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

locusts n As Locusts especially when they are sent and Armed by commission from God come with great force and run hither and thither devouring all the Fruits of the Earth wheresoever they find them shall he run upon them 5. The LORD is exalted o Will get great Glory by the marvellous Destruction of so proud and potent an Army and by the Defence of his People for he dwellleth on high p For he is and will appear to be Superior to his Enemies both in Place and Power He dwelleth in the Heaven whence He can easily and irresistably pour down Judgments upon his Enemies Although these words may be and by some are joyned with those that follow thus For he that dwelleth on high hath filled c. he hath filled Zion q He will fill Ierusalem with judgment and righteousness r Either 1. with a glorious Instance of his just Judgment against the Assyrians Or 2. with the Execution of Justice by good Hezekiah as before it was filled with impiety and injustice under Ahaz The City shall not onely be delivered from that wicked Enemy but shall also be established and blessed with true Religion and Righteousness which was a great addition to that Mercy 6. And † Heb. the strength of salvations of wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times wisdom and knowledg s To govern thy self and thy People well shall be the stability of thy times t Of thy Reign times being oft put for things done in those times as 1 Chron. 12. 32. Psal. 31. 15. 37. 18. c. He turneth his speech to Hezekiah The Sence is Thy Throne shall be established upon the sure Foundations of Wisdome and Justice and strength of salvation u Thy saving Strength or thy strong or mighty Salvation the fear of the LORD is his treasure x And although thou shalt have great Treasures of Gold and Silver c. yet thy chief Treasure and Delight is and shall be in promoting the Fear and Worship of God which shall be a great honour and safeguard to thy self and people He saith his treasure for thy treasure by a sudden Change of the Person usual in these Books 7. Behold y That the Mercy here promised might be duly magnified he makes a lively Representation of their great danger and distress in which it found them their ‖ Or messengers valiant ones z Or their heralds or messengers as the Hebrew Doctors expound the word Either 1. those whom the King of Assyria sent to Ierusalem 2 Kings 18. 17. Or rather those whom Hezekiah sent to Treat with the Assyrian Commissioners 2 Kings 18. 18. as the next Clause sheweth shall cry without a Through grief and fear the embassadours of peace b Whom he shall send to beg Peace of the Assyrian shall weep bitterly c Because they cannot obtain their desires 8. * Judg. 5. 6. The high-ways lie wast the wayfaring man ceaseth d Because the Assyrian Souldiers possessed and filled the Land he hath broken the covenant e Sennacherib broke his Faith given to Hezekiah of departing for a Sum of Money 2 Kings 18. 14. 17. he hath despised the cities f The defenced Cities of Iudah which he contemned and easily took 2 Kings 18. 13. he regardeth no man g Either to spare them or to fear them or to keep Faith with them He neither feareth God nor Reverenceth Man 9. The earth mourneth h Being desolate and neglected and languisheth Lebanon is ashamed and ‖ Or withered away hewn down i By the Assyrians Or as the Word signifies and is here rendred by others withereth or languisheth because its Trees are now used by the Iews for their Buildings as they have been And because they are spoiled and destroyed by the Assyrians * Chap. 35. 2. Sharon k A pleasant and fruitful Place as appears from 1 Chron. 27. 29. Cant. 2. 1. Isa. 35. 2. is like a wilderness and Bashan and Carmel l Two places eminent for Fertility and especially for good Pastures Deut. 32. 14. 1 Sam. 25. 2. which are here Synecdochically pu●… for all such places ‖ Or yell Jer. 51. 38. shake off their fruits m Are spoiled of their Fruits Or as it is rendred in the Margent and by some others yell or roar as this Word is rendred Ier. 51. 38. 10. Now will I rise n In this extremity I will appear on the behalf of my People and Land saith the LORD now will I be exalted now will I lift up my self 11. * Psal. 7. 1●… Ye shall conceive chaff ye shall bring forth stubble o In stead of Solid Corn. Your great hopes and designs O ye Assyrians shall be utterly disappointed your breath as fire shall devour you p Your Rage against my People shall bring Ruine upon your selves 12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime q Shall be burnt as easily and effectually as Chalk is burned to make Lime as thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire 13. Hear ye that are far off what I have done and ye that are near acknowledge my might r My power and justice in destroying the Assyrians shall be so evident that People both far and near shall be forced to acknowledge it 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid s This is spoken not of the Assyrians as some would have it but of the Iews as appears both from the Words themselves and from the following Verses The Prophet having foretold the Deliverance of God's People and the Destruction of their Enemies ver 10. 11 12. for the greater Illustration of that wonderful Mercy here returns to the Description and gives a lively representation of the dismal and frightful Condition in which the Iews especially such of them as were ungodly and unbelieving were before this Deliverance came Although the Godly Iews were in some measure supported by the sense of God's Favour and by God's Promises delivered to them by Isaiah yet the generality of the People were filled with Horrors and expectation of utter Destruction fearfulness hath surprized the hypocrites who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who amongst us shall dwell with everlasting burnings t How shall we be able to abide the Presence and endure or avoid the Wrath of that God who is a consuming Fire who is now about to destroy us utterly by the Assyrians and will afterward burn us with unquenchable Fire Fo●… seeing it is sufficiently evident from both Old and New-Testament as hath been formerly observed and proved That the Iews except the Sadducees did generally believe the rewards and punishments of the future Life and these Temporal Judgments as they did frequently cut Men off from this Life so they transmitted them into that future and endless Life It is not strange if their guilty

Sea for Tarshish though Properly the Name of a Maritine place in Ci●…icia Ezek. 27. 25. 〈◊〉 1. 3. is usually put for the Sea as 1 Kings 10. 22. 2 Chron. 9. 21. Psal. 72. 10. Isa. 2. 16. Ier. 10. 9. are broken with an East-wind Albeit the Enemies of Ierusalem which are Compared to the raging Waters of the Sea in Psal. 46 2 3. may as fitly be Compared to Ships upon the Sea 8. As we have heard so have we seen q The predictions of the Prophets Either 2 Chron. 20. 14. or 2 Kings 19. 20. c. have been verified by the Events Or We have had late and fresh Experiences of such wonderful works of God as before we onely heard of by the Report of our Fathers in the city of the LORD of hosts in the city of our God God will establish it for ever r From this miraculous Deliverance we plainly see that God hath a singular Love to it and Care of it and therefore will defend her in all succeeding Ages against all her Enemies And so God would have done if Ierusalem had not forsaken God and forfeited his Favour and Protection Selah 9. We have thought of s It hath been the matter of our Serious and deep Meditation when we have been Worshipping there in thy Temple For when the Priests were offering Incense or Sacrifice the Religious People exercised themselves in holy Meditation or secret Prayer to God as may be gathered from Luk. 1. 10. and many other places of Scripture and from the Nature of the thing Or We have silently or Patiently waited for as some An●…ient and other Interpreters ●…ender it thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy temple 10. According to thy name O God so is thy praise t For this and such like glorious Actions thou art praised and acknowledged and Evidently proved to be such an one as thou hast affirmed thy self to be in thy Word God Almighty or Al-sufficient the Lord of H●…sts the King of thy Church 〈◊〉 People and a strong Tower to all that trust in thee and all other things which thou art called in Scripture Thy Name is not an empty Title but is filled up with honourable and Praise-worthy Works answerable to it unto the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousness u i. ●… Of righteous Actions by which thou discoverest thy Justice and Holiness in destroying the Wicked and incorrigible Enemies of thy People and in fulfilling thy Promises made to thy Church 11. Let mount x Synecdochically put for Ierusalem Zion rejoyce let the daughters of Judah y i. e. The other and lesser Cities and Towns or Villages i. e. all the People of Iuda●… for such are commonly called Daughters in Respect of the Mother City to which they are Subjects See Ios. 15. 45 and 17. 16. Psal. 45. 12. and 137 8. He mentions Iudah onely and not all Israel Partly because they were more immediately and Eminently concerned in Ierusalems Deliverance and principally because ten of the Tribes of Israel were now cut off from Ierusalem and from the Kingdom of David's House and possibly carried away Captive 2 Kings 18. 9 10. 11. be glad because of thy judgments z Upon thine and their Enemies At which they were glad not simply but because it was highly Conducible to God's Honour and to the Preservation and Enlargement of Gods Church in the World 12. Walk about Zion and go round about her a He speaketh Either 1. To the Enemies as Triumphing over them Or rather 2. To the People of that City and Kingdom who had been Eye Witnesses of this glorious work of God as appears from the following Verses tell the towers thereof b He bids them ●…ark well her ●…owers B●…warks and Palaces here and v. 13. not with vain Ostentation or Carnal Confidence for he had said that God onely was their Refuge v. 3. but with thankfulness to God when they should find upon Enquiry that not one of them was demolished or ●…ny way defaced by so potent an Enemy 13. * 〈◊〉 s●…t your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mark ye well her bulwarks ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consider c Or Exalt or Admire her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following d That they may be excited to continue their Praises to God for this Mercy by which they hold and enjoy all their Blessings and to trust in God in the like Difficulties for the Future 14. For this God e is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide even unto death f Who hath done this great Work i. e. Whilest we have a being Birth and Life ●…nd the several Ages of Life and Death are oft ascribed to Churches and Commonwealths both in Scripture and in other Authors This Promise was made to the Old and earthly Ierusalem upon Condition of their Obedience wherein they failing so grossly lost the benefit of it but it is absolutely made good to the New and Heavenly Ierusalem the Church of Christ. PSAL. XLIX The ARGUMENT This Psalm is Penned upon the same Occasion with Psal. 39. and 73. to wit upon the Contemplation of the afflictions of Gods People and of the Prosperity and Glory of ungodly Men. The design is to justifie Gods Providence in this dark Dispensation and to shew that all things being Considered good Men have no cause for immoderate Dejection of Spirit nor wicked Men for glorying in their present Felicities To the chief musician a Psalm ‖ Or of for the sons of Korah 1. HEar this all ye people a Heb. All People Iews or Gentiles For all are concerued in this Matter as being apt to stumble and murmur at it give ●…ar all ye inhabitants of the World 2. Both * Psal. 6●… 9. low and high rich and poor tother 3. My mouth shall speak of wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding b It concerns you diligently to attend to me for I am about to speak not of Vulgar and Trivial t●…ngs or 〈◊〉 as come suddenly into my Mind and rush as 〈◊〉 out of my Mouth but of such things as are the r●…sult o●… my most 〈◊〉 and considerate thoughts and such a●… i●… 〈◊〉 ob●…rve them and l●…y them to Heart will make you truly 〈◊〉 and keep you from those Errors and Follies and 〈◊〉 which the generality of Mankind for want of a right underst●…g do run into 4. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 13. 3●… I will incline mine ear c This is another Arg●…ment to perswade them to h●…rken to him I will hearken what God by his Spirit speaks to me and that and nothing else will I now speak to you and therefore it is well worth your hearing I also shall joyn with you in attending to it that whilst I ●…each you I my self may learn the same Lesson For as Ministers now teach themselves whilst they teach

Grace or rather 2. all the Good and Great Works which have been wrought for us all our wonderful Deliverances and singular Blessings come from thee And so the Argument is this God hath delivered us formerly upon all occasions and therefore he will still deliver us and give us Peace Which Inference is frequently made by Holy Men in Scripture ‖ Or for us in us l Heb. to or for us 13 O LORD our God * 2 Chron. 12. 8. other lords besides thee m Others besides thee who art our onely Iudge and King and Lawgiver Isa. 33. 22. and besides those Governours who have been set up by thee and have ruled us for thee and in subordination to thee even Foreign and Heathenish Lords such as the Philistins and lately the Assyrians have had dominion over us n Have exercised a Tyrannical Power over us but by thee onely o By thy Favour and Help by which alone and not by our Strength or Merits we have been rescued from their Tyranny will we make mention of thy Name p We will celebrate thy Praise and trust in thee for the future Thou onely hast given us both Ability and Occasion to magnifie thy Name whereas without thy Succour we had gone into the place of Silence where there is no remembrance of thee as is said Psal. 6. 5. 14 They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise q Those Tyrants and Enemies are utterly and irrecoverably destroyed so as they shall never live or rise again to molest us Possibly he speaks of the miraculous Destruction of Sennacherib's Army before Ierusalem therefore r That they might be so effectually destroyed thou didst undertake the Work Or rather because as this Particle is used Numb 14. 43. Psal. 42. 6. thou hast c. as it follows hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish s Thou hast destroyed both them and theirs and all the Monuments or Memorials of their Greatness and Glory 15 Thou hast increased the nation t Heb. Thou hast added to the nation Which may be understood either 1. in way of Mercy of adding to their Numbers as our Translation takes it and so we have in effect the same Phrase 2 Sam. 24. 3. The Lord add to the people c. and Psal. 115. 14. in the Hebrew Text The Lord shall add upon or to you or 2. in way of Judgment of adding to their Plagues or Miscries of which we read Rev. 22. 18. in which sence the Phrase is found in the Hebrew Text Psal. 120. 3. What shall be added to thee and in that usual Form of Imprecation The Lord do so to me and more Ruth 1. 17. 1 Sam. 3. 16. c. where it is in the Hebrew The Lord do so to me and add And this sence seems to be favoured by the Context as also by the ancient Greek Translators who render the Words add to them evil or punishments And so the Word adding may be used emphatically and sarcastically God indeed will add to them but what Not Numbers and Power and Glory as they expected but Plagues or Judgments one after another This nation is supposed by the Current of Interpreters to be the People of Israel emphatically called the nation Possibly it may be the Assyrians of whom he spoke in the last Verse But this I propose with submission O LORD thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified u Thy Justice is glorified in their Punishment or Destruction thou hast removed it far unto all the ends of the earth x Which may be understood either 1. of Israel and that either in a way of Mercy Thou hast by destroying the Assyrians enlarged thy People who were shut up in Ierusalem so that now they may go to the remotest parts of the Land or in way of Judgment Thou hast removed thy People out of their own Land and suffered them to be carried Captive to the ends of the Earth Or 2. of the Assyrians Thou hast removed them from Ierusalem which they had besieged and caused them to flee into their own Country which in Scripture-phrase was in the ends of the earth of which see Isa. 5. 26. 13. 5. 16 O LORD in trouble have they y To wit thy People as appears both from the Matter of this Verse and from the following Verses visited thee z Come into thy Presence with their Prayers and Supplications as the next Clause explains it they poured out a Which notes the Plenty or rather the Earnestness of their Prayers as Psal. 42. 4. 142. 2●… a † Heb. secret speech prayer b Heb. a muttering or lowly speech such as Charmers use and such as Hezekiah used when he was in great distress Isa. 38. 14. Like a crane or swallow so did I chatter I did mourn as a dove and such as is usual in case of great humiliation and dejection of Mind when thy chastning was upon them c When thou wast punishing them for their Sins 17 Like as * Joh. 16. 21. a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we been d Such was our Anguish and Danger in thy sight e Whilst thou didst onely look upon us like a meer Spectator without affording us the least degree of Pity or Help Or this Phrase notes onely the reality of the Thing God was Witness of this our Misery and knoweth the Truth of what I say O LORD 18 We have been with child we have been in pain we have as it were brought forth wind f We have had the Torment of a Woman in Child-bearing but not the Comfort of a Living Child Ioh. 16. 21. for we have brought forth nothing but Wind all our Labours and Hopes were vain and unsuccessful The Prophet here represents their deplorable and desperate Condition before God appeared so eminently to deliver them we have not wrought any deliverance g We found that we were utterly unable to deliver our selves in the earth h Or in the land in our own Country where yet we had far greater Advantages than we could have had elsewhere neither have the inhabitants of the world i The Assyrians or our other Enemies for they are here opposed to God's People fallen 19 Thy dead men shall live k The Prophet here turneth his Speech to God's People and gives them a Cordial to support them in their deep Distress expressed in the foregoing Verse Thy dead Men are not like those v. 14. for they shall not live as I there said but thine shall live You shall certainly be delivered from all your Fears and Dangers Nothing is more frequent both in Scripture and other Authors than for great Calamities to be compared to death and Deliverance from them to life and reviving and resurrection

and from their succeeding Calamities For that this Place looks beyond the Deliverance from the Assyrian Army and unto the Times of the New Testament seems probable 1. from the following Verses which belong to that Time as we shall see 2. from the State of the Iewish Nation which after that Deliverance continued to be very sad and corrupt and averse from that Reformation which Hezekiah and Iosiah prosecuted with all their might and therefore the Body of that People had not yet learned this Lesson of sincere Trusting in God alone 3. from S. Paul's Explication and Application of these Words Rom. 9. 27. of which more may be said when I come thither And for the Words in that day which may seem to restrain this to the time of the Assyrian Invasion they are frequently used in the Prophets of the times of the Gospel as Isa. 2. 11. 4. 2. 11. 10. c. shall no more again stay upon him that smote them r Shall learn by this Judgment and Experience never to trust to the Assyrians for Help as Ahaz and his People now did but shall stay upon the LORD the holy One of Israel in truth s Not onely by profession but sincerely 21 * Chap. 7. 3. The remnant t Or a remnant or but a remnant or a remnant onely Which Particles are oft understood as hath been formerly and frequently observed and may be here supplied from the following Verses shall return even the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God u Unto the Messiah expresly called the mighty God Isa. 9. 6. 22 * Rom. 9. 27. For though thy people Israel x Or O Israel to whom by an Apostrophe he directeth his Speech be as the sand of the sea yet a remnant y Or a remnant onely as before For that this is a Threatning in respect of some as well a Promise in respect of others is evident from the rest of this and from the following Verse † Heb. in or amongst of them shall return * Chap. 28. 22. the consumption decreed shall overflow z The Destruction of the People of Israel was already decreed or determined as it is in the next Verse by the fixed Counsel of God and therefore must needs be executed and like a Deluge overflow them ‖ Or in with righteousness a As this Word is rendred Rom. 9. 28. the Preposition in or with being here understood as it is every where And this is added to shew that although this Judgment of God may seem very severe yet it is most just not onely by the Laws of strict and rigid Justice but even by the Rules of Equity and Clemency as this Word oft signifies inasmuch as he hath spared a considerable Remnant of them when he might have destroyed them utterly And so this Word is added as a Reason why a Remnant and why but a Remnant should return because God would both glorifie his Justice and manifest his Mercy And in this mixed sence the Apostle seems to expound this Place Rom. 9. 27 28. 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption even determined b The same thing is repeated in other Words with some addition God will execute his own Decree concerning the Destruction of Israel which he is well able to do because he is the Lord of Hosts in the midst of all the land c In all the Parts of the Land not excepting Ierusalem which was to be preserved in the Assyrian Invasion when almost all the other fenced Cities of Iudah should be taken but should afterwards be taken and destroyed as it was first by the Babylonians and then by the Romans 24 Therefore d This is an Inference not from the Words immediately foregoing but from the whole Prophecy Seeing the Assyrian shall be destroyed and a Remnant of my People preserved and restored thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts O my people that dwellest in Zion e In Ierusalem which is frequently called Sion as Psal. 48. 12. 87. 2. Isa. 1. 8 27. 33. 20. c. Which he mentions because this was the principal Object of the Assyrians Design and Rage and there were the Temple and Thrones of Justice and the King and his Princes and Multitudes had fled thither from the Assyrian be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod f He shall afflict thee but not destroy thee Compare 1 Kings 12. 11. ‖ Or but he shall lift up his staff for thee and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of * Exod. 14. Egypt g As the Egyptians formerly did and with the same ill Success to themselves and comfortable Issue to you 25 For yet a very little while and the indignation h Mine Anger as it is explained in the next Clause either 1. towards my People which shall weaken the Assyrian whose great Strength lay there of which see above v. 5. or 2. towards the Assyrian with whom God was very angry v. 12. c. yea so angry as not to be satisfied without their Destruction as it follows shall cease i As Anger commonly doth when Vengeance is fully executed and mine anger in their destruction 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge k Shall send a destroying Angel Isa 37. 36. for him according to the slaughter of * Jud. 7. 25. Chap. 9. 4. Midian l Whom God slew suddenly and unexpectedly and in the Night as he did the Assyrians at the rock of Oreb m Upon which one of their Chief Princes was slain and nigh unto which the Midianites were destroyed and as his rod was upon the sea n To smite and divide it and so to make way both for thy Deliverance and for the Destruction of the Egyptians so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt o As he did in Egypt to bring his Plagues upon that Land and People 27 And it shall come to pass in that day that * Chap. 14. 25. his burden p The Burden of the Assyrian for so it was actively because imposed by him though passively it was Israel's Burden as being laid upon him † Heb. shall remove shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroy'd because of the anointing q Out of the respect which I bear to that Holy Unction which I have established amongst you And so this may relate either 1. to the Body of the People who were in some sort anointed being made by God a kingdom of priests and an holy nation Exod. 19. 6. or 2. to that Sacred Kingdom which God had by his positive Precept and solemn Covenant established in David and his Posterity for ever The Iews therefore and some others understand this of Hezekiah to whom God had a singular respect