Bethel Putting him in minde of his promise and vow there made by him and accepted by God thus approving the name it self and his service there vowed ch 28. 18 19 22. now arise Without delay V. 14. Rachel and Leah The younger first named as the best beloved and who should have been the elder wise So Ruth 4. 11. V. 15. Strangers Dealt with us as strangers rather then children hath sold us To thee for fourteen yeares service our money What we might have had in money or mony worth for thy fourteen years service being our husband whereas in good conscience he should have given us that as our portion he hath converted it to his own use And should he do so with the wages God hath given thee for us and our children for thy last six yeares service also V. 16. Whatsoever God hath said This is a binding reasun which answers all doubts and secures against all after-claps V. 18. To go to Isaac By the way he stayed about six yeares at Succoth and at Shalem a City of Shechem till Dinah was marriageable who came from Laban at six or seven yeares of age ch 30. 21. 33. 18. 34. 1. After he stayed at Bethel but not long notwithstanding Gods command for his dwelling there ch 35. 1. as appears by the birth of Benjamin by the way when he left Bethel ch 35 16 17 18. and the number of Benjamins children when they all went down into Egypt ch 46. 21. Joseph being then fourty yeares old and Benjamin but twenty seven though he were borne within a yeare after Dinahs ravishing nor doth it appear that Jacob stayed long about the tower of Edar before he came to Isaac to Mamre ch 35. 21 22 23 27. V. 19. Rachel had stollen the images Teraphim Laban calls them his gods his houshould-gods â—deos penates v. 30. Images likely in the shape of men 1 Sam. 19. 13 16. where the word plural Teraphim signifies one image used in divine worship by idolaters Judg. 17 5. 18. 14 17 20 Hos. 3. 4. consulted withal as Oracles Ezech. 21. 21. Zech. 10. 2. as Ahaziah did with Beelzebub 2 King 1. 2. put down by Josiah and other godly Kings 2 Kings 23. 24. V. 21. The river Euphrates Josh. 24. 2 3. Gilead Ag eat mountain or tract of mountaines Eastward of Jordan running through the Kingdomes of Sihon and Og the tribes two 1 2 Deut. 3. 12. and having in several parts several names as Gilead Seir Hermon and Libanus the countrey under it very fertile called the land of Gilead Jer. 22. 6. 8. 22. 46. 11. Gen. 37. 25. Numb 32. 1. Here called Gilead by Anticipation See v. 47. V. 22. The third day Ch. 30. 36. 31. 19. Labans fact proved Jacobs advantage Job 5. 12 13. V. 23. Seven dayes journey From the time he set forward in his pursuit three days of Jacobs journey were spent ere Laban knew of it Likely three dayes more in his return from his sheep-shearing to his home and in preparing Then these seven dayes in pursuit were twice swifter and gained more way then Jacob could in his slow pace chap. 33. 14. This then is the thirteenth day of Jacobs journey V. 24. And God came So ch 20. 3 7. Numb 22. 9. take heed A commination and rebuke v. â—9 42. either good or bad V. 29. Not simply but to this end to bring him back again or hinder him in his journey or any way to hurt him as is the present intent of thy pursuit 2 Sam. 13. 22. V. 26. As captives They went willingly ver 14 15 16. V. 27. Sent thee away with mirth He had no such minde then nor willingly now but as God over-powered him V. 28. To kisse A Ceremony used both at meering and parting ch 29. 11. 27. 26. Exod. 4. 27. Gen. 31. 55. 33. 4. Ruth 1. 14. 2 Sam. 14. 33. foolishly Jacob did it wisely and that Laban himselfe knew V. 29. It is in the power A vain brag like Pilates John 19. 10 11. V. 30. Stollen my gods Vanity of idolatry and idolaters that their gods can be stollen gods plurally is spoken of one image Ex. 32 8. And so Teraphim plurally signifies somtimes one image 1 Sam. 19. 13. 16. Though Jacob was twenty yeares with Laban yet Laban continued an idolater Not thinking yet those Teraphims to be gods but that he worshipped God in them by them and with them V. 32. Let him not live A severe judgement proceeding from confidence of innocency uttered in detestation of theft but much more of idolatry yet done more rashly then wisely when he extended it beyond the innocency of his own person V. 33. Tent Each sort had several tents See Annot. on ch 23. 2. V. 35. The custome of women Lev. 15. 19. V. 36. Wroth and chode Be angry but sin not Eph. 4. 26. upon just cause whence innocency is slandered V. 37. May judge Lay the blame where it is due V. 39. I bear the losse of it Though against the rule of right Exod. 22 10 13. V. 40. Thus I was Labans iniquity drives Jacob to praise and justifie himself So 1 Cor. 15. 10. 2 Cor. 11. 1. Hos. 12. 12. Deut. 26. 5. V. 41. Ten times V 7 8. V. 42. The feare of Isaac V. 53. ch 27. 33. 32 9â— Psal. 76. 11. Esay 8. 13. As elsewhere called the Hope of Israel yesternight V. 24. V. 43. And all that thou seest is mine 1 Kings 20 3. A brag as if Jacob had nothing by desert from Laban or gift from God and what can I do As if he should say I cannot hurt them but I must hurt my self But why did he then so pursue surely not to make this ensuing Covenant it was not his minde then Jacob may thank God for all who had thus bridled if not altered Laban V 44. A Covenant Ch. 21. 32. V. 45. A stone Heap of stones v. 46 48 51. as chap. 28. 19. a pillar A Monument of the Covenant V. 46. Brethren gather stones Jacob speaks to his own family and Labans too v. 51. did eat there upon the heap After the Covenant made v. 54. V. 47. Jegar-Sahadutha In Labans Syrian language â— Galced The same in Jacobs Hebrew language Hence likely the mountain and countrey took the name of Gilead V. 48. This heap is a witnesse A signe memo rial which may be alledged in after-times as a witnesse Galeed Therefore by anticipation so called v. 21. V. 49. Mizpah Near Mount Hermon and Lebanon Josh. 11. 3. watch-tower There were afterwards divers places of that name one in Judahs lot Josh. 15. 38. another in Benjamins Josh. 18. 26. another in Moab 1 Sam. 22. 3. V. 50. If thou shalt Implying the words of a curse as is usual in this case ch 14. 23 forbearing the expression of the words of the curse either out of feare or unwillingnesse to mention it in particular or as yielding to any curse in general if they break Promise and Covenant so ch
with desire into the mysteries of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 12. ministring unto him Mar. 1. 13. at his Tentation Mat. 4. 11. in his Passion Luke 22. 43. at his Resurrection John 20. 12. and Ascension Acts 1. 11. And ministring through him unto his people V. 13. The Lord stood Jehovah His Providence over us in Christ I am the Lord God of Abraham ch 17. 7. Heb. 11. 16. And this teacheth the Resurrection of the dead Luke 20. 37 38. to thee and to thy seed To thee in thy seed when yet he had no wife or childe V. 14. And thy seed Renewes the Promise to him and states it in him which was formerly made to Abraham and to Isaac Act. 3. 25. all the families So the Promise pertaines to us we may say with the Prophet God found him in Bethel and there he spake with us Hos. 12. 4. V. 15. I am with thee The like Promise made at his return ch 31 3. in all God giving his sonne doth with him give all things also Rom. 8. 32. 1 Tim 4. 8. not leave thee Josh. 1. 5. Heb. 13. 5. untill Not excluding the time following As Mat. 28. 20. V. 16. And I knew it not Being awaked he perceived that God had appeared to him there admires at it and his goodnesse in it that not only in his Fathers house but even there God vouchsafed such Apparitions Job 9. 11. V. 17. Afraid Such glorious though gracious Apparitions affects mans frailty with feare because of his sin Mat. 17. 6. Luke 2. 9. 8. 35. Rev. 1. 17. See Annot. on ch 16. 13. the house of God He thinks this therefore a fit place for the building of an House to God v. 22. 1 Tim. 3. 15. V. 18. The stone Or heap of stones v. 11. or else some one of them pillar Some extemporary pile of stones raised by him afore on the sudden without tooles as a thankful memorial of Gods gracious Apparition in that place This likely being after demolished he erects about thirty yeares after a new pillar of stone upon another Apparition in the same place ch 35. 14 15. This here was a religious signe and monument as Altars also were Esay 19. 19. There were also pillars for civil monuments as Rachels pillar on her grave ch 35. 20. and Absaloms pillar 2 Sam. 18. 18. the pillar Galecd Gen. 31. 45 47 52. But when the Law was given by Moses pillars for religious use were forbidden Lev. 26. 1 Deut. 16. 22. in the margin Hos. 10. 1. And the pillars of idolaters commanded to be broken down Deut. 12 3. 7. 5. and poured oile Which he had for food or to anoint his body in travel Jacob poured it on the top or the pillar to consecrate it for holy use Thus oile of consecration in use before the Law of Moses So again ch 35. 14. As after in the Law there was an anointing oile to sanctifie the things used in Gods service Exod. 25. 6. 30. 22 25 29 to 34. 40. 9 to 16. Or rather here Jacob poured it as to an offering of thanksgiving to God having no other sacrifice at hand As David poured out the water of the Well of Bethlehem 2 Sam. 23. 16. See ch 35. 14. but these rites and manner of Worship with all the Levitical ceremonies and Consecrations of places persons and things to divine service are taken away by the Gospel John 4. 20. 1 Tim. 2. 8. Yet the rules of religious order and decency in the times places and particulars of Christian Worship are to be observed V. 19. Bethel The City Luz hard by this place and after hereupon called Bethel Bethel was on an high hill And therefore we read of Mount Bethel Josh. 16. 1. It was nigh to Hui or Ai and West of it Gen. 12. 8. Josh. 7. 2. ch 8â— 9. 12 ch 12. 9. And therefore the men of Bethel and Ai are joyned together Ezra 2. 28. Nehem. 7 32. Bethlehem and Shilo were not far from it Gen. 35. 16 19. Judg. 21 19. Abraham pitched his Tent close by it iâ— not there Gen. 12. 8. 13. 3. As Jacob had this dream and vision here whereupon he calls the name of the place Bethel so God himself bidding him returne from Laban is pleased to call himself the God of Bethel ch 31. 13. And upon his return God bids him go and dwell there which command he obeyes and here makes an Altar And upon a second vision and Promise made he the second time erects a pillar and renewes the name of Bethel ch 35. 1 3 4 5 6 9 13 14 15. Hos 12. 4. In Joshuths time it had a King Josh. 12. 16. Joshuah and after the house of Joseph conquered it Josh. 12. 16. Judg. 1. 22 23 24 25. It fell then by lot to the tribe of Benjamin Josh. 18. 22. There being another of the name it seems that fell to Ephraim 1 Chron. 7. 28. It is one of the three places whither Samuel rede circuit yearly and judged Israel 1 Sam 7. 16. Saul in his time met three men going up to God to Bethel â— Sam 10. 3. had two thousand men of his army with him there and in Micmash 1 Sam. 13. 2. David sent of the spoiles of the Amalckites to them of Bethel if under that name in that place Kiriah-jearim the House of God where the Ark then was and abode be not understood Jeroboam in his time set up here one of his golden Calves made an Altar and setled Priests 1 Kings 12. 28. 29 32 33. And hence Bethel the House of God seemes to be called Bethaven the house of vanity Hos. 4. 15. 5. 8. 10. 5. And yet there was another place properly called Bethaven and nigh to Bâ—thel Josh. 7. 2. 18. 12. 1 Sam. 13. 5. 14. 23. Thither came a man of God while Jeroboam stood by the Altar to burne incense and prophesied against it and healed the Kings hand that was dried up for stretching it out against him which Prophet was after slain by a Lion for suffering himself to be seduced by an old Prophet that dwelt in Bethel and came out of Samaria 1 Kings 13. 2 Kings 23. 18. Abijah the sonne of Rchoboam took from Jeroboam Bethel with the townes thereof 2 Chron. 13 9 whereupon and upon the captivity of the ten tribes Jeremie useth these words That the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence Jer. â—8 13. And before that captivity Hosea threatens that Bethel should do so unto them as Shalman had spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battel Hos 10. 14 15. In Ahaziah's time or rather Jehoram's Kings of Israel Elias comes thither with Elizcus immediately before his taking up into heaven And upon Elizcus his return thither the little children out of the city came and mocked him calling him Bald-head and fourty two of them were torne by beares 2 Kings 2. In the dayes of Jeroboam the second Amos the Prophet in scorn bids the ten tribes come to Bethel and
11 12 17 18 26. and Ch. XIV 22 26. And this second Tythe seems every third year to be distributed to the poor Or rather a third Tythe every third year not carried to Jerusalem and eaten there But gathered for these charitable uses onely and to be eaten any where throughout the Land Deut. XIV 28 29. and XXVI 12 13. And this third year is therefore called the year of Tything Deut. XXVI 12. Amos IV. 4. Of Tythes see more 2 Chron. XXXI 4 19. Nehem. X. 32 39. and XII 44 47. and XIII 5 12 13. Mal. III. 8 10. Luke XI 42. and XVIII 12. Heb. VII 2 9. The great maintenance of the Levites appears in that the whole Tribe of Levi being three or four times lesse in number then any other Tribe yet had they distinguished from all the Priests the Tythes of all the Tribes and so more then any one other Tribe Besides their thirty five Cities and Suburbs whereof five were Cities of Refuge Josh. XXI one belonging to the Kohathites Levites two to the Gershonites and two to the Merarites In all twice at least more Cities then some other Tribes had that were twice their number See also that Num. XXXI 30 47. The greater maintenance of the Priests appears in that being but three persons at first at least of ripe and mature age yet they had the Tythes yearly of all the Levites Tythes which were at first 8580 of thirty years old and upwards and so about the hundred part of all the fruits and increase of all Israel And as the numbers of the Priests multiplied afterwards so did in all probability the number of the other Tribes They had also all the First-fruits of all things from all persons throughout the twelve Tribes even of their doughs and bakings Deut. XVIII 4. Num. XV. 20 21. which as some think exceeded their Tythes aforesaid They had also all the First-borne of Oxen Sheep and Goats which were given to them in kinde And the Redemption money of the First-borne of Men and of unclean Beasts and cattell Num. III. 46 52. Exod. XXXIV 19. 20 and Ch. XXII 29 30. Deut. XV. 19. They had also all Oblations both Voluntary and by Vow And the Redemption of Things and of Persons Devoted to God And all Sacrifices for Sinnes and for Trespasses and the Meat and Drink Offerings and Heave-offerings And the Breast and Shoulder in Peace-offerings Deut. XVIII 3. And the Skins of the whole Burnt-offerings And all their Tythes First-fruits and Oblations were to be of the best and choisest sorts Num. XVIII 12 29. Besides these they had thirteen Cities and Suburbs and Priviledges belonging to them whereof one was a City of Refuge Josh XXI 13. See Num. XVIII 8 19. And that also Num. XXXI 28 29 37 38 39 40 50. Levit. X. 12 13 14 15. and Ch. XXVII 21 28. See the Annotations on Num. XVIII 29. Rock At Rephidim by Mount Sinai chapter XX verse 8. 13. Exod. XVII 1 7. being the eleventh Station of the Israelites Num. XXXIII 14. Moses with his miraculous Rod struck the Rock in Horeb in a due obedience to Gods commandment and waters came forth And he named the place Massah and Meribah Exod. XVII 5 6 7. But at Kadesh in the Wildernesse of Zin where Miriam died being the thirty third Station Num. XXXIII 36. Moses with Aarons miraculous Rod for he took it from before the Lord as he commanded him having his spirit provoked by the rebellious people smiles the Rock twice without any such command or commission to smite at all And he and Aaron likewise speak unadvisedly with their lips uttering words of passion and incredulity and so rebelling against Gods commandment And thereupon they not sanctifying the Lord in the eyes of the children of Israel He was sanctified in them by his excluding them from entrance into the Land of Canaan And this also is called the water of Meribah or Strife as here so Ch. XXVII 14. Psal. CVI. 32 33. Aaron Aaron chapter XX verse 28 whose name may seem to signifie an Ark or Chest dies seven moneths and seven dayes before Moses at Mount Hor the Place called Mosera Deut. X 6. in the thirty fourth Station For Aaron dying in the fourtieth year fifth moneth first day Num. XXXIII 38. And that compared with the moneths mourning for Moses Deut. XXXIV 8. and three dayes preparation to passe over Jordan Josh. I. 1. and Ch. III. 2. And their coming out of Jordan on the first moneth tenth day Josh. IV. 19. Do shew that Moses died in the twelfth moneth seventh day And so seven moneths and seven dayes after Aaron In which short interval of time many and mighty things were done and atchieved as among other things Sihon and Og and their Kingdomes conquered the Midianites almost destroyed among whom Balaam was slaine Josh. XIII 22. and the book of Deuteronomie written Num. XXI and XXXI Deut. I. 1 3. Fiery Serpents onely in the later part of the fourtieth year chapter XXI verse 6 after Aarons death Heshbon Heshbon a chief City in Moab verse 26 afterwards of Sihon King of the Amorites Deut. I. 4. afterwards of Gad and out of that Tribe given to the Merarites Josh. XIII 26. and XXI 38 39 40. 1 Chron. VI. 80 81. Afterwards recovered by the Moabites and wasted by Shalmanesar Esay XV. 4. and XVI 8 9. and after by the Babylonians Jer. XLVIII 45. There may seeme to be another Heshbon of the Ammonites Jer. XLIX 2 3. And one in the Tribe of Reuben Num. XXXII 37. Josh. XIII 15 17. Heshbon signifies Devises And an allusion is made to the name Jer. XLVIII 2. in the judgement there denounced against it like to this is English There is mischief devised against the Devises the name of a town with us Balak Balak needed not to have hired Balaam chapter XXII verse 2 and feared Israel Num. XXII and XXIII and XXIV if he had known the prohibition of God to Israel Deut. II. 9. which they obeyed Judg. II. 15 17 18 25. 2 Chron. XX. 10. Yet that part which was great of the Lands of Moab which Sihon had lately conquered from Vehab King of Moab as Tremelius translates Num. XXI 26. the Israelites conquering Sihon in that right possessed it Num. XXXIII 49. Deut. I. 5. and XXXIV 1 5 6 8. and it was given to the Reubenites and Gadites Josh. XIII Unicorne So Deut. chapter XXIII verse 22 XXXIII 17. Job XXXIX 9 10. Psal. XXII 21. and XXIX 6. and XCII 10. Esay XXXIV 7. Yet the translation of the word is doubted of or at least the nature of the beast such as the Pensil of our Painters doth portray out unto us because no such beast was known or seen by any man And the Unicornes horne so deemed is of some strange Fish not of any known Beast Some learned render the word Bufale or Buff or else the wild Oxe called by the Latines Urus eminent for bignesse strength hornes and untamable fiercenesse
And that because the Jewes by their sins and breach of Covenant with God on their part never got possession of the utmost Bounds of the Lands by God conditionally promised to them To Battel The Law of warre chapter XX verse 1 Deut. XX. 1 10 18. and Ch. VII 2 3 16 23 24. and Exod. XXXIV 11 16. injoyned by God to the Israelites was various according to the severall Cities and Nations against whom whether neere or very farre off Deut. XX. 15 16 17. and according to the several Causes and Occasions whereupon they were to wage it And is best expounded by their Practices in Scripture recorded Against the Amalakites see the injunction Exod. XVII 14 16. Deut. XXV 17 18 19. Against the Midianites see that Num. XXXI Where they slew all the males they could even to the male-children and every woman that had known man and took the spoil and all their cattel flocks and goods as a prey to themselves Against the Amorites Sihon and Og included in the seven Nations or in the same condition with them See Num. XXI and Deut. II. 34 35. and Ch. III. 6 7. where they slew the men women and children But all the Cattel and spoile they took for a prey to themselves Against Jericho see Josh. VI. 17 26. where the City the first that withstood them in the Land of Canaan was singularly accursed and all therein ver 17 18 24 26. 1 King XVI 34. And accordingly they slew man and woman young and old and Oxe and Sheep and Asse Onely the silver and the gold and the vessels of brasse and iron they put into the Treasury of the House of the Lord as God commanded keeping nothing to themselves And as Achan with his and all he had perished They being first stoned and then burnt for the transgression So Rahab her parents brethren and all that she had were saved upon the special cause and occasion of her Faith in hiding the Spies Against Ai See Josh. VIII 2 26 27. where they slew all as at Jericho onely the spoile and cattel thereof they took as a prey to themselves Against the five Kings of the Amorites And against seven See Josh. X. 10 28 30 32 33 35 37 39 40. where they slew all the souls that breathed as they did at Jericho But for the spoile and cattel they did as at Ai and took them as a prey to themselves Against all those Kings at the waters of Merom and presently after they did the like Josh. XI 11 12 13 14. The Gibeonites upon a crafty contrivance got to be spared and obtained a league to live And though al the congregation murmured against the Princes for it yet because of the oath Joshuah and the Princes onely adjudged them to bondage to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the House of God for ever Josh. IX 13 27. And Saul afterwards in a wrong zeale slaying many of them was punished for it in his sonnes 2 Sam. XXI 1 9. Many other of the seven Nations were not conquered Or so conquered as brought onely under Tribute See Deut. VII 22. Josh. XIII 1 6. and XIII 3. and XV. 63. and XVI 10. and XVII 12 13. Judg. I. 1 19 21 27 36. For which yet the Israelites were reproved Judg. II. 1 2 3. And doomed so as we read Judg. II. 21 22 23. according to that Prediction Num. XXXIII 55. and Threatening Josh. XXIII 13. And of the Race of the seven Nations see that in the dayes of Solomon 1 King IX 20 21. And if that Law of warre Deut. XX. 10 15. should be extended to the seven Nations also yet they deprived themselves of the benefit of it in not yeelding to conditions of peace or staying to be besieged But ingaging first and beginning the warre upon the Israelites as appears mainly in Josh. Ch. X. and XI The Captiveâ— chapter XXI verse 10 14. a beautiful woman Seemes a permission and Indulgence in case of warre rather then an Allowance As appears by the displeasing Rites before the marriage and the slight dismission It is not much unlike that Bill of Divorce Deut. XXIV 1. Matth. XIX 8. And the case of Usury as some accompt that Deut. XXIII 20. Two wives Moses supposing the practice of having two wives together verse 15 though in it selfe unlawful or rather of having two one after another taketh order for the right and double portion of the mans first-borne Deut. XXI 15 16 17. Hanged is accursed That Curse seemes not to be for the kinde of punishment verse 23 but for the Crime sake acted by such Malefactors here mentioned And so Num. XXV 4. John XVI 26. 2 Sam. XXI 6. It is true of Christ Gal. III. 13. Iosh. XIX 31. by reason of all our horrible sins laid upon him I meane the debt of our sins He becoming our Surety and so sinne for us 2 Cor. V. 21. that is a Sacrifice for sin as Sacrifices for sin in the Levitical Law are termed sometimes by the name of sin The imputation of Guilt would seeme to make him a sinner Not weare That difference of Apparel chapter XXII verse 5 to distinguish the Sexes must be observed and never broken except in case of necessity and for some present pinch some weighty and urgent occasion as to evade and avoid a sudden mischief and the like If a man Is understood of an unmarried man verse 28 and a Virgin not betrothed as likewise that is Exod. XXII 16 17. The difference is in inticing her there and in laying hold on her here though not violently to ravish her And therefore the Offender is ordered and punished somewhat lesse there and more here An Ammonite The Israelite was to respect more chapter XXIII verse 3 9. and hate lesse the Edomite and the Egyptian then either the Moabite or the Ammonite The two former in their third generation after they became Proselytes might be as it were endenized and made free among the Israelites as well as if they were native â— Israelites As those that were honoured to be made Citizens of Rome by birth or purchase Acts XVI 37 38. and XXII 25 28. were thereby invested with the Priviledges of Romanes The Moabite and Ammonite were not to be so priviledged in their tenth generation which yet must be understood either of the men only or else with exception of some such singular Cases as was that of Ruth Ch. IV. 10. Upon Mount The Tribe of Levi was to stand on Mount Gerizim chapter XXVII verse 12 26 in the Tribe of Ephraim by Sichem with five other Tribes whereof Joseph is one And the six other Tribes to stand on Mount Ebal And so the Priests called Levites Deut. XXVII 14. may seeme to stand with the Ark in the narrow valley between both And there turning to Mount Ebal to pronounce the Curses whereunto all the people and Tribes on Mount Ebal were to say Amen The other part concerning the Blessings is not expressed but in all
wildernesse and seven of Joshua's Government untill this time And Caleb here ver 9 14. And Joshua Ch. XIX 49 50. did both aske and both had certain inheritances given them two according to the word of the Lord. The City and Suburbs of Hebron were given to the Priests for a City of refuge The fields and Villages thereof to Caleb Ch. XXI 11 12 13. Caleb Not that Caleb chapter XV verse 16 1 Chron. II. 18 42. the sonne of Hezron unlesse by sonne we understand great-grand-childe But Caleb that is constantly called the sonne of Jephunne And Othniel constantly called the sonne of Kenaz are here yet called brethren And Othniel is again called the younger brother of Caleb Judg. I. 13. and III. 9. which could not be except by one mother But Othniel marrying the daughter of Caleb ver 17. And cosen-germans Nephews and the like being often called brethren in Scripture It is likely that either Iephunne and Kenaz were brethren and so Caleb and Othniel cosen-germans or that Caleb and Kenaz were brethren and so Othniel Calebs Nephew or that the Kenezite mentioned Num. XXXII 12. might be Grandfather to them both But no certainty appears for any further determination Separate The bordering Cities of the children of Ephraim chapter XVI verse 9 were between or among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh See also ch XVII 8 9. And as Ephraim had part in Manasseh so Manasseh had Cities in Issachar and in Asher ch XVII 11. The Portion Ten portions to Manasseh chapter XVII verse 5 that is five portions to the five sons mentioned ver 2. And the portion of the sixth son who was Hopher was divided into five portions among his grandchildren the daughters of Zelophahad which so made up ten portions though the five last were but as big as one of the former five One lot Both Ephraim and Manasseh seek for a larger portion and Lot then what did befall them in the General Division verse 14 Shiloh Shiloh was on the North-side of Bethel chapter XVIII verse 1 on the East-side of the high-way from Bethel to Shechem on the South of that Lebanon Judg. XXI 19. And so situated on the border between Ephraim and Benjamin yet belonged to Ephraim not to Benjamin Judg. XXI 1 21. There was the Tabernacle as was formerly said There were the Lots cast for seven Tribes Josh. XVIII 8. Thence were the two Tribes and a half dismissed to their Possessions after the warre Josh. XXII 9. And thither were the whole Congregation of Israel gathered to go up to warre against them upon a wrong surmise concerning the Altar Ed ver 12. Thither came all the other Tribes to aske counsel of the Lord in their warre against the Tribe of Benjamin and there was their Camp Judg. XX. 18. and XXI 12. and XIX 18. Thither came Elkanah and Hannah to worship and Samuel ministred there before the Lord 1 Sam. I. 3. and II. 11. and III. 21. And there the Prophet Ahijah dwelt in the dayes of the first Jeroboam 1 King XIV 2. Tabernacle The Tabernacle coming over Jordan was first set up in Gilgal Not that Gilgal of the Nations Josh. XII 23. Gen. XIV 1. Esay IX 1. whence haply Galilee might take its name But that Gilgal in the Tribe of Benjamin Josh. IV. 19 20. Afterwards in Joshua's time it was set up here in Shiloh in the Tribe of Ephraim near the Center of the Land which was by Sichem Ch. XXIV 1 25 26. And Bochim Judg. II. 1 5. may seeme to be conjoyned to it It may seeme to be fetched thence for a present use to that solemne Assembly at Shechem in Joshua's time Ch. XXIV 1 26. But being returned to Shiloh it continued there above three hundred years at least till the death of Eli 1 Sam. I. 3 9 24. and II. 14. and III. 3 21. and IV. 3. It may seeme to be again at Gilgal with the Ark in Samuel and Sauls time 1 Sam. X. 8. and Ch. XI 15. But soone after we surely finde it to be at Nob in the Tribe of Benjamin near Anathoth Neh. XI 32. when David came thither in his flight from Saul 1 Sam. XXI 1 9. After that sacrilegious slaughter of eighty five Priests by Saul at Nob 1 Sam XXII 18. it was soon removed in the dayes of David to Gibeon in the same Tribe of Benjamin and not farre from Bethel the City first of the wily Gibeonites Hivites but after given to the Priests Josh. IX and ch XXI 17. See 1 Chron. XVI 39 40. and XXI 29. and 2 Chron. I. 3 5 6 13. 1 King III. ver 4 5. And lastly when Solomon had built the Temple he brought the Tabernacle thence to Jerusalem 1 King VIII 4. 2 Chron. I. 3 5 6 13. and ch V. 5. And placed it likely in and among the Treasuries of the Temple For the Ark see the Observations on 1 Sam. IV. 3. Tabor A Mountain in the Tribe of Issachar chapter XIX verse 22 or bordering on it near to Mount Carmel See Joshua XIX 26 34. Here Barak was with his ten thousand men against Sisera Judg. IV. 6 12 14. See more of this in my Annotations on Hos. V. 1. Tyre Called the strong City verse 29 whence it hath its name Tsor in Hebrew signifying a Rock situate like Venice in the Sea A famous Port and Mart-town in Phoenicia the lower part of Syria whence the whole Countrey is supposed to take the name of Syria omitting the letter t in Tsor More of this see in my Annotations on Amos. I. 9. Bethshemesh A City in the Tribe of Naphtali verse 38 ver 32. and 39. Judg. I. 33. Another in the Tribe of Judah given to the Priests Josh. XXI 16. 1 Chron. VI. 59. 1 Sam. VI. 12. 2 King XIV 13. Another also in Egypt Jer. XLIII 13. the same as is supposed with On Gen. XLI 45. by the Greeks called Heliopolis and now Damiata The word signifies a City or House of the Sunne As also Kirharesheth a City in Moab Esay XVI 7. hath the same denomination And all because of Temples and Idol-service used there by the ancient inhabitants to the Sunne From which the Jewes sometimes were not altogether free 2 King XXIII 5 11. Cities of refuge The sixe Cities of refuge belonged to the Levites chapter XX verse 2 that is Hebron and Shechem to the Koathites Golan and Kedesh to the Gershonites Bezer and Ramoth to the Merarites Josh. XX. and XXI Chapters In Galilee Galilee is often mentioned in the Old Testament verse 7 See ch XXI 32. 1 King IX 11. 2 King XV. 29. 1 Chron. VI. 76. Esay IX 1. Galilee divided into the Upper in the Tribe of Naphtali and the Lower in the Tribe of Zabulon verse 11 both coasting about the beginning of Jordan The Upper is called Galilee of the Gentiles because both Populous and replenished with many Gentiles as lying nearest to them 1 King IX 11. Matth. XV. 21. Mar. VII 31. And so is Harosheth
fortified by him after the revolt of the ten Tribes 2 Chron. XI 10. Reigned two years That is verse 10 peaceably before the warre betweene Abner and Joab ver 12 c. As Saul reigned two years 1 Sam. XIII 1. that is Peaceably as well as Lawfully before his Kingdom was in a maner taken from him by the Philistines 1 Sam. XIII 19. Zerviah the sister of David had these three valiant sonnes verse 18 Joab Abishai Asahel And Abigael the other sister of David had Amasa 2 Sam. XVII 25. 1 Chron. II. 15 16 17. Michal Michal loved by both her husbands chapter III verse 13 16. David and Phaltiel see 1 Sam. XXV 44. Abner He verse 28 and Saul were brothers children 1 Sam. XIV 50 51. Millo This in chapter V verse 9 or adjoyning to the strong hold of Zion the Citie of David taken by him and Joab of the Jebusites notwithstanding their scornful brag and confidence And David built the Citie round about from Millo and inward And Joab repaired the rest of the Citie 1 Chron. XI 8. 2 Chron. XXXII 5. This Millo Solomon built 1 King IX 15 24. and XI 27. There was another Millo in or adjoyning to the Citie Shechem where Abimelech was made King Judg. IX 6 20. unto the day of her death i. chapter VI verse 23 e. Michal never had any childe Those five sons 2 Sam. XXI 8. were the sonnes of Merab Michals sister whom Michal brought up for Adriel Merabs husband 1 Sam. XVIII 19. 2 Sam. XXI 8. And are called Michals sonnes because she did educate if not adopt them And in a sort not much unlike is Obed called Naomies son Ruth IV. 16 17. see Matth. I. 25. and XXVIII 20. I will The Promises are some Peculiar to Solomon some to Christ some to both as the Type and Antitype Davids Conquests chapter VII verse 12 Hadadezer or Hadarezer chapter VIII 1 Chron. XVIII 3. The like is in Diphath and Riphath in Dodanim verse 1-14 and Rodanim 1 Chron. I. 6 7. compared with Gen. verse 3 X. 3 4. The Hebrew letters Daleth and Resh are like one another and often put and used one for another See Esay XLVI 15. Jer. II. 20 ch XXXI 40. which shews that the Hebrew letters had the same forme and figure in those dayes which they have at this day And the same Observation may be made upon the like change of other letters wittingly made in Scripture and much used in proper names and much more used in the many mistakes of Interpreters and Translators of Scriptures in many other places and all by reason of the similitude of their Hebrew Characters as namely of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All which argue still not the Samaritan Characters which have none of these mutual Similitudes amongst themselves but the Hebrew Characters we have now to be the same which were from the Beginning or in Ezra his time And farther The Hebrew Jod is the smallest letter as it is intimated Matth. V. 18. whereas the Samaritan Jod is one of the largest a thousand These one thousand here are expressed to be Charets verse 4 1 Chron. XVIII 4. And the seven hundred horsemen are expounded to be seven hundted rancks of horsemen or decurioues ten in a ranck and so make seven thousand horsemen in the foresaid place Syrians Hebrew are Aram and Aramites for Syria and Syrians verse 5 So still in the Old Testament These came of Aram the sonne of Shem Gen. X. 22. We read of Padan-Aram wherein Haran was the place where Terah Bethuel and Laban dwelt Gen. XI 32. and XXVIII and XXIX chapters Of Aram Naharaim Judg. III. 8. of Aram-Zobah Ps. LX. title Of Aram of Damascus in this Text. The word is of a great latitude and comprehends great Countreys in it As Mesopotamia so called because in the middle of two armes of Euphrates or of the two famous rivers of Euphrates and Tygris And to this Situation the names of Padan-Aram and Aram-Naharaim do relate But in later ages Aram most relates to Aram of Damascus that Syria whereof Damascus was the chief Citie And of this Syria see more in my Annotations on Amos I. 4 5. For the Catalogue of the Kings of Syria see the great Annotations on Amos I. 4. We read of four battels of David with the Syrians The first here when they came to succour Hadadezer against David And in this two and twenty thousand of them slain 1 Chron. XVIII 5. The second ver 13. in the Valley of Salt And Edomites are named there 1 Chron XVIII 11 12. and Psal. LX. in the Title of it Because both Syrians and Edomites joyned in the battell against Davids Generals Joab and Abishai and therefore the victory is ascribed to each of the three and the number flaine is twelve thousand Ps. LX. 1. and six thousand more either by Joab alone before the main battel or by both the brethren after it in the pursuit of the victory in all eighteen thousand 2 Sam. VIII 13. 1 Chron. XVIII 12. The third battel 2 Sam. X. 6 14. when the Syrians joyned to help the Ammonites and fled before Joab 1 Chron. XIX 6. 7 10 14. The fourth battel with the Syrians 2 Sam. X. 15 19. wherein David slew the men of seven hundred Chariots i. e. of seven hundred rancks or troops having ten in a ranck or troop not ten men in a Charet in all seven thousand 1 Chron. XIX 18. And fourty thousand horsemen 2 Sam. X. 18. And fourty thousand footmen 1 Chron. XIX 18. And Shobach the Captaine of their Hoast Zadok He was in Davids verse 17 and Solomons times 2 Sam. VIII 17. and XX. 25. 1 King I. 8. He anointed Solomon King and by him was put in the roome of Abiathar 1 King I. 32 34. and chap. II. 35. He was the son of another Ahitub then he that was father of Ahimelech And he came from Eleazar the eldest son of Aaron and from Phineas his son after six descents 1 Chron. VI. 4 5 6. And the High Priests of his posterity in a continued series and succession to the Babylonish Captivity are recorded in eleven generations 1 Chron. VI. 9 15. And after the Captivity in six generations to Jaddua who lived in the dayes of Alexander the Great which is the last Historical Record of the Old Testament Neh. XII 10 11. This Zadoks son was that Ahimaaz afterwards High Priest mentioned by David 2 Sam. XV. 27. This Zadok of the line of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the line of Ithamar were the Priests chief of those two families with command over the rest of the Priests
3. and 2 Chr. VIII 14. and chap. XXIII 4 5 19 20. and chap. XXIV 8. and XXVII 3. and XXXI 14. and XXXV 5. the Horse-gate Of the gates of Ierusalem verse 15 or of the walls of the Citie see the Observations on Nehemy III. 1. gather of all Israel chapter XXIV verse 5 So much of Israel as Ioash had from year to year One year would not suffice to make up this Reparation hastened not For in the twenty third year of Ioash it was not done 2 Kings XII 6. the Collection of Moses So ver verse 6 9. such as Moses used Exod. XXX 12 16. or Exod. XXV But this differing from them both agreeing only in this As Moses then provided for the Tabernacle and the service of it by those Collections extraordinarily as need then required so were they now by somewhat a like Collection to provide for the repairing of the breaches of the Temple Yet is this because somewhat like called the Collection of Moses as like sinnes are called by the names of the sinnes of Manasseh 2 Kings XXIV 3. of the iniquity of the fathers Exod. XXXIV 7. of the errour of Balaam and gain-saying of Core Iudge 11. and the signe of Ionas Matth. XII 39. is used in a like sense Sonnes of Athaliah In their father Iehorams life-time verse 7 before they were taken and slaine by the enemy if sonnes here be taken properly High-priests Officer 2 Kings XII verse 11 10. The High-Priest himselfe did this But that Iehoiada was this High-Priest is not expressed day by day i. e. time after time so oft as the chest was full in Israel the Kingdome of Iudah verse 16 Gods people 2 Chr. XXIX 24. Princes Hypocritical flattering Princes See ver verse 17 23. Zechariah Zechariah slaine and mentioned Matth. XXIII verse 20 35. seemes not to be this Zechariah But rather the Prophet Zechariah the sonne of Barachiah Zech. I. 1. slew his sonne Cruel ingratitude verse 22 hoast of Syria This might be a seconding of that invasion verse 23 2 King XII 17 18. a small company Gods visible hand in it verse 24 for the executing of his judgement against Joash ver 25. sonnes Likely more slaine then Zechariah verse 25 or taken indefinitely for one as Gen. XLVI 7. Book of the Kings Most likely some civil Records verse 27 Amaziah Of the times of the reignes of Amaziah chapter XXV verse 1 and of Uzziah as also of Iotham and of Ahaz 2 Kings XV. 32. and XVI 1. And of their Concordance with the time of the reignes of the Kings of Isreel See my Annotations on Hosea I. 1. But he slew not their children See the Annotations on this text verse 4 do it An Ironical concession verse 8 See the Observations on Amos IV. 4 5. top of the rock Selah verse 21 or Petra signifying a rock whence the chief Citie in Arabia Petraea is called Petra 2 Kings XIV 7. gods of the children of Seir Worse then that of Ahaz chap. verse 14 XXVIII 23. Punished chap. XXV 20 27. Altar of Incense This the High-Priest might do chapter XXVI verse 16 Exod. XXX 7. and other Priests also Luke I. 9 But not the King or any else but Priests the chief Priest Not stiled the High-Priest verse 20 was a Leper Yet bare the title of King to the day of his death verse 21 Ophel Ophel in Ierusalem chapter XXVII verse 3 over-against the water-gate toward the East where the Nethinims dwelt 2 Chron. XXXIII 14. Neh. III. 26. and XI 21. his wars 2 Kings XV. verse 7 37. his God Though himself such an idolater chapter XXVIII verse 5 ver 22. So ch XXXVI 5. King of Syria Rezin 2 Kings XVI 5. slew Slew a great number verse 6 Captive A greater number verse 8 feirce wrath Pekah soone slaine verse 11 And in Hosheah's time all captivated and the Kingdome extinguished Esay VII 16. the first day ver chapter XXIX verse 17 3. Hezekiah begins Reformation on the very first day of his reign Or rather on the first day of the year which fell out towards the later end of the first year of Ezekiah's reigne sixteenth day So that Passeover was past and not kept seven Bullocks Here are seven verse 21 to represent the whole body of the Kingdome And here are used all maner of Beasts fit for sacrifice the Priests killed them And so Levit. IV. 4. and chap. IX 8 verse 24 15 18. 2 Chron. XXIX 24 34. The Levites did flea them 2 Chron. XXXV 11. And in some extraordinary cases sley them also 2 Chron. XXIX 34. and receive the blood 2 Chron. XXX 16 17. The Priests only not the Levites came to the Altar to lay the wood sprinkle the blood and burn them Levit. l. 7. c. and chap. III. 2 5. 2 Chron. XXXV 14. the Song Psal CXXXVI verse 27 See the Annotations on Ezra III. 11. to Ephraim chapter XXX verse 1 and Manasseh See ver 5 11 18. Yet this was before their finall captivity by Shalmaneser 2 Kings XVII in the second moneth ver verse 2 1 3. As in like case Num. IX 11. Kings of Assyria Pul verse 6 and Tiglath Pilneaser 2 Kings XV. 19 29. 1 Chron. V. 26. 2 Chron. XXVIII 20. mocked them But a finall judgement sonne followed verse 10 had not cleansed themselves yet And verse 18 it seemes in Josiah's time all did not eate at the very hour appointed at Even 2 Chron. XXXV 14. yet where the heart is upright God mercifully heals such offenders to keep other seven dayes The power of the Church seene herein verse 23 and by God approved Since the time of Solomon And the division of the two Kingdomes verse 26 so many out of the ten tribes came not to Jerusalem to eat celebrate the Passeover Yet see a larger commendation of Josiah's Passeover which followed after this chap. XXXV 18. 2 Kings XXIII 22 23. finished Presently after the foresaid Passeover chapter XXXI verse 1 they pull down idolatry yea in Ephraim also and Manasseh which belonged to Hoshea King of Israel third moneth Or Feast of weeks verse 7 of Pentecost which is called the feast of harvest And the seventh moneth is called the Feast of ingathering Exod. XXIII 16. hoast of the King of Assyria Though that King Sennacherib chapter XXXIII verse 11 and his hoast were so slain in the time of his father Hezekiah chap. XXXII 21. a wall Begun by his father chap. XXXII 5. yet unto the Lord Not to false gods verse 14 as was in the grosser kinde of idolatrous sacrificers verse 17 Amon Amon worse then his father Manasseh eighth year Being then sixteen years old chapter XXXIV verse 20 and before that the father of Eliakim or Iehojakim verse 3 2 Kings XXIII 36. and chap. XXII 1. compared together twelfth year Himself being then twenty cities of Manasseh Remanants then of the Israelites verse 6 for the body of the ten tribes were formerly carried away captives and the Kingdome exterminated eighteenth year
to all duties of active and passive obedience takes off the wheeles of the soul makes it as a limb out of joynt that can do nothing without paine and deformity Dead flies As one sinner chapter X verse 1 in the precedent words so here one sin destroyes much good Alike folly doth fly-blow a wise mans reputation Neh. VI. 11. heart is at his right hand As his eyes are in his head verse 2 chap. II. 14. He ordereth his affairs with discretion he acts dexterously and discreetly with mature advise and judgement he worketh by the guidance of his heart Luke XIV 28 31. But a fools heart He is left-handed in his works and wayes doth them rashly awkwardly bunglingly preposterously As 1 Kings XII 8. Esay XIX 10 14. walketh by the way He doth palpably discover to others verse 3 and proclaime That he is a fool Prov. VI. 13 and chap. XII 23. and XIII 16. and XVIII 2. See Prov. XVII 28. Leave not thy place Thy office verse 4 duty and obedience to him A souldier must stand to his station ch VIII 3. proudly fling not away in displeasure much lesse stand not to affront him turne not rise not up against him as 1 Kings XII 16. seek to pacifie him Prov. XV. 1. and if need be go a little aside out of his sight till his rage and thy danger be over-past See Judges VIII 1 2 3. Gen. XXXII 13. and XXXIII 3. 1 Sam. XXIV 16. and chap. XXV 32. Prov. XXV 15 as an error Haply by the erring information of others verse 5 seeing Rulers must needs see much with other mens eyes and hear much by other mens ears And yet this error may prove a great mischief to Church and State and the rich In worth verse 6 and wisdome Dignity ought to wait upon Desert though it alwayes doth not For Rulers sometimes grow into suspition of such as eminently excel in extraordinary worth Servants upon horses Men of a low verse 7 base servile condition And how insupportable this is see Prov. XXX 22. and how unseemly see Prov. XIX 10. It is a curse of God Deut. XXVIII 43. 44. Gen. IX 25 26. Lamented Lam. V. 8. Yet the Levellers would be at this to lay all alike As in Germany in Anno 1525. But the issue of that attempt was to themselves deservedly miserable He that diggeth a pit This verse 8 and the three following Proverbial similitudes tend all to this end That evil usualy returneth on the heads of those that were the authors of it Malum consilium consultori pessimum Prov. XXVI 27. and XXVIII 10. Psal. VII 16. and IX 15. In application against such as overturne the foundations of Lawes and Customes and alter the long established and wholsome constitutions of Kingdomes Nations and people and confound Rule and Subjection and dissolve the ligaments of Government Prov. XXVI 27. Who so removeth stones verse 9 c. Besides the general sense of the words application of them may be made against those who remove land-marks or rashly alter things seriously setled and duly defined and so do sowe seditions and raise factions If the iron be blunt Wisdome directeth to whet the edge verse 10 to save the putting to of more strength And so wisdome is better then strength chap. IX 16. It guideth a mans actions without so much toile and labour and a better end without it and Art and cunning by it strength and toile and eloquence or ought else is to small purpose The Serpent will bite If not charmed before verse 11 And after the biting the Master of the tongue or eloquent man cannot help or better the matter The meaning may be to compare the spirit of disloyalty against Rulers and rebellious speeches against them to the biting of a Serpent And the wise and humble speeches and demeanor of subjects to their offended Governours to an inchantment to keep them from biting Or to shew that a vaine babler whose lawlesse tongue is ever finding fault with Government is no better then an uncharmed Serpent It may be applied against any Sycophants and Slanderers whatsoever Or to those who bite and babble at the Traditions of the wise The words Ephes. verse 12 IV. 29. Col. IV. 6. Prov. X. 32. and XII 13. and XV. 1 2. 4 26. and XVI 23 24. Such were Abigaels to David swallow up himself Prov. XIX 28. and XII 13. Rom. III. 13. James III. 2 12. Psal. LII 3. Many men by their tongue have cut their own throats is full of words Multiplyeth boasting discourses verse 14 vainly tells his own undertakings brags what he will do and what he shall have cannot tell what shall be No man much lesse a fool can tell this to himself wearieth every one By his wordinesse and much idle vaine babling without any solid and sound matter verse 15 as empty casks sound loudest chap. V. 3 7. Prov. X. 19. and XVII 17 27. how to go to the citie He tires himself in trifles being not able to manage the least matters and easie for children having not wit enough to keep the high road to know the beaten path to the Citie And yet he will foolishly labour and weary himself about hard and difficult matters Wo to thee O land Esay III. verse 16 4. A child in years For Tutors and Protectors have mostwhat self-ends and deal not fairly and faithfully or jarre among themselves Thus it was in Rome after the death of Ancus Martius and in the Romane Empire in the times of Arcadius and Honorius Yet the Land was blessed and happy under young Solomon Josiah Uzziah our Edward the VI. and others for the parts and graces wherewith God endowed them Or else a child in understanding and parts rude and raw without experience discretion and abilities for so weighty an imployment of a childish disposition for wit courage carriage this though not a childe in years And such was Rehoboam 1 Kings XIV 21. with 2 Chron. XIII 7. In a word a worthlesse and wicked King is a Woe to the whole Land and a great argument of Gods anger against it 1 Sam. VIII 6 18. Job XXXIV 30. Prov. XXVIII 2. Esay XIX 4. eate in the morning Are riotous and luxurious unseasonably feasting Sonne of Nobles Nobly borne verse 17 The ancient splendor of a royal stock and descent addes much honour to a King Est in juvencis est in equis patrum virtus And much more when he is nobly bred up nobly seasoned with principles of true nobility wisdom holinesse honour and government without which nobility in blood and birth are but shapes and shadows of true noblenesse Though never so much noble blood run in the veins yet worthlesnesse and wickednesse remaining in the heart rendereth it ignoble sloathfulnesse See the Observations on Prov. verse 18 VI. 6. Here it seems applyable to a sluggish childish carelesse government of a Kingdome or Common-wealth A feast Feasting and wine have their mirthful use verse 19 But money answereth all things
and comforts signe Monument Memorial Trophie an everlasting honour to God and a signe to his Church of his mercie to her Keep ye judgement chapter LVI God admonisheth his people to do that whereby they may obtaine a part in the favours and mercies last mentioned verse 1 Neither let the Sonne of the stranger He comforts the Proselyte verse 3 and Eunuch The Partition-wall should be broken down under the Messias a Name better Of great honour verse 5 and more durable an everlasting Name that should more then countervaile the other defect yet will Igather others to him John X. verse 8 16. Acts X. 34 35. All ye beasts Here seemes to begin a new Sermon verse 9 Declaring againe Gods most fearful judgements upon his People by their enemies the Babylonians especialy and those that served under them And that for the manifold shameful sinnes of the Jewish watch-men Shepherds and Seers The righteous perisheth Esay here inserts somewhat for the Comfort of the godly chapter LVII verse 1 though by death taken away in those sad times The wicked nothing heeding Gods hand and end in it from the evil to come As was the sonne of Jeroboam 1 Kings XIV 12 13. and good Josiah 2 Kings XXII 20. the evil in the general ruine of the State and deportation of the people But draw neere Esay returnes now to the surviving wicked ones verse 3 as having another maner of errand to them in lively colours laying out their abominable courses are ye not c Deny it if ye can verse 4. 5. 6. slaying the children 2 Kings XVI 3. Psal. CVI. 37 38. is thy portion Thine Altars and thine Idol-service is thy portion that thou choosest and delightest in As God is to his people Psalme XVI 5 6. a drink-offering Used and annexed to most Kinds of sacrifices Of this kind were those Jer. VII 18. and XLIV 19. offered to the Queen of heaven And thou wentest to the King i. e. verse 9 Kings collectively for forreign aid and succour unto hell Abasing thy self to them in most servile maner thou hast found the life of thine hand Thou still imaginest so to do verse 10 and thinkest thou hast found sufficient means and aids to support thee and to strengthen thine hand And therefore thou wast not grieved in so doing And of whom Whom needest thou to have feared verse 11 and sought for forreign aid if thou hadst feared me hast lyed And dealt disloyaly with me my peace even of old My Lenity thou abusest thy righteousnesse As thou esteemest it verse 12. 13. But I so call it ironicaly let thy companies deliver thee Thy troopes of strangers or strange gods Judg. X. 13 14. And he shall say God verse 14. 16. or it shall be said for the spirit should faile This moveth God in way of commiseration to stay his hand Psal LXXVIII 38 39. and LXXXIX 47. and will heale him For my own Names sake verse 18 and free mercie notwithstanding his frowardnesse and crosse and contrary wayes Peace verse 19 Peace Whereas before was no speech but of warre Now it shall be of abundant peace and prosperity and consequently of praise and thanksgiving The fuller complement of this is under the Messias in the Gospel In this Chapter Esay reproves them mainly for their Hypocrisie in Fasting chapter LVIII and take delight They seeme so to do verse 2. 3. you finde pleasure You do not break off your sinful desires minds pleasures and purposes but persist still in a purpose to pursue them though haply not upon the very day of the Fast to act them and exact all your labours Debts and services with all rigour for strife and debate Your fastings end in verse 4 and are seconded with vexatious suits quarrels and brawles to make your voice to be heard on high By your loud clamours used in your prayers in the times of fasting Or that God on high should by fasting be induced to hear your voice and grant your requests Is not this the Fast When it is joyned with reformation and amendment of your lives verse 6 As Acts X. 2 4. Then shalt thou call Then no cause to complaine verse 9 as verse 3. the putting forth of the finger Forbearing not acts of violence and threatening termes only but even all gestures and expressions of that kinde whatsoever and makes fat thy bones Fill them with marrow verse 11 arme and strengthen them the old waste places Of Jerusalem verse 12 and the Cities of Judah and other like places thy soot from the Sabbath Thy affections and wayes which would pollute the Sabbath Whether it be the yearly or the weekly Sabbath a delight See Psal. XXVII 4. and XXXVI 8. and XLII 1 2 4. and XLIII 2 3 4. and LXV 1 5. and LXXXIV and CXXII 1 2. honour him In it by sanctifying him and it thine own wayes Wicked works and courses nor speaking thine own words Those verse 9. to ride upon the high places of the earth Aloft verse 14 in places of security and safety ch XXXIII 16. Deut. XXXII 13. This Chapter relates their various enormous iniquities chapter LIX and them to be the causes of their sad calamities verse 1 15. And a promise to the faithful ones of deliverance from them and of spiritual mercies and blessings in and from the Messias ver 16 21. is not shortened Either to hear verse 1 and help you out of those calamities or to make good those large and liberal blessings promised upon your repentance spiders web To entangle and destroy others verse 5 he that eateth There is no safe dealing any way with them Their feet Rom. verse 7. 8. III. 15 16 17. not know peace Experimentaly to have and enjoy it See Phil. III. 10. Apoc. II. 17. Therefore is judgement farre from us God stands off farre from you verse 9 neither executing judgement and vengeance on your enemies nor protecting you against their wrongs our transgressions are with us Stick close to us verse 12 we cannot shun or shift them off is fallen For want of support verse 14 cannot enter But is shut out by violence a prey He cannot be safe verse 15. 16. that will not be wicked wondered Spoken in an humane straine Rom. III. 9 19. the Apostle concludes hereupon the universal depravation of man-kind in his natural condition no intercessor No interpoâ—er his arme He did the work alone himself brought salvation Temporal vers 17 18 19. Spiritual verse 20 21. breast-plate Here is God verse 17. 18. 20. as a man of armes repay Vengeance to the enemies of his people And the Redeemer Rom. XI 26. the Apostle applies this verse to Christ and the conversion of the Jewes when the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in Where the Apostle retaines the Ancient Greek version as Hierom witnesseth it to have beene in his time having nothing in it disagreeing from truth or crossing that in ought for which he alleadgeth it This then cannot have relation to the Angel slaying