2 c. Vers. 15. judgement shall returne to justice that is severity to mercy the rigour of the Law changed to the clemency of the Gospell So judgement is often used for sentence of punishment as Ier. 52. 9. and justice for grace and mercy see Psal. 24. 5. Or judgement which in the affliction of Gods people and prosperity of the wicked seemeth to be parted from justice shall returne unto it when the godly are delivered and the wicked punished after it so the Greeke turneth it or after him meaning God Vers. 16. who will rise up or who standeth up namely to assist me meaning no man doth Vers. 17. an helpfulnesse that is a full helpe see Psal. 44. 17. in silence the place of stilnesse and silence that is the grave as the Greeke explaineth it so Psal. 115. 17. see also Psal. 49. 13. Vers. 18. is moved or slippeth see Ps. 38. 17. Vers. 19. my cogitations my carefull troubled thoughts perplexed as the branches of a tree for so the word properly signifieth therefore the Greeke turneth it sorrowes So Ps. 139. 23. Vers. 20. of wofull evils or of mischiefes the mischievous tyrannous throne of the unrighteous Iudge shall it have fellowship or be joyned with thee O God meaning it shall not as Shalt thou build 2 Sam. 7. 5. is Thou shalt not build 1 Chr. 17. 4. See also Psal. 5. 5. which frameth or he that frameth or formeth by a decree or for a statute a law V. 21. run by troupes combine and gather together as banded to fight in Greeke they hunt for V. 23. will turne Hebr. hath turned that is will assuredly turne in their malice or for their evill PSAL. XCV An exhortation to praise God 3 for his greatnesse 6 and for his goodnesse 8 A warning not to harden the heart against Gods word as Israel had done who therefore entred not into his rest COme let us shout joyfully to Iehovah let us shout triumphantly to the Rocke of our salvation Let us prevent his face with confession with Psalmes let us shout triumphantly to him For Iehovah is a great God and a great King above all gods In whose hand are the deepe places of the earth and the strong heights of the mountaines are his Whos 's the sea is for he made it and the dry land his hands have formed Come let us bow downe our selves bend downe let us kneele before Iehovah our maker For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and sheepe of his hand to day if ye shall heare his voice Harden not your heart as in Meribah as in the day of Massah in the wildernesse Where your fathers tempted me proved me also saw my worke Fortie yeeres I was irked with ' that generation and said they are a people erring in hart and they know not my waies So that I sware in mine anger if they shall enter into my rest Annotations COme or Goe to The holy Ghost by David thus exhorteth Israel to laud the Lord and obey his voice For he penned this Psalme Heb. 3. 7. and 4. 7. the Rocke meaning Christ as the Apostle sheweth Heb. 3. 6 7. the Greeke translateth it God our Saviour Vers. 2. prevent come first and speedily Vers. 3. great God or great Potentate Ael So Christ is also intituled Tit. 2. 13. All Gods Angels Princes or false gods Psa. 8. 6. and 82. 6. and 96. 4 5. Vers. 4. deepe places or deepe closets Hebr. searchings that is deepe secret places for which search is made Iob 28. 1 2 c. and which cannot by mans search be found Iob 38. 4 5 6 18. strong heights or wearisome heights high mounts which weary men to climbe them but the word hath also a signification of strong and not being wearied Numb 23. 22. Vers. 7. of his hand that is of his guidance Psal. 77. 21. See also Psal. 100. 3. to day hereby is meant the whole time wherin Christ speaketh by his Gospell Heb. 3. 7 13 15. and 4. 7 8. Vers. 8. in Meribah that is in the Contention or Provocation as the Greeke turneth it The name of a place in the wildernesse where Israel contended with Moses and tempted the Lord saying Is the Lord among us or no because there was no water for the people to drinke Therefore he called the place Massah Tentation and Meribah Contention Exod. 17. 1 2 7. Also another place where againe they contended with Moses with the Lord Num. 20. 1 3 13. day of Massah that is of Tentation by day againe we may understand the whole space wherein they tempted God ten times as is said Num. 14. 22. so the day of salvation 2 Cor. 6. 2. is the time thereof Yet there was a speciall day and place of Tentation named Massah Ex. 17. 2 7. whereupon Moses warned the people Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God as ye tempted him in Massah Deut. 6. 16. Vers. 9. tempted me hereupon the Apostle saith they tempted Christ 1 Cor. 10. 9. my worke that is workes Heb. 3. 9. both in miraculous mercies giving them bread from heaven and waters out of the rockes c. Psal. 78. 15 23 c. and in punishments for their rebellions Psal. 78. 31 33 c. Heb. 3. 17. For worke sometime signifieth reward Psal. 109. 20. Iob 7. 2. Lev. 19. 13. Vers. 11. if they shall enter that is they shall not enter Heb. 3. 11. 18. a part of the oath is not uttered see Psal. 89. 36. This oath was made at Cadesh where the people through unbeleese refused to enter the promised land Num. 14. 21 22 23 30 32. Heb. 3. 17. 19. my rest the land of Canaan Deut. 12. 9. 1 Chron. 23. 25. a figure of a better rest which we that have beleeved the word doe enter into Heb. 4. 3. for if that land wherein now they were had beene their rest David would not have spoken of another there remaineth therfore a Rest for the people of God let us studie to enter into it Heb. 4. 8 9 11. PSAL. XCVI An exhortation to praise God for his greatnesse 5 The vanity of Idols 8 God onely is to be served 9 His reigne and judgement is to be shewed to the Gentiles SIng ye to Iehovah a new song sing ye to Iehovah all the earth Sing ye to Iehovah blesse ye his name preach the good tidings of his salvation from day to day Tell among the nations his glory among all peoples his marvellous workes For great is Iehovah and praised vehemently fearefull he is above all Gods For all the gods of the peoples are vaine idols but Iehovah made the heavens Glorious majesty and comely honour are before him strength and beauteous glory in his sanctuary Give to Iehovah yee kindreds of the peoples give to Iehovah glory and strength Give to Iehovah the glory of his name take up an oblation and come into his courts Bow downe your selves to Iehovah in the comely honour of the sanctuary
2. These were of the worst sort of people in the land Ezek. 16. 3. Vers. 35. a bitternesse of spirit that is a griefe of mind through their bitter provocation and rebellious cariage so that they were yrked of their life by reason of them Gen. 27. 46. Or of a rebellious spirit resisting their parents This latter the Greeke followeth calling them Contentious with Isaak and Rebekah and the Chaldee saith they were rebellious and stubborne against the word of Isaak and Rebekah unto which the Ierusalemy Thargum addeth that they served God with strange service that is idolatry and received not the instruction either of Isaak or of Rebekah See Gen. 27. 46. CHAP. XXVII 1 Isaak sendeth Esau for venison purposing to eat and blesse him before his death 5 Rebekah instructeth Iakob to obtaine the blessing 15 Iakob under the person of Esau obtaineth it 30 Esau bringeth venison 33. Isaak trembleth 34 Esau complaineth and by importunity obtaineth a blessing 41 He threatneth to kill Iakob 42 Rebekah disappointeth it ANd it was when Isaak was old and his eyes were dimme that he could not see then called hee Esau his elder son and said unto him my son and hee said unto him Behold here am I. And he said Behold now I am old I know not the day of my death And now take I pray thee thy wepons thy quiver and thy bow and goe out to the field and hunt for me venison And make for me savoury-meats such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat that my soule may blesse thee before I dye And Rebekah heard when Isaak spake to Esau his sonne and Esau went to the field to hunt for venison for to bring it And Rebekah said unto Iakob her son saying Behold I heard thy father speaking unto Esau thy brother saying Bring me venison and make for me savoury-meats that I may eat and I will blesse thee before Iehovah before my death And now my sonne obey my voice according to that I doe command thee Goe now unto the flocke and take to me from thence two good kids of the goats and I will make them savoury-meats for thy father such as he loveth And thou shalt bring them to thy father that he may eat for that hee may blesse thee before his death And Iakob said to Rebekah his mother Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man and I a smooth man If so be my father shall feele me then shall I be in his eyes as a deceiver and I shall bring upon me a curse and not a blessing And his mother said unto him Vpon me be thy curse my sonne Onely obey my voice and goe take them unto me And he went and tooke and brought them to his mother and his mother made savoury-meats such as his father loved And Rebekah tooke the desireable garments of Esau her elder sonne which were with her in the house and put them upon Iakob her yonger sonne And the skinns of the kids of the goats she put upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck And she gave the savoury-meats and the bread which shee had made into the hand of Iakob her sonne And he came unto his father and said my father and hee said Behold here I am who art thou my sonne And Iakob said unto his father I am Esau thy firstborn I have done even as thou spakest unto mee Arise I pray thee sit and eate of my venison that thy soule may blesse me And Isaak said unto his son How is this that thou hast so soon found it my son And hee said because Iehovah thy God brought it to passe before me And Isaak said unto Iakob Come neere I pray thee and let me feele thee my sonne whether thou be the same my sonne Esau or not And Iakob went-neere unto Isaak his father and he felt him and he said the voice is the voice of Iakob and the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not because his hands were as the hands of Esau his brother hairy and he blessed him And he said art thou the same my sonne Esau And he said I. And he said Bring-neere unto me and I will eat of my sonnes venison that my soule may blesse thee and hee brought it neere to him and he did eat and he brought unto him wine and hee dranke And Isaak his father said unto him Come neere now and kisse me my sonne And he came neere and kissed him and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said See the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field the which Iehovah hath blessed And God give unto thee of the dew of the heavens and of the fatnesses of the earth and multitude of corne and of new-wine Let peoples serve thee and nations bow-downe themselves unto thee be thou a master to thy brethren and let thy mothers sonnes bow-downe-themselves unto thee Cursed be every one of them that curse thee and blessed be every one of them that blesse thee And it was when as Isaak had made an end of blessing Iakob and it was that Iakob was but going gone out from the presence of Isaak his father that Esau his brother came in from his hunting And he also made savoury meats brought them to his father and said unto his father Let my father arise and eate of his sonnes venison that thy soule may blesse me And Isaak his father said unto him who art thou and he said I am thy son thy first borne Esau And Isaak trembled with a very vehement great trembling said Who where is he that hath hunted venison broght it unto me I have eaten of all ere thou camest and have blessed him yea and he shall bee blessed When Esau heard the words of his father then cryed-he-out with an outcry great and bitter very vehemently and said unto his father Blesse me mee also my father And he said Thy brother came with guile and he hath taken thy blessing And he said Is it because his name was called Iakob for hee hath supplanted me these two-times he tooke my first-birthright and behold now he hath taken my blessing and he said hast thou not reserved a blessing for me And Isaak answered and said unto Esau Loe I have appointed him to be a master over thee and all his brethren have I given to him for servants and with corne and new wine have I sustained him and unto thee now what shall I doe my son And Esau said unto his father Hast thou but that one blessing my father blesse me me also my father and Esau lifted up his voice and wept And Isaak his father answerd and said unto him Behold of the fatnesses of the earth shall thy dwelling be and of the dew of the heavens from above And by thy sword shalt thou live and thy Brother shalt thou serve and it shall be when thou shalt get-the-dominion that thou shalt breake his yoake
contemptible thing in them nor evill name And generally able men are such as have a strong or couragious heart to deliver the oppressed out of the oppressors hand as it is said of Moses he stood up and saved them Exod. 2. 17. Maimony in Sanhedrin chap. 2. S. 7. men of truth the Greeke calleth them just men So in Zach. 7. 9. judgement of truth the Greek there translateth just judgement Againe justice is put for truth in Psal. 52. 5. because these vertues are neere allied So in the Hebrew canons it is explained Men of truth are such as follow after justice for it selfe out of their owne minde doe love the truth and â—â—te violent wrong and flee from all kinde of injustice Maimony in Sanhedrin c. 2. S. 7. covetousnesse or gainâ— lucre The Chaldee translateth hating to receive Mammon The Apostle expoundeth it not greedy of filthy lucre 1 Tim. 3. 3. 8. Sometime there is added gaine of money as Iudg. 5. 19. which the Apostle calleth love of money 1 Tim. 6. 10. The Hebrewes explaine it thus Hating covetousnesse even 〈◊〉 owne Mammon or Riches they hasten not thereto 〈◊〉 〈…〉 greedy to gather riches for whose hasteneth 〈…〉 h want shall 〈◊〉 upon him Maimony in San 〈…〉 c. 2. S. 7. The love of lucre is the corruption 〈◊〉 〈…〉 stice Deut. 16. 19. 1 Sam. 8. 3. Prov. 1. 19. Ezek. 〈…〉 Esa. 56. 11. Vnto the foure properties here 〈…〉 ed we may adde three â—â—oe which are na 〈…〉 Deut. 1. 13. Wise â—â—en and understanding and knowne under which seven all other vertues and good qualities are implyed The Hebrew Doctors say of the most inferiour magistrates whom they call the Court of three men there must be in every one of them these seven things wisedome meeknesse the feare of God hatred of MaÌ„mon love of the truth love of their fellow creatures that is of other men and that they be men of good name Maimony in Sanhedrin c. 2. S. 7. See Num. 11. Deut. 1. and 17. rulers or princes captaines of thousands in Greeke Chiliarchs such we English Chiefe Captaines Acts 21. 31. 32. Revel 6. 15. as the next Centurions Vers. 22. at all time alwaies ready to heare the causes brought the Greeke saith every houre But the Sabbaths and feast daies were excepted from these as from all other civill affaires Levit. 23. 3. 7. 8. 21. c. and by the Iewes canons the evening before the Sabbath was also excepted from such judgments notwithstanding this generall speech at all time Maimony in Sanhedrin c. 11. S. 2. and 3. And they used in Israel as hee there sheweth in Sanhedrin c. 3. S. 1. the lesser courts to sit from morning prayer till the sixt houre of the day that is till noone and the greater court sate from the daily sacrifice in the morning till the daily evening sacrifice let this be or it shall be c. make thou the burden so Moses calleth it in Deut. 1. 1â— Vers. 23. to stand that is to endure come to their place that is the land of Canaan whither they are travelling as Num. 10. 29. or return home with an end of their controversies without long waiting So ones house or home is called his place Iudg. 7. 7. and 9. 55. and 19. 28. 29. Vers. 25. Moses chose by the peoples consent who brought fit men unto him Deut. 1. 13. 14. c. made them Hebr. gave or set them heads that is rulers This he did with a charge unto the rulers to judge justly see Deut. 1. 16. 17. Vers. 27. his way or himselfe as Gen. 12. 1. And by Num. 10. 29. 32. it appeareth that Moses earnestly requested his comming againe to guide the people CHAP. XIX 1 The people come to Sinai 3 God calleth Moses up into the â—ount and by him propoundeth unto Israel the keeping of his covenant 8 The peoples answer that they would doe all is returned to the Lord. 10 The people are sanctified against the third day 12 The mountaine is bounded and must not be touched 16 The fearefull presence of God upon the mount 19 whereat Moses is afraid 21 The people and priests are againe charged not to breake their bounds upon paine of death IN the third Moneth after the going forth of the sonnes of Israel out of the land of Egypt in the same day came they into the wildernesse of Sinai For they had journied from Rephidim and were come to the wildernesse of Sinai and encamped in the wildernesse and there Israel camped before the mountaine And Moses went up unto God and Iehovah called unto him out of the mountaine saying Thus shalt thou say to the house of Iakob and tell the sonnes of Israel You have seene what I did unto the Egyptians and I have borne you upon Eagles wings and brought you unto my selfe And now if hearkning ye will hearken unto my voice and keepe my covenant then yee shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all peoples for all the earth is mine And you shall be unto me a kingdome of priests and an holy nation These are the words which thou shalt speake unto the sonnes of Israel And Moses came and called for the Elders of the people and laid before their faces all these words which Iehovah commanded him And all the people answered together and said All that Iehovah hath spoken wee will doe And Moses returned the words of the people unto Iehovah And Iehovah said unto Moses Loe I come unto thee in the thicke cloud that the people may heare when I speake with thee and may beleeve in thee also for ever And Moses told the words of the people unto Iehovah And Iehovah said unto Moses Go unto the people and sanctifie them to day to morrow and let them wash their clothes And let them be ready against the third day for in the third day Iehovah will come downe in the eyes of all the people upon mount Sinai And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about saying Take heed to your selves that yee goe not up into the mountaine or touch the border of it all that toucheth the mountaine shall die the death There shall not a hand touch it but hee shall be stoned with stones or shot through with a shot whether it bee beast or man it shall not live when the sound of the trumpet is drawne long they shall goe up into the mountaine And Moses went downe from the mountaine unto the people and hee sanctified the people and they washed their clothes And hee sayd unto the people Be ye ready against the third day come not yee nigh unto a Wife And it was in the third day when it was morning that there was voices and lightnings and a heavy cloud upon the mountaine and the voice of the trumpet exceeding strong and all the people that was in the Campe trembled And Moses brought forth the people out of the Campe to meet with God and they stood at the nether part
for thousands forgiving iniquity and trespass and sinne and that will not clearing cleare the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sonnes and upon the sonnes sonnes unto the third and unto the fourth generation And Moses made-hast and bended downe-the head toward the earth and bowed himselfe And he said If ô now I have found grace in thine eyes ô Lord let the Lord now goe amongst us for it is a stiffe necked people and pardon thou our iniquity and our sinne and take us for thine inheritance And he said Behold I strike a covenant before all thy people I will doe marvels which have not beene created in all the earth or in any of the Nations and all the people amongst which thou art shall see the work of Iehovah for it is a fearfull thing which I doe with thee Observe thou that which I command thee this day Behold I drive out from before thee the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Chethite and the Pherizzite and the Evite and the Iebusite Take heed to thy selfe lest thou strike a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou entrest lest hee bee for a snare in the midst of thee But ye shall destroy their altars and breake their pillars and cut-downe their groves For thou shalt not bow-downe thy selfe to another God for Iehovah whose Name is Iealous hee is a Iealous God Lest thou strike a covenant with the inhabitant of the Land and they goe a whoring after their gods and sacrifice unto their gods and he call thee a 〈…〉 eat of his sacrifice And thou take 〈◊〉 Daughters unto thy Sons and his daughter goe a whoring after then gods and 〈◊〉 thy sonnes goe-a-whoring after then g 〈…〉 Thou shalt not make unto thee any m 〈…〉 gods The feast of unleavened cakes sh 〈…〉 thou keepe seven dayes 〈…〉 on shalt eaten levened cakes as I commanded thee at th◠appointed time of the moneth of Abib fo◠in the moneth of Abib thou camest out from Egypt All that openeth the wombe is mine and all thy cattell that is male that which openeth the wombe of oxe and of sheepe And that which openeth the wombe of an asse thou shalt redeeme with a lambe and if thou wilt not redeeme it then thou shalt breake the necke of it Every firstborne of thy Sonnes thou shalt redeeme and they shall not appeare before me empty Sixe dayes thou shalt labour and in the seventh day thou shalt cease in eating-time and in harvest thou shalt cease And thou shalt observe to thee the feast of weekes of the first fruits of Wheat harvest and the feast of ingathering at the revolution of the yeer Three times in the yeere every male of thee shall appeare before the face of the Lord Iehovah the God of Israel For I will cast out the nations from before thee and will inlarge thy border and no man shall desire thy land when thou goest up to appeare before the face of Iehovah thy God three times in the yeere Thou shalt not slay the blood of my sacrifice with levened bread neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passeover remaine unto the morning The first of the first fruits of thy Land thou shalt bring into the house of Iehovah thy God Thou shalt not seeth a kid in his mothers milke And Iehovah said unto Moses Write for thee these words for after the Tenor of these words I have stricken a covenant with thee and with Israel And hee was there with Iehovah Forty dayes and forty nights hee did eate no bread nor drinke water and he wrote upon the Tables the words of the covenant the tenne words And it was when Moses came downe from mount Sinai and the two Tables of Testimony in Moses hand when he came downe from the mount that Moses knew not that the skinne of his face shone when he spake with him And Aaron and all the Sonnes of Israel saw Moses and behold the skinne of his face shone and they feared to come nigh unto him And Moses called unto them and Aaron and all the Rulers of the Congregation returned unto him and Moses spake unto them And afterward all the Sonnes of Israel came nigh and hee commanded them all that Iehovah had spoken with him on mount Sinai And Moses made an-end of speaking with them and he put a veile upon his face And when Moses went in before Iehovah to speake with him he tooke off the veile untill hee came out and spake unto the Sonnes of Israel that which he was commanded And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses that the skin of Moses face shone and Moses did put the veile againe upon his face untill he went in to speake with him Annotations HEw thee or Hew unto thy selfe whereas the former tables were the worke of God himselfe Exod. 32. 16. See the notes on Exod. 31. 18. Here followeth the renewing of the covenant between God and his people rehearsed againe in Deut. 10. 1. c. and I The Greeke here addeth and come thou up unto me into the mount and I c. So Moses himselfe repeateth it in Deut. 10. 1. Vers. 2. present thy selfe or stand for me there that is wait till I come downe as vers 5. and then as the Chaldee translateth stand before me there And this being to be done in the morning it was a signe of mercy Psal. 90. 14. and 30. 6. and 5. 4. Vers. 3. before the Greeke translateth neere the mount see Exod. 19. 12. 13. with the annotations Vers. 5. descended by a manifestation of his glorious presence The Chaldee saith was revealed See Exod. 19. 18. 〈◊〉 be proclaimed that is the Lord did proclaime as hee promised Exod. 33. 19. Or it may be understood of Moses and translated he called on the name of Iehovah for so the Hebrew phrase sometimes signifieth as Gen. 12. 8. Verse 6. passed by that is as the Chaldee translateth caused his Majesty Shecinah to passe by Whereupon the Hebrewes comparing this with Exod. 33. 19. 22. say The Shecinah or divine-Majesty called I passed by R. Menachem on Exod. 34. So they held this Shecinah to be one with the Father See after on vers 9. he proclaimed that is God proclaimed Exod. 33. 19. But Thargum Ierusalemy referreth it to Moses saying And the glory of the Majesty of the Lord passed before him and Moses prayed and said c. Howbeit Moses him-selfe saith the Lord spake these words Numb 14. 17. 18. And so other of the Hebrewes understand it as before that Shecinah the Divine-presence proclaimed these properties R. Menachem Iehovah Iehovah c. Here all Gods goodnesse passed before Moses and was proclaimed according to the promise Exod. 33. 19. the three first titles signifying God in his Essence or Being distinguished in three persons 1 Iohn 5. 7. God in Hebrew Ael which signifieth Mighty see Gen. 14. 18. pittifull or compassionate of tender mercy These next seven attributes shew Gods
powder and dust from the heavens shall it come downe upon thee untill thou be destroyed Iehovah will give thee to bee smitten before thine enemies thou shalt goe out against him one way and flee before him seven waies and thou shalt bee for a removing to all the kingdomes of the earth And thy carkasse shall bee for meat to all the fowles of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth and none shall fray them away Iehovah will smite thee with the boyle of Egypt and with the Emrods and with the scab and with the itch whereof thou canst not be healed Iehovah will smite thee with madnesse and with blindnesse and with astonishment of heart And thou shalt bee groping at noone day as the blinde gropeth in thicke darknesse and thou shalt not prosper in thy wares and thou shalt bee onely fraudulently oppressed and robbed all daies and none shall save thee Thou shalt betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her thou shalt build an house and thou shalt not dwell therein thou shalt plant a vineyard and shalt not make it common Thine oxe shall be slaine before thine eies and thou shalt not eat thereof thine asse shall be violently taken away from before thy face and shall not returne unto thee thy sheepe shall be given unto thine enemies and thou shalt have none to save Thy sonnes and thy daughters shall be given to another people and thine eies shall see and shall faile with longing for them all the day and there shall be no power in thine hand The fruit of thy land and all thy labour shall a people eat up which thou knowest not and thou shalt be onely fraudulently oppressed and crushed all daies And thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eies which thou shalt see Iehovah will smite thee with an evill bovle on the knees and on the legs wherof thou canst not be healed from the sole of thy foot even unto the top of thine head Iehovah will bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set overthee unto a nation which thou hast not knowne thou or thy fathers and there thou shalt serve other gods wood and stone And thou shalt be for an astonishment for a proverbe and for a by-word among all peoples whither Iehovah shall lead thee Much seed shalt thou carry out into the field and little shalt thou gather in for the Locust shall consume it Thou shalt plant vineyards and dresse them but thou shalt not drinke the wine nor gather the grapes for the worme shall eat it Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy coast but thou shalt not anoint thy selfe with the oile for thine Olive shall cast his fruit Thou shalt beget sonnes and daughters but they shall not be thine for they shall goe into captivity All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the grassehopper possesse The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee on high on high and thou shalt come downe below below He shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him hee shall bee the head and thou shalt bee the taile And all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee untill thou bee destroyed because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Iehovah thy God to keepe his commandements and his statutes which hee hath commanded thee And they shall be upon thee for a signe and for a wonder and upon thy seed for ever Because thou servedst not Iehovah thy God with joyfulnesse and with goodnesse of heart for the abundance of all things Therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Iehovah will send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakednesse and in want of all things and hee will put a yoke of iron upon thy necke untill he have destroyed thee Iehovah will bring against thee a nation from far from the end of the earth as the Eagle flieth a nation whose tongue thou shalt not heare A nation of a strong face which will not regard the face of the old nor shew grace to the young And hee shall eat the fruit of thy cattell and the fruit of thy land untill thou hee destroyed which shall not leave unto thee corne new wine or new oile the increase of thy kine or flockes of thy sheepe untill he have destroyed thee And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thine high and fenced walls come downe wherein thou trustedst thorowout all thy land and hee shall besiege thee in all thy gates thorowout all thy land which Iehovah thy God hath given unto thee And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy wombe the flesh of thy sonnes and of thy daughters which Iehovah thy God hath given unto thee in the siege and in the straitnesse wherewith thine enemies shall distresse thee The man that is tender among you and very delicate his eie shall bee evill towards his brother and towards the wife of his bosome and towards the remnant of his sonnes which he shall leave So that he will not give to any one of them of the flesh of his sonnes whom hee shall eat because hee hath not left unto him any thing in the siege in the straitnesse wherewith thine enemies shall distresse thee in all thy gates The tender woman among you and delicate which would not adventure the sole of her foot to set it on the ground for delicatenesse and for tendernesse her eie shall bee evill towards the husband of her bosome and towards her sonne and towards her daughter And towards her after-birth that commeth out from betweene her feet and towards her sonnes which shee shall beare for shee shall eat them for want of all things in secret in the siege and in the straitnesse wherewith thine enemy shall distresse thee in thy gates If thou wilt not observe to doe all the words of this Law that are written in this booke to feare this glorious and fearefull name Iehovah thy God And Iehovah will make marvellous thy plagues and the plagues of thy seed plagues great and permanent and sicknesses evill and permanent And he will bring upon thee every disease of Egypt which thou wast afraid because of them and they shall cleave unto the. Also every sicknesse and every plague which is not written in the booke of this Law them will Iehovah bring upon thee until thou be destroyed And yee shall be left with a few men whereas yee were as the starres of the heavens for multitude because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Iehovah thy God And it shall be as Iehovah rejoyced over you to doe you good and to multiply you so Iehovah will rejoyce over you to make you perish and to destroy you and ye shall bee plucked from off the Land whither thou goest in to possesse it And Iehovah will scatter thee among all peoples from the end of the earth and unto the end of the earth and there thou shalt serve other gods which thou
first followed the margine Iehoschaphas paravit classem Iehoshaphat made ships afterward Iunius keepeth the line Iehoshaphato decem fuerunt naves Iehoshaphat had tenships and sundry other of like sort where the latter version differeth from the former by reason of the difference betweene the line and the margine in the Hebrew Text. These things not commonly knowne may cause the Readers to marvell and be offended at such varietie and seeming contrarietie both in these and other common versions set forth in vulgar tongues for no traslation almost in any language but followeth sometimes the one and sometimes the other and afterward sometime varieth from it selfe upon this occasion Now I without prejudice to any of better judgement setting downe both as the Reader may see in Exod. 21. 8. Lev. 11. 21. and 25. 30. and otherwhere and according to the measure of knowledge which God hath given me endevouring in the Annotations to cleare the Scripture of that seeming contradiction am publiquely taxed as setting downe that which the Hebrew hath not as making God like unto Ianus Bifrons the Idoll with twofaces to looke two divers wayes at once with other like hard imputations and this diversity of writing and reading is from the authoritie of some late Rabbines said to arise from corruption confusion doubting and uncertainty of Scribes c. I will set downe the reasons of my contrary judgement without purpose of further contention let the discreet Reader approve of what liketh him best If those divers readings which the Hebrewes call Keri and Cethib be corruptions of the Scripture they have beene many of them done voluntarily and purposely as is apparant to all of understanding that looke upon them For beside that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 affirmatiue and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 negative in this word Lo are not one like another to deceive the eye so often in Moses the Prophets it could not arise from mistaking of letters to write Gnapholim for Techorim the Emrods as in Deut. 28. 27. 1 Sam. 5 or Shagal for Shacab as in Deut. 28. 30. Esay 13. 16. and Zach. 14. 2. Chore jonim for Dib jonim as in 2 King 6. 25. Chorachem for Tsoatham and Shenehem for Meme raglehem as in Esay 36. 12. and 2 King 18. 27. Macharaoth for Motsaoth as in 2 King 10. 27. And when Naarah a Young woman is but 22 times used by Moses that it should 21. times be written with want of the last letter so that in copies wanting pricks as many have done and do it might be read Naar a young man that these and sundry the like should be of negligence or oversight cannot with reason be supposed Besides that those words in the line have there usually the pricks or vowels of the words in the margine after which they were read 1 It standeth not with the wisedome goodnesse and providence of God who preserveth all his creatures and hath magnified his Word above all his name Psal. 138 2. that he should suffer his Word in the originall and fountaine thereof left for a peculiar treasure to his Church in all ages to be corrupted and depraved and that in many hundred places to the scorne of Infidels and offence of his weake people The Iewes which hold that God hath more care of the letters and syllables of the Law than of the starres of heaven will loath them that shall seeke so to disgrace the holy Scripture 2 It is noted by the Apostle for a chiefe priviledge of the Iewes that unto them were com 〈…〉 ted the Oracles of God Rom. 3. 1 2. And from them we Christians have received them But this is no praise or advantage as the Apostle attributeth unto them if they have through negâ—â—gence and of purpose corrupted so many places so that the corruption if such it be hath spread as a Leprosie over all the Bible there being scarce any one little booke but hath the markes of their violent hands upon it Not any one of Moses bookes not Iosua Iudges Ruth Samuel or the Kings not Iob the Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes or the Song of Songs 〈…〉 ot Esai Ezekiel Ieremy the Lamentations or almost any of the small Prophets Not the bookes written after the captivity of Babylon as the Chronicles Ezra Esther Daniel Hag 〈…〉 gai Zaccharie no not so much but the ten Commandements as in Deu. 5. 10. are tainted with this pollution Where then is the praise of the Iew Or where is the faithfulnesse of the Church of God the Pillar and Stay of Truth 1 Tim. 3. 15. if we cannot have the Oracles of God from them with so much fidelitie as we have humane writings from many heathens 3. These sixteene hundred years whiles the Iewes have been cast off from being the Church of God and have beene scattered for their sinnes upon the face of the earth and have bent their studies to disprove Christianitiy yet can they not justly be charged to my knowledge 〈…〉 t they have corrupted the Scripture but the Hebrew text remaineth as it was in the Apostles dayes and may we thinke that they were lesse carefull or conscionable in former times 〈…〉 iles they were Gods Church and had alwaies some good people among them that would have care of the Law They have beene these many years so watchfull that if any fault escape 〈…〉 e Scribe the booke is not allowable to be read in their Synagogues till it be corrected They 〈…〉 ave these rules that if the booke of the Law doe want but a letter or if it have but one letter 〈…〉 re than it should or if one letter touch another or if the forme of any letter be so corrupted that 〈◊〉 cannot be read it is a booke which Children may learne on but it may not be read publiquely 〈…〉 aimony in Sepher Torah c. 10. And for these divers readings called Keri and Cethib which 〈◊〉 them are accounted of Divine Authority they say If the word which is full be written de 〈…〉 or that which is defective full or if a word which is to be read in the margine be writ 〈…〉 in the line as it is to be read as if Iishcabennah be written in the place of lishgalennah Deut. 28. 20. or Techorim in the place of Gnapholim Deut. 28. 27. or the like the booke is not allow 〈…〉 neither hath in it the holinesse of the booke of the Law at all but is as a booke on which children 〈◊〉 Maim ibidem c. 7. s. 11. Yea so farre hath their diligence extended this way that they â—ave reckoned every letter how often it is found thorowout the Bible no people on earth â—ave shewed like religious care of any booke as they have of the holy Scripture that we have no reason to suspect them in former ages whiles they inhabited Sion out of which the Law â—as to come forth unto all nations Esay 2. 3. 4. Kimchi Arias Montanus and such as thinke that these divers readings
he behaved himselfe wisely and â—â—ospered and was accepted in the eyes of all the people so that the women of Israel 〈…〉 g of him q Vers. 7. Saul hath slaine his thousands and David his ten thousands But that â—aise r Vers. 8 9. procured him envie from Saul ever after and he sought to slay him but s Vers. 16. all Isâ—ael loved him And though he after tooke to wife Michal Sauls daughter yet t 1 Sam. 19. c. Saul â—ontinued his hatred against his sonne in law and first secretly then openly sought his 〈…〉 fe so that David was faine to flee and hide himselfe in the land of Israel and in 〈…〉 range countries to the u Psal. 120. 1 Sam. 26. 19. great affliction of his soule When Saul was dead and David x 2 Sam. 5. 4. thirtie yeares of age the men of Iudah y 2 Sam. 2. 4. anointed him King the second time in Hebron over the house of Iudah Ishbosheth Sauls son resisted him but David waxed stronger and stronger Then z 1 Chron. 11. 1 3. all Israel anointed him King over them and he reigned in Ierusalem So the time of all his reigne was a 2 Sam. 5. 4 5. forty yeares In Hebron he reigned over Iudah seven yeeres and six months and in Ierusalem he reigned 33. yeares over all Israel and Iudah During which space the Lord still exercised him with many b 1 Chron. 14. 18. 19. wars abroad and troubles at home as by the defiling of his daughter c 2 Sam. 13. c. Thamar the killing of his son Amnon the treason and death of his son Absalon the rebellion of Sheba and other like sorrowes which God d 2 Sam. 12. 10. for his sins chastised him with so many and so great that the e 2 Sam. 22. 5 6. pangs of death compassed him about the flouds of Belial the ungodly men made him afraid the cords of hell compassed him the snares of death prevented him his f Psal. 55. 4 5. heart was sore pained within him and the terrours of death fell upon him fearfulnesse and trembling came upon him and horrour overwhelmed him His g Psal. 31. 11. life was spent with griefe his yeares with sighing his strength failed and his bones were consumed But alwaies in his feares h Psal. 56. 3 4. he trusted in God and was not afraid what flesh could doe unto him in his distresse i 2 Sam. 22. 7. he called upon the Lord and cried to his God who heard his voice out of his Temple and drew him out of k Vers. 17 18 c. many waters from his strong enemie and from them that hated him and brought him forth into a large place and delivered him because he delighted in him Hee gave him the l Vers. 36 c. shield of his salvation and girded him with strength to battell and gave him the neckes of his enemies that he destroyed those that hated him Therefore he gave thanks unto the Lord m Vers. 50. among the nations and sang praises unto his name n Psal. 57. 8. awaking up his glory awaking up his Psaltery and Harpe awaking himselfe early to praise the Lord among the peoples and to sing unto him among the nations so he sang of his o Psal. 59. 16. power he sang loud of his mercy in the morning that God had beene his defence and refuge in the day of his distresse And hereof this booke of Psalmes most whereof David made is a glorious testimony wherein by manifold Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall Songs he set forth the praises of God his owneâ—aith in his Word exercise and delight in his Law with narrations of Gods former and present mercies and prophesies of future graces to be fulfilled in Christ whom he being a Prophet p Act. 2. 30. knew that hee should be the fruit of his loines concerning the flesh and should sit upon his throne whose incarnation afflictions death resurrection ascension and eternall glorious kingdome and priesthood he sang by the Spirit with such heavenly melody as may not only delight but draw into admiration every understanding heart and comfort the afflicted soule with such consolation as David himselfe was comforted of the Lord. And these his Psalmes have ever since by the Church of Israel by q Maâ— â—1 16. 42. Rom. 4. 6. 11. 9. Christ and his Apostles and by the Saints in all ages been received and honoured as the oracles of God cited for confirmation of true religion sung in the publike assemblies as in Gods Tabernacle and Temple where they sang praise unto the Lord with the r 2 Chron. 29. 30. words of David and with the instrumeÌ„ts which s 2 Chron. 7. 6. he had made over their t 2 Chron. 29. 25 27 28. burnt-offerings sacrifices Now because many things both for phrase and matter are difficult to such as arâ— not acquainted with Davids language I have out of my slender store annexed 〈…〉 few briefe notes comparing the Scriptures and conferring the best Expositors espe 〈…〉 ally the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions whereby if any helpe of understand 〈…〉 may arise the praise be to God the comfort to his people THE BOOKE OF Psalmes or Hymnes PSALME I. 1 The happinesse of the godly whose conversation is described and their prosperitie like a fruitfull tree 4 The contrary course of the wicked for which they and their way doe perish O Blessed is the man that doth not walk in the counsell of the wicked nor stand in the way of sinners non sit in the seat of the scornefull But hath his delight in the law of Iehovah and in his law doth hee meditate day and night And hee shall be as a tree planted by brookes of waters which shall give his fruit in his time and his leafe shall not fade and whatsoever hee shall doe shall prosper Not so the wicked but as the chaffe which the wind driveth it away Therefore the wicked shall not stand up 〈◊〉 judgement and sinners in the assembly of the just For Iehovah knoweth the way of the just and the way of the wicked shall perish Annotations THE Booke of Psalmes so our Lord himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it Luke 20. 42. but the Hebrew title 〈◊〉 signifieth Hymnes or Praises According to the Greeke it is called the Psalter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 〈◊〉 O Blessed or O Happy or Well fares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 joyfull 〈…〉 mation for the mans welfâ—â—â— and 〈…〉 cities as going right forward and so having good successe Contrary hereunto is Woe or Alas Eccles. 10. 16 17. Luke 6. 20 24. This word Ashrei in the Hebrew is alwaies applied to men and so differeth from another word Baruc blessed which is ascribed both to God and men Psal. 115. 15 18. the contrary whereto is cursed Psal. 37. 22. doth not walke or hath not walked But the time past and
wilt compasse me Selah I will make thee prudent and will teach thee in the way that thou shalt goe I will give counsell mine eye shall be upon thee Be not ye as the horse as the mule without understanding whose mouth must be stopped with bit and bridle which come not neere unto thee Many pains are for the wicked but he that trusteth in Iehovah mercy shall compasse him Rejoyce ye in Iehovah and be glad ye just and shout joyfully all ye upright of heart Annotations AN instructing Psalme or A Psalme that maketh prudent that causeth understanding As in the 8. verse of this psalm he saith I wil make thee prudent or instruct thee This title is set before sundry other Psalmes whose sinne is covered meaning by the Lord Psal. 85. 3. not by a man himselfe who must not cover but acknowledge sinne Psal. 32. 5. otherwise he shall not prosper Prov. 28. 13. Now God covereth sinne when hee imputeth it not as the verse following sheweth and as this is mans happinesse so for God not to cover it is woe and misery Nehem. 4. 5. Vers. 2. not impute not thinke count or reckon And this is an effect of his grace in Christ as it is written God was in Christ and reconciled the world to himselfe not imputing their sinnes unto them 2 Cor. 5. 19. And hereunto the Apostle applieth this Psalme thus David saith blessednesse is the mans unto whom God imputeth justnesse without works saying Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sinnes are covered Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sinne Rom. 4. 6 7 8. Vers. 3. because I ceased speaking or when I kept silence forbearing to confesse my sinnes as after vers 5. Like doctrine Elihâ— teacheth Iob 33. 19 22. Vers. 4. thy haud in Chaldee thy plague moisture the chiefe sap or radicall moisture which is an airy and oily substance dispred through the body whereby the life is fostered and which being spent death ensueth This word is used onely here and in Num. 11. 8. where it is applied to the best moisture or creame of oile Vers. 5. confesse Confessing of sinnes is when one freely manifesteth them accusing himselfe and praising Gods mercie which he expecteth in faith see Ios. 7. 19. against me my trespasses or concerning my trespasses but both the Greeke version plainly hath against me and elsewhere the Hebrew ghnalei here vsed seemeth to bee put for ghnalai as Psal. 108. 10. compared with Psal. 60. 10. the iniquitie of my sinne that is the guilt and punishment of it as Psal. 31. 11. And thus he that confesseth and forsaketh sinne shall have mercie Prov. 28. 13. for if wee acknowledge our sinnes God is faithfull and just to forgive us them 1 Ioh. 1. 9 See also Iob 33. 27 28. Vers. 6. the time of finding or time to finde which may be meant of the time when afflictions shall finde that is shall come vpon him as Psal. 116. 3 4. or the time when God may be found as Isa. 55. 6. and that time is when he is sought with the whole heart Deut. 4. 29. Ier. 29. 13. 2 Chron. 15. 15. To this latter the Chaldee applieth it saying of favour floud or inundation As waters signifie afflictions Psal. 69. 2. so a floud of waters denoteth great troubles and persecutions Dan. 9. 26. and 11. 22. Nahum 1. 8. Isa. 59. 19. Rev. 12. 15 16. The Chaldee paraphraseth in the time when many people 's come as waters they shall not come neare him to doe him evill Vers. 7. shouting songs of deliverance or of evasion that is thou wilt give me occasion by deliverance of me to sing many songs of praise unto thee Vers. 8. mine eie shall be upon thee or mine eie I will set upon thee that is I will have care of and looke well unto thee as Ier. 40. 4. Ezra 5. 5. Deut. 11. 12. Psal. 34. 16. So the Chaldee explaineth it I will counsell thee and set mine eie upon thee for good Or thus I will give counsel unto thee with mine eie that is with my care and providence Thus Christ counselled Peter with his eie Luk. 22. 61. So the eie is said to mocke Prov. 30. 17. Vers. 9. as the horse c. that is be not fooles and brutish so as ye must be ruled by force and rigour not by reason For unto the horse belongs a whip unto the asse a bridle and a rod to the fooles backe Prov. 26. 3. mouth must be stopped or jaw is to be tied Hebr. to stop for to be stopped active for passive as after Ps. 36. 3. which come not neare that is which will not obey or doe thee service unlesse they be forced and ruled by the bridle according to the saying of the Apostle Behold wee put bits into the horses mouthes that they should obey us Iam. 3. 3. Vers. 10. Many paines or Great smarts or sores are for the wicked So Solomon saith Affliction followeth sinners c. Prov. 13. 21. and 19. 29. and 24. 20. PSAL. XXXIII God is to be praised for his goodnesse 6 for his powerfull workes 12 and for his providence 20 Confidence is to be placed in God SHout joyfully ye just in Iehovah praise becommeth the righteous Confesse ye to Iehovah with harpe with Psaltery with ten stringed instrument sing Psalme unto him Sing ye to him a new Song doe well playing on the instrument with triumphant noise For righteous is the word of Iehovah and all his worke in faith He loveth justice and judgement the earth is full of the mercie of Iehovah By the word of Iehovah the heavens were made and all the host of them by the spirit of his mouth He gathereth together as an heape the waters of the Sea he giveth the deepes into treasuries Let all the earth be in feare of Iehovan let all the Inhabitants of the world shrinke with feare for him For he said and it was he commanded and it stood Iehovah dissipateth the counsell of the Nations he bringeth to nought the cogitations of the peoples The counsell of Iehovah shall stand for ever the cogitations of his heart to generation and generation O blessed is the Nation whereof Iehovah is God the people that he hath chosen for a possession to himselfe From the heavens Iehovah doth behold doth see all the sonnes of Adam From the firme place of his dwelling he looketh forth unto all the inhabitants of the earth He formeth altogether their heart he discreetly attendeth unto all their works There is no King saved by multitude of a power a mightie man shall not be delivered by multitude of able strength A horse is falshood for salvation and shall not deliver by multitude of his power Loe the eie of Iehovah is unto them that feare him to them that hopefully wait for his mercie To rid free their soule from death and to keep them alive in famine Our soule earnestly waiteth for Iehovah he is our helpe and
Gen. 17. 16. Vers. 18. I will make memorie will mention and make to be remembred The inditer of this Psalme speaketh this to Christ and of his eternall kingdome and glory shall confesse thee shall celebrate or praise thee The Hebrew is Iehodu of it Iehudah had his name Gen. 29. 35. from which name his blessing was derived thou art Iudah thy brethren Iodu shall confesse thee Gen. 49. 8. This here is fitly applied to Christ the Lion of the tribe Iudah Revel 5. 5. and aye or and to perpetuitie PSAL. XLVI The confidence which the Church hath in God 5 The river that maketh glad the citie of God 6 His presence and helpe from enemies 9 An exhortation to behold his workes To the master of the musicke to the sons of Korach upon Alamoth a song GOd will be to us an hopefull shelter and a strength a helpe in distresses we shall find very great Therefore we will not feare though the earth change and though the mountaines be moved into the heart of the seas Though the waters thereof make a noise be muddy though the mountaines quake for the haughtinesse therof Selah A river the streames thereof shal make glad the citie of God the holy the dwelling places of the most high God in the mids of it it shall not be moved God will helpe it at the looking forth of the morning The nations made a noise the Kingdomes were moved he gave his voice the earth melted Iehovah of hosts is with us the God of Iakob a high refuge for us Selah Come on behold the workes of Iehovah who putteth wondrous desolations in the earth He maketh warres to cease unto the utmost end of of the earth he breaketh the bow and cutteth the speare the charriots he burneth in fire Surcease and know that I am God I will be exalted in the nations I will be exalted in the earth Iehovah of hosts is with us the God of Iakob a high refuge for us Selah Annotations ON Alamoth This seemeth to be some musicall instrument or tune 1 Chron. 15. 20. 〈◊〉 We may call it Uirginals or Virgin tunes having high and shrill voyces or notes for Alamoth signifieth also Virgins Song 1. 2. The originall word Alam signifieth Hid whereupon the Greeke translateth it here kruphioon hidden ones or hid things And the Chaldee after mention of the sonnes of Korah addeth by their hand was it spoken in prophesie at what time their father was hidden from them but they were delivered and said this song If it be not referred to the musicke it seemeth rather to intend the hid counsels of God appertaining to his Church in Christ. Vers. 2. we shall find to wit an helpe or in distresses that we shall find as in Ps. 116. 3. distresse and sorrow I did find that is did feele or fall into And thus the Greeke saith here in tribulations that have found us vehemently Or we may translate it hee is found that is God is present at hand as in Gen. 19. 15. thy daughters which are found that is which are present very great or very mightie vehement Vers. 3. though the earth or when the earth change to wit her place By the changing of the earth and removing of the mounts are often meant the alteration of states and polities Hag. 2. 22 23. Revel 6. 14. Ier. 51. 25. hart of the seas that is the middest or deepest bottomes of them as the Chaldee expoundeth it the gulfe of the great sea The like phrase is in Exod. 15. 8. Io◠2. 3. Prov. 23. 34. Vers. 4. be muddy or cast up mud that is rage or be troubled as the Greeke translateth it Waters are peoples Rev. 17. 15. Ier. 47. 2. and their restlesse stirre is likened to the seas that cast up mire and dirt and foame out their own shame Isa. 57. 20. Iude verse 13. for the haughtinesse the proud swelling rage and surges Vers. 5. A river the streames thereof or There is a flood whose riverets or streames In the earthly Ierusalem this may be meant of the river Kidron 2 Sam. 15. 23. Iob 18. 1. and the streames or lesser rivers of Gibon and Shiloah 2 Chron. 32. 4 30. Isa. 8. 6. In the heavenly Ierusalem there is a pure river of the water of life proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lambe Rev. 22. 1. Ezek 47. 1. c. See also Ioel 3. 18. Gen. 2. 10. Psal. 65. 10. But as waters sometimes signifieth peoples so here the Chaldee paraphraseth peoples as flouds the streams of them shal come make glad the citie of God and shall pray in the house of the Sanctuary of the Lord in the tabernacles of the most high the citie of God that is Ierusalem called also the citie of the great King Psal. 48. 3. the citie of Iehovah Isa. 60. 14. the holy citie Esay 52. 1. Matth. 4. 5 the holy meaning the holy place Sion or the Sanctuary there dwelling places or habitacles see Psal. 43. 3. Esay 4. 5. Vers. 6. at the looking forth of the morning that is as the Greeke explaineth it very early when the morning peereth or sheweth the face The like phrase is in Exod. 14. 27. Iudg. 19. 26. and so of the looking forth of the evening Gen. 24. 63. Deut. 23. 11. Vers. 7. gave his voice that is spake aloud or thundred See Psal. 18. 14. or gave with his voice but the word with or in seemeth to be superfluous in the Hebrew as else-where Ier. 12. 8. Psal. 68. 34. So to seeke in Iehovah 2 Chron. 34. 26. is to seeke Iehovah 2. King 22. 18. The Chaldee referreth it to Gods voice on mount Sinai whe◠the gave the Law to his people the nations were troubled the kingdomes trembled melted that is was dismaied with feare So Psal. 75. 4. and 107. 26. Exod. 15. 15. Amos 9. 5 13. Ios. 2. 9. Vers. 10. chariots or round shields as both the Greeke and Chaldee Paraphrast here taketh it but else-where it is not to found but for wagons very often Vers. 11. Surcease or Leave off see Psal. 37. 8. The Chaldee expounds it of Surceasing from wars PSAL. XLVII The nations are exhorted cheerefully to entertaine the kingdome of Christ. To the Master of the Musicke to the sonnes of Korach a Psalme ALl peoples clap ye hands shout triumphantly to God with voice of shrilling For Iehovah is high fearfull a great King over all the earth Hee hath subdued peoples under us and nations under our feet He hath chosen for us our inheritance the high excellencie of Iakob whom hee loveth Selah God is gone up with triumph Iehovah with voice of trumpet Sing Psalme to God sing Psalme sing Psalme to our King sing Psalme For God is King of all the earth sing an instructing Psalme God reigneth over the heathens God sitteth on the throne of his holinesse The bounteous Princes of the peoples are gathered the people of the God of Abraham for the shields of the earth
Burnt offerings of marrowed rammes I will offer up to thee with incense I will make ready beeves with goat-bucks Selah Come heare ye and I will tell all ye that feare God what he hath done to my soule Vnto him I called with my mouth and he was extolled under my tongue If I had seene in my heart painfull iniquitie the Lord would not have heard But surely God hath heard hath attended to the voice of my prayer Blessed be God which hath not turned away my prayer and his mercy from me Annotations SHout to wit with a joyfull or triumphant noise see Psal. 41. 12. all the earth or all the land that is the inhabitants thereof as the Chaldee explaineth So vers 4. and Psal. 98. 4. and 100. 1. and often in the Scripture Vers. 2. put glorie in Greeke give glory to his praise that is make his praise glorious and honourable A like phrase is in Ios. 7. 19. put glory to Iehovah that is give him glory Vers. 3. fearefull is every c. or fearefull art thou in thy works One word singular and another plurall meaneth exactly all and every one as Psal. 57. 2. and 62. 5. falsly deny or l. e that is fainedly submit See Psal. 18. 45. Vers. 4. Let all or All shall Vers. 5. in his doing or in practise the Greek translateth in counsels See Psal. 9. 12. Vers. 6. sea to dry land the red sea God turned to dry land by a strong east wind dividing the waters that Israel might goe thorow it Exod. 14. 21 22. thorow the river Iarden when the banks thereof were full was dried the waters stood still on an heape till all the people went thorow it Ios. 3. 13 14 17. So the Chaldee explaineth it 〈◊〉 the river 〈◊〉 the sonnes of Israel went on their feet there did we rejoyce he teacheth them to apply their fathers deliverances to themselves for all things fore-written are for our learning and use Rom. 15 4. Alike speech another Prophet useth he found him in Rethel and there he spake with us Hos. 12. 4. The Chaldee paraphraseth I will lead them to the mount of the house of the Sanctuary there we will rejoyce in his Word Vers. 7. espie that is watchfully view in the nations that is as Solomon expoundeth it in every place both the evill persons and the good Prov. 15. 3. the rebellious or the off-fallen froward and refractarie persons which exasperate and provoke the Lord to bitternesse as the Greeke here translateth exalt or be exalted puft up in themselves Vers. 8. peoples tribes of Israel called also peâ—ples Act. 4. 27. make to bee heard or cause men to heare sound forth audibly See Psal. 26. 7. Vers. 9. That putteth our soule in life that is first giveth then preserveth life and finally restoreth our dead soules unto life Saving from dangers of death Psal. 30. 4. quickning them that were dead in sinnes Ephes. 2. 1. The Chaldee expounds it the life of the world to comâ— given ouâ—foot to be moved that is suffered our estate to be changed to our ruine So Psal. 38. 17. and 121. 3. See Psal. 15. 5. Vers. 10. as silver is tried Hebr. as to try silver and this meaneth sore afflictions as at large is shewed Ezek. 22. 19 20 21 22. wherefore when God mentioneth lesser trialls he saith Loe I have tried thee but not as silver Isa. 48. 10. Hereby also is meant a purifying from drosle and corruption by afflictions See Mal. 3. 3. Zach. 13. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 7. Vers. 11. straightnes or affliction as the Greek also turneth it but hereby a strait chaine or wringing girt may bee meant such as burthens are tied with to beasts backs Vers. 12. upon our head to use us as beasts for to carry them it meaneth servile subjection See the like in Isa. 51. 23. came into fire and into waters that is passed thorow afflictions of sundry sorts Psal. 32. 6. Ezek. 15. 6 7. Also in Num. 31. 23. those things are said to come into or passe thorow fire which would abide the same without being consumed as metals That sense hath also use here as after is shewed an abundant place or a moist a well watered land where we may drinke our fill The Greeke calleth it a refreshing which well fitteth with the comforts of the Gospell as Act. 3. 29. Vers. 14. opened that is uttered or promised distinctly and seriously as the Greeke saith distinguished for the mouth being opened in vowes signifieth that they may not be called backe Iudg. 11. 35 36. distresse upon me or in my distresse so Psal. 18. 7. and 59. 17. Vers. 15. marrowed rammes that is fat and lusty The word rammes is in Hebrew set after the word incense which may therefore be read the incense or perfume of rams meaning the fat which was burned on the altar And so it may intend peace offerings as before he mentioned burnt offerings See Levit. 3. 9 10 11. compared with Levit. 1. 10 13. The Chaldee expoundeth it incense of spices and sacrifices of Rams make ready or offer as the Greeke interpreteth it The Hebrew word to make or doe is used for dressing or making ready of meat or sacrifices Gen. 18. 8. Iudg. 6. 19. Exod. 10. 25. and 29. 36. Levit. 16. 24. and 22. 23. beeves the Hebrew bakar is the Beefe generally one for many as in Psal. 8. 9. These were the principall sacrifices Lev. 1. 2 10. Ver. 17. under my tongue that is with my tongue or it may be meant of the heart and inward parts which are under the tongue Vers. 18. If I had seene in my heart that is had regarded with it so to see is to behold with a corrupt affection Iob 31. 26. Thus God cannot see evill Habak 1. 13. would not have heard for God heareth not sinners Iohn 9. 31. nor hypocrites Iob 27. 8 9. Prov. 15. 29. The Greeke maketh it a wish Let not the Lord heare me PSAL. LXVII A Prayer for the enlargement of Gods kingdome to the joy of all peoples and increase of Gods blessings To the Master of the Musicke on Neginoth a Psalme a Song GOd be gracious unto us and blesse us he make his face to shine with us Selah That they may know in the earth thy way thy salvation among all the Heathens Peoples shall confesse thee O God peoples all of them shall confesse thee The nations shall rejoyce and shout for thou wilt judge the peoples with righteousnesse and the nations in the earth thou wilt guide them Selah Peoples shall confesse thee O God peoples all of them shall confesse thee The earth yeeldeth her increase God our God will blesse us God will blesse us and all the ends of the earth shall feare him Annotations FAce to shine or to be light that is cheerefull and favourable See Psal. 4. 7. and 31. 17. Vers. 3. That they may know meaning men indefinitely or that thy way may be knowne Gods way is generally his administration
low and base estate made sweet and amiable like the rose and lilie as the Prophet saith The wildernesse and the dry-place shall be glad for them and the desert shall reioyce and blossome as the Rose Esay 35. 1. And the Lord saith I will be as the dew vnto Israel he shall blossome as the Lilie and strike forth his roots as Lebanon Hos. 14. 5. But as here is mentioned the plaine of Sharon and the vallies which were open places where cattell fed and not inclosed gardens so by it may bee signified how the Church is exposed to persecution to be plucked of all that passe by the way and troden down and eaten of beasts And this the words following doe more confirme The Chaldee openeth these words thus The congregation of Israel said When the ruler of the world causeth his Diuine majesty to dwell in the midst of me I am like to a moist or greene lilie out of the garden of Eden and my workes are faire as the Rose which is in the plaine of the garden of Eden Vers. 2. among the thornes These are the words of Christ concerning his Love the Church where he confirmeth and amplifieth the former speech preferring her aboue other peoples as the lilie is aboue thomes and thistles and withall signifying how shee is afflicted and pricked with them as with thornes This similitude the Scripture often vseth as If ye will not driue out the Inhabitants c. those which ye let remaine of them shall be prickes in your eyes and thornes in your sides and shall vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell Numb 33. 55. And againe There shall be no more a pricking bryer unto the house of Israel nor any grieving thorne of all that are round about them that despised them Ezek. 28. 24 This similitude sheweth also what the Church ought to be harmlesse as Lilies among thornes innocent as sheepe among wolues as doves among ravenous birds Matth. 10. 16. The Lily among thornes may also in speciall be vnderstood of that which we call the Wood-bind which groweth and flourisheth in hedges and thornes my love or my fellow friend my companion as in chap. 1. 9. the daughters the congregations of peoples as the Scriptures mention the daughter of Babylon Psal. 137. the daughter of Tyrus Psal. 45. and many the like Ves. 3. the apple-tree The Church setteth forth the excellency of Christ by the similitude of an apple-tree which the Scripture commendeth for three things comfortable shadow pleasant fruit both noted in this place and sweet smell Song 7. 8. And as the apple-tree hath more variety of fruits then any other tree that groweth that 〈◊〉 is not easie to reckon up the â—â—ny sorts of apples of different taste so Christ excelleth in variety of graces which he bestoweth on his Church The Chaldee Paraphrast expoundeth this of the Pome-citron tree but for the cause aforesaid I would not restraine it to any one kind that the fulnesse of grace and truth which was in Christ might here be observed of whose fulnesse all we have received and grace for grace Ioh. 1. 14. 16. of the wood or of the forest or grove which are wilde trees and without culture bearing either none or sowre bitter and unsavoury fruits Such is the state of all the sons of men by nature Rom. 11. 24. whom Christ farre excelleth in beauty fruit and comfort Psalme 45. 3. Ioh. 15. 1. c. my beloved that is Christ in Hebrew Dod the same in signification with David see the notes on chap. 1. 13. the sonnes of Adam all whom Christ farre excelleth Psal. 45. 3. The Chaldee expoundeth it of Angels which are the sonnes of God Ioh. 1. 6. But though it be true that Christ excelleth them also Heb 1. yet the former similitude of the trees of the wood leadeth us rather to understand it here of earthly creatures as the Kings and Potentates and wise men of the world called sonnes in comparison with their peoples before called daughters in vers 2. So in Rev. 1. 5 Christ is the Prince of the Kings of the earth in Ezek. 31. 3. 6. the King of Assyria is likened to a Cedar in Lebanon under whose shadow dwelt all great nations in Dan. 4. 20. 21. 22. Nebuchadnezar is likened to a tree strong and high under which the beasts of the field dwelt c. and Iosias King of Iudah under whose shadow the Iewes hoped to liue Lam. 4. 20. and others in his shadow that is in his protection and defence The tree shadoweth from the heat of the Sunne and Christ from the heat of the wrath of God and from the persecutions of the world as it is written There shall be a Tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat c. Esa. 4. 6 and Thou Lord hast beene a strength to the poore a strength to the needy in his distresse a refuge from the storme a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storme against the wall Esay 25. 4. So the shadow of Aegypt Esay 30. 2. the shadow of Heshbon Ierem. 48. 45. signifie the defence wherein men trusted which the faithfull repose in God and Christ alone as in Psalme 36. 8. 57. 2. and 17. 8. 63. 8. and 90. 1. And they that trust in him shall be safe from evill as Iehovah is thy shadow upon thy right hand the Sunne shall not smite thee by day nor the Moone by night Iehovah will keepe thee from all evill Psal. 121. 5. 6. 7. I desired and sate or I much desired that I might sit The forme of the Hebrew word increaseth the signification as noting a continuall and fervent desire of that which is pleasing delightfull or profitable and by sitting is meant abiding and resting as in Psalm 91. 1. The Church therefore being by sinne under wrath reveiled by the Law and being maligned by the world as a lilie among thornes acknowledgeth her faith hope love and delight 〈◊〉 bee in Christ Iesus who hath delivered as from the wrath to come 1 Th 〈…〉 through whom we have peace with God Rom. 5. 1. and peace in him though in the world we have tribulation 1 Iohn 16. 33. his fruit another benefit which the Church reapeth by Christ that shee is not onely delivered from evill but made partaker of his goodnesse in that the workes of his Prophesie Priesthood and Kingdome his death resurrection and all fruits of them are communicated unto her by the Gospell which shee feedeth upon by faith to the refreshing and life of her soule Fruits signifie graces and good workes which are to the benefit of our selves and others Matt. 3 8. 10. Gal. 5. 22. c. and is also applyed to the doctrine of the Gospel Iohn 15. 16. and signifieth a comfortable reward Psal 58. 12. Prov. 27. 18. The Hebrewes referre these things to the Law which should better bee applied to the Gospell for the Chaldee paraphrast here saith As the Pome-citrontree
used for continuing and increasing Exod. 19. 19. The like is in Gen. 12. 9. at the end or after as the Greeke translateth it here and in v. 6. Vers. 4. of Ararat that is of Armenia a country neere Assyria and Mesopotamia mentioned also in 2 King 19. 37. Esay 37. 38. Ier. 51. 27. The Greek here calleth them as the Hebrew Ararat but in Esay 37. 38. it translateth it Armenia Also the Chaldee here calleth them mounts of Kardu which many Writers witnesse to be hills in Armenia And the name Ararat seemeth to bee turned into Armenia of Aram that is Syria and Minni wherof see Ier. 51. 27 or of Ararat Minni compounded Vers. 5. tops Hebr. the heads Vers. 6. that Noe opened Hebr. and Noe opened we may leave the word and as doth the Greeke and our English speech also beareth which the Hebrew it selfe elsewhere sheweth may bee done as 2 King 14. 10. and why shouldst thou meddle but in 2 Chron. 25. 19. and is left out so in 2 Chron. 18. 12. and is set downe which in 2 King 22. 13. is left out So it may be in many other places as Gen. 22. 4. Vers. 7. a Raven an uncleane fowle Deut. 14. 14 sent forth forty dayes after the tops of the mounts appeared to see if the waters were abated as the Greek addeth and as the next verse sheweth of the dove For the Raven would have fed on the dead karkasses if any had appeared Prov. 30. 17. returning that is flying to and fro returning to the arke but not into the same which the Dove after did vers 9. whereupon the Greeke interpreters as it seemeth translated it returned not Noe had no tydings of the waters abating brought by this messenger therefore he sendeth another the Dove which returning with an Olive leafe or branch vers 11. signified the glad tidings of peace by the ministery of the Gospell and of the Spirit which the Dove represented Mat. 3. 16. but the ministery of the Law letter which the Raven seemeth here to figure out giveth the heart of man no evidence that the waters of Gods wrath for sinne are any whit abated Vers. 8. a Dove from him the Greeke saith after him meaning the Raven This Dove seemeth to be sent out seven dayes after the Raven as may bee gathered by the 10. verse where is mentioned Noes waiting other seven dayes Of the sending forth of this Dove and of her returning unto Noe whom heathens name Deucalion there is express mention in humane Writers Plutarch dialog de industr animal abated Hebr. lightned that is decreased so in v. 11. Vers. 10. he waited or patiently abode so in v. 12. did againe send or added to send so in v. 12. did not adde to returne and verse 21. I will not adde to curse that is not curse any more Vers. 11. leafe or branch as it is elsewhere englished Nehem. 8. 15. a signe that the waters were low and spiritually a token of grace and peace in Iesus Christ brought in the mouth that is the word and doctrine of the Ministers of the Gospell compared unto Doves Mat. 10. 15. Esay 60. 8. Romanes 10. 15. which came unto the Church in the evening of times in these last dayes Heb. 1. 1. Vers. 13. the 601 yeere to weer of Noes life as the Greeke expresseth in the first to weet the first moneth as the Greeke addeth and the Hebrew before in v. 4. and after in v. 14. plainly speaketh but affecting brevity such words are often omitted So after the first of the moneth that is the first day as the first of the feast Mat. 26. 17. is expounded by the holy Ghost the first day of the feast Marke 14. 12. Vers. 14. the 27 day of the moneth By this it appeareth that Noe was in the arke a full yeere or yeere of dayes containing 365 dayes according to the course of the Sunne For he entred the ark the 17 day of the second moneth in the 600 yeere of his life Gen. 7. 11. 13. and there he continued till the 27 day of the second moneth in the 601 yeere of his life as the 13 and 14 verses of this 8 th Chapter shew Now the twelve moneths of the Hebrewes had 354 dayes for sixe moneths had each of them thirty dayes and the other sixe moneths had each 29 dayes which make 354 to which adde 11 dayes till the 27 of the 2 moneth full ended and there are dayes 365. Vers. 19. after their families that is the male with his female not confusedly rushing out all together but in order and after their kind as the Greeke translateth Families are here attributed to the bruit creatures as before man and wife Gen. 7. 2. Vers. 20. built an Altar of earth as is probable by the Law after given in Exod. 20. 24. an Altar of earth shalt thou make unto me And such the Nations after used mentioning Altars of grasse and of turfe Uirgil Aeneid 12. Horat. l. 1. od 19. An Altar is called in Hebrew Mizbeach that is a sacrificatory or place of slaying the sacrifice for the sacrifices were killed upon it or by it Gen. 22. 9. 10. Lev. 1. 11. It was a holy place and sanctified the offering Mat. 23. 19. Exod. 29. 37. and so was a figure of Christ by whom we offer the sacrifice of praise alwayes to God Heb. 13. 10. 15. And it is a tradition of the Iewes that the place where Noe built this altar was the place where Abraham afterward built an Altar to offer Isaak Gen. 22. 2. and where Kain and Abel offered before See the notes on Gen. 4. 3. every cleane beast of the bullocks sheep and goats see the notes on Gen. 7. 2. So in Pirke R. Eliezer chap. 23. it is said Noe brought of the kind of cleane beasts a bull a sheepe and a goat and of the kind of cleane fowles turtle doves and young Pigeons and built an Altar and offered c. burnt-offrings named in Hebrew gnoloth that is ascensions for that they went up in fire to the Lord all except the skin upon the altar as Moses sheweth saying It is the burnt-offring because of the burning upon the altar all the night unto the morning Leviticus 6. 9. Therefore the Holy Ghost in Greeke calleth them holocautomata that is whole burnt-offerings and sheweth how they figured Christs body offered up unto God for us Hebrewes 10. 6. 10. and our reasonable service of God by him whiles we present our bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God Rom. 12. 1. Externall burnt offerings were in use in the Church before the Law given at mount Sinai as appeareth by this and Exod. 10. â—5 and 18. 12. Vers. 21. the smell or the odour savour It hath the name originally of respiration and it signified Gods gracious acceptation of the sacrifice offered as 1 Sam. â—6 19 let him smell an offring Lev. 26. 31 I will not smell the smell of your sweet odours So in
heavens and let us make us a name lest we be scattered-abroad upon the face of all the earth And Iehovah came downe to see the Citie and the Tower which the sons of men builded And Iehovah sayd Behold the people is one and they have all one lip and this they begin to doe and now there will not bee cut-off from them any thing that they have imagined to doe Goe too Let us goe-downe and let us confound there their lip that they may not heare every-man his neighbours lip And Iehovah scattered-them-abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left-off to build the City Therefore is the name of it called Babel because there Iehovah confounded the lip of all the earth and from thence Iehovah scattered-them-abroad upon the face of all the earth These are the generations of Sem Sem was a hundred yeeres old and hee begat Arphaxad two yeeres after the flood And Sem lived after hee begat Arphaxad five hundred yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And Arphaxad lived five thirty yeres and he begat Salah And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah foure hundred yeeres and three yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And Salah lived thirty yeeres and he begat Heber And Salah lived after hee begat Heber foure hundred yeres and three yeres and begat sons and daughters And Heber lived foure and thirty yeres and he begat Phaleg And Heber lived after hee begat Phaleg foure hundred yeeres and thirty yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And Phaleg lived thirty yeeres and hee begat Ragau. And Phaleg lived after he begat Ragau two hundred yeeres and nine yeeres and begat sons and daughters And Ragau lived two and thirty yeeres and he begat Saruch And Ragau lived after he begat Saruch two hundred yeeres and seven yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And Saruch lived thirty yeeres and hee begat Nachor And Saruch lived after hee begat Nachor two hundred yeeres and begat sons and daughters And Nachor lived nine twenty yeeres and hee begat Tharah And Nachor lived after he begat Tharah an hundred yeeres and nineteene yeeres and begat sonnes and daughters And Tharah lived seventy yeeres and he begat Abram Nachor and Haran And these are the generations of Tharah Tharah begat Abram Nachor and Haran and Haran begat Lot And Haran died before the face of Tharah his father in the land of his nativity in Vr of the Chaldees And Abram and Nachor tooke them wives the name of Abrams wife was Sarai and the name of Nachors wife Milcah the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah And Sarai was barren shee had no child And Tharah tooke Abram his son and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes son and Sarai his daughter-in-law the wife of Abram his sonne and they went forth with them from Vr of the Chaldees to goe to the land of Canaan and they came unto Charran and dwelt there And the dayes of Tharah were two hundred yeeres and five yeeres and Tharah dyed in Charran Annotations THe earth that is the inhabitants of the earth all nations Such words easie to be understood are often wanting the Scripture it selfe sometime maketh them plaine as will God dwell on the earth 1 King 8. 27. that is with men on the earth 2 Chr. 6. 18. and all lands and their land Esay 37. 18. is expounded nations and their land 2 King 19. 17. all the earth sought to see Solomon 1 King 10. 24. that is all the Kings of the earth as is expressed 2 Chron. 9. 23. See Gen. 6. 11. and 27. 46. of one lip that is as Thargum Ierusalemy expoundeth it of one tongue or language The like is in vers 6. and 7. So lips are languages 1 Cor. 14. 21. one speech or the same words This speech was Hebrew which after the confusion remained in Hebers family as the names of men doe plainly confirme So the Ierusalemy Thargum here saith they spake in the holy tongue wherewith the world was created at the beginning And this Hebrew tongue Adam and all the Patriarchs spake and Moses and the Prophets wrote the oracles of God in it and it was used of all the world the space of seventeene hundred and fifty seven yeeres till Phaleg sonne of Heber was borne and Babel towre in building which was an hundred yeeres after the flood Gen. 10. 25. and 11. 9. After that it was in use among the Hebrews or Iewes called therefore the Iewes-language Esay 36. 11. untill they were caried captive into Babylon where the holy tongue ceased from common use among men and mixed Hebrew came in place So now of a long time none in the world speaketh naturally the language of Adam and of the old world but it is gotten with study and learning This great labour hath God laid on the sonnes of man Vers. 2. Shimar or Senaar which was also named Chaldea and as the Chaldee paraphrast translateth it Babylon the land of Nimrod see before Gen. 10. 10. Thargum Ierusalemy calleth it Pontus Vers. 3. Goe too or Come on Hebr. give a word of exhortation So vers 4. and 7. make or forme as brickes with a burning or to a burning that is thorowly or as the Greeke saith with fire Thus wanting stones they devised matter to make their cursed building slime a kind of naturall lime that was found there in pits and rivers which served for building as well or better then artificiall morter In Hebrew the words differ but little they had chemer naturall lime for chomer artificiall lime or morter So Gen. 14. 10. Compare herewith the heavenly Ierusalem whose wals are garnished with all precious stones Rev. 21. 19. 1 Pet. 2. 5 Vers. 4. the top Hebr. the head and here the word reach or the like is to be understood for so the Scripture oft speaketh with brevity as the ark under curtaines 1 Chron. 17. 1. that is remaining under curtaines 2 Sam. 7. 1. the men of war by night 2 King 25. 4. that is fled by night Ier. 52. 7. and many the like See Gen. 13. 9. and 23. 13. And by the head reaching to heaven is meant a very high towre as Deut. 1. 28. Mat. 11. 23. and Babylon afterwards used like proud speeches Esay 14. 13. 14. a name meaning a great name to bee renowmed and famous as where one Prophet saith I have made thee a name 1 Chron. 17. 8. another explaineth it a great name 2 Sam. 7. 9. See also 2 Sam. 8. 13. This word name is sometime put for God himselfe Lev. 24. 11. 16. whose name is a strong tower into which the righteous runneth and is set aloft Prov. 18. 10. and to walke in his name is to keepe his faith and true religion Mich. 4. 5. contrary to which some doe thinke this tower of Babel was builded as R. Menachem on this place citeth some that said Name here meaneth nothing but Idolatry And Thargum Ierusalemy expoundeth this building to be
he forbiddeth 〈…〉 king of any for others alwayes when Aaron made one for the people Exodus â—2 1. 〈◊〉 The Hebrew 〈◊〉 say He that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and idols for himselfe thought he make it not with his 〈◊〉 hand nor serveth it he is guilty Likewise he 〈◊〉 maketh an idoll with his hand for others though he maketh for an 〈◊〉 he is guilty Therefore hee that maketh an idoll for himselfe with his owne hands he is double guilty Maim any intreat of Idolatry c. 3. S. 9. 〈◊〉 a graven thing Hebrew Pesel which is any thing hewen graved out or carâ—ed the Greek translateth it an Idoll the Chaldee an Image and the Thargum called Ionathans addeth Image or Figure And the holy text elsewhere expresly condemneth Images Ezek. 16. 17. and not onely graven but molten Hos. 13. 2. or painted Ezek. 8. 10. So under this one particular all portratures and humane devices are forbidden not only things made with hand but with heart and thought Act. 17. 25. 29. Every such Image is a teacher of lies Hab. 2. 18. and who so formeth a god or melteth a graven image it is profitable for nothing Esay 44. 10. likenesse in Hebrew Temunah which Moses openeth by two other words Semel and Tabnith that is Similitude and Figure Deut. 4. 16. and elsewhere he nameth also Maisebah and Maskith that is Statue or pillar and Picture Levit. 26. 1. So that all shapes portratures precepts and devices of men are forbidden in Gods worship Esay 29 13. Matt. 15. 8. 9. Coloss. 2. 23. And on the contrary Gods commandements and statutes for his worship and servico to be kept practised without adding any thing unto them or taking any thing from them Deut. 5. 32. and 6. 17. 18. and 12. 8. 28. 32. in the heavens as the Sunne Moone Starres Fowles or the like Deut. 4. 17. 19. The worshipping of Angels is also forbidden Coloss. 2. 18. in the earth as the likenesse of man or woman or of beasts or creeping things Ezek. 23. 14. Deut. 4 16. 17. 18. Esay 44. 13. After this manner the nations of the world corrupted true religion Rom. 1. 23. in the waters as any fish or the like Deu. 4. 18. So all resemblances whatsoever are here forbidden which men can make Behold they are all vanity their workes are nothing their molten images are wind and confusion Esay 41. 29. Ver. 5. not bow downe or not worship under this one all other gestures of reverence are forbidden as bowing the knee 1 King 19. 18. kissing Hos. 13 2. lifting up of the eyes Ezek. 18. 6. spreading out of the hand Psal. 44. 21. and the like Contrariwise they are to be broken down burned destroyed and detested Deut. 12. 3. and 7. 25. 26. Esay 30. 22. 8. to them that is to any creature Rom. 1. 25. though an Angell Rev. 22. 8. 9. or to the Image of any creature or of God himselfe Esay 40. 18. 21. Rom. 1. 23. or to any â—orke of our owne hands Ier. 1. 16. Mic. 5. 13. And as we may not bow downe unto them so neither before them 2 Chron. 25. 14. yea 〈…〉 ese two phrases doe one explaine another as to pray before the Lord 1 Chron. 17. 25. is to pray 〈◊〉 2 Sam. 7. 27 and to bow downe or worship 〈◊〉 the Devill Luke 4. 7. is to bow downe unto him Mat. 4. 9. But to bow downe unto men for civill honour is lawfull Gen. 23. 7. Sam. 24. 8. serve them The Hebrew gnabad implyeth all manner of service both that which in Greek is called Lâ—â—râ—id as in this place and Douleâ—a as by it the Greek version explaineth it in Exod. 23. 33. and many other places The Hebrew Doctors say The root of the commandement against idolatry 〈◊〉 that men should not serve any of all the creatures neither Angell nor spheare nor starre not any of the foure elements nor any thing that is created of them And although he that serveth knowes that the Lord is God and serveth the creature after the manner that Enos and the men of his age served at first whereof see the notes on Gen. 4. 26. yet loe hee is an idolater Maimony in Misneh treat or Idolatry chap. 2. S. 1. Vnder this name Serve is comprehended every religious worke with hand mouth or heart as prayer or thanksgiving Esay 44. 17. Ier. 2. 27. confidence in them Psal. 115. 4. 8. offring of sacrifice 2 King 17. 35. burning of incense Ier. 18. 15. preaching for them Ier. 2. 8. asking counsell of them Hosea 4. 12. building temples altars or other monuments unto them Hos. 8. 14. and 12. 11. erecting of ministeries Numb 8. 24. or doing any ministeriall worke for their honour Amos 5. 26. compared with Numb 4. 24. 25. contributing to their maintenance Numb 7. 3. 5. Nehem. 10. 32. 39. all fellowship with them Esay 44. 11. communion in the service of them 1 Cor. 10. 18. 21. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 17. familiar conversing with teachers of Idolatry 2 Iohn 10. 11. reading the bookes thereof Acts 19. 19. or any other way to learne their abominations Deut. 12. 30. The Hebrewes say Idolaters have made many bookes of their service and of the workes and rites of the same the holy blessed God hath commanded us that wee should not at all reade in those bookes Maimony treat of Idolatry c. 2. S. 2. Also they say He that serveth an Idol after the manner of the usuall service thereof although hee doe it in contempt thereof he is guiltie Maimony ibidem c. 3. S. 5. On the contrary God hereby requireth that wee serve him in such places and with such things and rites as himselfe hath commanded Deut. 12. 5. 6. 14. 28. and serve him onely 1 Sam. 7. 3. Matt. 4. 10. jealous and a consuming fire Deut. 4. 24. God as said to be an husband unto his people Ierem. 2. 2. Hosea 2. 19. idolatry is whoredome Deut. 31. 16. Iudg. 2. 17. Ierem. 3. 9. 20. Therefore Gods indignation against this sinne is called jealousie and as that is the rage of a man so that hee will not spare in the day of vengeance Prov. 6. 34 so the Lord here threatneth to visit that is to search out and punish this iniquity for so visiting often signifieth Ier. 44. 13. and 5. 9. 29. and when hee visiteth them they shall fall and perish Ier. 6. 15. and 10. 15. the sonnes or children posterity meaning such as are transgressors with their fathers as after he saith of them that hate me So here the Chaldee paraphraseth upon the rebellious sonnes Otherwise if the sonne feare and doe not such evill God saith hee shall not dye in the iniquity of his father but hee shall surely live Ezek. 18. 4. 10. 13. 14. 17. generation this word is supplyed both in the Greek and Chalde◠〈◊〉 The Heb. phrase is on the thirds and on the 〈◊〉 such defects are common see Exo. 12 3. Gen. 4. 20. 24. 22. So alter in v. 6. unto
monuments of idolatry are comprehended as Deuter. 12. 2. 3. Of this the Hebrew canons say Wee are commanded to destroy idolatry and the services thereof and whatsoever is made for the same Deuteronomy 12. And in the land of Israel we are commanded to persecute it untill it be destroyed out of all our land but without the land wee are not commanded to persecute it but every place which wee shall subdue we are to destroy all the idolatry that is therein Maimony in Misn. treat of Idolatry c. 7. S. 1. Vers. 25. thy bread c. hereby the coursest fare may be meant which by Gods blessing nourisheth as in Daniel 1. 12. 15. Or these are named for all food as the Chaldee translateth it thy meat and thy drinke and the Greeke addeth thy bread and thy wine and thy water sicknesse in Chaldee evill sicknesses Compare Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 7. 15. Vers. 26. casting or miscarrying the Greeke translateth without seed See a like promise in Deut. 7. 14. thy dayes which by the course of nature thou shouldest live So Iob dyed being old and full of dayes Iob 42. 17. whereas the wicked live not out halfe their dayes Psal. 55. 24. Vers. 27. dismay with tumult and trouble as God did before in Exod. 14. 24. So in Deut. 7. 23. Ios. 10. 10. The Greeke translateth I will astonish all nations shalt come to warre against them as the Chaldee addeth to turne this is added by the Chaldee for explanation And by turning the neeke or backe is meant their flight as the Greek translateth I will give that is make them fugitives So David praised God that had given him the neck of his enemies that is made them flee Psal. 18. 41. Vers. 28. hornets Hebr. the hornet a kinde of great waspe which stingeth venomously threatned against the Canaanites here and in Deuter. 7. 20. and shewed to be accomplished in Ios. 24. 12. These signified the stinging terrours wherewith God striketh the hearts of his enemies the Evite that is the whole nation of them as the Greek saith the Amorites and the Evites c. These were the posterity of Canaan of whom see Genesis 10. 6. 7. V. 30. fructifie that is be increased or growne Vers. 31. the river which the Greek explaineth the great river Euphrates and Moses elsewhere so nameth it Deuter. 11. 24. Gen. 15. 18. See these bounds in Numb 34. the accomplishment of this promise in part fulfilled in Solomons time 1 Kin. 4. 21. thou shalt drive the Greeke translateth I will drive Vers. 32. with them the inhabitants of the land Exodus 34. 12. 15. Deuter. 7. 1. 2 c. gods in Chaldee idols Vers. 33. if thou shalt or it may bee translated for thou wilt serve as came to passe Iudg. 1. 21. 27. 29. and 2. 1. 2. 3. 12. c. The Greeke translateth for if thou shalt serve their gods the Chaldee and thou shalt not serve their idolls surely or for it will be a snare that is a cause of thy fall and ruine a scandall unto thee See this fulfilled Iudg. 2. Psal. 106. 34. 35. 36. Numb 25. 1. 2. Compare also Deut. 7. 16. 25. A snare is used to signifie the deceit whereby men fall into sinne Deut. 12. 30. Ier. 5. 26. Prov. 13. 14. 27. and so the destruction that followeth thereupon Prov. 12. 13. Esay 8. 15. and 28. 13. Eccles. 9. 12. CHAP. XXIIII 1. Moses is called up into the mountaine 3. The people promise obedience 4 Moses buildeth an Altar and twelve pillars 6 Hee sprinkleth the blood of the covenant 9. Moses and the Elders of Israel see God 12. Moses is to goe up the mount for the the Tables 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people 16 The glory of the Lord on mount Siâ—â—aâ— like devouring fire 18 Moses in the cloud and mountaine fortie daies and fortie might AND he said unto Moses Come up unto Iehovah thou and Aaron Nadab Abihu and seventy of the Elders of Israel and bow down your selves afarre off And Moses himselfe alone shall come neere unto Iehovah but they shal not come neere and the people they shall not come up with him And Moses came and told the people all the words of Iehovah and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said All the words which Iehovah hath spoken wee will doe And Moses wrote all the words of Iehovah and rose up earely in the morning and builded an altar under the mount and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel And he sent the yong men of the sons of Israel and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings of bullocks unto Iehovah And Moses tooke halfe of the blood and put it in basons and halfe of the blood hee sprinkled on the altar And he tooke the book of the covenant read in the eares of the people and they said All that Iehovah hath spoken we will doe and obey And Moses tooke the blood and sprinkled on the people and said Behold the blood of the covenant w ch Iehovah hath striken with you concerning all these words Then went up Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the Elders of Israel And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a worke of Saphire bricke and as the body of the heavens for cleernesse And upon the Nobles of the sons of Israel hee laid not his hand and they saw God did eat drink And Iehovah said unto Moses Come up to me into the mount and bee there and I will give thee tables of stone a law and commandement which I have written to teach them And Moses rose up and his Minister Ioshua and Moses went up into the mountaine of God And he said unto the Elders Sit yee here for us untill wee returne unto you and behold Aaron and Hur are with you who so hath matters to doe let him come neere unto them And Moses went up into the mountaine and a cloud covered the mountaine And the glory of Iehovah dwelt upoÌ„ mount Sinai the cloud covered it six dayes and in the seventh day hee called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud And the sight of the glory of Iehovah was like devouring fire in the top of the mountaine in the eyes of the sons of Israel And Moses went in to the mids of the cloud and went up into the mountaine and Moses was in the mountaine forty dayes and fortie nights Annotations ABihu in Greeke Abioud he and Nadab were Aarons eldest sonnes Exod. 28. 1 who were afterward devoured with a fire from the Lord Levit 10. 1. 2. seventie This number was answerable to the 70. soules of Israel that came into Egypt Deut. 10. 22. and to the 70. that afterward were made the Senate of the commonwealth of Israel Numb 11. 16. 17. bow downe the Gt translateth they shall bow downe to or worship the Lord
as the Apostle calleth the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. 23. the spirits of the Fathers which were returned to God who gave them as Eccles. 12. 7. shall one man sinne in Greeke if one man hath sinned as if they should say All have not sinned why wilt thou be wroth with all Vpon this intercession the Lord spareth the people that would depart from the rebells verse 24. Verse 24. the tabernacle this seemeth to bee put for tabernacles or dwellings the Greeke translateth it the congregation so in vers 27. where the Greeke also keepeth the word Tabernacle which in vers 26. is called Tents Vers. 25. the elders the Greeke addeth all the elders went after him in Greeke went with him that is accompanied him Verse 26. these wicked men in Greeke these hard men the originall word properly signifieth restlesse turbulent and such as for their sinnes are worthy to be condemned see the notes on Psal. 1. 1. touch not any thing because as they themselves so all things of theirs were uncleane and execrable and therefore to perish with them vers 32. Verse 27. came out and stood Heb. came out standing which the Greeke explaineth came out and stood and these two phrases are one as where it is said that Iesus blessed and breaking gave to the disciples Mat. 14. 19. the other Evangelists explaine it he blessed and brake and gave Luke 9. 16. Mark 6. 41. so Saying unto them Matth. 21. 2. is And saith unto them Mark 11. 2. This their standing up argueth their boldnesse in so bad a cause for standing up is a gesture denoting courage Iob 33. 5. and 41. 10. 1 Sam. 17. 8. 16. Thus Pride went before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall as Prov. 16. 18. Verse 28. all these workes both the former in appointing Aaron to the Priest-hood and the Levites in stead of the first-borne and these latter in appointing Korah and his company to bring their censers with incense c. of mine owne heart which the Chaldee explaineth of mine owne will the Greeke of my selfe For things devised of ones owne heart are noted for evill 1 King 12. 33. Ezek. 13. 17. Vers. 29. as all men die their ordinarie naturall death which the Greeke translateth after the death of all men Verse 30. create a new thing Hebr. create a creature that is doe a new and wonderfull worke to kill them with such a death as never man died before them Of this word create see the notes on Gen. 1. 1. it is applied here to a strange and extraordinarie worke of judgment as in Esai 45. 7. God is said to create evill and in Exod. 34. 10. to create marvels and in Esai 48. 6. 7. new and â—idden things God would create And as evill so good things which are new and strange are said to be created of God Esa. 65. 18. alive living haile and sound not consumed with sicknesse as ordinarily men are before death and buriall unto hell into the grave or state of death see the notes on Gen. 37. 35. To this iudgement the Prophet hath reference praying against his enemies Lâ—t them goe downe alive to hell Psal. 55. 16. Verse 32. swallowed up them to wit Dathan and Abiram as in Psal. 106. 17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered over the congregation of Abiram So David prayed against his enemies swallow them up o Lord Psal. 55. 10. their houses that is housholds as the Chaldee expoundeth it the men of their houses appertained unto Korah The Greeke translateth and all the men that were with Kore and the Chaldee the men that pertained to Korah But the sonnes of Korah are to be excepted for they either not partaking with or forsaking their Fathers sinne died not see Num. 26. 21. And whereas mention was made of On the sonne of Reuben in verse 1. but not here nor any where of his death neither in verse 12. of his calling or refusall to come up it is to be thought that either he repented upon Moses reproofe and so was spared from destruction or if not so he is implied among the rest though not named in particular their substance or their goods which the Greeke translateth their cattell and so the originall word implieth as in 1 Chron. 27. 31. 2 Chron. 31. 3. and 35. 7. See the notes on Gen. 12. 5. And not their cattell onely but all their other goods even their tents were swallowed into the earth Deut. 11. 6. Here wee may behold the truth of that Proverbe Riches profit not in the day of wrath but iustice delivereth from death Prov. 11. 4. Vers. 33. closed upon them or covered over them so there was no hope left for their recoverie Against such judgement David prayeth Let not the gulse swallow me neither let the pit shut her mouth upon me Psal. 69. 16. Vers. 34. at the voice of them at their crie or noise which they made when they perished So in Ier. 49. 21. At the voice or noise of their fall the earth is moved c. and I made the nations to shake at the noise of his fall Ezek. 31. 16. Lest the earth swallow us an unperfect speech through feare such as is often used in dangers as in Psal. 38. 17. Rom. 11. 21. Thus the present judgement terrified them and When the scorner is punished the simple is made wise Prov. 21. 11. Vers. 35. devoured or did eat the 250. men They sinned in burning incense which belonged to the Priests onely and with burning they were punished like the judgement on Aarons sonnes that transgressed also therein Levit. 10. 1 2. Of this David singeth A fire burned in their congregation a flame burnt up the wicked Psal. 106. 18. Vers. 37. unto Eleazar Chazkuni here observeth that God would not have Aaron to bee defiled by going among the dead because he was one of them that offered vers 17. out of the burning that is as the Greeke well explaineth it from among those that are burnt So in Num. 21. 1. captivitie is for a company of captives and in 2 King 24. 14. Povertie for a company of poore people and many the like the fire which is in the censers vers 7. The Greeke saith the strange fire as Lev. 10. 1. yonder in Greeke there which Sol. Iarchi expoundeth on the earth out of the censers others out of the court of the Sanctuarie By casting away the fire the Lord signifieth the rejecting of their service as profane So in Rev. 8. 5. the Angell tooke the censer and filled it with fire of the Altar and cast it into the earth and there were voices and thunderings c. Which being compared with vers 3 4. seemeth to teach likewise a rejecting of the service of Antichristians which abuse and despise Christs mediation and therefore it is turned unto them to judgement Vers. 38. sinners against their soules Sinners are here often used for notorious wicked persons as Destroy the sinners
commanded me for to doe so within the land whither ye are going to possesse it And ye shall keepe and doe them for this is your wisdome and your understanding in the eies of the peoples which shall heare all these statutes and say Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people For what nation is there so great which hath God nigh unto the same as Iehovah our God is in all that wee call upon him for And what nation is there so great which hath just statutes and judgments as all this law which I set before you this day Onely take heed to thy selfe and keepe thy soule diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eies have seen and lest they depart from thine heart all the daies of thy life but thou shalt make them knowne to thy sonnes and to thy sons sons The day that thou stoodst before Iehovah thy God in Horeb when Iehovah said unto me Gather together the people unto mee and I will make them heare my words that they may learne to feare mee all the daies that they live upon the earth and that they may teach their sonnes And ye came neare and stood under the mountaine and the mountaine bâ—â—ed with fire unto the heart of the heavens with darknesse cloud and thicke darknesse And Iehovah spake unto you out of the middest of the fire you heard a voice of words but saw no similitude save a voyce And hee declared unto you his covenant which hee commanded you to doe the ten Words and hee wrote them upon two tables of stone And Iehovah commanded mee at that time to teach you statutes and judgments that yee may doe them in the land whither ye are going over to possesse it And take yee heed diligently unto your soules for yee saw not any similitude in the day that Iehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the middest of the fire Lest ye corrupt your selves and make unto you a graven thing the similitude of any figure the likenesse of male or female The likenesse of any beast that is on the earth the likenesse of any winged fowle that flieth in the heavens The likenesse of any thing that creepeth on the ground the likenesse of any fish that 〈◊〉 in the waters beneath the earth And lest thou lift up thine eies to the heavens and seest the Sunne and the Moone and the Startes all the Host of the heavens and beest driven away and bowest downe thy selfe unto them servest them them which I 〈…〉 thy God hath imparted to all peoples under all the heavens But Iehovah hath taken you and brought you forth out of the furnace of it on out of Egypt to bee unto him a people of inheritance as this day And Iehovah was angry with me for your sakes and sware that I should not goe over Iordan and that I should not goe in into the good land which Iehovah thy God giveth thâ—â— for an inheritance For I must die in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I must not goe over Iordan but ye shall goe over and possesse that good land Take heed unto your selves lest yee forget the covenant of Iehovah your God which hee stroke with you and make to you a 〈◊〉 thing the likenesse of any thing which Iehovah thy God hath charged thee For Iehovah thy God hee is a consuming 〈◊〉 〈…〉 alous God When thou shalt beget children and childrens children and ye shall have waxen old in thâ— land and shall corrupt your selves and make a graven thing the likenesse of any thing and shall doe evill in the eyes of Iehovah thy God to provoke him to anger I call the heavens the earth to witnesse against you this day that perishing ye shall perish soone from off the land whereunto you passe over Iordan to possesse it yee shall not prolong your â—â—ies upon it but shall utterly be destroyed And Iehovah will scatter you among the peoples and yee shall be left few men in number among the heathens whither Iehovah shall lead you And there ye shall serve Gods the worke of mens hands wood and stone which neither see nor heare nor eat nor smell But if from thence ye shall seeke Iehovah thy God then thou shalt find him if thou shalt seeke him with all thy heart and with all thy soule When tribulation shall be on thee and all these things shall finde thee in the latter daies and thou shalt turne to Iehovah thy God and heaâ—ken unto his voice For Iehovah thy God is a mercifull God he will not leave thee neither destroy thee neither will he forget the covenant of thy fathers which hee sware unto them For aske now of the daies â—orepast which were before thee since the day that God created man upon the earth and aske from the utmost part of the heavens and unto the other utmost part of the heavens whether there hath beene any such thing as this great thing is or hath beene heard like it Hath a people heard the voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and lived Or hath God assayed to come to take him a nation from the middest of a nation by tentations by signes and by wonders and by war and by a strong hand and by a stretched-out arme and by great terrours according to all that Iehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes Thou hast beene made see to know that Iehovah he is God there is none else besides him Out of the heavens hee made thee to heare his voyce to instruct thee and upon the earth he made thee to see his great fire and thou heardest his words out of the middest of the fire And because hee loved thy fathers therefore hee chose his seed after him and he brought thee out in his sight with his great power out of Egypt To drive out nations greater and mightier than thou from before thee to bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance as it is this day And thou shalt know this day and cause it to returne into thy heart that Iehovah hee is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath there is none else And thou shalt keepe his statutes his commandements which I command thee this day that it may be well with thee and with thy sonnes after thee and that thou maiest prolong thy daies upon the land which Iehovah thy God giveth thee all daies Then Moses separated three Cities on this side Iordan towards the Sunne rising For the man-flayer to flee thither which should kill his neighbour unwittingly and he hated him not in times past and that hee might flie unto one of these cities and live Bezer in the wildernesse in the plaine countrey of the Reubenites and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites and Golan in Basan of the Manassites And this is the law which Moses set before the sonnes of Israel These are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses
raine of heavens A land which Iehovah thy God careth for the eyes of Iehovah thy God are continually upon it from the beginning of the yeere even to the end of the yeere And it shall be if hearkening ye shall hearken unto my commandements which I command you this day to love Iehovah your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soule That I will give the raine of your land in his time the first raine and the latter raine and thou shalt gather in thy Corne and thy new wine and thy new Oyle And I will give grasse in thy field for thy cattell that thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and be full Take heed to your selves lest your heart be deceived and yee turne aside and serve other gods and bow downe your selves to them And the anger of Iehovah be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens that there bee no raine and the land yeeld not her increase and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Iehovah giveth you And yee shall put these my words in your heart and in your soule and shall binde them for a signe upon your hand and they shall be for Phylacteries betweene your eyes And yee shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest in the way and when thou lyest downe and when thou risest up And thou shalt write them upon the doore-posts of thine house and on thy gates That your dayes may be multiplied and the dayes of your children in the land which Iehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them as the dayes of the heavens upon the earth For if keeping yee shall keepe all this commandement which I command you to doe it to love Iehovah your God to walke in all his wayes and to cleave unto him Then will Iehovah drive out all these nations from before your faces and yee shall possesse nations greater and mightier than your selves Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours from the wildernesse and Lebanon from the river the river Euphrates and unto the hindmost sea shall your coast be There shall not a man stand before you Iehovah your God will give the dread of you and the feare of you upon the face of all the land which yee shall tread upon as hee hath spoken unto you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse A blessing if yee shall hearken unto the commandements of Iehovah your God which I command you this day And a curse if yee will not hearken unto the commandements of Iehovah your God but turne aside out of the way which I command you this day to goe after other gods which yee have not knowne And it shall bee when Iehovah thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possesse it that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal Are they not on the other-side Iordan by the way of the going downe of the Sunne in the land of the Canaanite which dwelleth in the plaine over against Gilgal besides the Okes of Moreh For yee are passing over Iordan to goe in to possesse the land which Iehovah your God giveth unto you and yee shall possesse it and dwell in it And yee shall observe to doe all the statutes and the judgements which I set before your faces this day Annotations ANd thou shalt love or Love thou therefore Moses returneth to exhort Israel unto the love of God and to shew the same by their continuall obedience his charge or his custodie his observation which word is often used for a watch as in Exod. 14. 24. The Greeke translateth it charges or custodies meaning ordinances to be kept heedfully so in Gen. 26. 5. Lev. 8. 35. and 18. 30. Vers. 2. for I speake not with your children or that it is not your children or sonnes namely which have seene Gods greatnesse c. but your eyes are they that have seene c. vers 7. Hee commendeth Gods speciall favour to their owne persons more than to their fathers or to their children in shewing them his great workes for which they should the more love and obey him This he after confirmeth by many arguments the chastisement or nurture which the Chaldee translateth doctrine or instruction It implieth nurture both by words and workes as Deut. 4. 36. and 8. 5. Lev. 26. 18. Prov. 1. 2. and 4. 1. stretched out the Greek and Chaldee translate high arme See the notes on Deut. 4. 34. Vers. 3. deeds or acts in Greeke wonders Of these see the history in Exod. 7 c. And here is the first argument from Gods mighty workes in Egypt Vers. 4. arme or power forces So the Greeke translateth the power of the Egyptians See Exod. 15. 4. to their horses Hebr. to his horses and to his Chariots speaking of them as of one man or having respect to Pharaoh their King to flow or to swim and over their faces is like that in Lam. 3. 54. waters flowed over mine head He meaneth they were drowned the Sea covered them they sanke as Lead in the mighty waters Exod. 15. 10. destroyed or made them perish so that there remained not so much as one of them Exod. 14. 28. This was an extraordinary favour of God who oftentimes suffereth the oppressors to have the strong hand whiles the oppressed have the teares and no comforter Eccles. 4. 1. So this is the second argument from Gods power shewed at the Red sea Vers. 5. what hee did or the things which hee did in his continuall guiding them thorow that terrible wildernesse where they bewrayed their many infirmities and had experience both of his chastisements and of his mercies the third argument and motive unto obedience Vers. 6. Dathan of whose historie see Numb 16. This is the fourth argument of Gods greatnesse to perswade Israel unto his love for that hee had repressed the factious and mutinous rebels among themselves which would have subverted the order and ordinance of God concerning the Priesthood the meanes of the atonement and reconciliation betweene God and his people their houses that is housholds as the Chaldee expounds it the men of their houses See Numb 16. 32. at their feet that is in their possession the Greeke and Chaldee translate that was with them Vers. 7. have seene or are they that see Therefore this people above all other were bound to love the Lord. worke or deed that is workes as the Greeke translateth So in the verse following commandement for commandements Vers. 8. be strong in body and spirit to fight against the enemy as in Ios. 1. 6. 1 Ioh. 2. 14. Or be strong that is lively and healthfull as the Greeke translateth that ye may live and they that be strong Matth. 9. 12. are by another Evangelist said to be in health opposed to the sicke Luk. 5. 31. possesse
1 2 c. when thou walkest c. answerable to these are those sayings of Solomon When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keepe thee and when thou awakest it shall talke with thee for the Commandement is a Lampe and the Law is a light Prov. 6. 22 23. Vers. 20. doore-posts of this rite see the notes on Deut. 6. 9. Vers. 21. dayes may be multiplied Long life is a blessing often promised to them that keepe Gods Law Heare O my sonne and receceive my sayings and the yeeres of thy life shall be many Prov. 4. 10. dayes of the heavens that is whiles the world endureth for so long by the decree of God in Gen. 8. 22. shall the dayes of heaven be and so long shall the heavens be over the earth And under this eternall life was also figured A like promise was for the kingdome of David or of Christ that his throne should be as the dayes of the heavens Psal. 89. 30. Vers. 22. this commandement the Greek explaineth it these commandements see the notes on Deut. 5. 31. to cleave that is to continue fast united unto him and his Law as is noted on Deut. 10. 20. Vers. 23. drive out according to his former promise in Exod. 23. 23. 27. 31. But because Israel kept not Gods commandement this promise was not fully performed Iudg. 2. 1 2 3. Vers. 24. shall tread The like promise is made after Moses death to Israel under Iesus their Captaine Ios. 1. 3. who was a figure of our Lord Iesus Christ by whom this promise was fulfilled the wildernesse of Paran which was the southerne border of the land of Canaan and Lebanon a mountaine which was the northerne bound By and Lebanon we may understand and unto Lebanon as the next words manifest Euphrates in Hebrew Pherath this is called the river for excellency sake meaning the great river as Deut. 1. 7. Gen. 15. 18. and so the Greeke translateth it here It was the easterne border of their territories hindmost sea or after sea which the Greeke and Chaldee calleth the Westerne sea meaning the maine or great sea toward the going downe of the Sunne as is explained in Ios. 1. 4. which sea is said to be after or behinde them because it was to the West and so their westerne bound For the East is counted the fore-part of the world the West behinde the South on the right hand Psal. 89. 13. and the North on the left all which foure parts are called by these names in Iob 23. 8 9. See this promise fulfilled in 2 Chron. 9. 26. Vers. 25. stand or set himselfe that is resist or withstand you as the Greeke translateth So in Ios. 1. 5. feare in Greeke trembling this was fulfilled before Deut. 2. 25. Psal. 105. 38. and after Ios. 2. 11. and 10. 10. Here beginneth the 47. section 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Lecture of the Law see Genes 6. 9. Vers. 26. I set Hebr. I give this was that they might take their choise of either of these for so the phrase elsewhere meaneth Deut. 30. 19. and so to manifest that if the curse or evill came upon them they caused it themselves Vers. 27. if yee shall hearken or that yee may hearken but the Hebrew Asher That is sometimes used for If as the Greeke here translateth it and in Levit. 4. 22. So Asher in 1. King 8. 31. is Im that is If in 2 Chron. 6. 22. Vers. 28. after other gods in Greeke to serve other gods following other religions or divine services which the Chaldee calleth the idols of the peoples Sol. Iarchi observeth from this place that whosoever committeth idolatry he turneth aside from all the way which was commanded to Israel here upon they say He that professeth idolatry is as if he denied the whole Law Vers. 29. put the blessing Heb. give the blessing that is cause it to be pronounced upon mount Gerizim The manner is shewed in Deut. 27. where this Law is repeated and enlarged A thing is said to be given sometime when it is spoken or pronounced with the mouth as in Iob 36. 3. Deut. 13. 1 2. upon mount Gerizim or towards mount Gerizim which the Greeke calleth Garizim so after towards mount Ebal called in Greeke Gaibal For the people stood halfe of them over against mount Gerizim and halfe of them over against mount Ebal as is recorded in Ios. 8. 33. And the Hebrew gnal sometimes signifieth towards a place as in Exod. 9. 22. towards heaven Vers. 30. Are they not that is Loe they are speaking as of a thing well knowne See the notes on Gen. 4. 7. by the way or after behinde the way of the going downe of the Sunne that is the way towards the West or Sunne-setting Gilgal the place where Israel was circumcised afterward in Iosuahs time Ios. 5. 9. Okes of Moreh or plaines of Moreh as the Chaldee expoundeth it which was a place by Sechem where God first appeared to Abraham after he came into the land of Canaan and there Abraham built an Altar to the Lord Gen. 12. 6 7. And that mount Gerizim was by Sechem in that part of the country which after was called Samaria appeareth in Iudg. 9. 6 7. And the Hebrewes say in Thalmud Bab. in Sotah chap. 7. that Gerizim and Ebal were in Samaria There on mount Gerizim was the Samaritans Temple 2 Maccab. 6. 2. where they worshipped they knew not what Ioh. 4. 20. 22. See also Iosephus Antiq. l. 11. c. 8. It seemeth they tooke occasion of that superstition from this Law thinking Gerizim to be a holy place because the blessings were pronounced on it and they called themselves those that belong to the blessed mount And there have been of them in that place of late yeeres as Benjamin in his Itinerario relateth how he saw the citie in a valley betweene the mountaines Garizim and Ebal wherein the Samaritans dwelled and did sacrifice there on mount Garizim alleaging that which is written in the Law And thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim CHAP. XII 1 Places and monuments of idolatrie are to be destroyed 4 they may not doe so unto the Lord but must seeke and keepe the place of his service which be himselfe should chuse 5 11 14 Thither all their sacrifices holy things must be brought 12 18 There they and their families and the Levite must eat and reioyce 15 21 For civill use they might kill and eat within their gates 16. 23 Bloud is forbidden to be eaten 29 The manner of service which the Canaanites used may not be inquired after nor the like things done unto the Lord but his commandements only THese are the statutes and the judgements which ye shall observe to doe in the land which Iehovah the God of thy fathers giveth unto thee to possesse it all the dayes that ye live upon the earth Destroying ye shall destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possesse served
comes thereof as Prov. 31. 16. 31. their seed that is children or posteritie Psal. 22. 24. 31. and â—7 25. Gen. â—7 7. 10. Vers. 12. shall not be able to wit to stablish as the Greeke explaineth or to effect it After this word can or able there often wanteth a word to be understood see Psal. 101. 5. Vers. 13. a Butt to shoot at Hebr. a shoulder because the earth is heaped up like shoulders The Chaldee paraphraseth thou hast set them to thy people as one shoulder make ready or fit namely thine arrowes against their faces The Chaldee otherwise in the cords of thy Tent thou wilt order thy law before them PSAL. XXII David as a figure of Christ complaineth of his many afflictions 10 Prayeth with faith for deliverance 13 Foresheweth the sundry evils which the wicked would doe unto Christ at his death 23 After deliverance Christ declareth Gods name and praises to his brethren 27 Communicateth the fruits of his death and resurrection to the ends of the earth 31 Whereupon they shew forth their obedience and preach his justice To the master of the musicke concerning the Hinde of the morning a Psalme of David MY God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me art farre off from my salvation from the words of my roaring My God I call by day thou answerest not and by night and there is no silence to me And thou art holy sitting the praises of Israel In thee our fathers trusted they trusted thou deliveredst them Vnto thee they cried out and were safe delivered in thee they trusted and were not abashed But I am a worme and not a man the reproach of men and despised of the people All they that see me doe scoffe at me they make a mow with the lip they wag the head He confidently turned unto Iehovah let him deliver him let him rid him because hee delighteth in him But thou art the drawer of me forth out of the belly the maker of me to trust even at my mothers brests Vpon thee I have beene cast from the wombe from my mothers belly thou art my God Be not thou gone farre off from me for distresse is neere for there is no helper Many bullocks have compassed me about mighty buls of Bashan have environed me They have wide opened upon mee their mouth as a renting and roaring Lion I am powred out as waters and all my bones dispart themselves my heart is as wax it is molten in the middest of my bowels My able strength is dried up like a pot-sheard and my tongue cleaveth to my jawes and thou hast brought me down to the dust of death For dogs have compassed me the assembly of evill doers have inclosed me they Lion-like pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they did behold they did view me They parted my garments among theÌ„ for my coat they cast a lot And thou Iehovah be not farre off my fortitude hasten to my helpe Rid my soule from the sword my alonely soule from the hand of the dog Save me from the mouth of the Lion and from the hornes of Vnicornes thou hast answered me I will tell thy name to my brethren in the middest of the Church I will praise thee Yee that feare Iehovah praise him all ye seed of Iakob honor him and be afraid of him all ye seed of Israel For hee hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poore afflicted nor hid his face from him and when hee cried out unto him he heard Of thee shall be my praise in the great Church my vowes I will pay before them that feare him The meeke shall eat and be satisfied they shall praise Iehovah that seeke him your heart shal live to perpetuall aye All the ends of the earth shall remember and turne unto Iehovah and all families of the heatheÌ„s shal bow down theÌ„selves before thee For to Iehovah pertaines the Kingdome he is ruler among the nations All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and bow downe themselves all that goe downe to the dust shall bend downe before him and hee that quickneth not his soule A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation They shall come and shall declare his justice to a people that shall be borne that he hath done this Annotations THe Hind of the morning meaning Christ who as a Hind was by Iewes and Gentiles the dogs vers 7. hunted and worroughed in the morning Iohn 18. 28. and also rose from death the third day early in the morning Ioh. 20. 1. when God had made his feet like Hindes feet and set him on his high places Psal. 18 34. Compare with this Song 2. 9. 17. and 8. 14. where Christ is also likened to a young Hart. And in Psal. 49. 15. the resurrection is called the morning for then the true light of comfort and salvation shall appeare A Hinde called in Hebrew Aijeleth hath the name of prowesse or fortitude as in the 20 verse of this Psalme Aejaluth is fortitude and so it may be understood for the strength or fortitude of the morning that is the helpe and power of God to raise up Christ from the dead which may be the meaning of the Greeke translation for the morning helpe Some of the Iewes have interpreted it the morning starre which although the word be no where else found in Scripture for a star agreeth also to our Lord Christ who is intituled the bright morning starre Rev. 20. 16. Others applying this title to the Musicke retaine the Hebrew words still A 〈…〉 eleth hasshachar The Chaldee expoundeth it To praise God for the mightie continuall sacrifice Vers. 2. My God my God c. Christ speaketh this Psalme to God his Father The Hebrew is Aeli Aeli lammah ghnazabtani which words our Lord uttered on the crosse Mat. 27. 46. save for the later he used the Syriak sabachtani of the same signification At which the prophane Iewes mocked saying that he called for Elias Mat. 27. 47. 49. Wherefore hast thou forsaken me or why leavest thou me They are the words of saith striving in tentation and doe imply both a hope of and a prayer for deliverance as it is noted on Psal. 10. 1. See the like also in Psal. 42. 10. and 43. 2. my roaring this argueth great griefe of heart uttered with loud complaint So Psal. 38. 9. and 32. 3. Iob 3. 24. And Christ in the dayes of his flesh offered up prayers with strong crying and teares to him that was able to save him from death Heb. 5. 7. Vers. 3. no silence to me or but I have no silence and consequently no rest or ease So Iob 30. 20. 27. Vers. 4. sitting or sittest that is abidest still one and the same as Psal. 9. 8. and 55. 20. and 102. 13. or fittest to wit still as Ruth 3. 18. that is risest not up to helpe me or sittest that is inhabitest as Psal. 9.
from the wicked and restored to Gods Sanctuary 5 He encourageth his 〈◊〉 trust in God IVdge me O God and plead my plea from the nation unmercifull from the man of deceit and injurious evill do thou deliver me For thou art the God of my strength why thrustest thou me away why goe I still sad for the oppression of the enemie Send thy light and thy truth let them lead me let 〈◊〉 bring me unto the mountain of thy holinesse and unto thy dwelling places And I will come unto the Altar of God unto God the joy of my gladnesse and confesse thee with harpe O God my God Why bowest thou downe thy selfe my soule and why makest thou a tumultuous stirre within me wait hopefully for God for yet I shall confesse him the salvations of my face and my God Annotations IVdge me This meaneth an examination of the cause giving sentence and executing of it by delivering the oppressed so judging is used for delivering 1 Sam. 24. 15. 2 Sam. 18. 19 31. Iudg. 3. 10. Pleading also ones plea is of like meaning see Psal. 35. 1. The Chaldee paraphraseth Judge me O God with judgement of truth for it is thy part to plead my plea. Vers. 2. my strength or my strong fort as Psal. 28. 8. for which in Psal. 42. 10. hee useth the word Rocke Vers. 3. dwelling places meaning the holy Tabernacle or Sanctuary which had severall roomes holy and most holy parted by veiles as also the Apostle observeth Hebr. 9. 2 3 6 7. or the high place at Gibeon where the tabernacle was in Ierusalem where the Arke was 2 Chro. 1. 3 4. for in both those places God dwelt and was worshipped But the first seemeth most proper because of Psal. 132. 5. See also Psal. 46. 5. and 84. 2. The Chaldee explaineth the former to be the mount of the house of thy Sanctuary and these latter the Schooles of the house of thy divine Majestie By Schooles meaning such places about the Sanctuarie as the Doctors sate in Luk. 2. 46. Vers. 4. And I will come or That I may come for so the Hebrew phrase may often be resolved and the new Testament useth both indifferently in the Greeke as Luk. 6. 37. and ye shall not be judged for which in Matth. 7. 1. it is that yee be not judged to the Altar Chaldee to offer an offering upon the Altar the joy of my gladnesse that is author of my gladsome joy meaning inward joy outwardly shewing it selfe in gladsome gesture Vers. 5. why bowest c. This verse is the same with Psal. 42. 12. of my face the Chaldee explaineth it for the redemption which is from his face for he is my God PSAL. XLIV The Church in memory of former favours when they inherited the Land 10 complaineth of her present evils being subject to persecutors 18 Professing her integritie in greatest afflictions 24 she fervently prayeth for succour To the Master of the Musicke to the sonnes of Korach an instructing Psalme O God with our eares we have heard our fathers have told to us the work thou wroughtest in their dayes in dayes of ol◠Thou with thy hand didst dispossesse the heathens and didst plant them thou didst evill to the peoples and didst propagate them For not by their owne sword inherited they the land and their arme saved them not but thy right hand and thy arme and the light of thy face because thou didst favour them Thou art he my King O God command the salvations of Iakob In thee we shall push with the horne our distressers in thy name we shall tread downe them that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow and my sword shall not save me For thou hast saved us from our distressers and our haters thou didst make ashamed In God we praised all the day and thy name for ever we will confesse Selah But now thou thrustest away and makest us ashamed and goest not forth with our armies Thou makest us turne backward from the distresser and they that hate us doe spoile for themselves Thou givest us as sheepe for meat and fannest us in the nations Thou sellest thy people for no wealth and increasest not by the prises of them Thou exposest us a reproach to our neighbours a scoffe and a scorne to them that be round about us Thou puttest us for a parable among the heathens a nodding of the head among the nations All the day my ignominie is before me and the abashing of my face covereth me For the voice of the reproacher and taunter for the face of the enemie and selfe avenger All this is come on us and we have not forgotten thee not dealt falsly against thy covenant Our heart hath not turned backward nor our stepping swarved from thy path Though thou hast crushed us in the place of Dragons and hast covered over us with the shadow of death If we have forgotten the name of our God and spred out our hands to a strange god Shall not God search out this for he knoweth the hid things of the heart But for thee wee are killed all the day are counted as sheepe of slaughter Stitre up why sleepest thou Lord awake thrust not away forever Wherefore hidest thou thy face forgettest thou our affliction and our oppression For our soule is bowed downe to the dust our belly cleaveth unto the earth Rise up for an helpfulnesse to us and redeeme us for thy mercy sake Annotations DIspossesse or disinherit the nations meaning the Canaanites as the Chaldee explaneth it Thou by thy strong hand didst cast out the peoples of Canaan and plantedst the house of Israel See examples hereof in the Amorites Numb 21. 32. and the other Kings of Canaan Ios. 12. seven nations greater and mightier than Israel Deut. 7. 1. plantedst them to wit our fathers the Israelites as Exod. 15. 17. a figure taken from the planting of vines whereof see Psal. 80. 9 c. the peoples that dwelt before in Canaan So Psal. 106. 34. didst propagate or send forth make spread as the vine sendeth out or dispreadeth the branches Psal. 80. 12. Ezek. 17. 6. Vers. 4. light of thy face thy favourable countenance in Christ See the note on Psal. 4. 7. and 89. 16. Vers. 5. thou art he that is Thou art the same my King as the Greeke expresseth it this noteth Gods unchangeablenesse See Psal. 102. 28. command procure by thy commandement See Psal. 42. 9. salvations of Iakob that is the full salvation the absolute deliverance of thy weake people the posterity of Iakob See Psal. 14. 7. Vers. 6. push with the horne a speech taken from Moses Deut. 33. 17. and meaneth a vanquishing or subduing 1 King 22. 11. Dan. 84. tread downe or tread under foot which signifieth both a subduing or destroying 2 Chron. 22. 7. and a contempt or setting them at nought Prov. 17. 7. and so the Greeke here translateth it we shall set at nought So after in Psal. 60.
thy judgements to the King and thy justice to the Kings sonne That he may judge thy people with justice and thy poore afflicted ones with judgement The mountains shall bring forth peace to the people and the hills with justice He shall judge the poore afflicted of the people he shall save the sonnes of the needy and shall breake downe the fraudulent oppressour They shall feare thee with the Sunne and before the Moone to generation of generations Hee shall come downe like the raine upon the mowen grasse as the showers the dispersed moisture of the earth In his dayes shall the just man flourish and multitude of peace untill the Moone be not And he shall have dominion from sea unto sea and from the river unto the ends of the land They that dwell in dry places shall kneele before him and his enemies shall licke the dust The kings of Tharshish and of the Iles shal render an oblation the kings of Sheba Seba shall offer a present And all kings shall worship him all nations shall serve him For he shall deliver the needy that cryeth out and the poore afflicted and him that hath no helper He shall mercifully spare the poore and needy and shall save the soules of the needy He shall redeeme their soule from fraud and violent wrong and precious shall their bloud be in his eyes And he shall live and he shall give to him of the gold of Sheba and shall pray for him continually shall blesse him all the day There shall bee a parcell of Corne in the land in the top of the mountaines the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon and flourish shall they of the City as the herbe out of the earth His name shall be for ever his name shall be continued before the Sunne and they shall blesse themselves in him all Nations shall call him blessed Blessed be Iehovah God the God of Israel which doth marvellous things himselfe alone And blessed be the name of his glory for ever and let all the earth be filled with his glory Amen and Amen Ended are the prayers of David sonne of Iesse Annotations FOr Solomon the Greeke addeth a Psalme of David for Solomon and the last verse sheweth it to be made by David and it concerneth Christ and his Kingdome figured by Solomon Song 3. 11. and therfore called by his name as elsewhere he is called David Hos. 3. 5. Such also is the title of the 127. Psalme Kings sonne to whom the right of the Kingdome belongeth by birth and inheritance So Christ was King Davids sonne and borne King of the Iewes Mar. 11. 10. Mat. 2. 2. and 22. 42. to him the Father gave all judgement Iohn 5. 22. The Chaldee expoundeth the King to bee Christ and the Kings sonne to be King Davids son Vers. 2. That he may or Let him judge that is governe thy people in justice that is justly wherefore he is named Melchizedek that is King 〈◊〉 justico Heb. 7. 2. of whom it was prophesied behold a King shall reigne in justice Isa. 32. 1. Vers. 3. The mountaines shall bring forth or shall beare to wit as their fruit for so this phrase importeth Iob 40. 15. This and the rest that follow may also bee read prayer-wise let the mountaines beare c. The Chaldee paraphraseth The dwellers on the mountaines shall bring peace to the people of the house of Israel peace that is prosperitie plenty of fruits which should be injoyed with peace as all Solomons dayes Israel dwelt without feare every man under his vine and figtree 1 King 4. 25. And under Christ the worke and effect of justice is peace quietnesse and assurance for ever Isa. 32. 17. Rom. 5. 1. the mountaines drop downe new wine and the hils flow with milke Ioel 3. 18. Amos 9. 13. hils with justice that is the hils also shall beare peace with justice both peace and justice as these two are said to kisse each other Psal. 85. 11. and Christ is King both of justice and peace Heb. 7. 2. his Kingdome is justice peace and joy Rom. 14. 17. It may also be read for justice Vers. 4. shall judge that is shall deliver see the notes on Psal. 43. 1. save the sonnes of the needy that is the needy persons in Chaldee shall redeeme the sonnes of miserie that is such as are in wretched case the fraudulent oppressor whom the Greeke here calleth sycophant which word is used for injurying by forged cavillation Luk. 19. 8. and 3. 14. See before in Psal. 62. 11. Vers. 5. They shall feare men shall reverence that is worship and serve thee So feare is used for worship Isa. 29. 13. Mat. 15. 9. with the sun or before the sun as is after expressed vers 17. as the Hebrew ghnim with is elsewhere used for before Est. 7. 8. and before the sun and moone meaneth continually so long as they shine on the earth which is so long as the world endureth Gen. 8. 22. Psal. 89. 37 38. The Chaldee intrepreteth it with the rising of the sunne and in the light of the moone that is at morning and evening day and night as the twelve Tribes are said so instantly to serve Act. 26. 7. Vers. 6. the mowen grasse the medow which being mowen in the beginning of Summer craveth raine that it may grow againe The orginall word signifieth also a shorne fleece of wooll which sense some keepe here and referre it to the deaw that fell on Gedeons fleece when the land was dry and againe on the land when the fleece was dry Iudg. 6. 37 40. Solomon and Christ are here said to come downe as raine in respect of the doctrine and administration of judgement by them So Moses said My doctrine shall drop as the raine c. Deut. 32. 2. and Iob said they waited for me as for the raine c. Iob 29. 23. and the Lord shall come unto us as the raine c. Hos. 6. 3. the dispersed moisture understand which are the moisture that is which showres doe moisten the earth Zarziph the Hebrew word used only in this place hath the signification of dispersing moisture or water as is by showers God having divided spouts for the raine whereby it is strowed abroad upon the earth Iob 38. 25. Wherefore the former word showers implieth raine that falleth with manifold or millions of drops as Psal. 65. 11. Vers. 7. multitude of peace to wit shall be or shall flourish and this Shalom peace may respect the name of Shelomoh or Solomon which signifieth peaceable as was promised to David Behold a son is borne to thee which shall be a man of rest for I will give him rest from all his enemies round about therefore his name is Solomon and I will send Salom peace and quietnesse upon Israel in his daies 1 Chron. 22. 9. moone be not or be taken away as the Greeke explaineth it that is till the worlds end as before vers 5. Vers. 8. from sea to sea
feast which was thrise in the yeare 1 at the Passeover 2 at Pentecost and 3 at the feast of Tabernacles Deut. 16. 26. of which last some understand this festivitie Ceseh as having the name of covering in boothes others of the covering that is the change of the moone when it is hid by the Sunne feast or daunce see Psal. 42. 5. This may be meant of all feasts or in speciall of the feast of blowing trumpets in the first day of the seventh moneth Levit. 23. 24. or of the Passeover as after verse 6. Vers. 5. a judgement that is a rite or ordinance made by God and a duty to be performed to him So judgement is for dutie Deut. 18. 3. Vers. 6. in Ioseph among the posteritie of Ioseph and the other tribes of Israel Ioseph is named as principall having the birth-right 1 Chron. 5. 1 2. So Psal. 80. 2. from the land so the Greeke turneth it the Hebrew ghnal being here for meghnal the same that min from as 2 Chro. 33. 8. with 2 King 21. 8. Zach. 4. 3. At their going out of Egypt the feast of the Passeover was appointed Exod. 12. after in the wildernesse the other feasts Levit. 23. or we may read it against the land viz. to destroy it and the first-borne Exod. 11. 4 5. The Chaldee applieth this to Ioseph when hee went out of prison and ruled over the land of Egypt I heard a language Hebr. a lip used for the speech or language as Gen. 11. 1. Vers. 7. from the burden that is burdens wherewith they were vexed in Egypt making bricks building cities c. Exod. 1. 11. and 5. 4 5 7 8. basket or pot such vessels as wherein they carried straw mortar bricke c. Vers. 8. Thou calledst Israel having left Egypt Pharaoh with his host pursued them and they were sore afraid and cried to the Lord Exo. 14. 10 15. secret place of thunder out of the blacke cloud wherewith God guided and protected Israel but with thunder raine c. dismayed the Egyptians Exod. 14. 19 20 24 25. See also Psal. 77. 18 19. of Meribah that is of Strife so named because Israel there strove with Moses and almost stonied him Ex. 17. 1 2 3 4 7. There God proved theÌ„ to know what was in their heart whether they would keep his commandements or no Deut. 8. 2. Exod. 15. 25. and there they proved God Ps. 95. 9. Vers. 9. testifie or protest take to witnesse namely the heavens and earth c. as Deut. 31. 28. and 32. 1 46. and 30. 19. and deeply charge thee Compare herewith Exod. 19. 3 4 5 c. and 20. 22 23. Ier. 11. 7 8 8. V. 11. open wide that is speake and aske freely This sentence our Saviour openeth thus If yee abide in mâ— and my words abide in you aske what ye will and it shall be done to you Ioh. 15. 7. and the Apostle thus Whatsoever we aske of God we receive of him because wee keepe his commandements c. 1 Ioh. 3. 22. The Chaldee expoundeth it Open thy mouth to the words of the law and I will fill it with all good Vers. 12. not well affected had no will or good inclination which they shewed presently after the giving of the Law by making themselves gods of gold and by their continuall rebellions afterward Exod. 32. 1 31. Vers. 13. perverse intendment or stubborne opinion writhing and obstinate intention which they looked after in their erroneous heart This word is taken from Deut. 29. 19. and after often objected to them by Ieremie Ier. 3. 17. and 7. 24. and 9. 14. and 11. 8. And this is noted for a judgement of God when he suffereth people to walke in their owne wayes Act. 14. 16. Vers. 15. humbled and so have given them rest from their enemies as in 1 Chron. 17. 10. compared with 2 Sam. 7. 11. Vers. 16. falsly denied or fainedly submitted see Psal. 18. 45. and 66. 3. their time if this be referred to the enemies it is meant their time of distresse as Ps. 10. 1. and 31. 16. so time is used Ier. 27. 7. Isa. 13. 22. if to Gods people it meaneth their continued setled state which the Chaldee translateth their strength Vers. 17. fed him that is his people verse 14. fat of wheat the principall or flower of corne so Deut. 32. 14. Psal. 147. 14. out of the rocke out of which God had made his people sucke honey and oile Deut. 32. 13. Spiritually the Rocke is Christ 1 Cor. 10. 4. the honey is the gracious words that flow from him sweetnes to the soule and health to the bones Prov. 16. 24. Psal. 19. 11. Song 4. 11. PSAL. LXXXII An exhortation to the Iudges and reproofe of their negligence A Psalme of Asaph GOd standeth in the assembly of God he judgeth in the midst of the Gods How long will ye judge injurious evill and accept the faces of the wicked Selah Iudge ye the poore weakling and the fatherlesse justifie the afflicted and the poore Deliver the poore weakling and the needy â—id free out of the hand of the wicked They know not neither will they understand they will walke on in darknesse moved shall be all the foundations of the earth I have said ye are Gods and ye all are sonnes of the most high But surely ye shall die as men and as one of the Princes shall ye fall Rise up O God judge thou the earth for thou shalt inherit in all nations Annotations THe assembly of God that is the assise or session of Magistrates whose office is the ordinance of god Rom. 13. 1 2. Deut. 16. 18. and who are to execute not the judgments of man but of the Lord who is with them in the cause and judgement 2 Chron. 19. 6. Deut 1. 17. in the mids of the Gods that is among the Iudges as the Chaldee translateth or Magistrates v. 6 who in the Law are called Gods Exod. 22. 8 9 28. because the word of God was given to them Ioh. 10. 34 35. Vers. 2. How long c. Thus God by his Prophet judgeth and reproveth the Gods or Iudges for unrighteous judgement The Chaldee addeth How long ye wicked will ye judge c. accept the faces respect the persons lift up admire honour or favour the faces a thing forbidden both concerning rich and poore Deut. 1. 17. and 16. 19. Lev. 19. 15. Prov. 18. 5. Lam. 2. 1 9. Vers. 3. Iudge ye that is defend deliver see Psal. 43. 1. Esa. 1. 17. justifie that is doe justice as 2 Sam. 15. 4. and acquit or absolve him his cause being right Deut. 25. 1. Ier. 22. 3. Vers. 5. They know not The Iudges are ignorant of their dutie Mic. 3. 1. Ier. 10. 21. Prov. 29. 7. The Chaldee paraphraseth The are not wise to doe good and they understand not the Law they will walke on that is continue wilfully ignorant and sinfull in perverting justice Mic. 3. 9. To walke in darknesse is
tremble ye at his feet all the earth Say ye among the nations Iehovah reigneth the world also shall be stablished it shall not be moved hee will judge the peoples with righteousnesse Let the heavens rejoyce and the earth be glad roare let the sea and the plenty thereof Let the field shew gladnesse and all that therein is then let all the trees of the wood shout joyfully Before Iehovah for he commeth for hee commeth to judge the earth he will judge the world with justice the peoples with his faithfulnesse Annotations A New song c. see Psal. 33. 3. This Psalme is a part of that song wherewith God was celebrated when the Arke of his covenant was brought with joy into Davids citie from Obed-edoms house 1 Chron. 16. 23 c. And it containeth a prophesie of Christs kingdome and of the calling of the Gentiles from Idols to serve praise the living God Vers. 2. preach the good tidings or Evangelize see Psal. 40. 10. Vers. 4. praised and praise-worthy see Ps. 18. 4. Vers. 5. Vaine idols or things of nought as the Apostle openeth this word saying we know that an idoll is nothing in the world 1 Cor. 8. 4. Elim and Elohim in Hebrew are Gods of Strength Elilim idols as being Al-Elim not Gods without strength So elsewhere they are plainly called lo Elohim no Gods 2 Chron. 13. 9. unable to doe good or evill and unprofitable Ier. 10. 5. Esa. 44. 9. 10. And as the name of God is joyned with things to shew their excellencie Psal. 36. 7. so is this contrariwise to shew their vanity as of Physitians Iob 13. 4. of shepherds Zach. 11. 17. of false doctrine Ier. 14. 14. The Greeke here turneth it daimonia devils by which name idols are called 1 Cor. 10. 19 20. Rev. 9. 30. 2 Chron. 11. 15. Vers. 6. beateous glorie for this in 1 Chron. 16. 27. is written joyfulnesse Vers. 7. Give c. Compare Psal. 29. 1 2. The Chaldee expoundeth it Bring a new song to God Vers. 8. to his courts to his face or presence as 1 Chron. 16. 29. Vers. 9. of the sanctuary or of sanctity see Psal. 29. 2. tremble or be pained as in travell of child-birth Vers. 10. with righteousnesses that is most righteously Vers. 11. Let rejoyce or shall rejoyce and so the rest So Psa. 98. 7 8 9. The Chaldee paraphraseth Let the hosts of heaven rejoyce and the just of the earth be glad Vers. 13. with justice or in justice that is justly so Rev. 19. 11. Act. 17. 31. Psal. 9. 9. PSAL. XCVII The majestie of Gods kingdome 7 The Church rejoyceth at Gods judgements upon idolaters 10 An exhortation to godlinesse and gladnesse IEhovah reigneth let the earth be glad let the many iles rejoyce Cloud and gloomy darknesse are round about him justice and judgement are the stable-place of his throne Fire goeth before him and flameth round about his distressers His lightnings illuminate the world the earth seeth and trembleth The mountaines like waxe melt at the presence of Iehovah at the presence of the Lord of all the earth The heavens declare his justice and all peoples see his glory Abashed be all they that serve a graven thing that gloriously boast themselves in vaine idols bow downe your selves to him all ye Gods Sion heareth and rejoyceth and glad are the daughters of Iudah because of thy judgements Iehovah For thou Iehovah art high above all the earth vehemently art thou exalted above all Gods Ye lovers of Iehovah hate evill he keepeth the soules of his gracious Saints hee will deliver them from the hand of the wicked Light is sowne for the just and joy for the right of heart Rejoyce ye just in Iehovah and confesse to the remembrance of his holinesse Annotations IEhovah that is Christ called Iehovah our justice Ier. 23. 5. 6. of him and his reigne is this Psalme as the 7. verse manifesteth the many iles that is nations or gentiles dwelling in the iles as the iles shall wait for his Law Esa. 42. 4. which is expounded thus the Gentiles shall trust in his name Matth. 12. 21. So Esa. 60. 9. Vers. 2. gloomy darknesse see Psa. 18. 10. this noteth the terrour of his doctrine and administration Mal. 3. 2. Matth. 3. 12. as at the law giving Deut. 4. 11. The Chaldee saith A cloud of glory and gloomy darknesse stable-place establishment or base see Psal. 89. 15. Vers. 3. Fire severe judgements for Christs enemies as Esa. 42. 25. and 66. 15 16. Ps. 50. 3. Vers. 4. illuminate or have illumined as at the giving of the law there were thunders lightnings voices earthquakes c. Exod. 19. so the like proceed from the throne of Christ Rev. 4. 5. trembleth or is pained see Psal. 77. 17. Vers. 5. at the presence or from the face Vers. 6. The heavens heavenly creatures as thunder lightning tempest c. or the Angels as the Chaldee interpreteth See Psal. 50. 6. Vers. 7. vaine idols see Ps. 96. 5. allye Gods that is as the Greeke saith all ye his Angels see Psal. 8. 6. Vnto this the Apostle seemeth to have reference saying when he bringeth in his first begotten sonne into the world he saith And let all the Angels of God worship him Heb. 1. 6. Although the very words of the Apostle are found in the Greeke version of Deut. 32. 43. but the Hebrew there hath none such See the fulfilling of this Luk. 2. 13 14. Mark 1. 13. Rev. 5. 11 12. Vers. 8. daughters that is cities of Iudah the Christian Churches see Psal. 48. 12. Vers. 11. Light is sowen that is comfort and joy is reserved after trouble as Esth. 8. 16. but hidden for the present as seed in the ground for we are dead our life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3. 3. 4. it doth not yet appeare what we shall be 1 Ioh. 3. 2. Vers. 12. confesse to that is celebrate it See Psal. 30. 5. PSAL. XCVIII The Psalmist exhorteth the Iewes 4 the Gentiles 7 and all creatures to praise God for his salvation by Christ. A Psalme SIng ye to Iehovah a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand hath saved him and the arme of his holinesse Iehovah hath made knowen his salvation to the eies of the nations he hath revealed his justice He hath remēbred his mercy and his faithfulnesse to the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seene the salvation of our God Shout triumphantly to Iehovah all the earth shout cheerefully shout joyfully sing Psalmes Sing Psalmes to Iehovah with harpe with harpe and voice of a Psalme With trumpets and voice of the cornet shout triumphantly before the King Iehovah Let the sea roare and the plenty thereof the world and they that sit therein Let the rivers clap the hands together let the mountaines shout joyfully Before Iehovah for hee is come to judge the earth he will judge the world in justice and the
vers 16. the Priests are cloathed with salvation so Christ and his people Isa. 61. 10. Rev. 1. 13. and 19. 8. thy Saints the people of Israel 1 Chron. 15. 28. and specially the Levites which were singers in Gods Sanctuary So the Chaldee paraphraseth Let thy Priests be cloathed with the garments of justice and let the Levites thy Saints say praises for the oblations Vers. 10. Davids sake for the promises made to David or for Christs sake called often David see Psal. 18. 51. turne not away the face that is deny not the request as 1 King 2. 16 17 20. Vers. 11. truth that is a true oath a faithfull promise fruit of thy wombe or belly that is thy children see 2 Sam. 7. 12. And this prophesie respecteth Christ Act. 2. 30. Vers. 13. his seat or dwelling place see Ps. 68. 17. Vers. 15. victuals or meat see Psal. 78. 25. blessing blesse this noteth certainty and abundance of blessing Vers. 16. with salvation the minstration of the word whereby they save themselves and those that heare them Deut. 33. 10. 1 Tim. 4. 16. So Gods ministers are called Saviours Obad. 21. See before vers 9. The Chaldee translateth with garments of salvation or of redemption Vers. 17. the horne to bud or to grow that is the kingdome and power to increase as the Chaldee saith I will make a glorious King to bud in the house of David See Psal. 75. 5. and 89. 18 25. So Christ is called the horne of salvation Luke 1. 69. ordained a lampe or prepared a candle the bright glorie of the kingdome by a successour as 1 King 11. 36. and 15. 4. 2 King 8. 19. See Psal. 18. 29. Vers. 18. cloath with shame the Chaldee saith with garments of shame He meaneth they shall be disappointed and confounded in all their enterprises So Psal. 35. 26. and 109 29. crowne or diademe a signe of government and sanctitie therefore the Greeke turneh it sanctification see Psal. 89. 40. PSAL. CXXXIII The benefit of the communion of Saints A Song of degrees of David BEhold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell even together Like the good oile upon the head which went downe upon the beard the beard of Aaron which went downe upon the collar of his garmens Like the dew of Hermon which descendeth upon the mountains of Sion for there Iehovah hath commanded the blessing life unto eternitie Annotations TOgether in unitie and concord The Chaldee paraphraseth to dwell in Sion and Ierusalem like two brethren together Vers. 2. the good oile the balsam or oile of holy ointment made of the principall spices for the Lords Tabernacle and Ministers see Exod. 30. 23 25 26 30. the collar Hebr. the mouth that is the edge the upper hole or border which was bound about that it should not rent Exod. 39. 23. Vers. 3. Hermon an high and fertile mount without Iordan watered with the dew of heaven it was called also Shirion see Psal. 29. 6. which descendeth understand here againe and as the dew that descendeth for Hermon and Sion were farre asunder there where brethren dwell in unitie commanded appointed and sent effectually see Psal. 42. 9. PSAL. CXXXIV An exhortation to blesse God A Song of degrees BEhold blesse ye Iehovah all yee servants of Iehovah that stand in the house of Iehovah in the nights Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary and blesse Iehovah Iehovah blesse thee out of Sion he that made heavens and earth Annotations THat stand that is serve or minister as which stood before the King Ier. 51. 12. for which is written in 2 King 25 8. servant of the King Here is meant chiefly the Priests and Levites whose office was to stand and minister Deut. 10. 8. and 17. 12. Ezek. 44. 11 15. So Neh. 12. 44. the Priests and Levites that stood that is served See also Psal. 13 5. 2. The Chaldee expoundeth it that stand in the watches of the house of the Sanctuary of the Lord and doe praise in the nights in the nights keeping the watch of the Lord. See Levit. 8. 35. 1 Chron. 9. 33. Vers. 2. in the Sanctuary or towards the holinesse that is the most holy place where God dwelt betweene the Cherubims or in holinesse that is holily Vers. 3. blesse or will blesse thee speaking to Gods people Compare Num. 6. 24. Psal. 128. 5. and the promise Exod. 20. 24. In all places where I put the memory of my name I will come unto thee and blesse thee PSAL. CXXXV Gods servants are exhorted to praise him for his mercies to Israel 5 his power 8 his judgements on their enemies 15 The vanitie of Idols 19 An exhortation to blesse God Halelâ—â—jah PRaise ye the Name of Iehovah praise him O ye servants of Iehovah That stand in the house of Iehovah in the courts of the house of our God Praise ye Iah for Iehovah is good sign Psalme to his Name for it is pleasant For Iah hath chosen to him selfe Iakob Israel for his peculiar treasure For I doe know that Iehovah is great and our Lord is above all Gods All that pleaseth Iehovah hee doth in the heavens in the earth in the seas and all deepe places He causeth vapours to ascend from the end of the earth hee maketh lightnings with the raine hee bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries Who smote the first-borne of Egypt from man unto beast Sent signes and wonders in mids of thee O Egypt on Pharaoh and on all his servants Who smote many nations and slew mighty Kings Sihon King of the Amorites and Ogh King of Bashan and all the kingdomes of Canaan And gave their land for a possession a possession to Israel his people Iehovah thy Name is for ever Iehovah thy memorie is to generation and generation For Iehovah will judge his people and for his servants hee will repent himselfe The idols of the heathens are silver and gold the worke of the hands of men A mouth they have and speake not eyes they have and see not Eares they have and heare not also there is no breath in their mouth Like them be they that make them every one that trusteth in them O house of Israel blesse ye Iehovah O house of Aaron blesse ye Iehovah O house of Levi blesse yee Iehovah ye that feare Iehovah blesse Iehovah Blessed be Iehovah out of Sion which dwelleth in Ierusalem Halelujah Annotations HAlelu-jah that is praise or glorifie ye Iah it is a word of joyfull exhortation to sing praises to the Lord for his mercies and in the end of Psalmes is added as Amen for a chearefull acclamation see Psal. 104. 35. and 106. 48. Rev. 19. 1 3 6. Vers. 4. peculiar treasure or precious and singular possession proprietie so Deut. 7. 6. This was promised by the law Exod. 19. 5. but performed by Christ his redeeming and purifying of his people Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Vers. 7. vapours or elevations in Greeke clouds for by
hast not knowne thou or thy fathers wood and stone And in those nations thou shalt not finde ease neither shall there bee rest for the sole of thy foot and Iehovah will give unto thee there a trembling heart and failing of eies and pining of soule And thy life shall bee hanging in doubt before thee and thou shalt dread night and day and shalt not have assurance of thy life In the morning thou shalt say Who will give the evening and in the euening thou shalt say Who will give the morning for the dread of thine heart wherewith thou shalt dread and for the sight of thine eies which thou shalt see And Iehovah will returne thee to Egypt with ships by the way whereof I said unto thee Thou shalt not see it againe any more and there yee shall bee sold to your enemies for bondmen and for bond-women and none shall buy you Annotations HEarkening thou shalt hearken that is shalt continually and diligently hearken to or obey the voiâ—e which the Chaldee translateth shalt receive the word of the LORD As in the former Chapter the Law was confirmed by blessings and curses proâ—ounced by the people so here it is confirmed in like sort but more largely by God himselfe that Israel might be kept in due obedience and finding in themselves the impossibility of doing the Law they might have recourse unto Christ by faith to observe to doe in Greeke to observe or keepe and to doe give thee to be high that is set and stablish thee high as giving 1 Chron. 17. 22. is expounded stablishing 2 Sam. 7. 24. And highnesse meaneth heavenly dignity given of God by the high or heavenly calling whereby they were made partakers Phil. 3. 14. Heb. 3. 1. whereby they were to seeke and minde the things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. and have their conversation in heaven Phil. 3. 20. For the way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath Prov. 15. 24. See also Deut. 26. 19. Vers. 2. overtake thee or take hâ—ld on thee The Greeke translateth finde thee It meaneth obtaining of all blessings and effectuall applying of them for their good and comfort The like is said of the curses in v. 15. 45. and generally of Gods words and statutes of which the Prophet telleth the Iewes that they overtooke or tooke hold of their fathers when they were punished for transgressing them Zach. 1. 6. Vers. 3. Blessed thou The first blessing is upon the person who must be acceptable to God before any of his workes are accepted Gen. 4. 4. and the person being blessed all things prosper about him What blessing is see the Annotations on Gen. 1. 22. and 2. 3. and 12. 2. citie by this and the field all places and all estates of life are meant Vers. 4. fruit of thy wombe or of thy belly the Chaldee saith the child of thy bowels The second blessing is upon a mans possessions of all sorts for increase which was at the first by God blessing the creatures Gen. 1. 22. 28. and so continueth as it is written And he blesseth them and they are multiplied greatly Psal. 107. 39. So Psal. 128. 1 3. thy ground or land the fruits whereof were also figures of heavenly blessing see Levit. 26. 4. increase or young in Greeke herds see Deut. 7. 13. Vers. 5. basket whereinto fruits are put when they are gathered Deut. 26. 2. dough-trough or dough or store see Exod. 8. 3. and 12. 34. These two are named in stead of all places and vessels wherein the fruits and commodities which God sendeth are kept for use and store Therefore the Greeke for basket translateth barnes as Luk. 12. 18. and for the dough-trough remainders or store that is left So in v. 17. And this is the third degree of blessing upon the commodities which men reape of their possâ—ssions Vers. 6. comest in by comming in and going out the Scripture meaneth all imployment and administration in any businesse or office as in government of a kingdome 2 Chron. 1. 10. of the Church Act. 1. 21. of a family Gen. 39. 11. Psal. 104. 23. and generally of all other affaires as 2 Sam. 3. 25. Act. 9. 28. So this fourth blessing concerneth the whole administration and conversation of the Saints Vers. 7. smitten that is as the Greeke and Chaldee expound it crushed and broken see an example of this in Davids enemies 2 Sam. 22. 38 43. And this fift blessing concerneth the safety of Gods people and their victories over their enemies of whom the chiefe is Saâ—an himselfe and him will the God of peace crush under the â—â—et of his people Rom. 16. 20. â—lee a signe of discomfiture and destruction therefore when one Prophet saith Wilt thou she before thine enemies 2 Sam. 24. 13. another explaineth it to be destroyed before thine enemies 1 Chron. 21. 12. seven waies that is many waies so signifying a ful conquest over them for seven is a compleat number often used for many as is noted on Gen. 2. 2. and 33. 3. Lev. 4. 6. It signifieth also their dispersion every man his way whereas they came out joyntly together all one way Vers. 8. will command that is will powerfully send and effectually procure the blessing Of this phrase see Levit. 25. 21. The contrary hereunto is hee will send upon thee v. 20. the blessing whereunto is opposed the curse vexation and rebuke vers 20. storehouses or barnes in Chaldee treasures so in Prov. 3. 10. that thou settest thy hand unto Hebr. the setting to of thy hand whereof see Deut. 12. 7. Thus this sixt promise implieth a generall blessing upon all that the godly hath or doth Vers. 9. stablish thee set thee up firme and sure This seventh blessing properly concerneth spirituall things and heavenly for the sanctification of the Church and establishment thereof in that grace by reason of the covenant and oath of God whereof he never repenteth Psal. 110. 4. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance Rom. 11. 29. Vers. 10. is called upon thee that is thou art called by his name as before Moses said Yee are the sonnes of Iehovah your God Deut. 14. 1. Of this phrase see the Annotations on Gen. 48. 16. Here God enlargeth his former blessings in causing them to be knowne and acknowledged of all other peoples afraid of thee as was fore-promised Deut. 11. 25. and had come to passe unto Israel Deut. 2. 25. and unto Abraham Esay 41. 5. and other particular persons as Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him 1 Sam. 18. 12. 15 29. Vers. 11. make thee plenteous or make thee to excell in Greeke multiply thee in good or for good things An enlargement of the blessing promised in v. 4. which all should see by the abundance of good things from beneath Vers. 12. treasure or treasury store-house which he expoundeth after to be raine from heaven for so the Scripture elsewhere mentioneth