ſons were extreamly unkind, and all ſpoiled with it. & About yours Houſes for Convenience and Pleaſure. Planted for your ſupport and, to enrich you, to chear your Heart.
neceifary Uſe. o When they were ſeemingly moR fruitful. p il Foel 1.3, 1O, 11, 12,
manner of Egypt #4; your young men have I ſlain x with!
have made the ſtink of your camps to come up unto your; Noſtrils 4 : yet have ye not returned unto me, faith tit! LORD b.
it, and it ſwept you away in ſuch manner, that any obſervant EF might have ſeen the Han of God againſt you in it, and might hat? read the Commiſkon, ' waſteth at noun day. u In which there was ſomewhat extraordina!ſs it ſwept away both Men and Beaſts, ſay ſome ; probably *twas - Diſeaſe which by the Stroke of the Angel ſeiſed the Firſt-born 1n &ypr. Others interpret this with particular reſpe& to the Death & chem in going down to ſeek aid of Zgypr, or in their return from E £ypt, as'it the Prophet minded them of many that died on the way : or from Egypt 3 but the Phraſe in the way is better rendred by ” Tranſlators, after the manner. x God was their Enemy, and flew young Men the choice of their Srrength and Hope. » In War = fs their Neighbouring Enemies in Fehoahaz his time, and $jr14n* that too, 2 X7ngs 13. 3+ and 15. 16, and 19. compared. Murrain, but by what was worſe to you, by the Hand of thoie *” did ride them ; and theſe being ſlain, the Horſes were taken Þ) pe Enemy, and added to their Strength and your Danger. #4 50 8
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think to pleaſe me z but you offer them all to Idols, this your Religion
13 Impiety. b As you invented it, fo it pleaſeth You, and you will nc+ be reclaimed. # Ye Hdolatrous Apoſtate 1j7aelires, Shall be punish'd by the Lord your God,
k For theſ? you
6 © And 11 alſo have given you cleanneſs of teeth », in all your Cities 2, and want of bread in all your pla- z yet have ye not returned unto me p, faith the LORD.
7 The Lord who gave many Bleſſings to win you to Repentance,
hath alſo tried what might be done by Judgments. m 1 his is a Des (cription of Famine, by one effe of it ; are not fouled, as where it is eaten. probably *twas that 2 Xings8. 1. long Famine. Bread, yet 'twas very ſcarce every where, this Paſſage explains the former. p Yet this ſtarving People, repented not of their Idolatries nor caft off their Idols; left not their Idols ; left not their Sins of O,. prefſon and Cruelty, &c. Vid. Foel 2.12, 13. what you did like re. turning was partial and hypocritical, and not laſting.
where Meat fails, rhe Teeth 7 It was a general Famine, ang 0 If there were ſome
7 And alſo I have with-holden the rain from you q,
when there were yet three months r to the harveſt, and | cauſed it to rain upon one City s, and cauſed it notto rain upon another City t : one piece « was rained up- - x, and the piece whereupon it rained not y, wither- ed z.
q Your Vanities could not, and becauſe ye did fo greatly fin againſt
me 1 would not give you Rain, I forbad the Clouds from above, ang they thus prohibited dil with-hold their Rain, as I threatned, Dey, 28. 23, 24. 7 At a Seaſon when your Countrey moſt uſually had, ang as then it ever did moſt need Rain, vid. Foel 2. 23. Three Months Drought then, as 'twas unuſual in the Courſe of Nature, ſo twasay extraordinary Curſe and Punishment on them. s That you might ſee my Hand in it and be inſtrudted, I gave Rain to one City; t And with. held Rain from the next Neighbour City. u Nay one part of a Field, the ſame Field, x Watered and flourish'd ; y Another part dry and withered, All this to convince and turn you.
3 So two or three @ Cities b wandred c unto ore
City. d to drink water, but they were not ſatisf- ed & ; yet have ye not returned unto me, faith the LORD f.
4 Acertain for an uncertain Number. 6 The Places for the Inhab;
tants by an uſual Metonymy. « It ſeems. to imply that they trare. led at ſome uncertainty, as they do who wander and rove about, 41: is not unlikely but that in the Prophets times the Story might he well known and freſh in Memory, though here no mention is made of theſe Cities. e Either that City they went to had not enough for them, or durſt not part with it ; or tho they quench'd their thirk, yer becauſe they muſt return back to their own dry and waterlek Ci ties, Or becaule God withdrew his Bleſſing, they were never the bet ter, or elſe not much or long the better. f Vid, vers 6. let. ps
9 * 1 have ſmitten g you with blaſting h and mildew
& Toother Judgments inflited on you I have added this alſo, my | þ The exceſive
moot or Aſhes. 7 A Bane to-Corn through roo much wet, the $ex-| mM Which were excellent, of ve y great uſe and profit in thoſe Countries. # A principal Com:odi-
y aroſe from their Olive-yards, all that was for Delight, Profit and
q Eat up all as is the manner of that Worm V1d. ver. 6. let. ps 10 I have ſent s among you the peſtilence t, !| after the,
he ſword y, and Þ have taken away your horſes z, and!,
s You have died of Plague, but I commiſkoned the Diſeaſe, I {«:
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to bury the ſlain before they ftunk and offended you, 6 id. verſe 6 let. þ. |
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threw * Sodom and Gomorrah e, and ye were "07 are-brand pluckt out of the burning f ; yet Fac?
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