jacob had need of this second blessing to confirme his faith against his future troubles and trials Isaac therefore by his fatherly authority now wittingly and willingly settles it on him again V. 2. Arise go Isaac was not but his fathers servant ch 24. 3 4. 5 6. And he with ten camels c. Jacob here with his staffe in his hand ch 32. 10. and to serve for a wife Hos. 12. 12. thy motheâ—s brother Cousin-germans marry V. 3. A multitude of people Chapter 35. 11. 48. 4. V. 4. The blessing of Abraham His Grandfather who had the Original grant of the blessings both temporal and spiritual earthly and heavenly made over to him and his seed and the blessing chiefly of the promised seed art a stranger Ch. 17. 8. This is to prevent the weakening of his faith by being but a stranger in it still as also his father and Grandfather were unto Abraham By Promise ch 12. 7. and often repeated V. 5. Of Bâ— thuel the Aramite Syrian So Luke translateth the word Luke 4. 27. V. 9. To Ishmael The Ishmaelites for he was dead ch 25. 17. Mahalath Called also Basemath ch 36. 3. sister By the same mother at least if not father Nebaioth Ishmaels eldest sonne ch 25. 13. From him Esau had his sister to wife Ishmael being now dead Esau and she were Cousin-germans two brothers children This Esau did to please his father and strengthen himself by the Ishmaelites against Jacob. And now he hath three wives assoon likely as Jacob had any V. 10. From Beersheba Ch. 26. 23. toward Haran Charran Acts 7. 2. a long journey seven dayes journey in Labans pursuit to Mount Gilead ch 31. 22 23. which Mount stretched through the two tribes and 1 2 beyond Jordan Eastward And now was Jacob seventy five or seventy six yeares old See Annot. on ch 29. 21. V. 11. And he lighted By Gods Providence chap. 32. 10. because the Sun was set And so or for wearinesse he did not reach Luz after called Bethel Though it were hard by v. 19. It is conceived to be near fifty English miles distant from Beer-sheba and from Jerusalem eight miles Northward for his pillowes Hard distresse He went so meanly from his parents or haply stole away in a sort lest Esau should lie in wait for him by the way as he did at his returne ch 32. 6. Abrahams servant went with great state so that Rebekah calls him Lord ch 24. 18. But Jacob with his staffe in his hand ch 32. 10. V. 12. Dreamed A divine dream See Annot. on ch 15. 1. and on ch 20. 3. Ladder Signifying Christ John 1. 51. In his two natures personally united Heaven and earth are as it were joyned together And by him the only Mediatour is man reconciled to God Colos. 1. 20. by him the Angels for our service and the Holy Ghost and his gifts descend down to us and we and our prayers have accesse and ascend unto God And secondarily hereby is signified the Providence of God in governing the world Psal. 113. 5 6. and particularly his provident care over Jacob in his journey going and returning v. 13 15. and 32. 1 2. And both these specially by the Ministery of Angels Psal. 91. 11 12. Heb. 1. 13 14. earth Denoting Christs humanity and his conversing with men Joh. 16. 28. Heaven Denoting his Deity and Mediation or negotiation for men with God Heb. 8. 1. 9. 24. John 14. 6. ascending Coming and going looking
with desire into the mysteries of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 12. ministring unto him Mar. 1. 13. at his Tentation Mat. 4. 11. in his Passion Luke 22. 43. at his Resurrection John 20. 12. and Ascension Acts 1. 11. And ministring through him unto his people V. 13. The Lord stood Jehovah His Providence over us in Christ I am the Lord God of Abraham ch 17. 7. Heb. 11. 16. And this teacheth the Resurrection of the dead Luke 20. 37 38. to thee and to thy seed To thee in thy seed when yet he had no wife or childe V. 14. And thy seed Renewes the Promise to him and states it in him which was formerly made to Abraham and to Isaac Act. 3. 25. all the families So the Promise pertaines to us we may say with the Prophet God found him in Bethel and there he spake with us Hos. 12. 4. V. 15. I am with thee The like Promise made at his return ch 31 3. in all God giving his sonne doth with him give all things also Rom. 8. 32. 1 Tim 4. 8. not leave thee Josh. 1. 5. Heb. 13. 5. untill Not excluding the time following As Mat. 28. 20. V. 16. And I knew it not Being awaked he perceived that God had appeared to him there admires at it and his goodnesse in it that not only in his Fathers house but even there God vouchsafed such Apparitions Job 9. 11. V. 17. Afraid Such glorious though gracious Apparitions affects mans frailty with feare because of his sin Mat. 17. 6. Luke 2. 9. 8. 35. Rev. 1. 17. See Annot. on ch 16. 13. the house of God He thinks this therefore a fit place for the building of an House to God v. 22. 1 Tim. 3. 15. V. 18. The stone Or heap of stones v. 11. or else some one of them pillar Some extemporary pile of stones raised by him afore on the sudden without tooles as a thankful memorial of Gods gracious Apparition in that place This likely being after demolished he erects about thirty yeares after a new pillar of stone upon another Apparition in the same place ch 35. 14 15. This here was a religious signe and monument as Altars also were Esay 19. 19. There were also pillars for civil monuments as Rachels pillar on her grave ch 35. 20. and Absaloms pillar 2 Sam. 18. 18. the pillar Galecd Gen. 31. 45 47 52. But when the Law was given by Moses pillars for religious use were forbidden Lev. 26. 1 Deut. 16. 22. in the margin Hos. 10. 1. And the pillars of idolaters commanded to be broken down Deut. 12 3. 7. 5. and poured oile Which he had for food or to anoint his body in travel Jacob poured it on the top or the pillar to consecrate it for holy use Thus oile of consecration in use before the Law of Moses So again ch 35. 14. As after in the Law there was an anointing oile to sanctifie the things used in Gods service Exod. 25. 6. 30. 22 25 29 to 34. 40. 9 to 16. Or rather here Jacob poured it as to an offering of thanksgiving to God having no other sacrifice at hand As David poured out the water of the Well of Bethlehem 2 Sam. 23. 16. See ch 35. 14. but these rites and manner of Worship with all the Levitical ceremonies and Consecrations of places persons and things to divine service are taken away by the Gospel John 4. 20. 1 Tim. 2. 8. Yet the rules of religious order and decency in the times places and particulars of Christian Worship are to be observed V. 19. Bethel The City Luz hard by this place and after hereupon called Bethel Bethel was on an high hill And therefore we read of Mount Bethel Josh. 16. 1. It was nigh to Hui or Ai and West of it Gen. 12. 8. Josh. 7. 2. ch 8â— 9. 12 ch 12. 9. And therefore the men of Bethel and Ai are joyned together Ezra 2. 28. Nehem. 7 32. Bethlehem and Shilo were not far from it Gen. 35. 16 19. Judg. 21 19. Abraham pitched his Tent close by it iâ— not there Gen. 12. 8. 13. 3. As Jacob had this dream and vision here whereupon he calls the name of the place Bethel so God himself bidding him returne from Laban is pleased to call himself the God of Bethel ch 31. 13. And upon his return God bids him go and dwell there which command he obeyes and here makes an Altar And upon a second vision and Promise made he the second time erects a pillar and renewes the name of Bethel ch 35. 1 3 4 5 6 9 13 14 15. Hos 12. 4. In Joshuths time it had a King Josh. 12. 16. Joshuah and after the house of Joseph conquered it Josh. 12. 16. Judg. 1. 22 23 24 25. It fell then by lot to the tribe of Benjamin Josh. 18. 22. There being another of the name it seems that fell to Ephraim 1 Chron. 7. 28. It is one of the three places whither Samuel rede circuit yearly and judged Israel 1 Sam 7. 16. Saul in his time met three men going up to God to Bethel â— Sam 10. 3. had two thousand men of his army with him there and in Micmash 1 Sam. 13. 2. David sent of the spoiles of the Amalckites to them of Bethel if under that name in that place Kiriah-jearim the House of God where the Ark then was and abode be not understood Jeroboam in his time set up here one of his golden Calves made an Altar and setled Priests 1 Kings 12. 28. 29 32 33. And hence Bethel the House of God seemes to be called Bethaven the house of vanity Hos. 4. 15. 5. 8. 10. 5. And yet there was another place properly called Bethaven and nigh to Bâ—thel Josh. 7. 2. 18. 12. 1 Sam. 13. 5. 14. 23. Thither came a man of God while Jeroboam stood by the Altar to burne incense and prophesied against it and healed the Kings hand that was dried up for stretching it out against him which Prophet was after slain by a Lion for suffering himself to be seduced by an old Prophet that dwelt in Bethel and came out of Samaria 1 Kings 13. 2 Kings 23. 18. Abijah the sonne of Rchoboam took from Jeroboam Bethel with the townes thereof 2 Chron. 13 9 whereupon and upon the captivity of the ten tribes Jeremie useth these words That the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence Jer. â—8 13. And before that captivity Hosea threatens that Bethel should do so unto them as Shalman had spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battel Hos 10. 14 15. In Ahaziah's time or rather Jehoram's Kings of Israel Elias comes thither with Elizcus immediately before his taking up into heaven And upon Elizcus his return thither the little children out of the city came and mocked him calling him Bald-head and fourty two of them were torne by beares 2 Kings 2. In the dayes of Jeroboam the second Amos the Prophet in scorn bids the ten tribes come to Bethel and
age he being six or seven yeares old when they all left Laban and fourty when they all came down unto him into Egypt But the other opinion which makes Judah to be borne in the fourth yeare of the first seven of Jacobs service and so to be ten yeares older then Joseph and fifty yeares old when he with his father came into Egypt doth give fairer way to the course and times of the story thus viz. Judah at sixteen yeares old comes into Canaan and speedily marries the daughter of Shuah In the next yeare hath Er. Er marries Tamar at fourteen After which foure yeares are spent in the matters of Onan of Shelah and till the birth of Pharez begotten by Judah after the death of his wife upon the body of Tamar and Pharez at thirteen yeares old marries and in two yeares hath Hezron and Hamul and then all go down into Egypt And all this within the fifty years of Judahs age Adullamite Adullam a city that fell afterwards to the tribe of Judah Josh. 12. 15. 15. 33 35. had a King was seated in a valley David fled to a cave here 1 Sam. 22. 1. 2 Sam. 23. 13. V. 2. Canaanite Contrary to the wills of his Grandfather and great Grandfather ch 24. 3. 27. 46. 28. 1. Shuah The name not of Judahs wife but of her father v. 12. 1 Chron. 2. 3. V. 3. He called The man names the childe V. 4. She called The woman names And so v. 5. Chezib Likely Achzib Josh. 19. 29. 15. 44. signifies lying and thereto the Prophet alludes Micah 1. 14. V. 7. Was wicked in What wickednesse is not set down but heinous sure in kinde and degree slew him Shortly after his marriage how or by what meanes is not set down ch 46. 12. Numb 26. 19. 1 Chron. 2. 3. In some extraordinary remarkable manner by sudden vengeance V. 8. And marry her and raise up seed This before Moses time After a Law made for it Deut. 25. 5 7 9. And in want of a brother the next Kinsman was to do it Ruth 3. 9. 4. 6 7. But forbidden in case the brother left any issue before he died Lev. 18. 16. 20. 21. V. 11. Remain a widow at thy fathers house Lev. 22. 13. Lest she should entice Shelah till Shelah Yet he minded it not v. 14 26. lest he die Conceiving something amisse of Tamar upon an evil surmise as if some unluckinesse followed her V. 12. In processe of time The dayes were multiplied yet long it could not be but surely after the deatâ—s of Er and Onan because after his fit of mourning for her death he soon lies with Tamar sheep-shearers Then they used to have feasts 1 Sam. 25. 8 11. So he went to make merry after his mourning Timnath A City in the Philistines countrey which after fell to the lot of Judah Josh. 15. 20 57. There Sampson took a wife Judg. 14. 1. V. 14. Widowes garment Some mournful guise and habit to notifie her estate An ancient and lawful practice in an open place So whores used Prov. 7. 12. 9. 14. Jer. 3. 2. Ezech. 16. 25. grown and she was not given Some suitable time must be allowed to this which will hardly stand with that opinion of Judah's not marrying till he had been three yeares in the land of Canaan V. 15. Because she had covered her face A veile did serve for Modesty ch 24. 65. But here it was that Judah might not know her And likely to the same purpose she used whispering or changed her voice and tone See Annot. on ch 29. 25 V. 16. What wilt thou give me Ezech. 16. 33. Deut. 23. 18. Micah 1. 7. V. 17 Pledge Hebrew Eraben whence the Greek Arrhaebon and the Latine Arrhabon This she did for her future security v. 24 25. V. 18. Thy signet Luke 15. 22. Jer. 22. 24. came in unto her In some secret place by and near conceived by him Being now about thirty foure yeares of age The great Annotators reckon him now to be about thirty yeares of age and yet by the grounds of their own reckoning he must needs be twenty nine at the marriage of Er marrying himself at fourteen and his eldest sonne Er likewise marrying at fourteen which how they will agree together let the Reader judge See their Annot. on ch 38. 1. yet of Judah by this conception come the Jewes who brag they were not borne of fornication John 8. 41. yea our blessed Saviour sprung from this race Mat. 1. 3. He will not reject great sinners V. 23. Lest we be shamed Shameful was the sin of fornication among the Heathen V. 24. Let her be burnt For adultery as being betrothed and belonging to Shelah Thus the Heathens condemned adultery Jer. 29. 22 23. And so Moses Law after Deut. 22. 23 24. condemned there to be stoned And a Priests daughter for fornication to be burnt Lev. 21. 9. Judah here takes upon him as if he had power of life and death over those that belonged to his family as Tamar did though now in her fathers house or at least he shewes the eagernesse of his desire against her if his meaning were but to have her carried before the Magistrate and be so punished by burning according to the Law of the countrey However he was desirous to be rid of her for his sonne Shelahs sake and bewrayes his own partiality in his owne sinne and inhumane cruelty in thus judging her to fire and the fruit in her wombe yet unborne and that before he heard what she could say for her self never minding how unjustly he had dealt with her in not giving her to Shelah to wise Thus 2 Sam. 12. 5 7. Rom. 2. 1. V. 25. When she was brought forth To execution or rather to prison or trial she sent To stay his proceedings and haply to smother it before it came to a publick hearing the signet and bracelet and staffe Thus she convicts him by his owne seale and beats him with his owne staffe V. 26. And Judah acknowledged His repentance else he might have pleaded against those tokens many wayes by many excuses to have freed himself more righteous then I Aggravates his own fault In many things both faulty and in some things each of them more faulty then the other He was the cause or occasion of her sin and he knew her again no more It had been incest His repentance To sin no more is true repentance Job 34. 31 32. Though Judah were young now yet we reade not of any more of his children after so that it seems he married not again or had no children by his second wife ch 46. 12. Numb 26. 19 20 21 22. 1 Chron. 2. 3 4. Shelah was after married and likely to Tamar Numbers 26. 20. V. â—8 Put out his hand Dangerous labour for her sin ch 25. 26. a scarlet thread Discerning there were twins as a skilful midwife might do and intending to mark the first-borne V. 29. This breach be upon thee
Sam. 3. 10. Gen. 41. 32. See Annot. on ch 32. 28. Here Jacob twice for Israel once And so v. 5. The name Jacob forbidden but comparatively V. 3. Feare not It seems he feared it knowing his father in a famine was forbid it ch 26. 1 2 3. And knowing the Oracle that his seed was to be afflicted in Egypt ch 15. 13 14. And now he and his father and grandfather had been Pilgrims two hundred and twenty yeares in Canaan from the first Promise of Canaan and he saw now lesse hope to have it by his leaving the land with seventy soules which might seem a kinde of forsaking of it yet by faith as he sojourned in the land Heb. 11. 9. so now he goes to sojourne in Egypt upon this warrant there Egypt This not promised before This wondrously fulfilled in that of seventy souls going down in the space of two hundred and ten years there came up six hundred thousand men Exod. 12. 37. Deut. 10. 22. a great nation This promised ch 28 14. 35. 11. 15 13 V. 4. Thee up again Thee dead ch 50. 5 13. Thy posterity after Ex. 12. 37. Josh. 3. A like Promise ch 28. 15. his hands upon thine eyes Closing them on thy death-bed An ancient and honourable custome V. 6. And came into Egypt This journey is often mentioned Josh. 24. 4. and Esay 52. 4. Acts 7. 15. Numb 20. 25. Deut. 10. 22. Thus that was fulfilled chap. 15. 13. V. 7. His daughters and his sons daughters As many as he had A general kinde of speaking though he had but one daughter Dinah and one grand-daughter Sarah v. 15 17. The like speech v. 23. and ch 21. 7. Numb 26. 8. 1 Chron. 2. 8 31. His servants no doubt went also V. 8. These are the names To know hereby their wonderful increase ch 35. 23. see the order of the tribes on Aarons breast-plate Exod. 28. 10 21. V. 9. These foure were heads of their fathers house Exod. 6. 14. Numb 26. 5 6. 1 Chron. 5. 3. So of the rest that follow V. 10. Jemuel Nemuel Numb 26. 12. 1 Chron. 4. 24. Obad Omitted Nuâ—b 26. 12. 1 Chron. 4. 24. Jachin â—areb 1 Chron 4. 24. Zohar Zerah Numb 26. 13. 1 Chron. 4. 24. of a Canaanitish woman Likely Zerah Numb 26. 13. Gen. 28. 1. V. 11. Kohath Grandfather to Moses Of his family came the Priests They are reckoned before the Gershonites Numb 4. 34. V. 12. Hezron and Hamul Too great violence to the text to say these were borne after in Egypt See Annot. on ch 29. 20. Compare the great Annotations upon this verse and upon ch 38. 1. V. 13. Thola He had a rare blessing in multitude of children 1 Chron. 7. 2. A Judge of this name and tribes Judg. 10. 1. Job Jashub Numb 26. 24. 1 Chron. 7. 1. V. 15. In Padan Aram With his Nephewes or Grandchildren borâ—e after â—e went out of Padan-Aram Thirty three Reckoning himself in It seems Leah was dead V. 16. Ezbon Ozni Numb 26. 16. V. 17. Jisvah His name and family wanting Numb 26. 44. V. 19. Jacobs wife As if Rachel were the sole legitimate wife V. 20. Ephraim Here the LXX adde a sonne and a Grandchilde of Manasse and two sonnes and a Grand-childe of Ephraim taken out of 1 Chron. 7. 14 20. By reason of that speech Gen. 50. 23. but this makes too bold with the Hebrew text which wants it V. 21. The sonnes of Benjamin These ten might well be borne to him now He being now twenty seven yeares old at least and twelve or thirteen year younger then Joseph See Annot. on ch 35. 18. Belah The eldest sonne 1 Chron. 8. 1. Becher Seems to be the fourth sonne called Nohah 1 Chron. 8. 2. Neither is his name or family reckoned Numb 26. 38. but his children are named 1 Chron. 7. 8. Ashbel The second son Numb 26. 38. 1 Chron. 8. 1. called also Jediael 1 Chron. 7. 6. Gera By the LXX made the sonne of Balah and so the Grand-childe of Benjamin from a seeming ground of 1 Chron. 8. 3. But Benjamin was too young now to be a Grandfather Numb 26. 38. There is no mention of Gera neither was he Benjamins third sonne but Aharah Naaman Another of his name sonne of Belah 1 Chron. 8. 4. Numb 26. 40. Ehi Aharah 1 Chron. 8. 1. third sonne Numb 26. 38. Rosh Likely Rapha the fifth sonne father to Palti one of the spies Numb 13. 10. none of his family reckoned Numb 26. Muppim Called also Shuppim 1 Chron. 7. 12. Ard Seemeth to be the son of Belah and Grand-childe of Benjamin And such a one thing there was Numb 26. 40. But this Ard was brother to Belah V. 22. Fourteen The Septuagint say elghteen adding Josephs Grandchildren as is noted on v. 28. V. 23. Sonnes One sonne change of numbers is oft in the Hebrew v. 7. 1 Sam. 9. 21. Gen. 21. 7. Numb 26. 42. 2 Chron. 24. 25. Thieves for one of them Mat. 27. 44. Asse for an Asses Zech. 9. 9. Mat. 21. 5. sate upon them Mat. 21. 7. for which in Mark 11. 7. it is he sate upon him Sixty six So the LXX here Jacob is not reckoned in here nor Joseph and his two sonnes which were now in Egypt V. 27. Seventy So Exod. 1. 5. and Deut. 10. 22. counting in Jacob Joseph and his two sons Acts 7. 14. the number is seventy five which will arise if we reckon in all that are here named viz. the foure wives of Jacob and Er and Onan that were dead and take out Jacob as distinguished from them The LXX have here seventy five raising the number of five out of the pâ—steâ—ity of Ephraim and Manasseh see the notes on v. 20. And St. Stephen in that Act. 7. 14. seems to follow the LXX as St. Luke doth likewise in the matter of Cainan See Annot on Gen. 11. v. 12. And see the late leaâ—ned and large Annotat. upon this text where this doubt is fully discussed and determined V. 28. To direct his face unto Goshen That Joseph might meet him there and by his authority settle him there without grievance to the native inhabitants V. 29. Presented himself With lowly reverence to his father fell on his neck While Joseph bowed before him and wept With teares of joy ch 45. 1. V. 30. Let me die I am willing to die as Luke 2. 29 30. ch 45. 28. here that desire is accomplished V. 31. Unto him my brethren Joseph in his greatnesse not ashamed of them yea though shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians v. 34. chap. 47. 7. Hebr. 2. 11. V 32. Shepherds Not ashamed of their base trade in the account of the Egyptians V. 34. That ye may dwell in the land of Goshen The nearest part to Canaan a fruitful pasturage for cattel That thus living by themselvs they might be least corrupted with the Egyptians idolatry and superstition and lesse offensive to them by their trade of shepherdy Joseph
1. WIth him his two sonnes To receive the blessing of their venerable Grandfather at his farewel from the world V. 2. And sate upon the bed Ch. 47. 31. V. 3. At Luz Or Bethel and that twice ch 28. 13 19. and ch 35. 6. V. 4. A multitude Thirteen populous tribes for an everlasting possession Literally if his seed keepe Covenant with God spiritually to his spiritual seed he will give the heavenly Canaan for an everlasting possession V. 5. Epâ—raim and Manasseh Jacob still prefers Ephraim v. 19. are mine My sons by adoption and shall have the priviledge of my sonnes have either a twelfth share and be heads of tribes as Reuben and Simeon Thus Joseph had the double portion that right of the first-borne 1 Chron. 5. 1. A Law for this to the first-borne after Deut. 21. 17. So the Sabbath Circumcision raising up seed to the brother and many such more before Moses Law V. 6. begettest after them Therfore he had no more at this time the name of their brethren Therefore he had more children after which were sorted and counted to the stock and tribe of Ephraim or Manasse as if they were their sons not their brethren as all Jacobs other Grand-children likewise were V. 7. Rachel died Thy mother and my dear and only true wife if I had been fairly dealt withal and so thou hadst been my right first-borne and therefore in thy sonnes I give thee a double portion yet she was soon taken from me in the way of Ephrata Even there rather then to bury her among idolaters in Bethlehem ch 23. 9. V. 8. Who are these Named them before yet knew not that they were present or did not well discerne them for the dimnesse of his sight v. 10. V. 9. I will blesse them Not by a meere apprecation of prosperity for so the lesse may blesse the greater but in the Name and Authority of God guided with an especial energy or operation of Gods Spirit and so ratified by God as ordinary blessings were not so ch 27. 33. See Annot. on ch 27. 4. Gen. 49. 26. V. 10. Dimme Ch. 27. 1. V. 11. I had not thought Gods blessings are beyond our expectations and imaginations V. 12. From between Jacobs knees rather then Josephs for Jacob embraced and kissed them v 10. he bowed In reverence and thankfulnesse for the former Adoption V. 13. Ephraim in his right hand In a fit posture as he thought to receive the Patriarchal blessing which it seems was usually done with Imposition of hands And in this punctual order as fearing haply Jacob might mistake their age and persons naming Ephraim first v. 5. towards Israels right hand The right hand hath the preheminence of the left 1 Kings 2. 19. Mat. 25. 33. Ps. 20. 6. 110. 1. 118. 16. Esay 62. 8. Eph 1. 20. in strength and honour To which the Scripture hath reference in speech also of God V. 14. And laid it upon Ephraims head Here is the first expresse mention of Imposition of hands used after in benediction Mat. 19. 13. Mar. 10. 16. at secrifices Lev. 1. 4. as witnessing Lev. 24. 14. in extraordinary giving of graces Acts 8. 17. in miraculous cures Mar. 6. 5. in ordination of Ministers Numb 8. 10. Acts 6. 6. 1 Tim 4. 14. so now Moses laid his hands upon Joshuah Deut. 34. 9. in prayer Acts 13. 3. Ephraims head Of him came Joshuah and the Kings of the ten tribes And the tribe of Ephraim is called the tribe of Joseph Numb 1. 32 34. Apoc. 7. 6. 7. 8. The name of Ephraim is taken for the whole Kingdome of Israel Esay 7. 2. They both had a double lot Josh. 17. 14. wittingly And therefore crossed his armes to that purpose as a signe not of Christs Crosse but of that which afterwards he foretold by the special revelation of the Spirit of God he being so dim of sight that he could not thereby so well distinguish between them V. 16. the Angel which Christ. See Annot. on ch 31. 11. Exod. 14. 19. 13. 21. my name be named on them As v. 5. no invocation of Saints departed they shall be in the same state and degree as my other sons my adopted children so Gods Name is said to be called on us Deut. 28. 10. 2 Chron. 7. 24. Jer. 14. 9. that is we are called the sons of God and the husbands name is called upon the wife Esay 4. 1. And the Lords Name upon the City Jerusalem Dan. 9. 19. and upon the Temple 1 Kings 8. 43. Jer. 7. 10 11. grow into a multitude Spawn like fishes There were eighty five thousand two hundred men of war of these two in Moses time Numb 26. 28 34 37. Thus Moses blesseth them Deut 33. 17. Josh. 17. 17. V. 17. it displeased him Thinking his father was mistaken he seeks to mend the error and likely before that blessing v. 15 16. was uttered greater then he In number of issue and power though the birth-right remain with Manasseh Josh. 17. 1. So Numb 1. eight thousand three hundred men more of Ephraim then of Manasseh and Deut. 33. 17. See Annot. on v. 14. Num. 2. 18 20. yet sometimes Ephraim was at a losse 1 Chron. 7. 20 21 22. lesse in number then Manasseh Numb 26. 28. V. 20. In thee Joseph using thy name and for thy sake or taking thee for an example as Ruth 4. 11. and so for cursing Jer. 29. 22. Israel My posterity I have given Thus Prophetically bequeathing as by Will and Testament to the posterity one portion That bought ch 33. 19. nigh unto Sechem after called Sychar John 4. 5. Not all the City Sechem and all its territories as some would have it out of Josh. 17. 7. This portion though little was all he had by purchase and so he designes him as it were his heire Sechem was the inheritance of the Ephraimites Josh. 16. 1. 20. 7. John 4. 5. And thither were Josephs bones carried and buried Josh. 24. 1 25 32. have taken Shall take So Esay 9. 6. Thus Jacob in faith disposeth of it as already taken Heb. 11. 21. or rather have taken it out of the hands of those neighbouring people that seised upon it among the rest after the slaughter of the Sichemites and would not restore it till Jacob by force of armes took and recovered it Though this be not elsewhere mentioned in Scripture my sword Of my children Josh. 17. 14 to 18. CHAP. XLIX Verse 1. GAther your selves Repeated v. 2. Some present were to call and gather the absent By this joynt injunction he intimates the union that should be amongst them Psal. 133. 2 3. 33. 3. that I may tell you By the Spirit of prophecie Men on their death-beds should give their last and best counsels to their children and family and friends you Altogether what I have to say to every one particularly that so every one may reap benefit also of what shall be said concerning his brethren in the last dayes In long
a miracle and to declare to all That they were gifted and assumed to that their present Office and imployment Naked i. chapter XIX verse 24 e. Stript of his upper garment or military habit So Peter John XXI 7. and Micah chap. I. 8. Esay chap. XX. 2 4. And those Acts XIX 16. Slew chapter XXII verse 18 Sauls most horrid and bloody Act. Ephod The Ephod here is that of the High Priests chapter XXIII verse 9 wherin were the Urim and Thummim Exod. XXVIII 30. which Urim and Thummim were not the twelve precious stones of the Breast-plate mentioned v. 17-21 Or the words of Vrim and Thummim engraven in the middest of those twelve precious stones on the Breast-plate Or things committed into the hands of the workmen to make them But rather given by God to Moses to put them not on but into the Breast-plate which haply to this end and purpose was doubled ver 16. so to have them hid there And accordingly Levit. VIII 8. Moses is said to put in the Breast-plate the Urim and the Thummim Yet what things or what kinde of things they were appears not Only we know the names signifie Lights and Perfections haply intimating Knowledge of Doctrine and Integrity of Life and Conversation And that by these the High Priests extraordinarily did ask Counsels of the Lord and did receive Answers as Oracles from him So we see the Precept for it Num. XXVII 21. Joshuah shall stand before Eleazar the Priest who shall ask Counsel for him after the judgement of Urim before the Lord at his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in both he i. e. Joshuah and all the children of Israel with him And the Practice of it we finde expected earnestly by Saul 1 Sam. XXVIII 6. though the same it may seeme lighty sleighted by him 1 Sam. XIV 18 19. And here acted by Abiathar the High Priest for David David hereunto adjoyning his Request unto the Lord for the Answer ver 10 11 12. And again 1 Sam. XXX 7. And not unlike but Davids enquiring of the Lord 2 Sam. II. 1. and chap. V. 19 23. and XXI 1. And possibly that Judg. XX. 18 23 27 28. was by the same meanes upon the same ground And if it were burnt or lost at the ruine of the Temple and all by Nebuchadnezzar yet the Tirshatha entertains an expectation of the restoring of it Ezra II. 63. Neh. VII 65. a Messinger Gods providence for the preservation of his verse 27 unto Achish This second time chapter XXVII verse 2 upon better security beforehand given then formerly was had in Shunem In Shunem and Aphek chapter XXVIII verse 4 1 Sam. XXIX 1. the Philistines pitched And the Israelites in Gilboa by a Fountain which is in Jezreel All in the Tribe of Issachar Josh XIX 18. This is Davids Spoile i. chapter XXX verse 20 e. all that the Amalakites had taken from others save from them of Ziglag This by his right and free consent and gift of his souldiers he made use of to gratifie his friends and engage them to him ver 26 31. they shall part alike They both alike shall have their shares verse 24 according to Gods appointment Num. XXXI 27 30. Josh. XXII 8. Though not both equal shares fell upon it Saul his own bloody butcher and self-murderer chapter XXXI verse 4 The Amalakite belies himself in most of his relation to David 2 Sam. I. 5 10. in hope of grace and reward from David but in issue to the losing of his life God in his secret justice justly takes it upon himself that he slew him 1 Chron. X. 14. his head This they fastened in the Temple of Dagon verse 9 1 Chron. X. 10. His body to the wall of Bethshan or Bethshean And his Armour in the house of Ashteroth a name of their female goddesses II. Samuel THis Book contains an History of fourty years from the death of King Saul to the death of King David or the time immediately preceding it 2 Sam. V. 4 5. The time and story of Davids reign Crown that was upon his head Likely not so worne by him in the day of battel chapter I verse 10 1 King XXII 30. But carried with him or before him by his armour-bearer verse 18 or some others as an Ensigne of his Kingly honour bowe That they might be skilful in the right use of their armes and weapons against their enemies in this time of need Of the Bowe in warre see ver 22. And the Annotations on Hos. I. 5. and on Zech. X. 4. How are the mighty fallen Repeated verse 19 ver 25. and 27. as the foot of this sad song and Elegie Tell it not in Gath This impossible not to be told there But this shews Davids desire verse 20 if it had been possible A Pathetical expression not much unlike is that ver 21. Unto Hebron Of this place chapter II verse 1 thus once for all Hebron was a City in the Tribe and Mountain of Judah Josh. XV. 54. Called also Mamre and Kiriath-arba the City of Arba the father of Anak where Anak lived his sonnes and the Anakims a race of Giants Here formerly dwelt the children of Heth and Hittites And Abraham Isaac and Jacob sojourned here And they and Sarah and Rebekah and Leah were buried here in the Cave of Machpelah before Mamre the same is Hebron Gen. XIII 18. and XXIII 19. and XLIX 31. Hence Joseph was sent to see the welfare of his brethren Hither the Spies came that were sent from Kadesh-barnea in the Wildernesse of Paran to search the Land Hoham the King of Hebron was one of the five Kings mured up by Joshuah in a Cave and after slaine and hanged up And soone after the City taken and another King thereof seems then to be slaine by him And he and Caleb slew the Anakims that dwelled here This City and Suburbs were given to the Priests and to be a Citie of Refuge The Fields and the Villages of it to Caleb the sonne of Jephunne the Kenezite that good Spie Josh. XX. 7. and XXI II. To the top of an hill before Hebron Sampson carried the Gate of Gaza To them in Hebron David sent a Present of the Spoile taken from the Amalakite 1 Sam. XXX 31. Hither God directed him to go in this Text. And here he was anointed King and reigned seven years and six moneths And here he had six sonnes born to him of six several women his wives Here Abner was slain by Joab and mournfully buried by David Hither King Ishbosheths head was brought by his murderers buried in Abners Sepulchre and they hanged up here Hither came all the Tribes of Israel to make David King over all Israel and anointed him here And Absalom being borne here pretended a vow to be performed here and rebelling against his father made himself King here This Citie of Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt Num. XIII 23. And in Rehoboams reigne was
of those two families severally But Abiathar the father of Abimelech was then the supreme and only High Priest The Cherethites verse 18 and the Pelethites Of these see the great Annotations on this Text Mourning was past David marries her when she was with childe chapter XI verse 27 in some hope thereby also to cover his sinne Solomon The elder brother of Nathan chapter XII verse 24 by Bathsheba or Bathshua the daughter of Eliam or Ammiel though Nathan be rancked before â—olomon 2 Sam. V. 14. 1 Chron. III. 5. and XIV 4. Crowne The weight and worth of the King of Ammons Crowne verse 30 a Crowne of State too weighty to wear Shobi the brother of Hanun and sonne of Nahash seemes by David to be made King in Hanuns place which makes him to shew such kindnesse to David in his flight from Absalom ch XVII 27. 28. After fourty years Absalom chapter XV verse 7 whose hair weighed not was worth above three pounds at sixteen ounces to the pound when yearly poll'd 2 Sam. XIV 25 26. Begins his Rebellion against David after fourty years 2 Sam. XV. 7. not after fourty since David was anointed in Hebron but since he was anointed by Samuel 1 Sam. XVI 13. And he ends his Rebellion with hanging by his hair as his halter or by his head rather where he is slaine first by Joab after by Joabs armour-bearers 2 Sam. XVIII 14 15 That the fourty years aforesaid did take their Beginning and commencement as aforesaid and so fell in with the twenty second or twenty third year of Davids age with the seventh or eighth year before he actualy began his reigne at Hebron and ended at the thirty second or thirty third year of his real reigne and about seven years before his death appears in this That at this time of Absaloms rebellion David was a strong man 2 Sam. XV. 36. and ch XVII 8 10. and XVIII 2. And afterwards also ch XXI 15. whereas in the fourtieth and last year of his reigne and life he was bed-rid 1 King I. 1 2. And after the businesse of this Rebellion was carried on and ended we read of three yeares of famine 2 Sam. ch XXI I. And of the hanging up of ten of Sauls sons and grand-sons ver 8 9 10. and of the gathering of the bones of them that were hanged and the burying of them afterwards in another place ver 13 14. As also of warres yet againe raised by the Philistines and battels fought with them at four several times In the first of which David himself was in person and in present danger ver 15 22. And besides neere ten moneths were taken up in numbering the people Ch. XXIV 8. And upon the occasion of the Pestilence following thereupon The Threshing-Floore of Araunah being found to be the place where the Temple was to be builded 1 Chron. XXII 1. with 2 Chron. III. 1. David doth instruct Salomon about his dutie in the building of it and doth encourage him to do it and chargeth the Princes to assist him therein 1 Chron. XXII And causing him to be suddenly anointed King to suppresse the seditious and ambitious attempt of Adoniah And having afore ordered the Courses and Offices of the Levites Priests Singers Porters for the Service of the Temple 1 Chron. XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI Ch. He gives Solomon Patterns and Materials for the Building tells him of the Courses of the Priests and Levites which he had Ordered Ch. XXVIII And himself offers of his own goods magnificently and procures the Princes and People to Offer willingly towards the said Building And concludes with Thanksgiving and Prayer to God And the People blesse God and offer Sacrifices and make Solomon King the second time Ch. XXIX And lastly on his death-bed David gives Solomon charge to serve God as also concerning Joab and Barzillai and Shimei and dieth 1 King II. All which may well take up the seven last years of Davids reigne and life In the wood of Ephraim Not that Ephraim had any wood or land on the East-side of Jordan chapter XVIII verse 6 But the name might seeme to rise from the great defeat given there to Ephraim by Jephthah Judg. XII 5 6. Amasa Davids gentlenesse and courtesie to spare and honour Amasa chapter XIX verse 13 notwithstanding his chief hand in rebellion against him 2 Sam. XVII 25. slew Goliath His brother Lahmi chapter XXI verse 19 as it is explained 1 Chron. XX. 5. And so Michal for Michals sister ver 8. of this Chapter The words brother and sister being left out by an Eclipsis not unusual specially in the short idiome of the Hebrewes and in cases so well known This Psalme of Praise and Thanksgiving is the same with Psalme XVIII chapter XXII The difference is very little Here are Davids Worthies towards the end of his reigne chapter XXIII These in all thirty seven 2 Sam. XXIII 39. whereof Joab one the General and Captaine of the hoast 1 Chron. XI 6. Six chief Worthies or Colonels And of them the first three above the other three And the first three Adino or Jacobeam Eleazar and Shammah exceeding the other three Abishai the chief of the second three and Benaiah the son of Jehoiadah and Asahel who was one not of the thirty but above the thirty for there are thirty named after him The three first or three chief over the thirty ver 13. are described as otherwise so by their valiant Acts both distinctly and joyntly 2 Sam. XXIII 8 17. And so the two first of the next three And these six likely were each of them over five of the thirty following and their Regiments The Catalogue of Davids Worchies 1 Chron. XI was taken when David began his reign at Hierusalem or before The number there is fourty seven besides the first three and the second three And well might the number be more at that beginning of his reigne then at the end of it some of them dying in the meane time And of others some might have two different names The chief of all the Worthies slayes three hundred himself aud likely in the pursuit at the same time 500. more by himself or with his company in all eight hundred Of him see more 1 Chron. XXVII 2 3. The second defies the Philistines when the men of Israel were fled away and in a parcel of ground full of Barley slew the Philistines till his hand clave unto the sword and wrought a great victory and deliverance Of his father see 1 Chron. XXVII 4 The third did the like in a piece of ground full of Lentiles Of the other three 1. Abishai the brother of Joab 2. Asahel another brother and Captain for the fourth moneth 1 Chron. XXVII 7. slaine by Abner whiles David reigned in Hebron 3. Benaejah the Captaine of Davids guard the Cherethites and Pelethites 2 Sam. VIII 18. And Captaine for the third moneth 1 Chron. XXVII 5 6. And afterwards by Solomon made General of the Hoast in
those names in those times first mentioned But in after-times when the writers of those Histories lived 1 King XVI 24. It seemes of old to be called and belong to Shimron-Meron Josh. XI 1 5. and XII 20. Book of the Chronicles chapter XIV verse 19 After the division of the Kingdomes The Books of the Kings do often cite the Books of the Chron of Israel and of Judah as 1 King XIV 19 20. XV. 7. 23 31. 2 King I. 18. and VIII 23. and X. 34. Not meaning thereby our Canonical Books of Chron. for they were not then written before but after the Books of Kings and therefore they could not be cited before they had a Being But meaning thereby Civil Chronicles or Rolls now not extant Like those Ezra VI. 1 2. Esther VI. 1. Maachah Abijahs mother chapter XV verse 2 and her Father had both of them two differing and various names 1 King XV. 2 10. 2 Chron. XI 20. and XIII 2. His marriages and children 2 Chron. XIII 21. were all or almost all in his fathers reigne Save only in the matter of Vriah In this sin David did lie long without repentance verse 5 2 Sam. XII 14. And to cover this sin he made Uriah drunck and after murthered him yet afterwards upon his repentance he publisheth it and his shame and sorrow for it in the LI. Psalme and commits it to the chief Musician to be sung publickly in the Congregation But besides this there are many other sins recorded of David As his speech and lyes to Jonathan 1 Sam. XX. 6. to Ahimelech 1 Sam. XXI 2. to Achish 1 Sam. XXVII 10. the slownesse of his kindnesse to Mephibosheth compare together 2 Sam. IV. 4. and chap. IX 11 12. And after his ill-managing of it 2 Sam. XVI 4. and chap. IX 29. his many Wives and Concubines the sparing of his sons Ammon and Absolom his numbering of the people Yet by reason of the upright intention of his heart and his singular rare graces gifts and qualifications are the rest not reckoned and this Praise here given him by the indulgency of God Fourty and one years Asa reigned in Judah in the times of the reignes of eight Kings in Israel verse 10 viz. Jeroboham Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Tibni Omri Ahab 1 King XV. 9 and XVI 29. and XXII 41. In which time the Kingdome of Israel was changed into three several stocks and families Maachah Maachah was wife to Rehoboam verse 13 mother to Abijah and grandmother to Asa 1 King XV. 2. yet called the mother of Asa 1 King XV. 13. 2 Chron. XV ver 16. And as mother used for grandmother so daughter for grandchilde 2 Kings VIII 26. Brethren for Kinsmen 2 Kings X. 13. Matth. XIII 55 56. And many like phrases are frequent in Scripture See Gen. XIII 8. Exod. II. 18. 20 21. Dan. V. 10 11 13 22. these years Not this place chapter XVII verse 1 nor chap. XVIII 1. nor any place in the Old Testament do shew that the drought was brought at Elias his Prayer or continued three years and six moneths But Saint James first recordeth it Jam. I. 17. Four Barrels with water Elijah got this water in the time of that wonderful drought for three years and a half chapter XVIII verse 33 out of the sea Mount Carmel joyning to the sea Jer XLVI 18. The brook Kishon at the foot of Carmel being dryed up as well as the brook Cherith thine Altars Formerly erected to him chapter XIX verse 10 thought not so warrantably See ver 14. thy Prophets As chap. XVIII 4 13. I only am left In his own apprehension Yet was there then a flowrishing Church in Judah anoint By another verse 15 viz. Elisha 2 King VIII 7. And likewise Jehu was anointed by a young Prophet at the command of Elisha 2 King IX 1. Thirty two Kings Petty Kings chapter XX verse 1 As those Gen. XIV Josh. XII Judg. I. 7. Aphek A Citie whose Kings was slaine by Joshuah verse 26 Josh. XII 18. Fell by lot afterwards to the Tribe of Asher Josh. XIX 30 31. Where the Philistines pitching in battel against Israel got the victory and took the Ark of God 1 Sam. IV. 1. And again gathering their armies in Aphek went up to Jezreel near the Mount of Gilboa and overthrew Saul and his hoast 1 Sam. XXIX 1 11. and chap. XXX And here the Syrians under Benhadad fought against Ahab and were slaine even one hundred thousand footmen in one day And the rest fled to Aphek into the Citie and there a wall fell upon twenty seven thousand of the men that were left 1 King XX. 26 29 30. And here again the Syrians were smitten and consumed by Joash King of Israel 2 King XIII 17. Proclaime a Fast chapter XXI verse 9 It seemes on Fast-dayes they were wont to try and execute heynous offendors and stoned him The blood of his sons is mentioned verse 13 2 Kings IX 26. Which is in Samaria verse 18 behold he is in the Vineyard of Naboth Or will be in Jezreel in the Vineyard of Naboth In Samaria when the message was given in charge to Elias in the Vineyard at Jezreel when Elias met him even thine Verified for the substance in himself verse 19 in his wife Jezebel and in his son Jehoram 2 Kings IX 25 26. not bring the evil in his dayes That evil verse 29 ver 21 24. that totally in the Poole of Samaria Which might extend chapter XXII verse 38 or run into Jezreel or another poole of that name be there or the armour washed there where his chief armory was made peace Made peace with Ahab verse 44 and his two sons Ahaziah and Jehoram 2 Kings III. 6 7. 2 Chron. XIX 2. and chap. XX. 35 36. and is reprehended justly therefore would not Would not at first verse 49 but yeelded afterwards 2 Chron. XX. 35 36 37. II. Kings THE second Book of Kings or fourth rather containes the History of 321 years to the lifting up of the head of Jehoiachim In the reignes of 16 Kings of Iudah counting in Athaliah 12 King of Israel So that the number of Kings from the first division of the Kingdomes to the extirpation of them both were twenty in each Though the Kingdome of Israel did expire in Hoshea by Shalmanasar before the Kingdome of Judah did expire in Zedekiah by Nebuchadnezzar the space of one hundred thirty and three years not one hundred thirty and five The twenty of Judah were all of Davids line excepting Athaliah the Queen The twenty of Israel were of ten several stocks Ahaziah Joash Amatziah Kings of Judah and Athaliah the Queene all succeeding one another were all slaine Amon likewise and his son Josiah both slaine And ten Kings of Israel the half of all their number were likewise slaine For the times of the reignes of Ahab Ahaziah Jehoram Kings of Israel and of Iehoshaphat Iehoram Ahaziah Kings of Judah take this as followeth Ahab reigned twenty two years 1 King XVI
Ophir 1 Kings IX 28. Uphaz Jer. X. 9. This is the chiefest gold Dan X. 5. Job XXVIII 15. Psal. CXIX 72. See the Observations on Esay XIII 12. great reward Which reward yet is of grace verse 11 not of merit Rom. VIII 3. through Gods free grace and bounty not the merit of our works The Apostle doth thus distinguish of merit Rom. IV. 4 5. and XI 6. There is no merit properly if the work be not properly out own and not otherwise due debt and justly equal to the reward They are justly due out of his true and free promise who can Where then is that possibility verse 12 and facility of fulfilling the Law even unto works of Supererogation whereof Papists do so much brag dominion over me There are sinnes reigning and not reigning but rebelling verse 13 Rom. VI. 12 22. and VII 15 20. The Lord hear thee This Psalme chapter XXI verse 1 and the next are composed by David for a publike forme of a Prayer in the one of a Thanksgiving in the other to be used by the people for himself the King They seeme to stretch this Psalme too farre and that without ground who make it to be a Prophesie of Christs Sufferings and his deliverances out of them for which the Church with him triumpheth As also the next Psalme to gratulate the victory and Salvation of Christ. Save Lord verse 9 let the King hear us Most here understand God or the Messias Some David The LXX not observing or keeping the Hebrew distinction Athnach render it thus Lord save the King and hear us when we call upon thee for ever and ever Psal. chapter XXI verse 4 LXXXIX 29 36 37. and LXI 6 7. David lived but seventy years yet in his royal posterity for many ages and in Christ the Sonne of David Matth. XXII 42. for ever and ever eternaly Rom. VI. 9. Apoc. I. 18. Heb. VII 25. See the Observations on Deut. XV. 17. Thine hand King Davids hand chapter XXII verse 8 In some Psalmes there are passages that properly and literaly belong to David and to Christ only as David was a Type of him But in this Psalme are some Passages as ver 16 17 18. besides many other which are applied to Christ in the New Testament as ver 1 7 8 22 27. which literaly and properly belong to Christ and are appliable to him only or to him more then to David Then here is no place left for that question of the Eunuch Acts VIII 34. The allegations out of this Psalme Matth. XXVII 46 35 43. Heb. II. 12. and the body of the Psalme it self do shew that little of it can be applied to David as a Type most of it is proper and peculiar to Christ alone as I formerly said 1 Pet. I. 11 12. my God Jesus on the Crosse little before his death verse 1 about the ninth hour cryed out these words with a loud voice Matth. XXVII 46. Heb. V. 7. upon the weight of Gods wrath under the burden of our sinnes The Deity by a special providence and dispensation withdrawing and suspending its influence from the Humanity for this time God withdrawing all sense of his favour from him Not that the hypostatical union of both natures was then or ever severed or dissolved But yet he suffered chiefly in his soul all the paines pangs and agonies of a justly angry and punishing God even more then can either be expressed or imagined even so farre above the measure of ordinary sufferings as himself was above ordinary men without any influence or joy or comfort streaming from the Vision of God upon his mind and wil for that time So that he suffered as in body so in soul in his whole man as in his sensual part so in his intellectual also in his whole soul and body and in all the parts powers and faculties of them And the greatest sufferings as was said that could be sustained in this life Lam. I. 12. yet without any derogation to the integrity purity innocencie dignity of the person of Christ our Surety and Saviour These words then are not a complaint out of impatience ignorance disobedience or diffidence They are the words of sense not of infidelity See ver 24. Luke XXIII 46. He strongly calls him his God even in that instant of these suffering so expressing his firme faith in him But they are a Protestation of the bitternesse of his Passion so stricken smitten of God and afflicted and so farre prevailing on him in whom the spirit of fortitude had his residence forsaken me This sense of dereliction and carencie of Divine favour for the time as it was the Fathers pleasure to have it so so the Sonnes office called him unto it and he did not contract it by any fault of his but did voluntarily undertake it for our sinnes and the expiation of them as he did the death it self So that in this then there could not be any defect or defanlt of faith and hope requisite in him And likewise that Prayer and Speech Matth. XXVI 39. bewrayes the sense of the flesh but joyned with the obedience of the Spirit in him A double Will in him against Monothelites but joyned both in one holy obedience and subjection All which shew the nature of sinne the infinite wrath of God against it the infinite Love of the Father and the Sonne towards the children of men and the verity of Christs Humane Nature both in body and soul. roaring Like that of Lions Psal. XXXII 3. and XXXVIII 8. Matth. XXVI 38. Marke XIV 33. Luke XXII 44. so that he had need of an Angel for his Comforter Yet he so wrestles and prevailes that no signe of halting was left remaining after no signe or voice of despair as some are shamelesly wronged to charge upon him All the agonies of Christs soul ceased with his death but thou hearest not We read that God ever heard him verse 2 ver 24. John XI 42. Heb. V. 7. But here this Prayer was only conditional a signification of a natural desire not an absolute and plenary Prayer inhabit the praises of Israel Whose praise thou art verse 3 Deut. X. 21. And they praise thee in thy House and Sanctuary Thou art still praised by them for thy benefits to them and acknowledged their holy one Our fathers And shall I be so forsaken verse 4 not heard nor holpen nor delivered Thus he aggravates his complaint rouzeth up his faith bowes and moves God to mercie Cried Crying or clamor verse 5 and Prayer are oft conjoyned Psal III. 4. and XVIII 7. Jer. VII 16. Jonas III. 8. Micah III. 4. a worme So vile and contemptible in the eyes of men verse 6 Esay LIII 2 3. as Job XXV 6. Esay XLI 14. Not only made lower then the Angels Psal. VIII 5. Heb. II. 7. but disesteemed more then Barrabas or the two theives All they that see me This verse verse 7 and the next we see fulfilled in the History of Christs Passion
in the highest degree in the bravest tents of wickednesse grace and glory Many referre grace to this life verse 11 and glory to that which is to come But grace rather may seeme here to signifie favour estimation honour as Prov. III. 34. Iames IV. 6. 1 Pet. V. 5. Exod. III. 21. Num. chap. XII 36. and XXXIII 12. Gen. VI. 8. and XXXIX 4. and L. 4. Esther II. 15. 17. and V. 2. Prov. XXII 1. and chap I. 9. and IV. 9. Luke II. 52. and I. 28. compared with verse 30. Thou hast been chapter LXXXV verse 1 Formerly brought back Out of Babylon Some understand this of the bringing back of David to Ierusalem after the rebellion of Absalom But not so likely covered all their sinne See the Observations on Psal. LI. 4. verse 2 Turne us Do now so again verse 4 I will hear Complaine no more verse 8 but hearken to God speaking his promises to his people and their duty are met Will meet have kissed Will kisse verse 10 though for the present things are otherwise verse 4 5. This and what followes had it most compleat fulfilling in and by the coming of Christ. A Prayer So is the Title of Psal. chapter LXXXVI XVII And this seemes to be as a set forme of prayer for the godly in distresse without any particular circumstances used in it of persons places or times appliable to all and may not unfitly be applied to Christ. I am holy So rather then as in the margin verse 2 one whom thou favourest The Hebrew word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which imports an active rather then a passive signification And so Psal. IV. 3. and XXXII 6. and L. 5. and LXXIX 2. This word is actively taken and that rightly in our translations though many learned men not so well advised therein render it passively to denote not the author and agent and his quality but the object spoken of Among the gods Verse 10. verse 8 Psal. LXXXIX 6. Deut. XXXII 39. Esay XXXVII 16 and XLIV 6. 1 Cor. VIII 4 5 6. Exod. XV. 1◠From the first Hebrew letters of which four words in Exodus came the name of the Maccabees as is thought unite my heart to fear thy Name Loose it from all other things verse 11 and cares and fears and knit it fast to thy fear only without back-sliding ever give thy strength Iohn XV. 5. verse 16 Phil. II. 13. and IV. 13. a toaken as in the end of the verse verse 17 His foundation Gods chapter LXXXVII verse 1 and his Churches Mountains Moriah and Zion Not now in a flitting Tabernacle Glorious things See Esay LIV. and LX. verse 3 and LX. and LXII and LXV Apoc XXI and XXII And see the Observations on Josh. 10. 1. Rahab So LXXXIX 10. verse 4 Esay LI. 9. See the Observations on Gen. XII 10. Egypt is meant hereby And the calling of Egypt to the fellowship of the Church Of whose calling see Esay XIX 19 21 25. to them that know me Or among them as of my knowne familiars Philistia Palestine the Philistines Psal. LX. 8. this And the rest afore named were born in the Citie of God by regeneration spiritual made the sonnes of God and of the Church verse◠5 6. 1 Pet. I. 23. Iames I. 18. Esay XLIV 5. Singers The spiritual joy both great verse 7 and general and of the Psalmist in particular which shall be in those dayes in the Church and of and for the Church in an allusion haply to the Jewish service Springs Of my joy and of Gods spiritual gifts and graces also Iohn VII 38. Esay XII 3. Ephes. III. 10. A Song See the Observations on Psal. chapter LXXXVIII XLVIII title Mahalath A kinde of winde-instrument Psal. LIII Leannoth May either make up the name of the Instrument or may seeme to signifie to sing by turnes or courses as Exod. XV. 21. Ezra III 11. Heman The next Psalm◠is of Ethan These were sacred Singers and Musitians descended of Levi 1 Chron. XV. 17 19. and XVI 41 42. and VI. 44. Of Heman see 1 Chron. XXV 1. 4 7. He was of the posterity of rebellious Korah and grandchilde of Samuel the Prophet 1 Chron. VI. 33. and himself King Davids Seer 1 Chron. XXV 5. There were two brethren Heman and Ethan of the posterity of Judah 1 Chron. II. 6. men renowned for their wisdome 1 King IV. 31. This Psalm is one of the most doleful of all the Bible And may serve as a set forme of a sad complaint to any man in his greatest distresse Some make application of it to Christ in his Sufferings free among the dead Psal. XXXI 12. verse 5 Job III. 18 19. I am shut up As a close prisoner in the Dungeon of sorrowes verse 8 and distresses wilt thou Psal. VI. 5. verse 10 and XXX 9. CXV 17. Esay XXXVIII 18. prevent thee Psal. V. 3. verse 13 Hab. II. 1. into darknesse That they hide themselves from me verse 18 none will appear to my releif by reason of the darknesse wherein I am buried as it were in the black Dungeon of calamities a Covenant In faithfulnesse verse 3 verse 1 2. How then comes it to be made void verse 38 45. David The figure and father of Christ who is also called David Ezek XXXIV 23. Jer. XXX 9. Hos. III. 5. Of him this Psalme is chiefly to be understood though not in all the particular passages Rahab See the Observations on Psal. LXXXVII 4. verse 10 Tabor Westward verse 12 see the Observations on Judg. IV 6. Hermon Eastward see the Ohervations on Deut. IV. 48. joyful sound Of the Trumpet verse 15 and other sacred musical instruments calling them to and used in the sacred services and solemnities to thy holy one To Samuel verse 19 who anointed David laid help upon one that is mighty Or help against the mighty both wayes meaning David who yet here may be taken as a Type of Christ. I will set Psal LXXII 8. verse 25 my Father This verse 26 and verse 27 28 29. universaly and plenarily belong to Christ And only imperfectly as in a weak type are applyable to David or Solomon 2 Sam. VII 14. Heb. I. 5. Luke I. 32 33. my first-borne The first-borne had the priviledges of double portion verse 27 chief Rule and Priesthood This true in Christ Col. I. 15 18. Matth. I. 25. Rom. VIII 29. Heb. I. 6. Apoc. I. 5. His seede Verse 36. Christians his spiritual seed Esay LIII 10. Heb. verse 29 II. 13. whence Christ is called the everlasting Father Esay IX 6. his throne Verse 37. Heb. I. 8. Dan. II. 44. and VII 14. Luke I. 33. The accomplishment of these Promises cannot be found in Solomon If his children So 2 Sam. VII 14 15. verse 30 True of Solomon and of his children and cannot be understood of Christs person who was not the natural of sonne of Solomon but of his brother Nathan And who was without sinne 1 Pet. II. 22 But as he bare our sinnes
III. 24. and XI 13. and the Annotations of learned Master Gataker upon those places verse 31 of the dead Offered to those dead idols Num. XXV 2. Jer. X. 5. And that was counted unto him for righteousnesse i. e. this fact of Phineas was approved of God as just and righteous and for such ever to be esteemed The same phrase used Gen. XV. 6. hath another sense of justifying Abrahams person before God by faith though a man without faults in himself otherwise And so is rightly applied by Saint Paul Rom. IV. 3 5 8 9 22 23 24. to the justification of sinner before God by Faith meerly for righteousnesse A right and just action not the fruit of a rash zeale though done without ordinary authority unadvisedly Num. XX. Devils Levit. verse 33 XVII 7 See the Observations on Judges VIII 33. his Covenant This verse 37 and his Name sake verse 8 are the ground of Gods free mercies verse 45 among the heathen among whom divers Israelites were scattered verse 47 in the times of the Judges and Saul by reason of their often troubles at home till the Kingdome came to David whose words these are 1 Chron. XVI 35 36. This Psalme hath much elegancy and sublimity in it chapter CVII South In the Hebrew verse 3 Sea meaning the Red Sea which was South from Canaan But much more usualy in Scripture by Sea is understood the West because the great Mediterrane Sea lay West from Canaan mount up And hyperbole verse 26 Of them see the Observations on Josh. XI 4. them Marriners verse 30 and passingers rivers Watery fruitful places verse 33 dry Barren thirsty will observe Not that such deliverances are vouchsafed alwayes to all in such dangers verse 43 Gods wayes of his governing Providence are a great deep unsearchable But those deliverances when they come they come from him A Song chapter CVIII a Psalme See the Observations on the Title of Psalme XLVIII This Psalme is composed of Psal. LVII 7 11. and Psal. LX. 5 12. See the Observations on both those Psalmes glorie See the Observations on Psal XVI verse 1 9. wash-pot So Psal. verse 9 LX. any washing pot to wash the filth of my feet in Without any allusion to the Marishes of Moab or their Land to be washed in blood or themselves wiped cleane away as a pot is wiped But rather to be used to servile sordid base offices of David By the matter of the Psalme chapter CIX it seemes to be penned and inspired towards the end of Sauls reigne when all things were grown to a forlorne and wicked state See 1 Sam. XXVI 19. unto Prayer The use and comfort of Prayer Set Many Imprecations follow verse 4 And the like see in Psal. XXXV verse 6 4 8. and LIX 5 13. and LXIX 22 28. and LXXIX 10. and CXIX 84. and CXL 10. Job XXXI Nehem. VI. 4. 5. and VI. 6 14. Esay II. 9. Jer. XI 20. and XV. 15. and chap. XVII 18. and XVIII 21 22 23. and XX. 12. 2 Tim. IV. 14. And these with exquisite formes of speeches And uttered by David and the rest against transcendent sinners rather as Prophets but of zeale to God and his glory therein then in relation to their private passions of revenge or respect to themselves as parties And yet these or the like Prayers and Imprecations may possibly be mixt with Humane infirmities as those in Jeremy See the Annotations on Nehem. IV. 5. Or in some they may be understood with silent limitations and reservations right hand He plead and prevail against him condemned Go out guilty verse 7 or wicked become sinne Let no suit or defence of his avail for him but rather hurt him 8 his office Applied to Judas Acts I. 16 verse 8 20 26. their desolate places Their houses and families that are desolate and destroyed verse 10 fathers Thus God punisheth to the third and fourth generation verse 14 the wickednesse of the parents on their wicked children Exod. XX. 5. As he cloathed himself with cursing See the Observations on Psal verse 18 LXXIII 6. Let it be unto him The curse wherein he delighted in cursing others which pleased him as water and oile Let that same be unto him Or let a curse thus cover and cleave unto him and come into his bowels and bones See the Observations on Psal. LXXIII 6. shaked their heads Psal. verse 25 XXII 7. This Psalme is all Prophetical chapter CX all of Christ foretelling his Person Natures and Offices specialy his Kingdome and Priesthood And of his Victory over his enemies and of his Triumph afterwards And hereupon it is cited and made use of Matth. XXII 44. Mark XII 36. Luke XX. 42. Acts II. 34. Heb. I. 13. and V. 6. and VII 17. The Lord The Messias himself applies verse 1 aâ—d appropriates this verse to himself Matth. XXII 44. Marke XII 36. Luke XX. 42. Saint Peter from this verse proves Christs Ascention into heaven Acts II. 34. Saint Paul relates to it in the point of Christ reigne over all enemies 1 Cor. XV. 25. Denying that the words of this verse were used or could be used to any of the Angels Heb. I. 13. And therefore they cannot be appliable to David himself or to any meere man The Lord Heb. Jehovah See the Annotations of learned Master Gataker on Esay I. 2. and XXVI 4. See also my Observations on Psalme LXXXIII 18. and on LXXI 5. and on LXVIII 4. This Name of Essence never admits any affix in the Hebrew tongue And it may lawfully be pronounced though the ancient Jewes refrained from doing so to gaine thereby the more reverence to it And this Name is common to the three Persons yet according to the sense and circumstances of divers texts and places chapter CIII specialy when relation is had to another Person of the Trinity it is taken Personaly And so here for God the Father As likewise Psal. II. 7. said In his eternal Decree predestinating his Sonne to be the Messias to execute in time the Office of Mediatorship unto my Lord Davids Lord as well as his Sonne sit thou This and other phrases here are not proper but figurative to be understood not corporealy but spiritualy Christ is said in Scripture promiscuously both to stand and to sit at the right hand of God Heb. I. 3. Acts VII 55 56. 1 Pet. III. 22. at my right hand The right hand signifies power and strength Psal. CXVIII 16. Exod. XV. 6. Psal. CXLIV 8. Power to help verse 5. Psal. XVI 8. and CXLII 4. Eccles. X. 2. To be or sit there imports dignity and honour 1 Kings II. 19. Matth. XX. 21. And such is the meaning here And this dignity here expressed by this phrase is ascribed to Christ not in relation to his Deity for so he and the Father are one Herein he is and alwayes was of equal dignity with the Father But in regard of his Humanity whereby the Father was greater then he And wherein formerly he had emptied
solemn assemblies for his worship and service in the beauties of holinesse Or in the comely honours of the Sanctuarie meaning either the comely or honourable places of holinesse the Sanctuary or Church or rather in the beautiful ornaments of holinesse that is holy graces and vertues which with admirable varietie adorne the faithful and their inner man from the womb The second propertie or condition of the subjects of Christs Kingdome to be very numerous as willing so numerous as the dew from the womb of the morning 2 Sam. XVII 12. by a sudden unusual and wonderful increase and multiplication Esay LIV. 1. Micah V. 7. Esay LXVI 9. so numerous shall his youth be his new-borne people Iohn I. 13. and III. 3. Gal IV. 19. Heb. II. 14. 1 Pet. II. 2. See Esay LIII 10. So that these words are not to be understood of the temporal Nativity of Christ from the Virgin or his eternal generation from the Father as some do but of his active spiritual generation of his children the subjects of his Kingdome The Lord hath sworne The Vocation of Christ to his Office of verse 4 Priesthood Jehovah is the Author of it hath sworne Jehovah swears to confirme matters of greatest moment when and where his wisdome pleaseth And upon this point here of Christs eternal Priesthood mans salvation dependeth He swears by himself though that is not here expressed because he hath no greater to swear by Heb. VI. 13 16. Gen. XXII 16. And so by his life Esay XLIX 18. by his soul Jer. LI. 24. by his right-hand and the arme of his strength Esay LXII 8. The result of all which is the same with himself And implying thereby thus much Let me not be accounted what I am namely God the living God the omnipotent God if that which I speak be not true or my promises or threatnings do faile of performance Of Oaths See the Observations on Jer. LI. 14. and my Annotations on Hos. IV. 15. and will not repent Will not change or retract what he hath sworne Num. XXIII 19. James I. 17. Repenting is sometimes ascribed to God as Gen. VI. 6 7. Psal. CVI. 45. 1 Sam. XV. 11. 35. Not that there is any change of minde of will in God as there is in mans repenting But the change is in the work God eternally and unchangably decreeing both as to do the thing so again to change it upon mans repentance or disobedience Jer. XXVI 3 13 19. Of this see more in the Observations on Jer. XV. 6. In all this God condescends to mans weaknesse Heb. VI. 17 18. Shewes the greatnesse and excellency of the thing here avowed that the Lord Christ was lawfully Called and Ordained to be an eternal Priest for us and our salvation for our greater confirmation and consolation herein Thou art The Lord Christ well knew this and could not doubt of the will of the Father herein What then needed this Oath to be made unto him Answ. It was made to him for the use of his Church that his Church might know and be assured of it As that John XI 42. art God saying is as much as doing a Preist So Gen. XIV 18. Heb. VII 1. Melchizedec in type Christ in truth the Antitype The Priests office was to Teach Pray and Sacrifice The High Priest among the Jewes once a year entred into the most Holy place Yet he in all things was not an absolute and sufficient Type of our High Priest Christ the Lord. For he is an eternal High Priest and both King and Priest and his Sacrifice of another nature and himself of another Tribe for ever Not so the Priests after the order of Aaron Heb. VII 23. 34 and chap. IX 12. after the order Or similitude Heb. V. 6. and chap. VII 15. of Melchizedec Much question who this Melchizedec was He was not the Sonne of God himself our Lord and Christ. Very many take him to be Sem the Sonne of Noah who saw both worlds before and after the Flood and lived to the one hundred and fiftieth year of the age of Abraham Yet because Sems genealogie is exactly set down in Scripture and that the Levitical Priests themselves came from him after sundry descents and the Land of Canaan seems not to be Sems habitation which took its name from his younger brother Cham or from Chams sonne Canaan Neither would Abraham so long have forborne his due respects and visitation of Sem in Canaan if Sem had lived there Therefore divers learned men take this Melchizedec to be rather some eminent man in Canaan raised up by God in those corrupt times both good and godly both King and Priest living in Salem after called Jerusalem whose King in Joshuahs time was called Adoni-Zedeck that is Lord of righteousnesse Josh. X. 1. As this man here is called Melchizedec that is King of righteousnesse By which place or near to it Abraham in his returne from this warre and victory was to passe Of this Melchizedec and his Priesthood and the difference of it from Aarons Priesthood the Apostle to the Hebrews chap VII entreateth at large and observeth divers things his Name and Title his greatnesse in that he blessed Abraham and received Tythes of Abraham his being mentioned in Scripture without any Pedegree without father without mother without descent having neither beginning of dayes nor end of life All these he had as our Saviour himself had them but none of them recorded or registred in the Scripture that he might so become a Type of the eternity of Christs Person and Priesthood verse 3. The Apostle further observeth his Offices that he was both King and Priest and that our Saviour was made such with an oath of God the Father and a Priest of a better Priesthood Covenant and Commandment and that he was made not after the Law of a carnal commandement having carnal successors in his Priesthood but after the power of an endlesse life consecrated for evermore having an eternal Priesthood and unchangeable continuing ever and living ever to make intercession and by his one offering up himself once for all saving them to the uttermost that come to God by him In all which there are manifold resemblances between Christ and Melchizedec and manifold differences between theirs and the Aaronical Priesthood As for those fond and forced dreams of the Papist That Melchizedec offered up to God the sacrifice of bread and wine And therein was a Type and Figure of their sacrifice of the Masse And that thereupon Christ our Lord is said to be a Priest after the order of Melchizedec These may well befal to them who for want of the love of the truth are given up to beleeve lies but are too weak poor and silly for us to trouble our selves withal The Lord at thy right hand The prophesie of Christ the Lord his administration of his Kingly Office verse 5 in this and the next verse The Lord God the Father who will make thine enemies thy footstoole
verse 3 being vainly puft up by his fleshly minde Col. II. 18. and contemning others Job XI 12. And as he contemnes God and good men so contempt from God and good men comes upon him chap. III. 34. they are paid in their own coine they are with ignomie repaid reproach deep waters Which can never be drawn dry verse 4 chap. X. 11. and ch XIII 14. and XIV 27. and XX. 5. John VII 38. brook That the simplest may understand The holy Scripture indeed is both text and glosse It is not good But very bad verse 5 ch XXIV 23. and XXVIII 21. Levit. XIX 15. Deut. XV. 7. and ch XVI 19. and I. 17. James II. 1 4. stroaks By his desire upon others verse 6 but by desert and issue upon himself as in the next verse A fools mouth Chap. verse 7 X. 14. and XII 13. and XIII 3. Tale-bearer Chap. verse 8 XII 18. 1 Tim. III. 8. is brother Is alike verse 9 The sloathful and prodigal both have the same event both come to want and povertie The Name His Attributes a strong tower Esay XXVI 4. and XXXIII 16. and is safe And set aloft All other refuges will fail wealth Hard to be rich verse 11 and not to trust in riches Mark X. 23 24. 1 Tim. VI. 17. Yet this his trust is not like that in the former verse This shall fail this trust is but only in conceit haughtie Chap. verse 12 XI 2. and chap. XVI 18. and chap. XV. 33. who can bear Many are the examples thereof verse 14 yea even in heathen and in wicked men worldly comforts here are but as a fair shoe to a gowtie foot or a silken stockin to a broken leg Gift Chap. verse 16 XVII 8 23. This Jacob knew well Gen. XXXIII 11. He that is first Therefore Judges verse 17 and all men had need to keep one eare for the defendant Tertullus pleaded fairly till Paul came to answer And so Ziba against Mephibosheth A man is not easily to be beleeved in his own tale against another The lot Josh. verse 18 XIV 2. Acts I. 26. See my Annotations on Jonah I. 7. A brother offended A brother natural verse 19 or spiritual a sworne brother Too many are the sad experiences of this The vulgar Latin and LXX read and render otherwise tongue That best and worst member of the body verse 21 James III. 2 11. Mark XII 37. a wife A good wife verse 22 As a Name for a good name Eccles. VII 1. He obtains favour of the Lord chap. XIX 14. and XXXI 10. The poor Speaks supplications verse 23 Much more should poor man to God hath friends Love is the whetstone verse 24 and loadstone of love a friend Chap. XVII 17. as ones own soul Deut. XIII 6. Better Chap. chapter XIX verse 1 XXVIII 6. perverse in his lips Speaketh wickedly roughly and roboustiously without knowledge An ignorant man is in the dark verse 2 nor can be good Knowledge is much magnified in this Book of the Proverbs hasteth Rashly without premeditation and forecast Such is blind zeal as mettle in a blind horse perverteth his way And God walks contrary to him verse 3 Levit. XVI 24. frets As 2 Kings VI. 33. wealth Chap. verse 4 XIV 20. Donec eris foelix multos numerabis amicos Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris neighbour Who turnes strange to him or enemie against him unpunished By God And when known by man also verse 5 There is a pillorie-perjury See verse 9. and chap. XXI 28. and ch XXV 18. Exod. XXIII 1 Deut. XIX 16 21. Prince For their own commodity verse 6 Poor Ch. verse 7 XIV 20. Delight But stripes rather verse 10 Ch. X. 13 Ch. XXX 22. a servant As Abimelech the bramble Iudg. IX 15. As Pontifex Romanus the bridgmaker of Rome who writes Servus servorum chap. XXX 22. Eccles. X. 7. deferreth Ch. verse 11 XIV 29. But it must not be so as Absalom did toward Ammon passe by As winking at it or forgiving it or overcoming it with goodnesse Kings wrath Chap. verse 12 XVI 14. and XX. 2. and XXVIII 15. Eccles VIII 2 3 4. 2 Tim. IV. 17. A foolish sonne Chap. verse 13 X. 1. and chap. XV. 20. and XVII 21 25. contentions of a wife Chap. XXI 9. and XXVII 15 16. This is like a tempest in the haven inheritance More immediately verse 14 from the Lord Chap. XVIII 22. By his peculiar providence Tobias VI. 22. Keepeth Evangelicaly verse 16 thinks upon them to do them Psal. CIII 18. 2 Cor. VIII 12. Esay XXVI 12. Let us ask him to give what he commands us to have his wayes Gods wayes or his own wayes living loosely and carelessely and lawlessely lendeth Matth. verse 17 X. 42. and chap. XXV 40. 2 Cor. IX 6 7. Eph. IV. 28. Psal. XLI 1. 1 Tim. VI. 17 18 19. Heb. XIII 16. 1 John III. 17. He lends it to the Lord upon usury as the vulgar Latin renders it Chasten Chap. verse 18 XIII 24. and XXII 15. and XXIII 13. and ch XXIX 15 17. of great wrath Cholerick and wrathful men verse 19 their Passion after their deliverance will bring them in danger again Or if thou in great wrath yet pardon thy sonnes fault yet threaten him with greater punishment if he fault again Hear This may be the fathers lessoning his childe whom he hath lashed verse 20 Or may be taken in a greater latitude and sensed more generaly many devises Chap. verse 21 XVI 1 9. Job XXIII 13. Psal. XXXIII 10 11. and XLVI 10. The desire A mans will is to be accepted for the deed verse 22 if he have nothing to give Or mans desire is to be counted kinde and bountiful Not he that brags what he would do if he had wherewith and yet having it fails of performance a poor man Having a giving affection is better then such a braging lyer The fear Chap. verse 23 XXII 4. and chap. XIV 27. and I. 7. and VIII 13. Smite a scorner Though not he yet the simple will beware by it verse 25 chap. XXI 11. devoureth Job XV. verse 28 16. Ephes. IV. 19. wine Chap. chapter XX verse 1 XXIII 29 35. Hos. VII 5. Esay XXVIII 1. Gen. IX 21. 1 Sam. XXV 36. not wise When the wine is in the wit is out of a King Chap. verse 2 XVI 14. and chap. XIX 12. to cease from strife Gen. verse 3 XIII 8 9. 1 Cor. XIII 4 5 7. Brawling becomes not a man of a magnanimous spirit Counsel Verse 27. chap. XVIII 4. draw it out verse 5 for his use and imitation his own goodnesse So all Hereticks verse 6 and ambitious men Matth. VI. 1. V. 16. But few faithfuly performe what they proudly proclaime his children Personal piety is profitable to posterity verse 7 2 Kings X. 30. Exod. XX. 6. Psal. CXII 2. scattereth Verse 26. Psal. verse 8 CI. 5. The sword of justice is to be furbished with the oile of mercie yet there are cases
do it upon the condition following which in effect God promiseth to effect in them surely as a wife God requires her to engage her self to such future loyal carriage verse 20 because she had in this kinde beene very faulty before A voice was heard Or verse 21 is heard as Esay XIII 4. bewailing their sins ch XXXI 19 18. Returne Gods exhortation verse 22 and invitation we come Their Answer and Confession to the end of the Chapter O Israel Doubtful chapter IV verse 1 whether the ten Tribes or Iudah in him In God verse 2 men of Iudah and Ierusalem Them he exhorts to repentance verse 3 to prevent the imminent judgements to come Break up Hosea X. 11. Blow the Trumpet To give warning of the enemies approach verse 5 towards Zion Whereby men may be admonished to repair towards Zion verse 6 their chief place of strength The Lion is come Nebuchadnezzar verse 7 thou hast The false Prophets in Gods Name verse 10 those in the end of the former verse those he blames for promising them peace unto me To do my will against them verse 12 from Dan The utmost bound Northward verse 15 and towards Babylon ch VIII 16. Ephraim North-border of Judah by which Nebuchadnezzar must come watchers Hostile forces verse 16 v. 17. my bowels The Prophets passionate grieving at the miseries of the war upon his people verse 19 ch IX 1. Esay XXII 4 bewailing their folly that would take no warning my tents spoiled The tents of my people verse 20 I beheld In a spiritual rapture verse 23 represented to the eye of his minde the earth The Land of Iudea Very Rhetorical delineations do follow of their miseries by this invasion of Nebuchadnezzar graphicaly as in a Map described yet will I not make a full end But reserve a remnant verse 27 rentest thy face with painting Noted as a whorish practice in Jezabel verse 30 2 Kings IX 30. in Aholah and Aholibah Ezek. XXIII 40. if ye can finde a man Zeph. chapter V verse 1 I. 12. If not ten in Sodom how much is it stranger that not one in Jerusalem a larger Citie See the oecumenical contagion and yet Gods marvelous mercie So Gen. XVIII 32. Yet here by a man and any we are not to tie it up to one individual person No doubt more then one such there were among those chap. XXVI 16 24. and chap. XXXVI 25. in Jehojakims time And in Zedekiahs time during the siege there were Ebedmelech Jeremie himself and others The meaning must be to understand scarce a man very few no considerable number worth the speaking of that a man might go to and fro for a long time in it and yet not light on any man one or other that were sincere and upright See the like Gen. VI. 1. Psal. XII 1. and XIV 2 3. Esay LXIV 6 7. Micah VII 1 2. The Lord liveth Of swearing verse 2 see the Observations on Hos. IV. 15. These are poore Poverty may put them upon evil courses verse 4 a Lion Nebuchadnezzar and his forces Go ye up Gods Commission to the Chaldeans verse 10 not a full end Verse 18. chap. IV. 27. not he That thus threateneth verse 12 by Jeremie and some others a Nation The Chaldeans verse 15 O house of Israel Of Judah who are of the linage of Israel which have eyes and see not Esay XLII verse 21 20. Ezek. XII 2. Acts XXVIII 26 27. See the Observations on Esay VI. 9. they catch men As Jezabel set a trap verse 26 and a snare to catch Naboth they overpasse the deeds of the wicked They surpasse them verse 28 Or rather they passe by evils they escape those evils wherewith others are surprised as Psal. LXXIII 5. and the Priests beare rule by their meanes Priests verse 31 Or Princes Both banded against Gods true Prophets This Chapter is full of plagues and judgements chapter VI chiefly by the Chaldeans threatened for their sinnes And their sinnes charged upon them as the Cause of those judgements Benjamin Which Tribe adhered still to Judah verse 1 had the Northerne halfe of Jerusalem and joyned to the North-side of it Josh. XVIII 28. flee out Before flee unto it for succour chap. IV. 6. now to flee out of it to escape yea out of the Land ch X. 17. Tekoah A fenced Citie built by Rehoboam 2 Chron. XI 5 6. Where Amos was among the herdmen and called to be a Prophet Amos I. 1. And where that wise woman dwelled 2 Sam. XIV 2. Bethhaccerem Nehem. III. 14. Very many Cities in Jurie begin with Beth. There set up a signe of fire or fire a Becon to give warning of the Babylonians approach Wholly oppression As if all made of it verse 6 before me continually is grief and wounds Their grievances and woundings one another verse 7 by their cruel dealings are still before me to provoke me to proceed in wrath against her Be thou A summons to Repentance verse 8 Turne back thy hand Gods speech to the Chaldeans verse 9 To whom The Prophets Speech verse 10 I am full The Prophet cannot longer hold it in verse 11 the aged With the decrepit were they ashamed The false Porphets verse 15 They were shamelesse in it stand ye The seduced people verse 16 stand as travellers use to do when they are at a stand and doubtful of the way we will not Their wilful obstinacie Nations God calls all the world to witnesse verse 18 To what purpose So long as their lives and courses were such as had beene shewed verse 20 Esay I. 11 15. Sheba Psal. LXXII 10. I will lay stumbling-blocks I will bring those things upon them that shall be meanes of ruine and mischief to them verse 21 Ezek. III. 20. and VII 19. I have set thee God to his Prophet verse 27 They are all The Prophets answer verse 28 One only verse in Jeremie is written in the Chaldee-language for the ready use of the Jewes there among and against the Chaldeans Idols viz. that in Ch. X. v. 11. The seventy years captivity or serving the King of Babylon Ch. XXV 11. take their rise and commencement not from the last of Zedekiah But from the first of Nebuchadnezzar and third or fourth of Iehojakim if not from the last of Iehojakim and captivity of Iechoniah See Jer. XXV 1 11 12. and XXIX 1 2 3 10. Ezek. XL. 1. and XXXIII 21. 2 Chron. XXXVI 21 22. Rach l who kept her fathers sheep and had her name from Sheep or Ewe her weeping for her children chap. XXXI 15. applied most-what by way of Allusion to the mothers weeping for their children Matth. II. 17 18. Jonadab the sonne of Rechab and not Rechab the Author of that Injunction and Inhibition to his Posterity Chap. XXXV 6 8 14 16 18 19. The Command concerning the Yoakes chap. XXVII 1 2 3. was either injoyned in the beginning of the reigne of Jehojakim and so the reigne of Nebuchadnezzar and of Zedekiah propheticaly foreseene and foretold