feast of the Passeover Exod. 12. 15 19. or forbear to keep that feast Numb 9. 13. or that eate fat Lev. 7. 25. or blood Lev 7. 27. 17. 10 14. or that eate of the flesh of the peace-offering on the third day Lev. 19. 8. or that eat of the flesh of sacrifice having their uncleannesse on them or being uncleane do not purifie themselves Numb 19. 13 20. or having touched any unclean thing Lev 7. 20 21. 22. 3. or that bring not their sacrifice to the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation to be killed there and not elsewhere Lev 17. 4 9. or that shall not afflict his soule on the fast-day the tenth day of the seventh moneth Lev. 23. 29. or doth any work in that same day or that defileth the Sabbath to do any work therein Exod. 31. 14. or that lieth with a woman in her sicknesse Lev. 20. 18. or with a sister Lev. 20. 17. or an idolater Ezech. 4. 8. or that gives of his seed to Molech Lev. 20. 2 3 4 or that turneth after wizards and such as have familiar spirits â—ev 20. 6. or that doth ought presumptuously Numb 15. 30 31. All these are expressely threatened with and sentenced to this punishment And the meaning of the phrase is most usually taken to signifie a cutting off by death and it is so expressed Exod. 31. 14. Lev 17. 4 20. 2 3 4. 5. And must needs be so understood when it is used against grievous sins and crimes as against idolatry witchcraft incest and sins done presumptuously despising the Word of the Lord and reproaching him This penalty is to be inflicted by the Magistrates power no doubt And in case of his faile God himself threatens and undertakes to do it Lev. 17. 10 20. 2 3 4. 5 6. 23. 30. And for the lesser offences mentioned they being wittingly and wilfully done in Gods Worship and service and against his plaine and peremptory command I see not how they come short of sins of presumption Numb 15. 30. which are doomed to death in the judgement of the learned upon that place I conceive therefore that they fall short that by this penalty here will understand no more but that such an offender is to be cast off and held for no Jew but as an Heathen man And they also that would apply this phrase here and in other places of the Old Testament for the maintenance of Ecclesiastical Excommunication among the Jewes The doubtfulnesse of the meaning of the phrase hath made me the more inquisitive into it I confesse if not too tedious in it However I leave all to better judgements And for my part like not in things dubious to be too definitive V. 15. Sarah Yet in the New Testament it is written Sara without the h the Greek tongue having no h at the end of words V. 16. Nations 1 Pet. 3. 6. Jerusalem which is above her answerable type is the mother of us all Gal. 4. 26. V. 17. Laughed For joy and wonder Rom. 4. 17 18 19 20 21. as over-joyed and amazed at the promise which he believed Heb. 11. 12. rejoycing even at the promised seed Joh. 8. 56. an hundred yeares old Rom. 4. 19 20. he did hope against hope If Abraham married Keturah thirty seven years after this time and had six children by her then surely God shewed his power in renewing Abrahams vigour and strength of body as the Eagles Psal. 103. 5. or it may rather seem that Abraham took Keturah in Sarabs life-life-time within those thirty seven yeares between the birth of Isaac and her death seeing Keturah is called his Concubine 1 Chron. 1. 32. V. 18. Oh that Ishmael Ch. 16. 10. V. 19. Isaac Laughter Chap. 21. 6. V. 21. My Covenant Thirteen times named in this chapter Luke 1. 72 73 74. with Isaac Ch. 21. 12. Rom. 9. 7 8. Gal. 3. 29. at this set time Ch 18. 10. This was just a yeare before Isaacs birth V. 22. Went up Ascending vanished out of his sight so from Jacob ch 35. 13. so from Manoah and his wife Judg. 13. 20. V. 23. In the self-same day Of the command not eight dayes after V. 24. When he was circumcised By whom Abraham was circumcised is not set down But he is said to circumcise the rest v. 23. some say that now the Jewes use Chirurgions in this service CHAP. XVIII Verse 1. PLaines O. Oak-grove of Mamre Ch. 13. 18. 14. 13. 23. 19. V. 2. Three men So in his thought and in appearance But thus he entertained Angels at unawares Heb. 13. 2. But one of them is called Jehova 13 14 17 20 22. And after Abraham so acknowledgeth him v. 25 27. The other two were created Angels Ch 19. 1. V. 3. Lord Speakes to one of them in shew the chief V. 6. Three measures Jewes write that their measure which they call Seah the Greeks Saton containes as much as one hundred fourty foure Hens egges about two gallons and 1 2 of our measure three of these measures make an Ephah containing about seven gallons and 1 2 V. 8. And they did eate Ch. 19. 3. They had true bodies for the time and did truly eate Though a Spirit hath not flesh and bones Luke 24. 39. yet Spirits may and by Gods dispensation sometimes do assume humane bodies V. 9. Where is Sarah thy wife Thus they begin to manifest themselves to be more then men V. 10. He said Jehova v. 13. returne Not by apparition again but by performance of promise ch 21. 1. according to the time of life From this time according as the time of life is between conception and birth so many moneths as a woman goes with childe Rom. 9. 9. This Promise argued more then men V. 11. After the manner of women Rom 4. 19. Heb. 11. 11. V. 12. Laughed Not as Abraham ch 17. 17. but through weaknesse of saith and therefore it is reproved v. 13. yet commended Heb. 11. 11. after sure she did better recollect her self Luk. 1 45. after she laughed for joy ch 21. 6. within her self Not outwardly and openly which haply made her the more readily deny it V. 13. And the Lord said Jehova said Christ so v. 17. He knew her thoughts themselves fâ—ying shall I c She used if not the very same words yet to the same sense V. 15. Denied for she was afraid Weaknesses and failings in Saints V. 16. Toward Sodom As going thither the two Angels did so ch 19. 1. V. 17. Shall I hide Amos 3. 7. Joh. 15. 15. Abraham a Prophet ch 20 7. and a friend 2 Chron. 20. 7. V. 19. He will command Duty of Parents and Masters of families and example to them Gen. 28. 1. Deut 6. 7. 11. 10. 32. 46. Job 1. 5. Prov. 6. 20. V. 20. Sodom and Gomorrah Admah and Zeboim Deut. 29. 23. Hos. 11. 8. V. 21. I will go down and see God speaks after the manner of men as ch 11. 5 7. V. 22. And the men Two of the three
and 29 9. Exod. 2. 16. V. 17. Ran to meet her v. 13. but had removed a little aloof off to give way â—o Rebekah and to mark her V. 22. Took a golden ear-ring To give her as taking or receiving Psal. 68. 19. is expounded giving Eph. 4. 8. He puts the ear-ring upon her face v. 47. after he had asked whose daughter she was Shekel See Annotat. on ch 20. 16. and on ch 23. 15. Half a shekel is called Bekah Ex. 38. 26. V. 26. Worshipped v. 52. ch 22. 5. Exod. 4. 31. This is more then kneeling or bowing of the head This is a prostrating of the whole body a falling down upon the face to the ground Psal. 95. 6. Luke 5. 12. compared with Mat. 8. 2. V. 27. Brethren Kinsfolk v. 48. ch 13. 8. V. 28. Mothers house It seems the custome of those times and places was for the women to dwell in tents and houses apar by themselves v. 67. ch 31. 33. V. 32. And he ungirded i. e. Laban and water to wash Ch. 18. 4. 1 Tim. 5. 10. In those hot countreys men used to go barefoot or with sandals open above V. 33. I will not eate Eph. 6. 5 6 7 8. V. 47. Upon her face Some were worne in the eare some on the forehead which hanged down to the nose Ezech. 16. 12. Esay 3. 21. V. 48. Daughter Grandchilde V. 49. Kindly and truly Mercy and truth joyned ch 47. 29. Josh. 2. 14. Prov. 3. 3. Psal. 85. 10. V. 50. Then Laban and Bethuel The sonne set before the father as having the chief managing of all by reason of his fathers age v. 55. bad or good Nothing at all against it chap. 31. 24 29. V. 51. At the Lord hath spoken As we plainly see by the whole carriage of this businesse v. 15. 2 Sam. 16. 10. V. 57. At her mouth About this motion for her sudden departure V. 59. Her nurse Deborah ch 35. 8. Great is the tendernesse of the affections of nursing fathers and nursing mothers Numb 11. 12 13. 1 Thes. 2. 7. Esay 49 22. 2 Sam. 4. 4. V. 61. And followed the man Psal. 45. 10. V. 62. Lahai-roi Ch 16. 14. 12. 9. 25. 11. in the wildernesse of Beersheba ch 21. 14 33 34. â—e dwelt Not apart from his father but with him That Well was not far from Beersheba where Abraham dwelt ch 21. 14 33 34. V. 63. To meditate Or pray or both so the word signifieth Psal. 77 3 6. 12. 119. 15. V. 65. A Veile A signe of modesty and subjection 1 Cor. 11. 5 6 10. The custome was to bring the spouse veiled to her husband The face was covered sometimes for grief and mourning as in Davids mourning for Absalom Sometimes by others in token of wrath and judgement as when Hamans face was covered Sometimes in way of feare and reverence as Elias covered his face 1 Kings 19. 13. V. 67. Sarahs Tent Women it seems had their tents apart ch 31. 33. And Sarahs Tent and furniture it seems was reserved for Isaacs wife and took Rebekah By solemnity of marriage in the fourtieth yeare of his life ch 25. 20. loved her Eph. 5. 25 28. after his mothers death Three yeares before ch 17. 17. 23. 1. Dear and durable was his affection toward his mother CHAP. XXV Ver. 1. THen again Whether in Sarahs life-life-time cannot certainly be determined The sacred story mentions nothing of Keturab or her children till now after Sarahs death And the words here seem to give it to be after her death And Sarah in her life-time not enduring Hagar and Ishmael would hardly have endured another And Isaac when offered is called his only son And yet on the other side Keturab is called a Concubine implicitely v. 6. and expresly 1 Chron. 1. 32 And though a Coucubine be called a wife yet I finde not that a legitimate wife as she should be after Sarahs death or a second wife is called a Concubine And the words of Abrahams servant seeking a wife for Isaac ch 24. 36. compared with v. 5 6. of this chapter seem to reflect on Keturahs sonnes in Sarahs life-time And which is most of all if Abraham did not take her to wife till after Sarahs death then he must be one hundred thirty eight and likely one hundred and fourty yeares old when he married her and after that begat six sonnes of her whereas the Apostle saith that fourty yeares before that time his body was dead for begetting of children Rom. 4. 19. Gen. 17. 17. 18. 12. If then it were after Sarahs death it must be said that God did renew unto him that masculine strength and vigour of body after fourty yeares by an extraordinary blessing in a marvellous if not miraculous manner and that to make good his Promise of multiplying Abrahams seed ch 17. 5. in others also though principally in Isaac V. 2. Medan Ch. 37. 36. Midian Numb 25. 6 17. Shuah Job 2. 11. V. 3. Sheba Job 1. 15. V. 4. Midian Numb 31. 18. Judg 7. 25. 8. 5. children of Keturah And Grandchildren V. 5. To Isaac As being his only heire and childe of Promise ch 21. 12. a figure of Christ and Christians ch 24. 36. V. 6. Concubines Hagar and Keturah and sent them away from Isaac Because he was to be the heire of Canaaâ— Eastward Arabia Syria Job 1. 3. Job likely came of Keturah Judg. 6. 3. 7. 12. V 7. One hundred seventy five yeares Ch. 15. 15. Heber of whom he was called an Hebrew ch 14. 13. out-living him And Jacob and Esau were then fifteen yeares old v. 26. ch 21. 5. V. 8. Gathered unto his people V. 17. which implies the immortality of the soule and so the phrase of gathering to their fathers Judg. 2. 10. Heb. 12. 23. V. 9. Isaac and Ishmael Ishmael though never received again into Abrahams family yet dwelt not so far off but might heare of his fathers death and come to his burial V. 11. Blessed Isaac Entailed the blessing and Promises made to Abraham on him ch 17. 19. Lahai-roi See ch 24. 62. V. 12. Generations of Ishmael ch 16. 10 12. 17. 20. much exceeded Isaacs 1 Cor. 15. 46. Nebaioth He and his brethren seated in Arabia Esay 21. 13. 60 7. Ezech 27. 21. Jer. 49. 28. V. 15. Tema Job 2. 11. V. 16. Twelve Princes Ch. 17. 20. Like the twelve sonnes of Jacob. V. 18. Havilah Ch. 2. 8. an ample region in Arabia not that Havilah in India Shur Ch. 16. 7 Ex. 15. 22. died in the presence His brethren surviving him ch 16. 12. V. 20. The Syrian So Luke 4. 27. Aramite is translated Syrian by our Saviour Padan-Aram Called Aram-Naharaim ch 24. 10. sometime Padam only ch 48. 7. This is Mesopotamia of Syria distinguished from Aram-Zobah Ps. 60 tit V. 21. Intrcated Often no doubr barren Twenty yeares v. 20 26. many good women in Scripture barren a long time V. 22. Strugled A misery to her and a mystery in her v. 23. if
of birth or Circumcision V. 9. Mocking Laughing to scorne mocking him as their young Master and he that must forsooth be heire of all And likely his mother Hagar had some hand in it as being not free from an envious eye and repining at the jollity of this feast and therefore she is cast out too So ch 19. 14. Ezech. 23. 32. Nehem. 2. 19. 4. 1. This mocking here was in some malignant bitter way which so highly incensed Sarahs wrath St. Paul calls it a persecution Gal. 4. 29. So C ham his mothers Progenitor derided his own father ch 9. 22. V. 10. She said By the Spirit of God and God confirmes it v. 12. And Paul saith not that Sarah but the Scripture speaks it Gal. 4. 30. Her saying was not only passionate but prophetical this bondwoman and her sonne Gal. 4. 22 23 24 25 30 31. not be heire Under this inheritance Heaven was figured Gal. 3. 18 29. V. 12. And God said By night v. 14. God approves Sarahs minde and Will it was not then only her passion that ruled her the lad Ishmael was now about seventeen or eighteen years old chap. 17. 24. 25. 21. 5. in Isaac shall thy seed be called And not from Ishmael The promised seed and spiritual prerogatives shall be entailed upon him Rom. 9. 7 8. V. 14. Bottle of water Scant in those dry deserts and the childe See Annot. on v. 12 wandered Lost her way in those deserts towards Egypt of Beersheba So first called v. 31. V. 15. Cast the childe Being sick and fainting for thirst V. 16 The death Such extremity they were come unto in the wildernesse V. 17. And God heard In accomplishment of his Promises ch 16. 10 12. 17. 20. where he is Though he be cast out of his fathers house and here in such misery V. 18. And â—old him in thy hand Not lay him on thy back V. 19. Opened her eyes Withheld before from seeing it by grief or some other reason or as it was with the two disciples going to Emmaus Luke 34. 16 31. and Elishaes servant and the Aramites 2 Kings 6. 17 18 20. V. 20. Dwelt in the wildernesse Ch. 16. 12. archer And so a Warriour shooting with the bowe being used in war ch 48. 22. 49. 23 24. Psal 44. 6. Josh. 24. 12. 2 Sam. 1. 22. 1 Kings 22. 34. V. 21. Paran Nigh to Sinai through which the Israelites went Numb 10. 12. A part of thâ—t wildernesse is called Kedar from one of Ishmaels sons of that name ch 25. 13. Ps. 83. 6. his mother The mothers right in marrying her childe she chose an Egyptian as her self was one V. 22. At that time While Abraham dwelt at Gerar ch 20. 1. and after Isaacs weaning that Abimelech Ch. 20. 2. V. 23. If thou shalt lie unto me Gen. 14. 23. An imperfect speech implying an imprecation if he should deal deceitfully with him For an oath calls God both as a witnesse of the truth and an avenger of the untruth This imprecation is sometimes expressed as Ruth 1. 17. 2 Cor. 1. 23. V. 24. I will swear Heâ— 6. 16. Abrahams right to the land of Canaan was but for the future after foure generations ch 15. 13 16. V. 25. A Well of water Of great use in that dry Southerne part of Canaan And therefore such strife about them v. 30. ch 26. 15 18 19 20 21 22 2â— 32. V. 27. And Abraham took sheep Likely gifts were in use at the making of Covenants Or he did it in requital of Abimelechs gifts ch 20. 14. V. 30. That they may be a witnesse To prevent future controversie about this Well v. 25. so an heap of stones is made a witnesse ch 31. 46 48. V. 31. Beersheba The Well of the oath or of seven with relation to the seven lambes It was afterward in the Southerne part of the lot of the tribe of Judah toward the coast of Edom Josh. 15. 21 28. 1 Xings 19. 3. Nehem. 11. 25 27. yet seemes to be allowed to the tribe of Simeon which was within the inheritance of the tribe of Judah Josh. 19. 1. 2. 1. ch 4. 24 28. It is oft opposed to Dan as to the Northerne part of Canaan There is a Well Wildernesse and City of this name all joyning together As Abraham dwelt here and made this Covenant and digged this Well so after Isaac dwells there makes a Covenant and digs again the Well and renewes the name chap. 26. 23 33. And Jacob dwelling there with his father went thence to Laban in Haran and going into Egypt with all his family comes thither there sacrificeth and hath a vision And yet at last in the dayes of King Uzziah or sooner it became a seat of some solemn idolatry Amos 8. 14. 5. 5. V. 32. a Covenant Such Covenants lawful with Heathens and Idolaters so ch 31. 44. V. 33. Grove Of Oakes as intending long to dwell here Abraham dwelt under the shadow of trees in the Plaine of Mamre ch 18. 4 8. Here it seems he intends it for a religious use for the place of prayer and exercise of Gods Worship as not being a thing yet forbidden But after in Moses time when God had chosen a place of Worship God strictly forbids this not to planâ— a grove of any trees near the Altar of the Lord and commands such groves to be cut down and threatens grievously such offenders yet hardly were Gods people kept from this sin and idolatry but they planted groves placed their idols served them even as the Canaanites and other Heathens did Deut. 12. 2. Thus it was in the times of the Judges ch 3. 7. In the times of the Kings of Israel throughout 2 Kings 17. 16. specially in the reignes of Joroboam 1 Kings 14. 15 and of Ahab whose Queen Jezabel had foure hundred Prophets of the groves that did eare meat at her table yea and in the reignes of some Kings of Judah specially of Ahaz and Manassâ—h But the godly Kings of Judah cut them down pluck't them up or burnt them as Jehoshaphat Hezekiah and Josiah And Asa put down his Grandmother Maachah from being Queen because she had made an idol in a grove V. 34. Many dayes Till Isaac was offered ch 22. 19. And how long after we know not CHAP. XXII Verse 1. AFter these things How long a time it is not certain But that Isaac was then able to bear the wood of the burnt-offering v 6. I know not why any can fix it upon the thirty third yeare of Isaacs age God did tempt Abraham Not by seeking to seduce him to evil so God tempts no man Jam. 1. 13. But so our own lusts and Satan do Jam. 1. 14. 1 Cor. 7. 5. who is therefore called the Tempter Mat. 4. 3. 1 Thes. 3. 5. God doth it to try by experiment what is in man what faith in Gods Promises what obedience to his Will as men sometimes use to make experiments of the faithfulnesse of their friends Not yet
them to be twirs that at a yeare old they were carried into Egypt For thus the reckoning will rise to the fourty third or fourty fourth yeare of Judahs age But these supposed reckonings seem so harsh in that age of the world to the most learned favourers of this opinion that they choose to ease or avoid this to say rather that Hezron and Hamul were not carried down into Egypt but were borne afterwards in Egypt so the learned late Annot. on ch 46. 12. But this were to offer such plain violence to that text and to the drift of that whole chapter and giving way for others borne after in Egypt to be reckoned in as well as they for why not others as well as they and so the whole number to be altered and the intent of the Holy Ghost disappointed that I think upon due consideration had not many will comply with that conceit And the same Annotators disclaim it themselves in their Annotations on ch 38. 1. The other opinion whereunto my resolution bends is this that Jacob being seventy five yeares old married both sisters at the beginning of the fourteen yeares service fulfilling a week in keeping the feast at the marriage of the one and so again presently after at the marriage of the other And the enjoying not the want and hopeful expectation of Rachel made his seven years service for her seem unto him to be buâ— a few dayes This addition of seven yeares to the former opinion gives faire way to the birth of all the twelve children in that order and sequence of time as the letter of the words and context of the story do require and gives further scope which yet is little enough for the time of the birth of Hezron and Hamul in the fiftieth year of Judahs age as this opinion makes it when he and they went down with Jacob into Egypt The only difficulty here occuring is the exposition of some words and sentences seeming to favour the first opinion which yet may better receive a commodious interpretation then involve and intangle us in greater perplexities and draw upon us the fore-mentioned incongruities if not impossibilities The text then here saith That Jacob served seven yeares for Rahel that is after he had married her And so all Expositors agree that indeed he did so though most of them infer it upon their construction of the 27. and 28. verses but a few dayes If he had not enjoyed her by marriage all those seven yeares of his service they would have seemed a longsome and tedious time For hope deserred maketh the heart sick Prov. 13. 12. And love makes men think everyday a year till they enjoy the Party loved V. 21. And Jacob said That is had said for my dayes are fulfilled That is I am full of dayes and ripe for marriage being now seventy five yeares old and my brother Esau of my age being married thirty five yeares ago ch 26. 34. that I may go in unto her Not go away with her but use her as my wise whiles I perform my covenanted service of seven yeers for her V. 22. And Laban gathered Had gathered The Hebrews want a preterpluperfect tense V. 23. He took Leah Being veiled as the manner was in bringing Brides into the Bride-chamber Joel 2. 16. and unto their husbands in the dark for modesty sake ch 24. 65. ch 38. 15 16. V. 25. What is this For he hated Leah v. 31. did not I serve with thee for Rachel Covenant to serve with thee beguiled me In the dark and by her silence or soft whispering likely upon her fathers direction which Jacob also might impute to her modesty V. 26. Not be so done in our country Custom here only pretended to cover his accustomed fraud Else he should have said so before and told it V. 27. Fulfil her wâ—â—k The week-feast for Leah and keep her with thee reject her not The marriage-feast continued a week Judg. 14. 10 12 15 17. Thus Laban provides that Jacob by voluntary consent to this marriage with Leah should not be able afterwards to put her away give thee this also for the service All Expositors here agree that Jacob did not first serve these seven yeares and after marry Rachel But married her first and served after V. 28. And fulfilled her week Leahs week for her marriage-feast Or it may be understood of Rachels week for her marriage-feast presently succeeding the other V. 30. And he went in also unto Rachel At the first Creation in Adams time And again in Noahs time when there was most need of multiplication of mankinde yet God allotted but one woman for one man And therefore though the Law against plurality of wives was not yet so expressely and literally declared nor against the marriage of two sisters as afterwards it was Lev. 18. 18. yet this here in Jacob cannot be allowed unlesse besides a disposition of the divine Providâ—â—ce in it there were a dispensation by divine authority for it Neither may it without like warrant be drawn into example As neither the example of Abraham taking Hagar nor Jacobs taking here of Zilpah and Bilhah V. 31. Hated Not simply but in comparison of Rachel v. 30. so in Deut. 21. 15. Mat. 6. 24. Luke 14. 26. John 12. 25. V. 35. Now will I praise Openly in solemn manner This here applied to the Lord is after applied to Judah himself ch 49. 8. of Judah the Nation were afterwards called Jewes and left bearing If but two yeares yet she could not have three children more viz. Issachar Zebulun and Dinah at several births within the compasse of one seven yeares yea the favourers of that opinion confesse that it must needs be that it was not above a half yeare that she stayed ere she conceived again Mr. Jackson on ch 30. 9. CHAP. XXX Verse 1. RAchel envied her sister Rachels fault ch 37. 11. Num. 11. 29. Psal. 106. 16. Prov. 27. 4. give me children Laying the fault on her husband who yet had children by Leah she speaks this in a womanish passion never considering to whom she spake or by what meanes he should be able to satisfie her desire or else I die For grief Prov. 14. 30. It will be my death and I shall have no desire to live Job 5. 2. Barrennesse counted a reproach v. 23. V. 2. Am I in Gods stead ch 50. 19. God only can give children ch 16. 2. 20. 18. Psal. 113 9. 127. 3. Therefore Isaac and Hannah and others go to God by prayer for children Gen. 25. 21. 1 Sam. 1. 10. V. 3. Bilhah By the example of Sarah ch 16. 2. heare upon my knees Brought forth and nursed on my knees ch 50. 23. that I may So she calls them hers and she gives them names v. 6 8. claiming a kinde of motherhood in her Hand-maids issue the Hand-maids children by nature were the Dames by adoption or in right of her husband by the Law given afterwards in Exod. 21. 4. And so
XVIII 9 10. or Enemessar Tobit l. 2 15. Sennacharib who came against Hezekiah 2 King XVIII 13. Esarhaddon or Asnapper Esay XXXVII 38. 2 King XIX 37. Ezra IV. 2 10. called also Sarchedonus Tobit I. 22. And another King of Assyria against whom Pharaoh-Necho King of Egypt fights at Carchemish by Euphrates in the last year of King Josiah 2 King XXIII 29. 2 Chron. XXXV But many leave out Iareb as no proper name of a King and make Sargon to be the same with Senna harib And some place Iareb before Pul and Sargon after Shalmanesar And no doubt there were many Kings of Assyria it being the first Monarchy before Pul though their names be not in Scripture Though the Assyrians take the name from Ashur the sonne of Shem Gen. X. 22. 1 Chron. I. 17. yet the Kingdome seemes to be raised among them by the posterity of Cush the sonne of Cham Gen. X. 6 11. a Singer Heman chapter VI verse 33 of Kohath stood in the middest Asaph of Gershom on the right hand Ethan of Merari on the left ver 38 39 44 47. See more of the Singers 1 Chron. XV. ver 16 22. All their Cities The Kohathites had twenty three Cities verse 60 63. The Gershonites thirteen The Merarites twelve In all fourty eight Cities reckoned Issachar a numerous Tribe chapter VII Ephraim The line from Ephraim to Ioshuah verse 5 is Num. verse 20 I. 10. and chap. XXVI 35 1 Chron. VII 20 26 27. Shephuphan verse 5 and Huram chapter VIII verse 33 Either of these had three names Ner Ner had Kish the father of Saul and another sonne Ner the father of Abner 1 Sam. XIV 50 51. genealogies This Chapter chapter IX verse 1 and chap. III. 19 24. are some parcels of the last passages for History of the Old Testament See more on Neh. XII 10 11. David and Samuel David and Samuel the Seer though he died in the time of Sauls reigne ordained and ordered the Priests verse 22 and Levites Singers and Porters in their set Offices and Courses See ver 10 14 22 and Chapters XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him 1 Chron. XXIV 19. by the Spirit and by God and Nathan 1 Chron. XXVIII 12 19. 2 Chron. XXIX 25. and VIII 14. and XXXV 4 15. And Solomon did according to him 2 Chron. XXXV 4. Neh. XII 45. day and night verse 33 verse 9 The Singers imployed in that work day and night tydings unto their Idols Idolaters ascribe their Victories chapter X and prosperous successes to their Idols so Iudg. XVI 23 24. 1 King XX. 23. 2 Chron. XXVIII 23. Hab. I. 11. They bring their Idols to their Camps 1 Chron. XIV 12. As the Israelits the Ark 1 Sam. IV. 3. castle of Zion David took the Castle chapter XI verse 5 or strong hold of Zion dwelt in it built round about it called it the Citie of David And Ioab repaired the rest of the Citie 2 Sam. V. 9. came to David There came to David to Ziklag a great hoast chapter XII verse 1 like the hoast of God And to Hebron to make him King over all Israel 340822. And among them very many Priests and Levites ver 26 27 28. besides others intimated ver 32. Jehoiada verse 27 the Leader of the 3700. Aaronites that came to David to Hebron to make him King over all Israel 1 Chron. XII 27. Jehoiada a chief Priest 2 Chron. XXIV 6. married Iehoshabeath or Iehosheba the daughter of King Iehoram and sister of King Ahaziah 2 King XI 2 3. 2 Chron. XXII 11. He caused usurping and murthering Athaliah the daughter of Ahab and Iezebel and wife of King Iehoram and mother of King Ahaziah 2 Chron. XXI 6. and XXII 1 2. to be murtheredher self 2 King XI 16. And caused Ioash grand-childe of Athaliah and his wives nephew and sonne and heir of Ahaziah to be crowned King when he was seven years old 2 King XI 11 12 21. 2 Chron XXIII 11. Of whom see more on 2 King XI 4. Iehoiada the sonne of Benaiah Davids Counseller next to Ahitophel 1 Chron. XXVII 34. bring again the Ark David so soone as ever he was setled upon his throne over all Israel chapter XIII verse 3 taketh the strong Fort of Zion from the Jebusites brings the Ark of God with all solemnity yet not after the due maner from Kiriath-jearim and the house of Abinadab And upon the death of Uzza by the way at the threshing floore of Nachon or Chidon he carries it aside into the house of Obed-Edom where it remained three moneths 1 Chron. XIII Hiram sends to David messingers workmen and materials to build him an house in Zion And David takes more wives at Jerusalem and obtaines two victories against the Philistines chap. XIV And with great solemnity in the due maner he brings the Ark from Obed-Edoms house and sets it in the middest of the Tabernacle or Tent which he had prepared for it in the Citie of David in Zion chap. XV. where he offers Sacrifices Orders a Quire gives them a Psalme of Thanksgiving and appoints Ministers Porters Priests and Musicians to attend on the Ark continualy ch XVI In 2 Sam. V. David takes the strong Fort of Zion builds dwels in it hath messingers sent to him from Hiram King of Tyre with materials workmen for his building growes great takes moe wives and concubines at Jerusalem gets two victories over the Philistines in two set battels chap. V. And he brings up the Ark from Kiriath-Jearim and carries it aside into the house of Obed-Edom and after three moneths he brings it thence into the Citie of David with great solemnity and joy 2 Sam. VI Now whether the things contained in 1 Chr. XIV and 2 Sam. V. after the taking of Zion did intervene in that three moneths space while the Ark was in the house of Obed-Edom or were acted before the Ark was removed from Kiriath-Jearim is a matter of conjectural probabilities on either side yet I rather incline to the later opinion from Shihor of Egypt This Shihor chapter XIII verse 5 or Shichor or Sihor hath a notion of blacknesse in it And is not that rill or drill of water called by forraine writers Rhinocolura but is much rather the same with Nilus otherwise not once named in Scripture anciently by the Ethiopians called Siris by the Greeks Melas by the Latines Melo from the blacknesse of the water or rather of the mud and slime that it brings downe with it or the black colour of the grounds and soils it passeth through It is called by way of excellencie the River Esay XXIII 3. Ezek. XXIX 3 9. and the river or flood of Egypt Amos VIII 8. and chap. IX 5. This River rising in the South from unknown heads runs in one intire streame Northward to the Head Delta in Egypt where it divideth it self into two maine Channels and afterwards brancheth into seven several streames Esay XI 15. Emptying themselves
verse 9 The Princes by their authority and in the Kings name made way for them so to do with the better courage countenance and successe Philistines These verse 11 and the Arabians subdued by Asa chap. XIV 14 15. Numbers See the Observations on chap. verse 14 XIII 3. Waited Waited in their Courses verse 19 some at one time some at another Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat marries his sonne Jehoram to Athaliah chapter XVIII verse 1 Ahabs daughter And this in the eighth year of Jehoshaphats reign as appears by the age of Ahaziah succeeding his father Jehoram in the Kingdome when he was two and twenty years old 2 Kings VIII 18 26 27. 2 Chron. XXII 2. with chap. XXI 5. went down to Ahab In the twenty two and last year of Ahabs reign verse 2 and life And in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat Ramoth Gilead See the Observations on 2 Kings VIII 28. at a venture Gods Providence verse 33 See the Observations on Ester V. 8. and on Ezek. I. 18. Wrath Wrath deserved by him chapter XIX verse 2 and appearing on him chapter XVIII 31 and XX. 1. from Beershebah to Mount Ephraim The South and North borders of the Kingdome of Judah verse 4 set As Jehoshaphats Commission for teaching throughout the Kingdome was chap. verse 8. 11. XVII 9. So here is his High-Commission-Court at Jerusalem 2 Chron. XIX 8 11. following therein the Ordinance of Moses Deut. XVII and XIX See the Observations on Deut. XVII 8 13. Hazazon-Tamar Gen. chapter XX verse 2 XIV 7. Called also Engedi a Citie of the tribe of Judah Josh. XV. 62. thy friend So Esay XLI verse 7 8. James II. 23. cliffe of Ziz And so the Wildernesse of Jervel verse 16 both in the tribe of Judah near Tekoah and Berakah ver XX. 26. Korhites Korhites that descended of that Korah the sonne of Izhar the sonne of Kohath swallowed up of the earth Num. XVI 1. 32. These were singers in the Temple and some of them Porters Praise the Lord Psal. verse 21 CXXXVI So chap. XXIX 27. began to sing In assurance of victory verse 22 three dayes A rich spoile verse 25 of Jehu See the Annotations on chap. verse 34 XIX 2. in the book 1 King XVI 1. joyned himself Jehoshaphat first verse 36 it seemes refusing to have Ahaziah to joyne with him to make ships to go to Tarshish 1 Kings XXII 49. doth at last yeeld and is reproved by Eliezer and the ships are broken Not that he joyned first and refused after upon the Prophets reproof for then the ships might well have been unbroken But however Here the good King falls once and again into the same fault of joyning himself with wicked Ahaziah as formerly he had done with wicked Ahab chap. XVIII 1 2 3. and chap. XIX 2. As we see the like in Abraham Gen. XII 13. with chap. XX. 2. Jehoshaphat King of Israel Jehoshaphat here is called King of Israel chapter XXI verse 2 that being then a distinct Kingdome from his So again are the Princes called ver 4. And Ahaz likewise 2 Chron. XXVIII 19 27. And Darius is called King of Assyria Ezra VI. 22. And Artaxerxes King of Babylon Neh. XIII 6. As indeed the Persian Monarchs were the rightful Kings of Persia Assyria and Babylon or Chaldea Of names see more in the Annotations on 2 Chron. XXIV 20. of his father After his father Jehoshaphats death verse 4 In his fathers life-time Jehoram carried himself better both as Viceroy and King slew all his brethren And see Gods judgements upon his sonnes ver 17. and his grand-children chap. XXII 10 11. only Jehoahaz or Ahaziah or Azariah left of the one and Joash of the other compelled By force and persecutions verse 11 A most wicked sonne of a godly father A writing to him from Elijah Written in the life-time of Elijah verse 12 15. who died before Jehoshaphat 2 Kings III. 11. Left and directed to Jehoram or for him who would not endure the Reproof of a living Prophet Therein prophesying and foretelling Jehorams Sinnes and Punishments Amongst other his wickednesses He shew all his brethren the sonnes of Jehoshaphat 2. Chron. XXI 4. And his sons were all slaine by the Philistines and Arabians but Ahaziah the youngest called also Jehoachaz 2 Chron. XXI 17. and Azariah chap. XXII 6 7. 2 Chron. XXI 17. and XXII 1. And Ahaziah was slaine by Jehu 2 Chron. XXII 9. when he was twenty three years old 2 Kings VIII 26. And the sonnes of Ahaziah were slaine by their grand-mother Athaliah save Joash that was hid from her and after crowned King and at last slaine by his own servants 2 Chron. XXIV 24 25. We read that Josiah and Cyrus by their names were prophesied of many ages before they were borne But their good deeds were foretold not any evill of them as of idolatrous bloody Jehoram here Elisha foretels Hazael face to face of his bloodinesse and evil that he would do to the children of Israel 2 King VIII 12. Arabians near the Ethiopians See the Observations on Gen. verse 16 II. 13. he reigned Iehoram of Iudah his Life verse 20 Death Burial Fourty and two Clear it is chapter XXII verse 2 That Iehoram the father of Ahaziah was but fourty years old when he died chap. XXI 5. And that Ahaziah himself was but twenty two years old when he began to reigne 2 Kings VIII 26. But it was in the two and fourtieth year of the continuance of the Crown in Omri and his race from whom Ahaziah descended by his mother Athaliah 2 Kings VIII 18 26. And the Hebrew expression by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sonne together with a trajection of some clauses in this verse do render this interpretation the more passable And a like passage we finde as hath been shewed in chap. XVI 1. And such trajections are used 1 Sam. XX. 16. Ezra X. 17. Neh. XII 22. Athaliah Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah and wife of Jehoram the sonne of Jehoshaphat and daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and grandchilde of Omri in Samaria Not in the Citie verse 9 but in the Kingdome of Samaria 2 Kings IX 27. Sonne of Jehoshaphat Grandchilde So daughter for grandchilde verse 2. A phrase usuall in Scripture seed royal Sonnes of Ahaziah verse 10 ver 11. likely by other women of the King Jehoram verse 11 and sister of Ahaziah as is expressed in this verse Of the Priests chapter XXIII verse 4 and of the Levites They the Prime men in the deposing of Athaliah and crowning of Joash guarding the gates and compassing the King round about with weapons in hand their courses being not dismissed and others of them gathered out of all the Cities of Iudah gate of the foundation Called Shur verse 5 2 Kings XI 6. the high or higher gate 2 Kings XV. 35. 2 Chron. XXVII 3. Of the Gates of the Temple and Courts See the Annotations on Ezek. VIII 3. See also Ezek. VIII 5. 14. and chap. IX 2. and chap. XL.
thereby that they had not charged Job unjustly seeing him lie under such judgements as God did not inflict but upon ungodly men And here he deals not with him by exhortation and promises as there he did but seemes also to imply and threaten these judgements to Job as unavoidable by him the first-borne of death The most terrible kinde of death verse 13 that carrieth the principality above all other kinds of death as the first-borne doth above all the brethren And yet death it self in what kinde soever is called in the next verse the King of terrors How long Here Job again blames his friends chapter XIX verse 2 ver 2 3. And be it By a fresh commemoration of his miseries verse 4 wherein he chargeth God still too heavily he moves them rather to a Compassion and Commiseration of him to verse 23. skin of my teeth Of my lips verse 20 or gums rather Oh that my words Fearing to finde little comfort in his friends verse 23 he betakes himself to God and comforts himself in an assured expectation of a joyful Resurrection But ye Job admonisheth his friends to be well advised of their ill dealing with him verse 28 and to fear Gods wrath seeing the root of right and Religion is in Job and will be found so in the end that the triumphing of the wicked is but short Being driven from that part of their argument chapter XX verse 5 That God did not use to give prosperity to wicked men Zophar now insisteth upon this That though it be so Yet their Prosperity is but for a moment or short and ruine and destruction shall befall them And this he pursues to the end of the chapter sweet in his mouth Zophar seemes to insist upon this similitude verse 12 to verse 23. bow of steele Of the Bow verse 24 see the Annotations on Zech. IX 13. and chap. X. 4. Here is mentioned a Bow of steele And so Psal. XVIII 34. such it seemes were in use Wherefore do the wicked live Job overthrowes Zophars assertion of the short prosperity of wicked men in this world chapter XXI and their sudden downfal verse 7 and shewes their flourishing estate in themselves ver 7. in their children ver 8. in their families ver 9. in their wealth ver 10. in their pleasures ver 11 12. in their life and death ver 13. yea though they were notoriously wicked men ver 14 15. yet their counsell and course is farre from Job ver 16. And he shewes that God doth oftentimes break off their prosperity and plagueth them verse 17 21. And that God deals both wayes thus diversly with them out of his unsearchable wisdome whereunto we cannot reach verse 22 26. He concludes with an application of the premises to his own case relating their false doome of him and his upon their false grounds ver 27 28. And refelling the same by the testimony of passengers themselves and their better judgement that many wicked men live and die prosperously and peaceably 29 33. Then Eliphaz Here begins the third Onset chapter XXII verse 1 by Eliphaz and Bildad only Wherein being convinced by Job of the falshood of their grand plea and position Eliphaz now doth charge him home with particular sinnes tells him the justification of himself and his righteousnesse cannot be profitable to God and Exhorts him to Repentance with Promises of Mercie chap. 22. And Bildad having little more to say Concludes with this That neither Job nor any man can be justified with God And therefore Job should not contend with God as if he had done him some wrong in afflicting him more then was fitting chap. 25. And Job in his Replies longeth yet to appear and plead before God in confidence of his mercie He asserts his innocency against Eliphaz and promiseth to himself an happy issue though for the present God do seeme to him inexorable He shewes that God often winketh at many grosse wickednesses committed by ungodly men which God punisheth not in this world but suffers them still to prosper and flourish chap. XXIII and XXIV And checking Bildads impertinencies He speaks more magnificently of God Power and Wisdom then Bildad had done chap. XXVI And seeing his three friends at a Non-Plus He goes on the more confidently to maintaine his Cause and clear his own innocencie against hypocrisie He acknowledgeth that Gods judgements light on ungodly men in this world and that their Blessings are turned into Curses though not alwayes chap. XXVII And this by Gods wonderful wisdome which passeth mans deepest wisdome and is unsearchable and carrieth things farre above the reach of the wisest men whose highest wisdome is to Fear the Lord chap. XXVIII And Job it seemes after some intermission of speech finding his friends still silent goes on And in his last speech bemoanes himself and excuseth his impatience by his great fall from so great prosperity chap. XXIX to so great misery chap. XXX And for conclusion He stands upon the clearing of his own integrity much more then before And that by a solemne Protestation of his uprightnesse and piety in sundry several duties without any grosse wickednesse committed by him chap. XXXI for fear of thee Lest thy wickednesse should hurt him verse 4 or thy fear of him and pietie could help him Is not He chargeth Job home and in particulars verse 5 But falsely old way Haply relating to the time of the Flood verse 15 By the purenesse of thine hands God will not only do good to thee verse 30 but to others also for thy sake but he is not there I cannot so see and finde him chapter XXIII verse 8 that I might reason with him in one minde To lay load on me verse 13 that is appointed for me In his infinite wisdom verse 14 and irresistible will he will not cease afflicting me till all be done cut off By death verse 17 Gods Executioner Why Why may not God hide his times of punishing the wicked chapter XXIV verse 1 even from the knowledge of the godly themselves that they could never observe that he punisheth many ungodly men according to their deeds in this world The wicked make ill use of this as thinking God sees not or cares not yet God Calls them not to account for their foolish sinful actions verse 12 the way of the Vineyards He walketh not in those wayes where men use to travel to their work verse 18 lest he should be seene and taken He evil intreateth The oppressor doth so in this verse 21 and in what followeth Yet some understand it of God and his judgements upon the wicked in this verse and in those also that follow eares of corne The not pronouncing this word rightly did cost so many Ephramites their lives verse 24 Judg. XII 6. peace in his high places chapter XXV verse 2 In and above the heavens No Angel doth or dare question or complain of his proceedings much lesse should Job How Job ironicaly taunts Bildad chapter XXVI verse
to all duties of active and passive obedience takes off the wheeles of the soul makes it as a limb out of joynt that can do nothing without paine and deformity Dead flies As one sinner chapter X verse 1 in the precedent words so here one sin destroyes much good Alike folly doth fly-blow a wise mans reputation Neh. VI. 11. heart is at his right hand As his eyes are in his head verse 2 chap. II. 14. He ordereth his affairs with discretion he acts dexterously and discreetly with mature advise and judgement he worketh by the guidance of his heart Luke XIV 28 31. But a fools heart He is left-handed in his works and wayes doth them rashly awkwardly bunglingly preposterously As 1 Kings XII 8. Esay XIX 10 14. walketh by the way He doth palpably discover to others verse 3 and proclaime That he is a fool Prov. VI. 13 and chap. XII 23. and XIII 16. and XVIII 2. See Prov. XVII 28. Leave not thy place Thy office verse 4 duty and obedience to him A souldier must stand to his station ch VIII 3. proudly fling not away in displeasure much lesse stand not to affront him turne not rise not up against him as 1 Kings XII 16. seek to pacifie him Prov. XV. 1. and if need be go a little aside out of his sight till his rage and thy danger be over-past See Judges VIII 1 2 3. Gen. XXXII 13. and XXXIII 3. 1 Sam. XXIV 16. and chap. XXV 32. Prov. XXV 15 as an error Haply by the erring information of others verse 5 seeing Rulers must needs see much with other mens eyes and hear much by other mens ears And yet this error may prove a great mischief to Church and State and the rich In worth verse 6 and wisdome Dignity ought to wait upon Desert though it alwayes doth not For Rulers sometimes grow into suspition of such as eminently excel in extraordinary worth Servants upon horses Men of a low verse 7 base servile condition And how insupportable this is see Prov. XXX 22. and how unseemly see Prov. XIX 10. It is a curse of God Deut. XXVIII 43. 44. Gen. IX 25 26. Lamented Lam. V. 8. Yet the Levellers would be at this to lay all alike As in Germany in Anno 1525. But the issue of that attempt was to themselves deservedly miserable He that diggeth a pit This verse 8 and the three following Proverbial similitudes tend all to this end That evil usualy returneth on the heads of those that were the authors of it Malum consilium consultori pessimum Prov. XXVI 27. and XXVIII 10. Psal. VII 16. and IX 15. In application against such as overturne the foundations of Lawes and Customes and alter the long established and wholsome constitutions of Kingdomes Nations and people and confound Rule and Subjection and dissolve the ligaments of Government Prov. XXVI 27. Who so removeth stones verse 9 c. Besides the general sense of the words application of them may be made against those who remove land-marks or rashly alter things seriously setled and duly defined and so do sowe seditions and raise factions If the iron be blunt Wisdome directeth to whet the edge verse 10 to save the putting to of more strength And so wisdome is better then strength chap. IX 16. It guideth a mans actions without so much toile and labour and a better end without it and Art and cunning by it strength and toile and eloquence or ought else is to small purpose The Serpent will bite If not charmed before verse 11 And after the biting the Master of the tongue or eloquent man cannot help or better the matter The meaning may be to compare the spirit of disloyalty against Rulers and rebellious speeches against them to the biting of a Serpent And the wise and humble speeches and demeanor of subjects to their offended Governours to an inchantment to keep them from biting Or to shew that a vaine babler whose lawlesse tongue is ever finding fault with Government is no better then an uncharmed Serpent It may be applied against any Sycophants and Slanderers whatsoever Or to those who bite and babble at the Traditions of the wise The words Ephes. verse 12 IV. 29. Col. IV. 6. Prov. X. 32. and XII 13. and XV. 1 2. 4 26. and XVI 23 24. Such were Abigaels to David swallow up himself Prov. XIX 28. and XII 13. Rom. III. 13. James III. 2 12. Psal. LII 3. Many men by their tongue have cut their own throats is full of words Multiplyeth boasting discourses verse 14 vainly tells his own undertakings brags what he will do and what he shall have cannot tell what shall be No man much lesse a fool can tell this to himself wearieth every one By his wordinesse and much idle vaine babling without any solid and sound matter verse 15 as empty casks sound loudest chap. V. 3 7. Prov. X. 19. and XVII 17 27. how to go to the citie He tires himself in trifles being not able to manage the least matters and easie for children having not wit enough to keep the high road to know the beaten path to the Citie And yet he will foolishly labour and weary himself about hard and difficult matters Wo to thee O land Esay III. verse 16 4. A child in years For Tutors and Protectors have mostwhat self-ends and deal not fairly and faithfully or jarre among themselves Thus it was in Rome after the death of Ancus Martius and in the Romane Empire in the times of Arcadius and Honorius Yet the Land was blessed and happy under young Solomon Josiah Uzziah our Edward the VI. and others for the parts and graces wherewith God endowed them Or else a child in understanding and parts rude and raw without experience discretion and abilities for so weighty an imployment of a childish disposition for wit courage carriage this though not a childe in years And such was Rehoboam 1 Kings XIV 21. with 2 Chron. XIII 7. In a word a worthlesse and wicked King is a Woe to the whole Land and a great argument of Gods anger against it 1 Sam. VIII 6 18. Job XXXIV 30. Prov. XXVIII 2. Esay XIX 4. eate in the morning Are riotous and luxurious unseasonably feasting Sonne of Nobles Nobly borne verse 17 The ancient splendor of a royal stock and descent addes much honour to a King Est in juvencis est in equis patrum virtus And much more when he is nobly bred up nobly seasoned with principles of true nobility wisdom holinesse honour and government without which nobility in blood and birth are but shapes and shadows of true noblenesse Though never so much noble blood run in the veins yet worthlesnesse and wickednesse remaining in the heart rendereth it ignoble sloathfulnesse See the Observations on Prov. verse 18 VI. 6. Here it seems applyable to a sluggish childish carelesse government of a Kingdome or Common-wealth A feast Feasting and wine have their mirthful use verse 19 But money answereth all things
like fathers unto the sins of the fathers also either enhauncing or lengthening the judgements to make their sufferings the more exemplarie that men may observe how execution of vengeance though delayed for a time yet at length falleth with a full storme on the race of the wicked 1 Sam. III. 12. Lam. V. 7. Matth. XXIII 32 35 36. 1 Thes. II. 15 16. a blessing in it The little liquor in the cluster argued life and sap to be in the plant verse 8 and so hope of recovery to become fruitful againe not destroy them all A Remnant still reserved and saved ver 9. for the propagating of the Church Jer. XXX 11. Amos. IX 8. Sharon Under Libanus verse 10 1 Chron. XXVII 29. valley of Achor Neere Jericho that prepare a table for that troope Feasts verse 11 for their troope of idols pointed at as it were with the finger in contempt by the Prophet here Some by this troope understand the hoast of heaven Some one particular Star as Jupiter that furnish the drink-offering Heb. that fill mixture i. e. wine Apoc. XIV 10. Psal. LXXV 8. Prov. IX 2. strong wine is in these places meant without mixture of water For they would not offer such to their Idols though in their ordinary drinking they did mix it for themselves behold A strange alteration verse 13 four times repeated by another name Verse 16. verse 15 chap. LXII 2 4 12. as being in another state and condition then you or they formerly Such a name as should be used not in Cursing but in Blessing See Hos. I. 6 9. and II. 1 23. Rom IX 26. 1 Pet. II. 10. I create new heavens A further more strange alteration verse 17 Make as it were a new world Their change shall be such that coming suddenly out of such adversity into such prosperity they shall seeme to be in a new in another world But this is chiefly applyable to the times of the Gospel under Christ in a spiritual sense in regard of those plentiful endowments of spiritual graces that therein should abound John I. 16 17 Acts II. 17 33. Heb. IX 9 12. And hereunto is this change applied chap. LXVI 22. 2 Cor. V. 17. begun here to be perfected in heaven 2 Pet. III. 13. Apoc. XXI 1 5. and the former Jer. III. 16. 1 Cor. II. 9. 2 Cor. III. 7 10. But be ye glad Gods speech verse 18 as chap. III. 10. and XXX 10. the childe He that was once a childe verse 20 None among them young or old should be taken away by untimely death but should live to the utmost course of nature wont usualy to be attained verse 22. but the sinner Such among them as remained still unreformed unrefined unreclaimed though he live never so long shall at length prove a cursed wretch as the dayes of a tree As the Oake verse 22 and Elme before they call Chap. LVIII verse 24 9. Psal. XXXII 5. Dan. X. 12. and IX 20 23. Luke XV. 18 20. Acts X. 44. and XI 15. John XIV 13 14. and XV. 7 16. and XVI 23 24 26. The wolf and the lamb Such as had beene of a wolvish disposition formerly verse 25 should now be thus transformed All shall be harmlesse ch XI 6 9. Another Sermon chapter LXVI like the former and that as in matter so also in many expressions agreeing with it The heaven in my throne Cited Acts VII verse 1 48 49 50. See Psalme CIII 19. Matth. V. 34. where is the House That ye have or should or can build unto me when as I fill heaven and earth with my presence Jer. XXIII 24 See 1 Kings VIII 27. Acts XVII 14 25. And this is to take off their minds from the Temple of Jerusalem wherein they over-much trusted and gloried Jer. VII 4. place of my rest Psal. CXXXII 8 14. Not but that he can well be without them as he was also before they were He needs no house to receive him nor service of man to be done to him Psal. XVI 2. and L. 10 11. He needs not these things as their idols do contrite spirit John IV. verse 2 21 23 24. God looks to him more then to his material Temple Psal. XXXIV 18. and CXXXVIII 6. He that killeth an Oxe For sacrifice verse 3 As in the Temple so in their Sacrifices the Jewes much confided and boasted 2 Chron. XIII 10 11. But when they rested in these outward things and exercises without any grace and goodnesse in the soul and with much filthinesse and wickednesse in their hearts and lives God loaths their persons and their sacrifices chap. I. 11 14. Prov. XV. 8. and XXI 27. Jer. VI. 20. and VII 21 22 23. Amos V. 21 22 23. Micah VI. 6 7. Ezek. XX. 39. blessed an idol With a Present or oblation Gen. XXXIII 10. and XLIII 11. I also will choose An implication of a Retaliation verse 4 As chap. LXV 12. Levit. XXVI 27 28. Psal. XVIII 26. Jer. XXXIV 17. their delusions Passively or objectively their illusions or mockages that they shall be exposed and subject unto As they have made choice of such wayes and courses as please not me so will I make choice of such things for them as they shall finde small pleasure in their fears Prov. X. 24. that cast you out Either by unjust Censure under pretence of a legal proceeding verse 5 or that shun you as persons so polluted and defiled that there is no dealing with you without being defiled by you See John IX 34. and XVI 2. See chap. LXV 5. Lam. IV. 15. Niddui a word of this root is the lowest degree of Excommunication in the Jewish Church for my Names sake For your loyalty to me As Matth. X. 22. Let the Lord be glorified Spoken in way of derision Let him manifest his might and majesty in doing some remarkable matter for you if ye be so dear to him as ye deeme your selves to be Thus jearing their trust and confidence in God As chap. V. 19. Psal. XXII 7 8. Matth. XXVII 43. 2 Pet. III. 3 4. but he shall appear The answer to that jear A voice Esay breaks out into these words verse 6 as if in a Prophetical rapture he heard the noise and voice Like that chap. XIII 4. Jer. L. 22 28. and LI. 54. A voice of noise of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans or by the Romanes from the Temple To control their vaine confidence in it as implying how little relief or safeguard they should then receive from it Lam. II. 20. to his enemies Most likely the obstinately wicked amongst the Jewes verse V. 14. chap. LXV 6 7 and I. 24. Before she travelled A prophecie of the strange sudden verse 7 and unexpected restitution of the Church and the dilatation of it into all parts This may relate to the delivery out of Babylon by Cyrus done at an instant by his Proclamation not with so much ado as that was out of Egypt Here Zion is like the Hebrew