partly for religion partly for munition in time of war saying Let us build us a City and Tower c. and let us make for us within it a house of worship or Temple lest we c. a feare arising from their owne guilty consciences as is often in the wicked Iob 15. 20. 21. Lev. 26. 36. Prov. 28. 1. Vers. 5. came down that is shewed by his works that he tooke knowledge of this evill to punish it This is spoken of God after the manner of men so Gen. 18. 21. Psal. 144. 5. See the notes on Gen. 6. 6 The Chaldee explaineth it thus And the Lord appeared to take vengeance upon the workes of the Citie and Tower Vers. 6. there will not be cut off from them that is they will not be restrained so noting their wilfull persisting in the evill begun Or question-wise thus should they not be cut off or restrained meaning it was very meet they should Vers. 7. Let us goe downe The holy Trinity here determineth as when in Gen. 1. 26. he said Let us make man against the former determination of vaine men vers 4. So he dissipateth the counsell of the nations Psal. 33. 10. not heare that is not understand so in 1 Cor. 14. 2. hee speaketh not unto men for no man heareth that is understandoth and in Esay 36. 11. Speake Syriacke for we heare that is understand it so a hearing heart for an understanding 1 King 3. 9. Ioseph heard that is understood Gen. 42. 23. and sundry the like Albeit God might at first smite them all with deafnesse that they could not at all heare and then change their tongues A like judgement David wisheth against his enemies Psal. 51. 10. Vers. 8. scattered and so dissolved their communion and brought on them the evill which they sought to prevent vers 4. for that which the wicked feareth shall come upon him Prov. 10. 24. The Hebrew Doctors from hence doe conclude The generation of the division of tongues have no part in the world to come that is in the kingdome of heaven as it is written And the Lord scattered them from thence c. The Lord scattered them in this world and from thence the Lord scattered them in the world to come Thalmud Bab. in Sanhedr ch 10. left off to build the contrary miracle God wrought by the gift of tongues to build up Ierusalem Act. 2. 4. 6. 11. c. Vers. 9. Babel or Babylon in the Greeke translated Confusion because there the Lord Balal that is Confounded their language And Babel is the same that Balbel but for ease of speech the first l is left out and it accordeth with the Chaldee or Baby lonian tongue which soundeth the Hebrew Balal Balbel as the Chaldee paraphrast here hath it lip of all the earth that is language of all people on the earth see verse 1. And here tongues first were for a signe to unbeleevers as 1 Cor. 14. 22. that by this judgement they might be converted unto the Lord though they made no such use thereof as neither did those that mocked at the gift of tongues whereby the heavenly City was builded Acts 2. 4. 13. The Hebrew Doctors say that at this dispersion there were seventy nations with seventy sundry languages R. Menachem on Gen. 11. Vers. 10. old Hebr. sox and so in the rest that follow See the notes on Gen. 5. 32. and compare this genealogy with that there Ten Patriarchs are there reckned from Adam to Noe and ten here from Sem to Abraham both of them proceeding with the linage of our Lord Christ who came of all these fathers according to the flesh Luke 3. There each fathers generation is set down in three verses here but in two and their death is not spoken of Howbeit the lives of men are now shortned to the halfe Vers. 11. 500 yeere By this we may gather that Sem lived till Isaak sonne of Abram was fifty yeres old and saw ten generations after him before hee dyed A singular blessing both to him and them Vers. 12. begat Salah or Shelach and as the holy Ghost counted the time of Arphaxads birth two yeeres after the flood vers 10. so may wee gather it for all the rest as Sala was borne 37 yeeres after the flood and after the creation of the world 1693 The Greek translation inserteth here a man which never was by the Hebrew verity saying that Arphaxad begat Kainan and that Kainan lived 130 yeeres and begat Sala Also the time of each fathers procreation is for the most part changed in the Greeke This seemeth to be done purposely that the true genealogy might not bee knowne to the heathen for whom the Greeke Bible was first translated And because in all Greeke Bibles Kainan was set downe the Evangelist also to beare with the worlds weaknesse or for other causes seeming good to the Spirit of God reckneth Kainan betweene Arphaxad and Sala in Luke 3. 36. But neither here nor in 1 Chron. 1. nor in any Hebrew text in his name recorded See a like thing in Gen. 46. 20. Vers. 14. begat Heber after the flood 67 yeeres in the yeere of the world 1723. Vers. 16. begat Phaleg or Peleg after the flood 101 y. and of the world 1757. Vers. 17. 430 yeere So Heber lived till Abraham was dead Gen. 25. 7. and was the longest liver of all that were borne after the flood and they that came after him lived not past halfe his dayes Vers. 18. begat Ragau or Rehu after the flood 131 y. and of the world 1787. Vers. 20. begat Saruch or Serug after the flood 163 y. and of the world 1819. Vers. 22. thirty yeere at the same age Phaleg and Salah are before noted to have begotten their sonnes begat Nachor after the flood 193. and of the world 1849. Vers. 24. begat Tharah or Terach after the flood 222 y. and of the world 1878. Vers. 26. begat Abram Nachor and Haran that is began to beget and so begat one of these three to weet Haran not all in the same yeere The like was before in Noes begetting Sem Cham and Iapheth Gen. 5. 32. where Sem for dignity was named first as Abram is here and Iapheth the eldest last as Haran is here For Tharah the father dyed 205 yeares old vers 32. then Abram departed from Charran 75 yeere old Gen. 12. 4. wherfore Abram was borne not when Tharah was 70 but when he was 130 yeere old which was after the flood 352 yeere and of the world 2008. Vers. 28. land of his nativity that is his native country or as the Greeke saith wherein hee was borne Vr of the Chaldees that is Vr in the land of the Chaldeans which land Stephen calleth also Mesopotamia Act. 7. 2. 4. for it lay betweene two rivers And Chaldea is by humane writers also called Mesopotamia Plin. hist. b. 6. c. 27. Vr signifieth Light and Fire here the Chaldee paraphrast taketh it to be the name of a
to repent or else then to perish This long-sufferance of God the Apostle mentioneth in 1 Pet. 3. 19. 20. 2 Pet. 2. 5. and sheweth the summe and end of his preaching to be that they might bee judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit 1 Pet. 4. 6. that is they repenting and turning unto Christ the body might be dead because of sinne but the spirit be life because of righteousnesse Rom. 8. 10. So the Chaldee here saith A terme shall bee given them of 120 yeares if they will convert So many were the yeeres of Moses life Deut 34. 7. Vers. 4. Gyants in Hebrew Nephilim which hath the signification of falling as being Apostates faine from God and being fierce and cruell to men falling on them as Iob. 1. 15. and whom they made by feare and force to fall before them Such were men of great stature that other men were as grashoppers in respect of them Num. 13. 33. The Chaldee calleth them Gibbaraja that is mighty men and so Nimrod was Gibbor that is mighty on the earth Gen. 10. 8. the Greeke nameth them Giganies whereof our English is derived and the Greeke Poets feyned them to be borne of the earth noting them to be earthly minded not caring for heaven and borne also of such parents after that that is as before so after God had threatned their destruction that they were not bettered or brought to repentance went in namely into the chamber as is expressed Iudg. 15. 1. and consequently companyed with them in like sense as knowing is used before Gen. 4. 1. So David went in to Bathsheba Psal. 51. 2. Abram to Agar Genes 16. 2. Iaakob to his wife Gen. 29. 21. a modest phrase they bare to weet the women last mentioned or they the men begat children to themselves The Hebrew implyeth both mighty men the Greeke translateth this also Giants and it seemeth to bee an explanation of their former name men of name that is of renowm famous and renowmed Contrary hereto is men without name Iob 30. 8. Vers. 5. wickednesse or malice evill every imagination or the whole fiction the word is generall for all and every thing that the heart first imagineth formeth purposeth 1 Chron. 28. 9. and 29. 18. Luke 1. 51. every day or all the day that is continually The Greeke translateth thus and every one mindeth in his heart carefully for evils all dayes Vers. 6. it repented Iohovah This is spoken not properly for God repenteth not 1 Sam. 15. 29. but after the manner of men for God changing his deed and dealing otherwise then before doth as men doe when they repent So 1 Sam. 15. 11. the earth hereby teaching that there was none on earth whom God respected So that but for the second man Christ the Lord from heaven 1 Cor. 15. 47. whom Noe beleeved in the world had now beene consumed So the Hebrew Doctors as the Zohan upon this place saith man on the earth to except the man above or the superior Adam who was not on the earth it grieved him The Scripture giveth to God joy griefe anger c. not as any passions or contrary affections for he is most simple and unchangeable Iam. 1. 17. but by a kind of proportion because he doth of his immutable nature and will such things as men doe with those passions and changes of affections So heart hands eyes and other parts are attributed to him for effecting such things as men cannot doe but by such members God is said to be grieved for the corruption of his creatures contrariwise when he restoreth them by his grace hee rejoyceth in them Esay 65. 19. Psal. 104. 31. Of these phrases spoken concerning God the Hebrew Doctors write thus Forasmuch as it is cleare that God is no corporall or bodily thing it is also cleare that not any corporall accident or occurrence doth befall unto him neither composition nor division nor place nor measure nor going up nor comming downe nor right hand nor left hand nor face nor back-parts nor sitting nor standing neither beginning nor ending nor number of yeares neither is he chāgeable for nothing can cause him to change Neither is there in him death or life as the life of a corporall living thing nor folly nor wisedome according to humane wisedome nor sleepe nor waking nor anger nor laughter nor joy nor griefe nor silence nor speech as the sonnes of Adam speake c. but all these and the like things spoken of him in the Law and Prophets are parabolicall and figurative As when it is said Hee that sitteth in the heaven doth laugh Psalm 2. and the like of all such our wise men have said The Law speaketh according to the language of the sonnes of Adam And so he saith Doe they provoke me to anger Ier. 7. 19. againe hee saith I am the Lord I change not Mal. 3. 6. and if he be sometime angry and sometime joyfull then is he changeable But all these things are not found save in persons obscure and base that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust but he the blessed God is blessed and exalted above all these Maimony in Iesud hatorah chap. 1. S. 11. 12. Vers. 7. blot-out that is destroy and abolish from man that is both men and beasts For as the beasts were made for man Gen. 1. 28. so they became subject to vanity and destruction through mans iniquity Gen. 3. 17. Rom. 8. 20. Vers. 8. found grace that is obtained favour or mercies as the Chaldee translateth it So this phrase is interpreted in Greeke sometime finding grace Heb. 4. 16. sometime finding mercy 2. Tim. 1. 18. and grace is opposed unto workes and unto debt Rom. 11. 6. and 4. 4. And it is a speciall title of God that he is named Gracious Exod. 34. 6. and a speciall prerogative of his people that they find grace in his eyes as after of Lot Gen. 19. 19. of Moses Exod. 33. 12. of David Act. 7. 45. of Marie Luke 1. 30. And the letters of * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Noes name are the letters of * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grace in Hebrew the order being changed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These three letters in the Hebrew Bibles do signifie the Parasha or great Section of Moses law which was a Lecture on the Sabbath day read in the Iewes Synagogues as is observed Act. 15. 21. to which was added a Lecture out of the Prophets Act. 13. 15. And the first Paragraph or Section which is from the creation hitherto they call Breshith that is In the beginning this second which reacheth to the twelvth Chapter they call Noe and so the rest There are in all 54. Sections in the Law which they read in the 52 Sabbaths joyning two of the shortest twice together that the whole might be finished in a yeares space Hereof the Hebrew Doctors write thus It is a common custome throughout all Israel that
The Restauration GOD promiseth that Christ the Womans seed shall bruise the Serpents head The man calleth his wife Eve God layeth chastisements on them both clotheth them and drives them out of Paradise Chap. 3 The government of the old World ADAM begetting two sonnes Kain the first borne is wicked Abel faithfull Kain killeth Abel and is cursed yet liveth and increaseth in the world Seth is given in Abels sted and of Seth Enos Chap. 4 SETH progateth the faithfull seed Enoch prophesieth and God taketh him away that he dieth not Chap. 5 Seths seed and Kains are mixed so Giants are bred and sinne increased God repenteth that he made man threatneth to drown the world but Noe findes grace Chap. 6 NOE and his house with some of all creatures are saved in the Arke which God bade him make the world is all drowned Ch. 7 The government of the world aset the Flood NOE with his familie come out of the Arke are blessed to fill the world againe Chap. 〈◊〉 GOD promiseth to drowne the world no more Sinne reviveth in Cham Noes son whose posteritie is cursed the blesse continueth to Sem and Iaphet Chap. 〈◊〉 Noes three sonnes Sem Cham and Iaphet doe multiply on the earth Chap. 〈◊〉 Their posterity are scattered by confusion of tongues at Babel Sem propagateth the faithfull seede which in Terah falleth 〈◊〉 God but is called to repentance Chap. 〈◊〉 ABRAM is called from Idolatry and commeth a pilgrim into the land of Canaan Chap. 〈◊〉 Abram parted from Lot is promised the land of Canaan and a plenteous seed Chap. 〈◊〉 He fighteth for Lot oâ—ercommeth foure Kings and is blessed of Melchisedek Chap. 〈◊〉 He being childlesse is promised an heire justified by faith and comforted by a vision and covenant of God Chap. 〈◊〉 He hath a son after the flesh Ismael of Agar his bondwoman Chap. 1â— He hath a new name Abraham the covenant of circumcision and promise of Isask Sarai is named Sarah Chap. 1â— Abraham enterraineth Angels hath the promise renewed and Sodoms destruction revealed for whom he maketh intercession Chap. 1â— Sodom is burned Lot delivered begetteth of his daughters Moab and Ammon Chap. 19 Abrahams wife taken by Abimelec is restored unto him Chap. 20 ISAAK the promised seed is borne Agar and Ismael are cast out of Abrahams house Ab melec covenanteth with Abraham Chap. 21 Isaak is offred for a sacrifice by his father but saved from death by God Abraham is blessed and heareth of his kindreds increase Chap. 22 Abraham purchaseth in Canaan a burying place for Sarah Chap. 23 He provideth a wife for Isaak who marieth Rebekah Chap. 24 Abraham dyeth Isaak begetteth Esau and Iakob who strive in the wombe Iakob buyeth the birthright of Esau surnamed Edom. Chap 25 Isaaks wife taken by Abimelec is restored he covenanteth with Abimelec Chap 26 IAKOB by subtilty getteth the blessing from Esau and is threatned Chap. 27 Iakob fleeing from Esau is comforred by a vision of a Ladder at Bethel Chap. 28 He sorveth for a wife is beguiled marieth two and hath foure sonnes Chap. 29 He is increased with moe children is wronged by Laban but waxeth rich Chap. 30 He fleeth secretly is pursued by Laban but God delivereth him Chap. 31 He is met of Angells afraid of Esau wrastleth with God and is named Israel Chap. 32 Iakob and Esau meet and are friends Iakob put chaseth ground at Sechem Chap. 33 Iakobs daughter Dina is defiled his sonnes slay the Sech mites for it Chap. 34 Iakob burieth Deborah the Nurse Rachel his wife and Isaak his father Chap. 35 Esau dwelleth in Seir hath many Dukes and Kings of his posteitie Chap. 36 IOSEPH Iakobs sonne is hated for his dreames and sold by his brethen into Egypt Iakob mourneth for him and will not be comforted Chap. 37 Iudah Iakobs son begetteth of his daughter in law Pharez and Zarah Chap. 38 Ioseph in Egypt is tempted to adultery falsly accused and imprisoned Chap. 39 Ioseph in prison expoundeth the dreames of Pharaohs officers but is forgotten Chap. 40 Ioseph expoundeth Pharaohs dreames and is made ruler over all Egypt Chap. 41 Iakob sendeth his sons for corne into Egypt Ioseph handleth them roughly Chap. 42 Iakob constrainedly sendeth his sons againe and Ioseph feasteth them Chap. 43 Ioseph challengeth Benjamin for his cup Iudah supplicateth for his brother Chap. 44 Ioseph makes himselfe knowne to his brethren and sendeth for his Father Chap. 45 Iakob by Gods advice goeth with his houshold into Egypt in all seventy soules Ioseph meeteth them in Goshen and instructeth them what to say to Pharah Chap. 46 Ioseph nourisheth his father and brethren in time of famine bringeth the Egyptians into bondage and sweareth to bury his father in Canaan Chap. 47 Iosephs two sons are blessed and adopted of Iakob on his death bed Chap. 48 Iakob blesseth his twelve sons prophesieth of Christ and dyeth in Egypt Chap. 49 Ioseph burieth his father in Canaan and returneth forgiveth his brethren prophesieth of their departure from thence giveth charge concerning his bones and dyeth Chap. 50 The number of the Sections or Lectures in Genesis are twelve the Chapters fiftie the verses 1534. The midst is at Gen. 27. 40. Search the Scriptures Iohn 5. 39. To the Law and to the Testimonie Esay 8. 20. Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Rom. 15. 4. THE FIRST BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED GENESIS CHAPTER I. 1 The Heavens and the Earth are created and the Light in the first day 6. In the second the firmament is spred and the waters divided 9. In the third the earth is made dry land and fruitfull the waters are gathered to be seas 14. The Sunne Moone and Stars are created for Lights the fourth day 20. Fish and Fowles are brought forth and blessed in the fifth 24. In the sixth Beasts are made out of the Earth 26. Man is created in the image of God 28. he is blessed and hath dominion of the world 29 Food is appointed for Man and beast 31. Gods workes are all good IN THE BEGINNING GOD created the Heavens and the earth And the earth was empty and voide and darkenesse was upon the face of the deepe and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters And God sayd Let there bee light and there was light And God saw the light that it was good and God separated betweene the light and the darkenesse And God called the light Day and the darknesse he called Night and the evening was and the morning was the first day And God said Let there be an Out-spred firmament in the midst of the waters and let it separate betweene waters and waters And God made the Outspred-firmament and separated betweene the waters which were under the outspred-firmament and the waters which were above the outspred-firmament and it was so And God called the outspred-firmament Heavens and the evening was and
have enmity with mankind but also wicked men called serpents generations of vipers and children of the Devill Matth. 23. 33. 1 Iohn 3. 10. By the womans seed is meant in respect of Satan chiefly Christ who being God over all blessed for ever should come of David and Abraham and so of Eve according to the flesh for she was the mother of all living Roman 1. 3. and 9. 5. And with Christ all Christians who are Eves seed both in nature and in faith as all Christians are called Abrahams seed Gal. 3. 29. He or it that is the Seed This is first to be understood of Christ who was made of a woman Gal. 4. 4. the fruit of the wombe of the Virgin Mary Luke 1. 42. Hee through death hath destroyed him that had the power of death that is the Devill Hebrewes 2. 14. Secondly it implyeth Christians the children of Christ Heb. 2. 13 who resisting the Devill stedfastly in faith the God of peace bruiseth Satan under their feet 1 Pet. 5. 9. Rom. 16. 20. When promise is made concerning the seed the faithfull parents are also included and so on the contrary as when Moses saith I will multiply thy seed Gen. 22. 17. Paul alledgeth it thus I will multiply thee Heb. 6. 14. Againe where Moses saith All families shall be blessed in thee Gen. 12 3. Peter alledgeth it they shall be blessed in thy seed Act. 3. 25. Also this word seed is used either for a multitude as Gen. 15. 5. or for one particular person as Gen. 21. 13. and 4. 25. so here it meaneth one speciall seed Christ Gal. 3. 16. This the ancient Hebrew Doctors also acknowledged for in Thargum Ierusalemy the fulfilling of this promise is expresly referred to the last dayes the dayes of the King Messias And the mystery of originall sinne and thereby death over all and of deliverance by Christ R. Menachem on Lev. 25. noteth from the profound Cabbalists in these words So long as the spirit of uncleannesse is not taken away out of the world the soules that come downe into the world must needs die for to root out the power of uncleannesse out of the world and to consume the same And all this is because of the decree which was decreed for the uncleannesse and filthinesse which the Serpent brought upon Eve And if it be so all the soules that are created become unclean by that filthinesse must needs die before the comming of the Messias c. and at the comming of the Messias all soules shall be consummate thenceforth bruise or pierce crush the Hebrew word is of rare use onely here and in Iob 9. 17. thy head or thee on the head Hereby is meant Satans overthrow destruction in respect of his power and workes Ioh. 12. 31. 1 Ioh. 3. 8. for the head being bruised strength and life is perished So in Thargum Ierusalemy it is expounded thus The womans children shall be cured but thou ô Serpent shalt not be cured And he saith thee rather then thy seed because Christ was to vanquish that old serpent which overcame our first parents who being destroyed his seed perish with him Revel 12. 9. Ioh. 14. 30. and 12. 31. 32. his heele or his foot sole for the Hebrew and Greeke here used signifie not onely the heele but the whole foot sole and sometime the foot step or print of the foot By the heele or foot bruised is meant Christs wayes which Satan should seeke to suppresse by afflictions and death for our sinnes here foretold as appeareth by the reference which other Scriptures make to this prophesie Psal. 56. 7. and 89. 52. and 49. 6. and 22. 17. He was crucified through infirmity and put to death concerning the flesh but was quickned by the spirit liveth through the power of God 2 Cor. 13. 4. 1 Pet. 3. 18. and so his foot not his head was bruised by the Serpent Who yet brought upon him a death that was shamefull and painfull and cursed because hee was hanged on a tree Gal. 3. 13. for it is probable that partly in remembrance of this first sinne by eating of the tree of knowledge which tree was a signe of curse and death if man transgressed Gods law after accounteth such as dye on a tree to have in more speciall manner the signe of curse upon them Deut. 21. 23. But Christ swallowed up death in victory Esay 25. 8. through whom God also giveth us the victory 1 Cor. 15. 57 unto which promise the Prophet hath reference saying Why should I feare in the dayes of evill when the iniquity of my heeles shall compasse me about God will redeeme my soule from the hand of Hell Psalm 49. 6. 16. Vers. 16. multiplying I will multiply that is I wil much and assuredly multiply see this phrase opened on Gen. 2. 16. Here are annexed not curses but chastisements for Eve and Adam that their faith in the promised seed might continually bee stirred up and their sinfull nature subdued and mortified Heb. 12. 6. Psal. 119. 71. conception meaning painfull conception and this word is used for the whole space that the child is in the mothers body untill the birth and so here implyeth all the griefes and cumberances which women do endure that time The Greeke translateth it groning The reason of this chastisement is because sinne is from Adam derived by propagation to all his posterity Psalm 51. 7. Roman 5. children Heb. sonnes which implyeth daughters also therefore the Greeke translateth it children so for sonne and sonnes the Holy Ghost saith in Greek children as in Mat. 22. 24. from Deut. 25. 5. Gal. 4. 27. from Esay 54. 1. By bringing forth is also meant bringing up after the birth as Gen. 50. 23. Vnto the sorrows of childbirth the Scripture often hath reference in cases of great affliction in body or mind Psalm 48. 7. Mich. 4. 9. 10. 1 Thess. 5. 3. Ioh. 16. 21. Rev. 12. 2. Howbeit this chastisement hindreth not a womans salvation with God for neverthelesse shee shall be saved in childbearing if they women continue in faith and love and holinesse with sobriety 1 Tim. 2. 15. desire The Greeke translateth it thy turning or conversion the word implyeth a desirous affection as appeareth by Song 7. 10. And that this should be to her husband it noteth subjection as in Gen. 4. 7. Elsewhere this word is not used the Apostle seemeth to have reference unto it in 1 Thess. 2. 8. rule So Paul saith I permit not the woman to usurpe authority over the man 1 Tim. 2. 12. And Peter Wives bee in subjection to your owne husbands 1 Pet. 3. 1. And this being here a chastisement for sinne implyeth a further rule then man had over her by creation and with more griefe unto womankind Vers. 17. the ground or the earth whereby is implyed all this visible world made for man Psal. 115. 16. 2 Pet. 3. 7. So all hope of blessednesse on earth is hereby cut off for all
things under the Sun are vanity and vexation of spirit from mans birth to his dying day Ecclesiastes 1. 2. 3. 14. and 12. 7. 8. and an heavenly heritage is to bee sought for immortall and which fadeth not 2 Peter 1. 4. Of ground cursed there followeth barrennesse or unprofitable fruits and desolation Genesis 4. 12. and 3. 18. Esay 24. 6. and the end is to bee burned Hebrews 6. 8. So the earth and the workes therein shall bee burnt up 2 Pet. 3. 10. And as for mans sake this world is cursed and the creature made subject to vanity so it earnestly expecteth the manifestation of the sonnes of God that it may be delivered from the bondage of corruption Rom. 8. 19. 20. 21. in sorrow with painfull labour as Prov. 5. 10. Hereupon the Scripture mentioneth our bread of sorrowes Psal. 127. 2. Adam was to have labored in his innocency Gen. 2. 15. but without sorrow being under the Lords blessing which maketh rich and hee addeth no sorrow with it Prov. 10. 22. Concerning this sorrow or toyle of our hands Noe the figure of Christ was a comforter Gen. 5. 29. Vers. 18. thornes Heb. the thorne Hereby is meant harmfull weeds in stead of wholesome fruits Iob 31 40. Ier. 12. 13. for men of thistles doe not gather figs Mat. 7. 16. Thornes doe choak the good corne as Mat. 13. 7. And spiritually these signifie evill fruits which wicked earthly men bring forth Heb. 6. 8. of the field and so no longer the pleasant fruits of Paradise Gen. 2. 9. 16. But as Nebuchadnezar when he had a beasts heart was driven out among beasts to eat grasse as the oxen Dan. 4. 13. 22. so man not lodging a night in honour nor understanding but becomming like beasts that perish is to eat herbes with them Psal. 49. 13. 21. but by the labour of his hands his diet is bettered Vers. 19. sweat with much labour which Adam and all his posterity was condemned unto that this is a generall rule if any will not worke neither should he eate 2 Thess. 3. 10. The sweat of the face though it is to be distinguished from the care of the 〈…〉 d which Christ forbiddeth Mat. 6. 25. 34. yet it doth imply all lawfull labours and industry of body and mind for the good of both Eph. 4. 28. Mat. 10. 10. 1 Cor. 9. 14. so that the giving of the heart also to seeke and search our things by wisedome is a sore occupation which God hath given to the sonnes of Adam to be occupied therein and humbled thereby Eccles. 1. 13. bread that is all food whereof bread is the principall as that which upholds the heart of man Psal. 104. 15. Therefore that which one Evangelist calleth bread Mar. 6. 36 another calleth victuals or meats Mat. 14. 15. the ground or the earth called elsewhere our earth Psal. 146. 4. and our dust Psal. 104. 28. meaning till man returne to the dust of death the grave and there the wearied be at rest from their labours Iob 3. 17. Rev. 14. 13. dust thou art or thou wast to weet concerning the body as Gen. 2. 7. not the spirit which being immortall goeth unto God for eternall joyes or torments Luke 16. 22. 23. and 23. 43. This difference Solomon teacheth And dust returne to the earth as it was and the spirit returne to God that gave it Eccles. 12. 7. Here God condemneth mankind to death which is the wages of sinne Rom. 6 23. and to the grave the house appointed for all living Iob 30. 23. where they must wait till their change come Iob 14. 14. for it is appointed to men once to dye and after this is the judgement Hebr. 4. 27. Otherwise the life eternall could not bee obtained for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdome of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption therefore we must all either dye or be changed and this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortall must put on immortality and then shall Death be swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 50. 51. 53. 54. So the Hebrew Rabbines also taught saying that unto this world there cleaveth the secret filthinesse of the Serpent which came upon Eve and because of that filthinesse Death is come upon Adam and his seed For when God saw how uncleannesse cleaved and spred it selfe abroad in the world continually he intended to consume it and to root out the power of it and therefore the bodies doe consume and corrupt and have no continued life But when the filthinesse is consumed and the spirit of uncleannesse taken out of the earth behold God will renew his world without any other filthinesse and will wake up by his power those that dwell in the dust c. and the Lord will reioyce in his workes as the intendment of the creation was at the first R. Menachem on Gen. 3. The Greeke Philosophers have observed that some dead men putrified turne to Serpents Plutarch in vita Cleomenis If so it is a notable memoriall of mans first poysoning by the Serpent Vers. 20. Eve in Hebrew Chavah which is by interpretation Life as the Greeke also translateth it or Living Adam first called her Woman Gen. 2. 23. God called her Adam Gen. 5. 2. and now the man calleth her Eve Life by which new name he testifieth his faith in and thankfulnesse for Gods former promise in vers 15. In which he also trained up his children teaching them to sacrifice and serve the Lord. Gen. 4. 3. 4. So the Hebrew Doctors reckon Adam as a repentant sinner and by Wisdome that is faith in Christ brought out of his fall Ioseph Antiq. b. 1. c. 4. and the Author of the Booke of Wisedome c. 10. v. 1. all living that is as the Chaldee paraphraseth of all the sonnes of man meaning this both naturally of all men in the world and so of Christ the promised seed and spiritually of all that live by faith in which sense Sarah is also counted the Mother of the faithfull 1 Pet. 3. 6. Gal. 4. 22. 28. 31. V. 21. coats to cover the body from shame and harme and for a memoriall of mans sin a further signe of those garments of justice and salvation which men have of God that their filthy nakednesse doe not appeare Rev. 3. 18. 19. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 2. 3. 4. The Chalde◠calleth these here garments of honor of skin that is in likelihood of the skins of beasts which God taught him to kill for sacrifice Which offerings were even from the beginning of the Gospell preached as appeareth Gen. 4. 3. 4. 8. 20. And after by the Law the Skinnes of the sacrifices were given to the Priests Lev. 7. 8. And the sacrifices being all figures of Christ Heb. 10. 5. 10 the Skins were fit to resemble mans mortification as the girdle of skin which Iohn Baptist wore Mat. 3. 4. and new life by putting on the Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 13. 13. 14. and the garments of
sorrowes of this age were great as the very name of Enos testifieth and the history following in Gen. 6. confirmeth for impiety crept into the Church by unlawfull mariages with Kains seed and religion and manners were much corrupted Gen. 6. 2. 11. The Hebrew Doctors describe it thus In the dayes of Enos the sons of Adam erred with great error and the counsell of the wisemen of that age became brutish and Enos him-selfe was one of them that erred and their error was this They said for as much as God hath created these stars and sphaeres to governe the world and set them on high and imparted honor unto them and they are ministers that minister before him it is meet that men should land and glorifie and give them honor For this is the wil of God that we magnifie and honor whomsoever he magnifieth and honoreth even as a King would have them honored that stand before him and this is the honour of the King himselfe When this thing was come up into their heart they began to build Temples unto stars and to offer sacrifice unto them and to laud and glorifie them with words and to worship before them that they might in their evill opinion obtaine favour of the Creator And this was the root of Idolatry c. And in process of time there stood up false Prophets among the sons of Adam which said that God had commanded said unto them worship such a star or all the stars and doe sacrifice unto them thus and thus and build a Temple for it and make an image of it that all the people women and children may worship it he shewed them the image which he had feyned out of his owne heart and said it was the image of such a starre which was made knowne unto him by prophesie and they began after this manner to make images in Temples and under trees and on tops of mountaines and hils and assembled together and worshipped them c. And this thing was spred through all the world to serve images with services different one from another and to sacrifice unto and worship them So in tract of time the glorious and fearfull name of God was forgotten out of the mouth of all living and out of their knowledge and they acknowledged him not And there was found no people of the earth that knew ought save images of wood and stone and Temples of stone which they had beene trained up from their childhood to worship and to serve and to sweare by their names And the wise men that were among them as the Priests and such like thought there was no God save the stars and sphares for whose sake and in whose likenesse they had made these images but as for the Rocke everlasting there was no man that acknowledged him or knew him save a few persons in the world is Enoch Mathusala Noe Sem and Eber. And in this way did the world walk and converse till the pillar of the world to weet Abraham our father was born Maim in Misn. tom 1. treat of Idolatry c. 1. S. 1. 2. 3. That the heavens and stars were of old worshipped both Moses and the Prophets after him shew Deut. 4. 19. Am. 5. 26. 2. Kin. 21. 3. 5. And as the heathen Philosophers counted the heaven a living body Arist. de câ—l l. 2 c. 2 so did the wisest of the Hebrew Rabbins All the stars and al the sphaers have soules knowledg understanding are living things and stand acknowledge him who said and the world was every one according to his greatnesse and according to his dignity lauding and glorifying him that formed them even as the Angels And as they know the holy God so they know themselves and know the Angels which are above them and the knowledge that the Starres and Sphaeres have is lesse then the knowledge of the Angels and greater then the knowledge of the sonnes of men saith Maimony in Iesudei hatorah chap. 3. S. 9. Vpon this perswasion men might the easier be drawne to the worship of them If we understand Moses here otherwise Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord then it may be meant of more publick worship now erected then before or of publick preaching in the name of the Lord to call the wicked to repentance or of calling themselves by the name of the Lord as in Gen. 6. 2. the faithfull are called the sonnes of God Onkelos the Chaldee Paraphrast translateth then beganne men to pray But the Chaldee in the Masorites bible saith Then in his dayes the sonnes of men left off from praying or became prophane so that they prayed not in the name of the Lord. CHAP. V. 1 The genealogie of the tenne first Patriarchs of the world 3 Of Adam 6 Seth 9 Enos 12 Kainan 15 Maleleel 18 Iared 21 Enoch who walked with God was taken away without death 25 Mathusala 28 Lamech 32 and Noe. THis is the booke of the generations of Adam in the day God created Adam in the likenesse of God made he him Male and female created hee them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day they were created And Adam lived a hundred and thirty yeeres and begat a sonne in his likenesse in his image and called his name Seth. And the dayes of Adam were after he had begotten Seth eight hundred yeeres and hee begat sonnes and daughters And all the dayes of Adam which he lived were nine hundred yeeres and thirty yeeres and he dyed And Seth lived a hundred yeeres and five yeeres and begat Enos And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred yeeres and seven yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And all the dayes of Seth were nine hundred yeeres and twelve yeeres and hee died And Enos lived ninety yeeres and begat Kainan And Enos lived after hee begat Kainan eight hundred yeeres and fifteene yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And all the daies of Enos were nine hundred yeeres and five yeeres and hee died And Kainan lived seventy yeeres and begat Maleleel And Kainan lived after he begat Maleleel eight hundred yeeres and fortie yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And all the dayes of Kainan were nine hundred yeeres and ten yeeres and he died And Maleleel lived sixtie yeeres and five yeeres and begat Iared And Maleleel lived after he begat Iared eight hundred yeeres and thirty yeeres and begat sons and daughters And al the dayes of Maleleel were eight hundred yeeres and ninety and five yeeres and he died And Iared lived a hundred yeeres and sixtie and two yeeres begat Enoch And Iared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred yeeres and begat sons and daughters And al the daies of Iared were nine hundred yeres sixty and two yeres and he dyed And Enoch lived sixty and five yeres and begat Methusala And Enoch walked with God after hee begat Methusala three hundred yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And all the daies of
Gen. 10. 23. and againe Vz of Seir in Edoms country Gen. 36. 28. Buz in Greeke Baux of him came that learned yong man Elihu Iob 32. 2. Buz dwelt by his elder brother Vz in Arabia Ier. 25. 20. 23. 24. Kimuel in Greeke Kamouel of Aram the Greeke saith of the Syrians There was an Aram before of Sem Gen. 10. 22. Aram throughout the Bible is turned in Greeke Syria and Syrians as Mizraim is Aegypt and Cush Ethiopia Vers. 22. Kesed or Cesed in Greeke Chazad Chazo in Greeke Nazais Pildash in Greek Phaldese Iidlaph in Greeke Iledaph Vers. 23. Bethuel in Greeke Bathouel of whom see after Gen. 24. 15. Rebekah or Rebekka in Hebrew Ribkah she became wife to Isaak Abrahams sonne Gen. 24. 15. 67. And for that cause chiefly is this genealogy here set downe Vers. 24. his concubine to weet Nachors concubine The Hebrew Pilegesh whereof the Greeke Pallakis and Latine Pellex is borrowed which we call a Concubine signifieth an halfe wife or a divided and secondary wife which was a wife for the bed and thereby differing from an whore but not for honour and government of the family as King Solomons wives were Princesses but his concubines not so 1 King 11. 3. neither had their children ordinarily any right of inheritance but had gifts of their father as Gen. 25. 5. 6. Such a concubine was Hagar to Abraham yea and Keturah his second wife is called a concubine Gen. 25. 1. 6. 1 Chr. 1. 32. And Bilha and Zilpha were concubines to Iaakob Gen. 35. 22. And many other men of note had also concubines as Caleb 1 Chron. 2. 46. 48. Manasses 1 Chron. 7. 14. Gedeon Iudg. 8. 31. David 2 Sam. 5. 13. Solomon 1 King 11. 3. Roboam 2 Chron. 11. 21. and among the heathens as Est. 2. 14. Dan. 5. 3. The Hebrew Doctors say wives were taken in Israel by bils of Dowry and solemne espousals but concubines without either of both Maimony treat of Kings ch 4. S. 4. So among the Gentiles as appeareth by that saying in the Poet lest this report goe of mee that I have given thee mine owne sister rather for a concubine then in way of matrimony if I should give her without a dowrie Plautus in Trinumm Likewise among the Greekes the Oratour saith wee have concubines for daily concubineship or use of the bed and wives for to bring us forth children legitimate and faithfully to keepe the things in the family Demosthenes in Orat. against Neaera Tebach in Greeke Tabec of him and his brethren wee find no mention in other Scripture Tachash in Greeke Tochos Maacah in Greeke Mocha CHAP. XXIII 1 The age and death of Sarah for whom Abraham mourneth 3 and purchaseth of the sonnes of Cheth a place for her buriall 10 which Ephron would have given him 13 but Abraham would not receive without giving the full price 17 So the field and cave in Macpelah becommeth Abrahams possession and there he burieth Sarah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANd the life of Sarah was a hundred yeeres and twenty yeeres and seven yeeres these were the yeeres of the life of Sarah And Sarah dyed in Kirjath-Arba the same is Chebron in the land of Canaan and Abraham came to mourne for Sarah and to weepe for her And Abraham stood-up from before his dead and spake unto the sonnes of Cheth saying I am a stranger and a sojourner with you give mee a possession of a burying-place with you that I may bury my dead out of my sight And the sonnes of Cheth answered Abraham saying to him heare us my Lord thou art a Prince of God amongst us in the choise of our buriall-places bury thou thy dead a man of us shall not with-hold from thee his burying place from burying thy dead And Abraham stood-up and bowed-downe himselfe to the people of the land to the sonnes of Cheth And he spake with them saying if it be your mind to bury my dead out of my sight heare me and intreat for me to Ephron the sonne of Zohar And let him give mee the cave of Macpelah which he hath which is in the end of his field for full money let him give it me amongst you for a possession of a burying-place And Ephron was sitting amongst the sonnes of Cheth and Ephron the Chethite answered Abraham in the eares of the sonnes of Cheth of all that went in at the gates of his citie saying Nay my Lord heare me the field I give thee and the cave that is therein I give it thee in the eies of the sonnes of my people give I it thee bury thy dead And Abraham bowed-down himselfe before the people of the land And he spake unto Ephron in the eares of the people of the land saying But if thou wilt give it I pray thee heare mee I will give the money of the field take it of me and I will bury my dead there And Ephron answered Abraham saying unto him my Lord heare me the land is worth foure hundred shekels of silver betweene mee and thee what is that and bury thy dead And Abraham hearkned unto Ephron and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had spoken of in the eares of the sons of Cheth foure hundred shekels of silver currant with the merchant And the field of Ephron which was in Macpelah which was before Mamree was made-sure the field and the cave which was therein and everie tree which was in the field which was in all the border thereof round about Vnto Abraham for a purchase in the eies of the sons of Cheth with all that went-in at the gates of his citie And afterward Abraham buried Sarahs his wife in the cave of the field of Macpelah before Mamree the same is Chebron in the land of Canaan And the field and the caue which was therein was made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the sons of Cheth Annotations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here beginneth the 5 section of the Law called Chajjee Sarah that is The life of Sarah See Gen. 6. 9. Vers. 1. the life in Hebrew lives see Gen. 2. 7. This speciall honor hath Sarah our mother above all women in the Scripture that the number of her yeeres is recorded of God Eve was the mother of all living Gen. 3. 20. and Sarah is mother of al the faithfull 1 Pet. 3. 6. She lived a pilgrim with Abraham her husband 62 yeeres and before her departure from Charran 65. in all 127 yeeres Vers. 2. Kirjath Arba that is the citie of Arba. as the Greeke translateth it called also Chebron see Gen. 13. 18. came or went-in namely into Sarahs tent wherein she dwelt and dyed for Abraham had many tents as had Lot Gen. 13. 5. and one speciall for Sarah Gen. 24. 67. and 18. 6. to weepe Sarah also is the first for whose death mourning and weeping is mentioned another note of honour as appeareth by Gen 50. 9. 10. 11. Ier. 22. 18. 2 Sam. 1.
Gen. 20. 16. V. 16. currant or passing to and so allowed of Merchants as the Greek turneth it which the Chaldee amplifieth thus that was taken for merchandise in every Countrey Vers. 17. was made sure the Hebrew is stood up that is was made stable sure and confirmed as the Greek translateth it in the last verse of this chapter And this purchase thus assured to Abraham was a propheticall signe that his posterity should have the inheritance of that land even as Ieremies buying of his uncles field before witnesses was a signe of the Iewes returne into the possession of this land Ier. 32. 7. 9. 10. 15. 43. 44. Vers. 19. in the cave or deâ— thus carefully bought and described where it lay for a monument to posterity In this cave also Abraham himselfe was buried with his wife at his death Gen. 25. 9. Likewise Isaak his sonne with Rebekah his wife and Iaakob with Leah his wife Gen. 49. 31. and 50. 13. The Patriarchs hereby testifying their faith in the promises of God for the inheritance of this land and of life eternall figured hereby as before is observed on v. 4. Herewith may bee compared the purchase of the potters field bought with the price of Christs blood to bury strangers in Mat. 27. CHAP. XXIV 1 Abraham sweareth his servant to take a wife for Isaak not of the Canaanites but of his own kinred 8 The conditions of the oath 10 The servants journey 12 his prayer 14 his signe 15 Rebekah meeteth him 18 fulfilleth his signe 22 receiveth jewels 23 sheweth her kinred 25 and inviteth him home 26 The servant blesseth God 28 Laban entertaineth him 34 The servant sheweth his message and what had befalne him by the way 50 Laban and Bethuel acknowledge Gods worke and grant Rebekah for a wife unto Isaak 58 Rebekah also consenteth to goe 62 Isaak walking out to meditate in the field meeteth her 67 She is brought into Sarahs tent and becommeth Isaaks beloved wife ANd Abraham was old was come into dayes and Iehovah had blessed Abraham in all things And Abraham said unto his servant the eldest of his house that ruled over all that he had put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh And I will make thee swear by Iehovah God of the heavens and God of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanite among whom I dwell But thou shalt goe unto my land and unto my kinred and shalt take a wife unto my son Isaak And the servant said unto him If so be the woman will not be willing to goe after me unto this land shal I returning return thy son unto the land from whence thou camest-out And Abraham said unto him Beware thou least thou returne my son thither Iehovah God of the heavens which tooke mee from my fathers house and from the land of my kinred and which spake unto me and which sware unto mee saying unto thy seed will I give this land he will send his Angell before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence And if the woman will not be willing to go after thee then shalt thou be cleare from this my oath only thou shalt not returne my son thither And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord and sware to him concerning this matter And the servant tooke ten camels of the camels of his lord went and all the goods of his lord in his hand and he arose went to Mesopotamia unto the city of Nachor And hee made the camels to kneele downe without the Citie by a well of water at the time of the evening at the time that women which draw water goe forth And he said Iehovah God of my lord Abraham I pray thee bring it-to-passe before mee this day and doe mercy unto my lord Abraham Behold I stand by the well of water and the daughters of the men of the citie come-out to draw water And let it be that the damsel to whom I shall say bow downe I pray thee thy pitcher and let me drinke and shee shall say drinke thou and I will give thy camels drinke also be the same thou hast evidently-appointed for thy servant Isaak and therby shall I know that thou hast done mercy unto my lord And it was before he had made an end of speaking that behold Rebekah came-out who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah the wife of Nachor Abrahams brother and her pitcher upon her shoulder And the damsell was of a very good countenance a virgin neither had any-man knowne her and shee went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came-up And the seruant ran to meet her and he said let me drinke I pray thee a little water out of thy pitcher And she said drinke my lord and she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand and gave him drinke And she made-an-end of giving him drinke and said I will draw for thy camels also untill they have made-an-end of drinking And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran againe unto the well to draw and drew for all his camels And the man wondring at her held his peace to know whether Iehovah had prospered his way or not And it was when the camels had made-an-end of drinking that the man tooke an earering of gold half a shekel was the weight therof two bracelets for her hands ten shekels of gold was the weight of them And he said whose daughter art thou tel me I pray thee is there in thy fathers house place for us to lodge And she said unto him I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah whom she bare unto Nachor And she said unto him with us is both straw and provender enough place also to lodge And the man bended-down-the-head and bowed-himselfe unto Iehovah And hee said Blessed be Iehovah God of my lord Abraham who hath not left off his mercy and his truth from with my lord I being in the way Iehovah led me to the house of the brethren of my lord And the damsell ran and told her mothers house according to these words And Rebekah had a brother and his name was Laban and Laban ranne unto the man without unto the well And it was when he saw the earering and the bracelets upon his sisters hands and when hee heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying thus spake the man unto mee that hee came unto the man and behold hee was standing by the camels at the well And hee sayd Come in thou the blessed of Iehovah wherefore standest thou without and I have prepared the house and place for the camels And the man came into the house and hee ungirded the camels and he gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him And there was set meat before him to eat and he said I
of Rebekah as the Scripture sheweth Nurses to have 1 Thes. 2. 7. Num. 11. 12. Vers. 60. unto thousand that is a mother of innumerable people The Chaldee translateth thousands and ten thousands whereby an infinite number is meant as in Dan. 7. 10. the gate that is as the Greeke and Chaldee translateth the cities and by possessing or inheriting is meant dominion over them Lev. 25. 46. See in Gen. 22. 17. them or it that is the seed see Gen. 22. 17. Vers. 61. after the Greeke translateth with the man So in 1 Cor. 10. 4. the rocke that followed them is in the Syriack and Arabick versions turned the rocke that went with them Thus Rebekah left her friends and fathers house to goe unto Isaak her husband so the Spouse of Christ is exhorted to forget her people and her fathers house Psal. 45. 11. Vers. 62. from the way Hebr. from the comming or from comming that is from walking The Greeke translateth Isaak walked through the wildernesse Beer lachai roi that is the well of him that liveth that seeth me whereof see Gen. 16. 14. The Greek saith by the well of vision the Chaldee from the well whereat the Angell of life appeared But the Ierusalemy paraphrase saith And Isaak went from the schoole-house of Sem the great to the well whereat the majesty of the Lord had beene revealed Though this exposition be uncertaine yet it is certaine Sem was now alive by comparing his life time Gen. 14. 18. Where Melchisedek is counted by the Iewes Sem the great who might well be master of a schoole of the Prophets south country or land of the south the south part of Canaan see Gen. 12. 9. Vers. 63. to mediate or to pray as the Chaldee translateth but the Greeke saith to exercise him-selfe which comprehendeth both meditation and prayer as the Hebrew also doth Psal. 77. 4. 7. 13. and 119. 15. and 102. 1. the looking forth or turning towards that is when it was towards evening before Sunne setting as on the contrary the looking forth of the morning Exod. 14. 27. is very early before Sunne rising So in Deut. 23. 11. where this phrase is explained to meane before the Sun be set It seemeth to be at the ninth houre of the day with us the third houre after noone for then they beganne the daily evening service of God and burning of sacrifice and it was called in Israel the houre of prayer Act. 3. 1. Vers. 64. lighted Hebr. fell downe the Greeke hath leaped downe which was to meet him with the more reverence and submission a veyl a signe also of subjection 1 Cor. 11. 5. 6. 10. Vers. 67. the â—â—nt of Sarah which she had peculiar for her owne use see Gen. 23. 2. the Greek translateth it the house or habitation and so the Lords tent is called an house 1 Chron. 9. 23. Compare with this Song 8. 2. where the Church bringeth Christ into her mothers house he tooke by solemnity of mariage this was in the 40 yeere of his life Gen. 25. 20. loved her So ought men to love their wives as their owne bodies likewise hee saith Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church Eph. 5. 28. 25 was dead These words the Chaldee paraphrast addeth and the Hebrew text sometime supplieth such wants as that which thou hast prayed Esay 37. 21. for I have heard that which thou hast prayed 2 King 19. 20. The Greeke translateth he was comforted concerning Sarrha his mother She died three yeeres before his mariage Hereupon the Hebrew Doctors say Isaak mourned for his mother Sarah three yeeres after three yeeres he tooke Rebekah and forgat the mourning for his mother from whence thou maist learne that whiles a man takes not a wife his love goeth after his parents when hee takes a wife his love goeth after his wife as it is said in Gen. 2. 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and he shall cleave to his wife Pirkei R. Eliezer ch 32. CHAP. XXV 1 Abraham taking Keturah to wife hath by her many sonnes and nephewes 5 The division of his goods 7 His age and death 9 His buriall 11 Isaak blessed after his father's death 12 The generations of Ismael 17 his age and death 19 Isaak prayeth for Rebekah being barren 22 She conceiving the children strive in her wombe 24 The birth of Esau and Iakob 27 Their different state 29 Esau selleth his birthright to Iakob for a messe of pottage ANd Abraham added and tooke a wife and her name was Keturah And she bare to him Zimran and Iokshan and Medan and Midjan and lishbak and Shuach And Iokshan begat Sheba and Dedan and the sonnes of Dedan were Asshurim and Lerushim and Leummim And the sonnes of Midâ—an Ephah and Epher and Epoch and Abida and Eld 〈…〉 all these were the sonnes of Keturah And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaak And to the sonnes of the concubines which Abraham had Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from 〈…〉 aak his sonne while hee yet lived eastward unto the east country And these are the dayes of the yeeres of the life of Abraham which he lived hundred yeeres and seventy yeeres and five yeeres And Abraham gave-up the ghost and dyed in a good hoary age an old-man and full of 〈…〉 and hee was gathered unto his peoples And Isaak and Ismael his sonnes buried him in the cave of Macpelah in the field of Ephron the sonne of Zohar the Chethite which is before Mamree The field which Abraham purchased of the sonnes of Cheth there was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife And it was after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaak his sonne and Isaak dwelt by Beer-lachai-roi And these are the generations of Ismael Abrahams son whom Hagar the Aegyptian Sarahs hand maid bare unto Abraham And these are the names of the sonnes of Ismael by their names according to their generations the first-borne of Ismael Nebajoth and Kedar Adbeel and Mibsam And Mishma and Dumah and Massa. Hadar and Tema Ietur Naphish and Kedmah These are the sonnes of Ismael and these are their names by their townes and by their castles twelve Princes according to their nations And these are the yeeres of the life of Ismael a hundred yeeres and thirty yeeres and seven yeeres and he gave-up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his peoples And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur which is before Aegypt as thou goest to Assiria before the faces of all his brethren did hee fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And these are the generations of Isaak the sonne of Abraham Abraham begat Isaak And Isaak was fourtie yeeres old when hee tooke Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram the sister of Laban the Syrian unto him to wife And Isaak intreated Iehovah for his wife because shee was barren and Iehovah was intreated of him and Rebekah his wife conceived And the sonnes strougled-together within her and
countenance And it was when the dayes had been prolonged by him there that Abimelech King of the Philistims looked out through a window and saw and behold Isaak was sporting with Rebekah his wife And Abimelech called Isaak and said Behold surely she is thy wife and how saydest thou she is my sister And Isaak said unto him Because I said lest I dye for her And Abimelech said what is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lyen with thy wife and thou shouldest have brought upon us guiltinesse And Abimelech commanded all the people saying he that toucheth this man or his wife dying he shall be put to death And Isaak sowed in that land and found in that yeere an hundred measures and Iehovah blessed him And the man waxed-great and went going-on and waxing-great untill hee was waxed-great exceedingly And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and much husbandry and the Philistims envied him And all the wells which his fathers servants had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father the Philistims stopped them and filled them with dust And Abimelech said unto Isaak Goe from us for thou art very-much mightier then we And Isaak went from thence and pitched in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there And Isaak returned and digged the wels of water which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father and the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham and hee called their names according to the names that his father had called them And Isaaks servants digged in the valley and found there a well of living waters And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with the herdmen of Isaak saying The water is ours and he called the name of the well Esek because they contended with him And they digged another well and they strove also for it and hee called the name of it Sitnah And hee removed from thence and digged another well and they strove not for it and he called the name of it Rechoboth and hee said for now Iehovah hath made-roome for us and we shall be fruitfull in the land And he went-up from thence to Beersheba And Iehovah appeared unto him the same night and sayd I am the God of Abraham thy father feare not for I am with thee and will blesse thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abrahams sake And hee builded there an altar and called on the name of Iehovah and stretched-out there his tent and there Isaaks servants digged a well And Abimelech went unto him from Gerar and Achuzzath his friend and Phicol the Prince of his army And Isaak sayd unto them wherefore come ye unto me and ye hate me and have sent me away from you And they said Seeing we have seen that Iehovah is with thee and we said Let there now be an oath-of-execration betwixt us betwixt us and thee and let us strike a covenant with thee If thou shalt doe unto vs evill as we have not touched thee and as we have done unto thee but-onely good and have sent thee away in peace thou now the blessed of Iehovah And he made unto them a banquet and they did eate and drinke And they rose early in the morning and sware ech-man to his brother and Isaak sent them away and they went from him in peace And it was the same day that Isaaks servants came and shewed unto him concerning the well which they had digged they said unto him we have found water And he called it Shibeah therfore the name of the Citie is Beer-sheba unto this day And Esau was fourty yeeres old and he tooke a wife Iudith the daughter of Beeri a Chethite and Basemath the daughter of Elon a Chethite And they were a bitternesse of spirit to Isaak and to Rebekah Annotations FIrst famine whereof see Gen. 12. 10. Abimelech of whom see Gen. 20. 1. 2. c. which history is to be compared with this Vers. 2. Aegypt as Abraham did Gen. 12. 10. and whither it seemeth Isaak was purposing to go Vers. 3. this land of Canaan the land of promise and figure of the place of heavenly rest see the notes on Gen. 12. 5. So by David hee exhorteth Dwell in the land and feed on faith Psalm 37. 3. See Gen. 37. 1. I will be the Chaldee expoundeth it my word shall be an helpe unto thee so in vers 24. and 28. these lands or countries possessed by so many nations Gen. 15. 19. 20. 21. so Psalm 105. 44. The Greeke translateth singularly land and so was the promise made to Abraham Gen. 13. 15. and 15. 18. and 17. 8. see the notes there stablish the oath that is performe the promises sworne Gen. 22. 16. 17. Vers. 4. starres that is innumerable see Genes 15. 5. seed meaning Christ Gal. 3. 16. 8. blesse themselves or as the Greeke translateth shall be blessed see Gen. 22. 18. Vers. 5. charge Hebr. keeping or observation that is ordinances to be kept So in Lev. 8. 35. and 22. 9. Deut. 11. 1. lawes for this word elsewhere the Scripture saith judgements Deut. 11. 1. and 5. 1. 31. and 6. 1. 20. and 7. 11. and 8. 11. c. and under these three particulars the whole charge or custody forespoken of is comprehended as afterward by Moses God gave the ten commandements or morall precepts Exod. 20. Iudgements or judiciall lawes for punishing transgressors Exod. 21. c. and Statutes or rules ordinances and decrees for the service of God Lev. 3. 17. and 6. 18. 22. Exod. 12. 24. 27. 31. 29. 9. 30. 21. Al which Abraham observed and is commended of God therefore Vers. 7. my sister He imitateth his father Abrahams practice Gen. 12. 11. 12. 13. and 20. 2. kill me Moses expresseth this as Isaaks owne words of himselfe The Greeke translateth it should kill him so elsewhere that version changeth the person for more easie order of speech and understanding to the reader See Psal. 144. 12. good countenance elsewhere it is faire of countenance or visage Gen. 12. 11. so the Greek turneth it here and before good is used for faire or goodly Gen. 24. 16. V. 8. by him or to him that is when he had beene a long time there sporting or laughing playing rejoycing it is the word whereof Isaak himselfe had his name Gen. 17. 17. 19. and 21. 6. Solomon saith Rejoyce with the wife of thy youth c. Prov. 5. 18. 19 Vers. 10. might lightly or had almost lyen guiltinesse a sinne making us guiltie of punishment a shamefull crime named in Hebrew Asham the Greeke translateth it Ignorance and so Paul calleth the sinnes of the people Ignorances or ignorant trespasses Heb. 9. 7. rightly so gathered from Levit. 4. 22. See the further explication of this word there Abimelech by this word Asham meaneth both the sin and the punishment for the same as in the law Asham is both the Guilty-sin and the Sacrifice for the same Lev. 5. 5. 6.
appeare in these sons of Israel yet God in mercy pardoned them and hath honoured them in the scriptures with great dignities that their names should bee graven on twelve precious stones and caried upon the hie priests heart Exod. 28. 21. 29. and that the gates of the heavenly Ierusalē should be after the names of these twelve sons of Israel Ezek. 48. 31. Rev. 21. 12. And their number as it was answerable to the twelve Princes that came of Ismael Gen. 25. 16. so is it remembred by the twelve Apostles of Christ Luk. 6. 13. Rev. 21. 14. And although of Ioseph there came two tribes Gen. 48. 5. 6. so that after a sort there were thirteene yet the scripture in naming or rehearsing them usually setteth downe but twelve omitting the name now of one then of another as may in sunday places bee observed Deut. 33. Ezek. 48. Rev. 7. c. V. 23. Issachar of the naming and interpretation of these see the notes on Gen. 29. and 30. Here is to be observed how Issachar Zabulon are set next after Iudah though Dan Naphtali Gad Aser were borne between them Gen. 29. 35. and 30. 6. 8. 11. 13. 18. because all the sonnes of one mother should be set together so they are placed also in Gen. 46. 8. 14. 15. and 49. 3. 14. where Zabulon is before Issachar and Exod. 1. 2. 3. Numb 1. 5. 9. 26. 28. 1 Chron. 2. 1. And in this order were they graven and set on the stones upon Aarons Ephod see Exod. 28 10 21. in the annotations V. 26. were borne so the Gr. expresseth it the Hebrew being singular was borne So in Gen. 46. 22. Padan Aram or Mesopotamia see Gen. 25. 20. But here except Benjamin for he was borne in Canaan ver 18. Iakobs sons though borne out of the land yet come thereinto it being promised them of God Gen. 28. 13. when Esaus sons borne in the land do goe out and give place Gen. 36. 5. 6. Ver. 27. Mamre see Gen. 13. 18. and 23. 2. the Greeke addeth he being yet alive to Mambre V. 29. his peoples his godly forefathers see Gen. 25. 8. buried him so Isaak and Ismael buried Abraham Gen. 25. 9. Esau Iakob were now 120 yeeres old Gen. 25. 26. the world was 2288. yeere old And Isaak had lived blind above 40. yeeres before his death Gen. 27. 1. Which death is here mentioned to make an end of Iakobs history for otherwise the things following in Gen. 37. 38. about Ioseph Iudah fell out before Isaak dyed CHAP. XXXVI 1 The generations of Esau by his three wives 6 His removing to mount Seir. 10 The names of his sonnes 15 The Dukes which descended of his sons 20 The sons and Dukes of Seir. 24 Anah findeth mules 31 The Kings of Edom. 40 The Dukes that descended of Esau. ANd these are the generations of Esau he is Edom. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan Adah the daughter of Elon the Chethite and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeō the Evite And Basemath the daughter of Ismael the sister of Nebaioth And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz and Basemath bare Reuel And Aholibamah bare Ieush and Iaalam and Korah these were the sonnes of Esau which were borne unto him in the land of Canaan And Esau tooke his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the soules of his house and his cattell and all his beasts and all his substance which he had gathered in the land of Canaan and went unto a land from the face of Iakob his brother For their substance was more then that they might dwell together the land of their sojournings was not able to beare them because of their cattel And Esau dwelt in the mount of Seir Esau he is Edom. And these are the generations of Esau the father of Edom in the mount of Seir. These are the names of the sons of Esau Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. And the sonnes of Eliphaz were Teman Omar Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esaus son and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek these were the sons of Adah the wife of Esau And these were the sons of Reuel Nachath and Zerah Shammah and Mizzah these were the sons of Basemath the wife of Esau. And these were the sons of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the wife of Esau and she bare to Esau Ieush and Iaalam Korah These were Dukes of the sons of Esau the sons of Eliphaz the first-borne of Esau duke Teman duke Omar duke Zepho duke Kenaz Duke Korah duke Gatam duke Amalek these were the dukes of Eliphaz in the land of Edom these were the sons of Adah And these were the sons of Reuel the son of Esau duke Nachath duke Zerah duke Shammah duke Mizzah these were the duks of Reuel in the land of Edom these were the sonnes of Basemath the wife of Esau. And these were the sons of Aholibamah the wife of Esau duke Ieush duke Iaalam duke Korah these were the dukes of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the wife of Esau. These were the sons of Esau and these the dukes of them he is Edom. These were the sons of Seir the Chorite the inhabitants of the land Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah And Dishon Ezer and Dishan these were the dukes of the Chorites the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. And the sons of Loton were Chori and Hemam the sister of Lotan was Timna And these were the sons of Shobal Alvan and Manachath and Ebal Shepho and Onam And these were the sons of Zibeon both Ajah and Anah this Anah was he that found the mules in the wildernesse when he fed the asses of Zibeon his father And these were the sons of Anah Dishon and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah And these were the sons of Dishan Chemdan and Eshban and Iethran and Ceran These were the sons of Ezer Bilhan Zaavan and Akan These were the sons of Dishan Vz Aran. These were the dukes of the Chorites duke Lotan duke Shobal duke Zibeon duke Anah Duke Dishon duke Ezer duke Dishan these were the dukes of the Chorites according to their dukes in the land of Seir. And these were the Kings which reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any King of the sons of Israel And there reigned in Edom Bela the son of Beor and the name of his citie was Dinhabah And Bela dyed and there reigned in his sted Iobab the son of Zerach of Bozrah And Iobab dyed and there reigned in his stead Chusham of the land of Temani And Chusham dyed and there reigned in his stead Hadad the son of Bedad who smote Midian in the field of Moab and the name of his citie was Avith And Hadap dyed and there reigned in his stead Samlah of Masrekah And Samlah dyed and
anguish of his soule besought his brethren for favour but they would not heare him Genes 42. 21. Vers. 24. no water into such a dungeon was Ieremie put Ier. 38. 6. and out of such a pit in figure God delivereth his people as Zacharie 9. 11. I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water Vers. 25. eate bread so doe the wicked eating Gods people Psal. 14. 4. This sheweth they wanted remorse or sought at least to put it away with banqueting as eating of bread sometime signifieth Exod. 18. 12. See also Gen. 25. 34. way-faring-company of Ism. the Greeke translateth wayfaring Ismaelites and the Chaldee calleth them a troupe of Arabians After in verse 28. they are called Madianites and in verse 36. Medanites so they were a mixt people dwelling in that country called therefore by the Chaldee Arabians which signifieth Mixed people see Gen. 10. 7. Gilead which was a place of merchandise as appeareth also in Ier. 8. 22. and 22. 6. and 46. 11. spicerie in Hebrew Necoth which is thought to be a certaine fruit of some waxe baum or rosin as the Greeke translateth it a thing good to heale wounds Ier. 8. 22. and 46. 11. and 51. 8. myrrh or Ladanum which is a sat moisture on the herb Ladum or the fruit of the Lot tree according to the Hebrew name Lot So Gen. 43. 11. Or according to the Greeke Stacte commonly called Storax liquida which is made of the fatte of new myrrh as Dioscorides saith in b. 1. c. 62. V. 26. conceale or cover hide his blood Iob 16. 18. Vers. 27. hearkened or heard and so consented and obeyed Vers. 28. Midianites children of Midian Abrahams sonne by Keturah Genes 25. 2. who dwelt in the Ismaelites country which also were Abrahams children by Hagar Gen. 16. 15. therefore they are here called by both names So in Iudg. 8. 22. 24. 26. It may also bee translated thus And the men the Midianite merchants passed by shekels or shillings this word the Chaldee expresseth which wanteth in the Hebrew What a shekel was see noted on Genes 20. 16. Christs price was a little more whom Iudas Iscariot sold for 30. shekels Mat. 27. 3. yet that was but the price of a slaves life Exod. 21. 32. here Ioseph is by the counsell of his brother Iudas the Patriarch sold for a slave Psal. 105. 17. for twenty shekels After by the law mens persons of Iosephs age were in case of vowes valued at twenty shekels Levit 27 5. but those were shekels of the sanctuary double the value of common shekels The Hebrew Doctors referre unto this that threatning against Israel because they sold the just one for silver and the poore for a paire of shooes Amos 2. 6. and they feigne that of the 20. shekels every of the tenne Patriarchs had two shekels to buy shooes for their feet Pirkei R. Eliez ch 38. Vers. 29. rent his clothes a signe of sorrow and renting of the hart with griefe Ioel 2. 13. So Iakob did v. 34 others Iob 2. 12. Gen. 44. 13. Num. 14. 6 Vers. 30. is not to weet alive so hee thought and so the phrase signifieth Ier. 31. 15. for he supposed his brethren had killed him as verse 20. Vers. 31. a kid or goat-bucke By this pollicie Iakob should suppose his sonne was dead and and make no further inquirie after him Vers. 33. is torne is torne or tearing is torne that is surely torne the Chaldee saith killed This is added to all Iakobs former sorrowes and one of the most grievous for which he admitted no comfort verse 35. Isaak also was yet alive and a partaker of his son Iakobs griefe See the notes on Gen. 35. 29. Vers. 34. sackcloth another signe of sorrow with which they sometime added earth or ashes upon their heads 2. Sam. 3. 31. 1 King 21. 27. Nehem. 9. 1. Est. 4. 1. Vers. 35. all his sonnes the evill doers counterfeit sorrow and conceale their cruell fact Reuben himselfe also keepeth counsell The Rabbines say they had bound themselves by a curse not to bewray it R. Eiezer per. 38. to hell or to the grave the word meaneth not the grave digged or made with hands named in Hebrew Keber but the common place or state of death here called in Hebrew Sheol which hath the signification of craving or requiring because it is one of the foure things that are never satisfied Prov. 30. 15. 16. The Greeke and new Testament usually translate it Hades or Haides which word is by change of letters formed of the Hebrew Adam and Adamah the earth unto which for sinne God hath condemned Adam and all his race to returne Gen. 3. 19. For so in the first booke of the ancient Greeke oracles of Sibylla it is said they call it Haden for that Adam first went thither when he tasted death As Abram is in Greek Habram Gen. 12. 1. and Habraam Luk. 3. 34. and Mizraim in Greeke is Misrain Gen. 10. 6. Hemam is Haiman Gen. 36. 22. so of Adam they formed Haiden and after the Greeke termination Haides or Hades such changes of letters are usuall The Chaldee paraphrase when it keepeth not the Hebrew word most commonly translateth it the house of the grave or place of buriall Our English commeth from the old Saxon or German word Helle in which tongues originally Hel signifieth High and Deepe Leh is low and so it meaneth a low or deepe place and agreeth with the Hebrew Sheol which is said to be Low and Deepe Deut. 32. 22. Iob 11. 8. And as death is appointed for all men so is this Sheol Psal 89. 49. Eccles. 9. 10. as death is sometime desired of the godly so Iob desired to be hid in Sheol Iob 14. 13. By this Hell therefore in Scripture is not meant the place of the damned onely but of all that goe out of this world as Sibylla in the fore-named place saith all earthly men are said to goe into the houses of Haides And as for the wicked they have a prison 1 Pet. 3. 19. and place of torments in hell Luk. 16. 23. which the Scripture calleth everlasting fire Mat. 25. 41. and by another Hebrew name Gehenna whereof see Mat. 5. 22. the Greekes called that place Tartaros Homer Iliad 8. unto which word the Apostle hath reference in 2 Pet. 2. 4. Tartarosas He cast them downe to Hell or into Tartarus So on the contrary Heaven is not onely the place of the Angels and holy men but generally all above us as the aire sphears c. where the fowles flye and the sunne and stars runne their courses as is shewed on Gen 1. 7. And the place of joyes in heaven is called the garden of Eden or Paradise Luk. 23. 43. to which the heathens alluded by the garden of Alcinous Homer Odyss 7. Iakob therefore by going downe to hell meaneth a departing out of this life into the common place and state of death whither all must goe So after in
the Israelites by miracles wonders and signes which God did by him in the middest of them Act. 2. 22. Heb. 2. 4. in whom God was reconciling the world unto himselfe 2 Cor. 5. 19. whoÌ„ God buried not as he did Moses but raised him froÌ„ the dead that he saw no corruption Of him Moses wrote and to him give all the Prophets witnesse that through his name whosoever beleeveth in him shal receive remission of sins Act. 10. 40. 43. And by him all that beleeve are justified from all things from which we could not be justified by the law of Moses Act. 13. 39. This is the true God eternall life 1 Ioh. 5. 20. To him be honour and glory and praise throughout all generations and let all the earth be filled with his glory Amen and Amen A TABLE OF SOME PRINCIPALL THINGS OBSERVED IN THE ANNOTATIONS ON THE FIVE BOOKES OF MOSES A AAron and his sonnes made Priests Exod. 28. their first offerings Lev. 9. Aarons death Num. 21. 24. 28. Abib the moneth which we call March Exod. 13. 4. and 23. 15. Deut. 16. 1. Abrahams name interpreted Gen. 17. 5. Accepting the face what it is Gen. 19. 21. Adultery punished with death Lev. 20. 10. Deut. 22. 22. Afflicting of the soule by fasting c. commanded unto all Israel one day in the yeere Lev. 16. 29. It was to be from evening to evening Lev. 23. 32. All or every for all sorts Exod. 9. 6 25. Almighty or All-sufficient Shaddai Gods name Gen. 17. 1. Altar Gen. 8. 20. Altar of incense Exod. 30. 1. c. called the Altar of gold Exod. 40. 26. Altar of Burnt-offering or Brazen Altar Exod. 27. 1 c. and 40. 29. The Princes Offrings at the dedication of the Altar Num. 7. Amalek Gen. 36. 12. His destruction commanded Exod. 17. 16. Deut. 25. 19. Amen what it signifieth Num. 5. 22. Amids for within Gen. 2. 9. Ammonites Gen. 19. 38. Israel might not fight with them Deut. 2. 19. Amorites used for all heathens in Canaan Gen. 48. 22. And for but Gen. 2. 17. for that Gen. 12. 12. and 27. 4. Exod. 8. 29. for for Gen. 12. 19. Exod. 15. 2. for or Gen. 13. 8. and 19. 12. for then Gen. 3. 5. for that is Gen. 13. 15. or namely 1 Chron. 1. 36. for a passion of the minde Gen. 27. 28. And for both or superfluous Gen. 36. 24. and 40. 9. and 8. 6. for who which c. Gen. 49. 25. or that which Deut. 32. 1. for therefore Gen. 31. 44. for if or and if Gen. 18. 30. Exod. 4. 23. Levit. 26. 40. Angell what it signifieth Genes 16. 7. and 32. 1. Christ called an Angell Gen. 26. 24. and 48. 16. Exo. 3 2. and 14. 19. and 23. 20. The heathens opinion of Angels Gen. 32. 1. Anointing what it signified Exod. 29. 7. and 30. 26. The Anointing oile described Exod. 30. â—3 c. who were anointed therewith Ex. 30. 33. Answering what it is from God Gen. 36. 3. Appearing before God with three things Exod. 23. 15. Arke Teba Gen. 6. 14. Arke Aron Exod. 25. 10. Arabia whereof it was named Gen. 10. 7. Aram called Syria Gen. 24. 10. and 25. 20. Armies or hosts of Israel Exod. 6. 26. Arrowes for plagues Deut. 32. 23. Asses of what use Gen. 49. 11. Assembly or Church for multitude Gen. 28. 3. Ascending for burning Exod. 27. 20. Assured saying Gen. 22. 16. Atonement Exod. 29. 36. Lev. 1. 4. Atonement day with the Law for making reconciliation for the Church once in the yeere Levit. 16. Avenging and bearing grude forbidden Levit. 19. 18. B BAal-peor the Idoll wherewith Israel joyned Num. 25. Babylon Gen. 10. 10. and 11. 9. Back-parts of God what they meane Ex. 33. 23. Balaam and Balak with their storie Numb 23. c. Balaams prophesies Num. 24. his death Num. 31. 8. Baldnesse made for sorrow for the dead forbidden Lev. 21. 5. Banquet named of drinking Gen. 19. 3. Battlements to be made on houses Deut. 22. 8. Beersheba The Well of the oath Gen. 21. 31. and 26. 33. Before one i. exposed to him Gen. 13. 9. and 20. 15. and 34. 10. Begin how it is used for the doing of any thing Gen. 9. 20. Bekah an halfe shekell Exod. 38. 26. Belial what it signifieth Deut. 13. 13. Bels on the High Priests garments Ex. 28. 34 35. Beleefe or faith what it meaneth Gen. 15. 6. Exod. 17. 12. Bending the head what it meaneth Exod. 4. 31. Benjamin Benoni Gen. 35. 18. set before the children of the bond-woman Exod. 1. 3. Shoulders of Benjamin what they meane Deut. 33. 12. Bethel a Citie Gen. 12. 8. and 28. 19. Bethlehem Gen. 35. 16 19. Betrothing of a wife the manner of it among the Iewes Deut. 22. 23. The punishment for lying with a betrothed woman Deut. 22. 24 c. Binding a Chariot for making ready Gen. 46. 29. Bishops where of named Num. 3. 32. Biting usurie forbidden but allowed upon strangers Exod. 22. 25. Deut. 23. 19 20. Blasphemers to be put to death Lev. 24. 16. Blemishes might not be in any sacrifice Lev. 1. c. Deut. 17. 1. Blesse what it meaneth Gen. 1. 22. and 2. 3. and 12. 2. and 14. 19 20. and 27. 4. Blessing for gift 33. 11. for salvation Gen. 47. 7. Blessings for them that keepe Gods commandements and curses for the transgressors Lev. 26. Deut. 28. The Priests blessing of Israel Numb 6. 23 c. Blessing God for meat drinke c. Deut. 8. 10. Blessings and Curses where to be pronounced Deut. 27. Moses Blessings of the tribes Deu. 33. Blew what colour it was Exod. 25. 4. Bloud for life Gen. 9. 4. Blouds for murther Gen. 4. 10. Bloud of the sacrifice put on the Priests eare thumbe and toe Exod. 29. 20. Bloud of fowles and beasts might not be eaten Lev. 7. 26. 17. 10 11 12. Bloud of wilde beasts and fowles must be covered with dust Lev. 17. 13. Booke of God or of life Exod. 32. 32. The feast of Boothes or Tabernacles Lev. 23. 34. Borrowing and lawes concerning it Ex. 22. 14 15. Bowing downe for worship Gen. 22. 5. Ex. 4. 31. Brasse what it signifieth Exod. 27. 2. Bread for all food Gen. 3. 19. and 21. 14. 31. 54. Breath Neshamah what Gen. 2. 7. Brestplate of the high Priest Exod. 28. 15. Bribes forbidden Exod. 23. 8. Bringing neere and offering used for the same Lev. 1. 2. Brother for kinsman Gen. 13. 8. for the same humane nature Gen. 19. 7. Building how used Gen. 2. 22. Building for having children Gen. 16. 2. and 30. 3. Bullocke of the second yeere as a Calfe of the first Exod. 29. 1. Burnt-offering Gen. 8. 20. The Law concerning it whether it were of the herd flocke or fowles with the signification Lev. 1. and 6. 9 c. Butter what it signified Deut. 32. 14. C A Cake of the first of the dough to be given to the Lord Num. 15. 20. Calfe of the first yeere
that is Contention where they strove with the Lord Numb 20. 13. See Psal. 95. 8. evill was Gods displeasure towards Moses who uttering his anger was for it deprived of comming into the land of Canaan Num. 20. 12. Deut. 3. 25 26. Vers. 34. the peoples the heathens in Canaan as is noted Iud. 1. 21. 27 29 30 31 33. though God commanded them Exod. 23. 32 33. Vers. 36. idols or images named in Hebrew of the curious labour spent in framing and serving them Ier. 10. 9. Isa. 44 9 12 13 15. or of sorrowes that they bring to such as worship them Psal. 16. 4. sometime they are called gods 2 Sam. 5. 21. compared with 1 Chro. 14. 12. a snare a scandall as the Greeke saith whereby they fell into miseries Iudg. 2. 12 13 14 15. Exod. 23. 33. Vers. 37. devils the Idols forementioned whereby deuils are worshipped and not God as 1 Cor. 10. 19 20. Rev. 9. 20. 2 Chron. 11. 15. Deut. 32. 17. Lev. 17. 7. Devils here are called Shedim Wasters in opposition to Shaddas God Almighty Psal. 68. 15. Vers. 38. with blouds that is with bloud-shed as the Chaldee expounds it with finnes of murder Vers. 39. whored committed spirituall whordome that is idolatry see Psal. 73. 27. Iudg. 2. 17. Ezek. 23. 7 37. Vers. 42. their haters the heathens round about as was prophesied Levit. 26. 17. and fulfilled Iudg. 3. 8 14. and 4. 2. and 6. 1. and 10. 7 8 9. and 13. 1. Vers. 43. Many times by Ehud Barak Gedeon Iephtah Samson c. Iud. 3. and 4. and 7. and 11. and 15. Nehem. 9. 28 30. by their counsell that is purposely and advisedly as 1 Chronicles 12. 19. Vers. 46. gave them that is procured mercy or favour towards them Vers. 47. from the heathens among whom divers Israelites were scattered by reason of their often troubles at home So 1 Chron. 16. 35 36. to glory that we may glory or commend our selves The fifth Booke PSAL. CVII The Psalmist exhorteth the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence 4 over travellers 10 over captives 17 over sicke men 23 over sea men 33 and in divers varieties of life COnfesse ye to Iehovah for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Let the redeemed of Iehovah say it whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the distresser And gathered them out of the lands from East and from West from North and from the sea They wandred in the wildernesse in the desart without way they found not a dwelling Citie Hungry and also thirstie their soule was overwhelmed in them And they cried unto Iehovah in their distresse he rid them free out of their anguishes And he led them in a right way for to come unto a dwelling Citie Let them confesse to Iehovah his mercie and his marvellous works to the sonnes of Adam For he hath satisfied the thirsty soule and filled the hungry soule with good They that sit in darknesse and the shadow of death bound in affliction and iron Because they turned rebellious against the Words of God and despised the counsell of the most high And hee humbled their heart with molestation they stumbled down and there was no helper And they cried unto Iehovah in their distresse he saved them out of their anguishes Hee brought them forth from darknesse and shadow of death and brake their bands Let them confesse to Iehovah his mercy and his marvellous works to the sonnes of Adam For he hath broken the doores of brasse and hewed asunder the barres of iron Fooles for the way of their trespasse and for their iniquities are afflicted Their soule abhorreth all meat and they approach to the gates of death And they cry unto Iehovah in their distresse he saveth them out of their anguishes Hee sendeth his word and healeth them and delivereth from their corruptions Let them confesse to Iehovah his mercy and his marvellous workes to the sons of Adam And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of confession and tell his works with shouting They that goe downe to the sea in ships that doe their labour in the many waters They doe see the workes of Iehovah and his marvellous acts in the deepe For hee saith and raiseth up the stormy wind and it lifteth up the waves thereof They mount up to the Heavens they goe downe to the deeps their soule in evill melteth away They reele and stagger like a drunken man and all their wisdome is swallowed up And they cry unto Iehovah in their distresse and he bringeth them out from their anguishes He setteth the storme to a silent calme and the waves thereof are quiet And they rejoyce because they are stilled and hee leads them unto the haven of their desire Let them confesse to Iehovah his mercy and his marvellous workes to the sonnes of Adam And let them exalt him in the Church of the people and praise him in the sitting of the Elders He putteth rivers to a wildernesse and issues of waters to a thirstinesse A land of fruit to saltnesse for the evill of them that dwell therin He putteth the wildernesse to a poole of waters and the land of drought to issues of waters And seateth there the hungry and they firmely prepare a dwelling Citie And sow the fields and plant Vineyards and they yeeld fruitfull revenue And hee blesseth them and they are multiplied greatly and their cattle hee diminisheth not And they are diminished and bowed down by restraint evill and sorrow He powreth contempt on bounteous Princes and maketh them erre in deformed wildernesse without way And raiseth up the needy from afflicting poverty and putteth his families as a flocke The righteous shall see and rejoyce and all injurious evill stop her mouth Who is wise and will observe these things and they shall understand the mercies of Iehovah Annotations THe fifth booke see Psal. 42 1. Vers. 2. whom he hath or that he hath redeemed them of the distresser or of distresse Vers. 3. the sea that is the south where the red sea was situate from Iudea as the Chaldee explaineth it the southerne sea for the maine sea was westward Ios. 23. 4. and so is often used for the West Vers. 4. desart way Heb. desart of way meaning where no way was as vers 40. see also Esa. 43. 19. This estate figureth out mens dispersion among the peoples of the world Ezek. 20. 35 36. when men are without the law Rom. 2. 14. dwelling citie Heb. citie of habitation or seating so verse 7 36. that is no harbour or place of refreshing for wilde and venomous beasts onely haunted there Ier. 2. 6. Deut. 8. 15. Compare also Eccles. 10. 15. Gen. 21. 14 15 16. Vers. 5. overwhelmed fainted see Psal. 61. 3. Vers. 7. citie this the Chaldee expoundeth of Ierusalem Vers. 9. with good or good things as the Greeke explaineth it see Psal. 65. 5. Luk. 1. 53. Vers. 10. shadow of death that is terrible darknesse meaning hereby sore afflictions in body