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Passage 1: 1 Chronicles 10

(1Ch 10:1) Then the Philistims fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled before the Philistims, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.

(1Ch 10:2) And the Philistims pursued after Saul and after his sonnes, and the Philistims smote Ionathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua the sonnes of Saul.

(1Ch 10:3) And the battel was sore against Saul; and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

(1Ch 10:4) Then sayde Saul to his armour bearer, Drawe out thy sworde, and thrust me thorowe therewith, lest these vncircumcised come and mocke at me: but his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therefore Saul tooke the sword and fell vpon it.

(1Ch 10:5) And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon the sworde, and dyed.

(1Ch 10:6) So Saul dyed and his three sonnes, and all his house, they dyed together.

(1Ch 10:7) And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley, sawe how they fledde, and that Saul and his sonnes were dead, they forsooke their cities, and fled away, and the Philistims came, and dwelt in them.

(1Ch 10:8) And on the morrowe when the Philistims came to spoyle them that were slaine, they found Saul and his sonnes lying in mount Gilboa.

(1Ch 10:9) And when they had stript him, they tooke his head and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistims round about, to publish it vnto their idoles, and to the people.

(1Ch 10:10) And they layd vp his armour in the house of their god, and set vp his head in the house of Dagon.

(Notes Reference) And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of (a) Dagon.

(a) Which was the idol of the Philistines, and from the belly downward had the form of a fish, and upward of a man.

(1Ch 10:11) When all they of Iabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistims had done to Saul,

(1Ch 10:12) Then they arose (all the valiant men) and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabesh, and buryed the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.

(1Ch 10:13) So Saul dyed for his transgression, that he committed against the Lord, euen against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and in that he sought and asked counsel of a familiar spirit,

(1Ch 10:14) And asked not of the Lord: therefore he slewe him, and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Ishai.

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Passage 2: Ezekiel 23

(Eze 23:1) The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

(Eze 23:2) Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

(Notes Reference) Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one (a) mother:

(a) Meaning, Israel and Judah who both came out of one family.

(Eze 23:3) And they committed fornication in Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teates of their virginitie.

(Notes Reference) And they committed harlotries in (b) Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

(b) They became idolaters after the manner of the Egyptians.

(Eze 23:4) And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names. Samaria is Aholah, and Ierusalem Aholibah.

(Notes Reference) And the names of (c) them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

(c) Aholah signifies a mansion or dwelling in herself, meaning Samaria, which was the royal city of Israel and Aholibah signifies my mansion in her, by which is meant Jerusalem, where God's temple was.

(Eze 23:5) And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she was set on fire with her louers, to wit, with the Assyrians her neighbours,

(Notes Reference) And Aholah played the harlot when (d) she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,

(d) When the Israelites were named the people of God, they became idolaters and forsook God, and put their trust in the Assyrians.

(Eze 23:6) Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon horses.

(Eze 23:7) Thus she committed her whoredome with them, euen with all them that were the chosen men of Asshur, and with all on whome she doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idoles.

(Eze 23:8) Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and powred their whoredome vpon her.

(Notes Reference) Neither left she her harlotries [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they (e) lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their immorality upon her.

(e) The Holy Spirit uses these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry to be so abhorred that no one could stand to hear the name of it.

(Eze 23:9) Wherefore I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon whome she doted.

(Eze 23:10) These discouered her shame: they tooke away her sonnes and her daughters, and slewe her with the sworde, and she had an euill name among women: for they had executed iudgement vpon her.

(Notes Reference) These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for (f) they had executed judgment upon her.

(f) Meaning the Assyrians.

(Eze 23:11) And when her sister Aholibah sawe this, she marred her selfe with inordinate loue, more then she, and with her fornications more then her sister with her fornications.

(Eze 23:12) She doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, both captaines and princes clothed with diuers sutes, horsemen ryding vpon horses: they were all pleasant yong men.

(Eze 23:13) Then I sawe that she was defiled, and that they were both after one sort,

(Eze 23:14) And that she encreased her fornications: for when she sawe men painted vpon the wall, the images of the Caldeans painted with vermelon,

(Notes Reference) And [that] she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men (g) portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

(g) This declares that no words are able to sufficiently express the rage of idolaters and therefore the Holy Spirit here compares them to those who in their raging love and filthy lusts dote on the images and paintings of them after whom they lust.

(Eze 23:15) And girded with girdles vpon their loynes, and with dyed attyre vpon their heads (looking all like princes after the maner of the Babylonians in Caldea, the land of their natiuitie)

(Eze 23:16) Assoone, I say, as she sawe them, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.

(Eze 23:17) Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her lust departed from them.

(Eze 23:18) So she discouered her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then mine heart forsooke her, like as mine heart had forsaken her sister.

(Eze 23:19) Yet she encreased her whoredome more, and called to remembrance ye dayes of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

(Eze 23:20) For she doted vpon their seruants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose yssue is like the yssue of horses.

(Eze 23:21) Thou calledst to remembrance the wickednes of thy youth, when thy teates were bruised by ye Egyptians: therefore ye paps of thy youth are thus.

(Eze 23:22) Therefore, O Aholibah, thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will raise vp thy louers against thee, from whome thine heart is departed, and I will bring them against thee on euery side,

(Eze 23:23) To wit, the Babylonians, and all the Caldeans, Peked, and Shoah, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: they were all pleasant yong men, captaines and princes: all they were valiant and renoumed, riding vpon horses.

(Notes Reference) The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, (h) Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

(h) These were the names of certain princes and captains under Nebuchadnezzar.

(Eze 23:24) Euen these shall come against thee with charets, waggons, and wheeles, and with a multitude of people, which shall set against thee, buckler and shield, and helmet round about: and I will leaue the punishment vnto them, and they shall iudge thee according to their iudgements.

(Eze 23:25) And I wil lay mine indignation vpon thee, and they shall deale cruelly with thee: they shall cut off thy nose and thine eares, and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall cary away thy sonnes and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be deuoured by the fire.

(Notes Reference) And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy (i) nose and thy ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant shall be devoured by the fire.

(i) They will destroy your princes and priests with the rest of your people.

(Eze 23:26) They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fayre iewels.

(Eze 23:27) Thus wil I make thy wickednes to cease from thee and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

(Eze 23:28) For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I wil deliuer thee into the hand of them, whome thou hatest: euen into the hands of them from whome thine heart is departed.

(Eze 23:29) And they shall handle thee despitefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leaue thee naked and bare, and the shame of thy fornications shalbe discouered, both thy wickednes, and thy whoredome.

(Notes Reference) And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy (k) labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy harlotries (l) shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy harlotries.

(k) All your treasures and riches which you have gotten by labour.

(l) All the world will see your shameful forsaking of God to serve idols.

(Eze 23:30) I wil doe these things vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idoles.

(Eze 23:31) Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister: therefore wil I giue her cup into thine hand.

(Notes Reference) Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her (m) cup into thy hand.

(m) I will execute the same judgments and vengeance against you and that with greater severity.

(Eze 23:32) Thus saith ye Lord God, Thou shalt drinke of thy sisters cup, deepe and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorne and had in derision, because it containeth much.

(Eze 23:33) Thou shalt be filled with drunkennes and sorow, euen with the cup of destruction, and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

(Notes Reference) Thou shalt be filled with (n) drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of horror and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

(n) Meaning that it's afflictions would be so great that they would cause them to lose their senses and reason.

(Eze 23:34) Thou shalt euen drinke it, and wring it out to the dregges, and thou shalt breake the sheards thereof, and teare thine owne breasts: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

(Eze 23:35) Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe, therefore thou shalt also beare thy wickednes and thy whoredome.

(Eze 23:36) The Lord sayd moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, wilt thou iudge Aholah and Aholibah? and wilt thou declare to them their abominations?

(Eze 23:37) For they haue played the whores, and blood is in their hands, and with their idoles haue they committed adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes, whome they bare vnto me, to passe by the fire to be their meate.

(Notes Reference) That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through [the fire], to (o) devour [them].

(o) That is, to be sacrifices to their idols, read (Eze 16:20).

(Eze 23:38) Moreouer, thus haue they done vnto me: they haue defiled my Sanctuarie in the same day, and haue prophaned my Sabbaths.

(Eze 23:39) For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, they came the same day into my Sanctuarie to defile it: and loe, thus haue they done in the middes of mine house.

(Eze 23:40) And howe much more is it that they sent for men to come from farre vnto whom a messenger was sent, and loe, they came? for whome thou diddest wash thy selfe, and paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thee with ornaments,

(Notes Reference) And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from (p) far, to whom a messenger [was] sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, didst paint thy eyes, and didst deck thyself with ornaments,

(p) They sent into other countries to have such as would teach the service of their idols.

(Eze 23:41) And satest vpon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oyle.

(Notes Reference) And satest (q) upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my oil.

(q) He means the altar that was prepared for the idols.

(Eze 23:42) And a voyce of a multitude being at ease, was with her: and with the men to make the company great were brought men of Saba from the wildernes, which put bracelets vpon their hands, and beautifull crownes vpon their heads.

(Notes Reference) And a voice of a multitude being at ease [was] with her: and with the men of the common sort [were] brought (r) Sabeans from the wilderness, who put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

(r) Who would teach the manner of worshipping their gods.

(Eze 23:43) Then I sayd vnto her, that was olde in adulteries, Now shall she and her fornications come to an end.

(Eze 23:44) And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wicked women.

(Eze 23:45) And ye righteous men they shall iudge them, after the maner of harlots, and after the maner of murtherers: for they are harlots, and blood is in their hands.

(Notes Reference) And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of (s) adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands.

(s) That is worthy of death, (Eze 16:38).

(Eze 23:46) Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them vnto the tumult, and to the spoyle,

(Eze 23:47) And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them with their swordes: they shall slay their sonnes, and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.

(Eze 23:48) Thus will I cause wickednesse to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to doe after your wickednesse.

(Notes Reference) Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (t) women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

(t) Meaning, all other cities and countries.

(Eze 23:49) And they shall laye your wickednesse vpon you, and ye shall beare the sinnes of your idoles, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord God.

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Passage 3: Luke 20

(Luk 20:1) And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught the people in the Temple, and preached the Gospel, the hie Priests and the Scribes came vpon him with the Elders,

(Notes Reference) And (1) it came to pass, [that] on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon [him] with the elders,

(1) The Pharisees, being overcome with the truth of Christ's doctrine, propose a question about his outward calling, and are overcome by the witness of their own conscience.

(Luk 20:2) And spake vnto him, saying, Tell vs by what authoritie thou doest these things, or who is hee that hath giuen thee this authoritie?

(Luk 20:3) And he answered, and sayde vnto them, I also will aske you one thing: tell me therefore:

(Luk 20:4) The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?

(Luk 20:5) And they reasoned within themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then beleeued ye him not?

(Luk 20:6) But if we shall say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.

(Luk 20:7) Therefore they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

(Luk 20:8) Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Neither tell I you, by what authoritie I doe these things.

(Luk 20:9) Then began he to speake to ye people this parable, A certaine man planted a vineyarde, and let it forth to husbandmen: and went into a strange countrey, for a great time.

(Notes Reference) (2) Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

(2) It is nothing new for those who are knowledgable of the very sanctuary of God's holy place to be the greatest enemies of Christ, but in due time they will be punished.

(Luk 20:10) And at the time conuenient he sent a seruant to the husbandmen, that they should giue him of the fruite of the vineyard: but the husbandmen did beate him, and sent him away emptie.

(Luk 20:11) Againe he sent yet another seruant: and they did beate him, and foule entreated him, and sent him away emptie.

(Luk 20:12) Moreouer he sent the third, and him they wounded, and cast out.

(Luk 20:13) Then sayd the Lord of the vineyard, What shall I doe? I will send my beloued sonne: it may be that they will doe reuerence, when they see him.

(Luk 20:14) But when the husbandmen sawe him, they reasoned with themselues, saying, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

(Luk 20:15) So they cast him out of the vineyarde, and killed him. What shall the Lord of the vineyarde therefore doe vnto them?

(Luk 20:16) He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and wil giue out his vineyard to others. But when they heard it, they sayd, God forbid.

(Luk 20:17) And he beheld them, and said, What meaneth this then that is written, The stone that the builders refused, that is made the head of the corner?

(Luk 20:18) Whosoeuer shall fall vpon that stone, shall be broken: and on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to pouder.

(Luk 20:19) Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.

(Luk 20:20) And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, to take him in his talke, and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour.

(Notes Reference) (3) And they (a) watched [him], and sent forth (b) spies, which should feign themselves just men, (c) that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and (d) authority of the governor.

(3) The last refuge the false prophets have to destroy the true prophets is to charge them with rebellion and treason against the state.

(a) An appropriate time to take him in.

(b) Whom they had hired deceitfully.

(c) That they might latch on to something he said, and by this forge some false accusation against him.

(d) Put him to death.

(Luk 20:21) And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest, and teachest right, neither doest thou accept mans person, but teachest the way of God truely.

(Notes Reference) And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the (e) person [of any], but teachest the way of God truly:

(e) You are not moved by favour of any man: and by "person" he means outward circumstances, for if a man judges according to these, there will be those who are truly alike whom he will judge to be different.

(Luk 20:22) Is it lawfull for vs to giue Cesar tribute or no?

(Luk 20:23) But he perceiued their craftines, and sayd vnto them, Why tempt ye me?

(Notes Reference) But he perceived their (f) craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

(f) Craftiness is a certain diligence and subtle knowledge to do evil, which is achieved by much use and great practise in matters.

(Luk 20:24) Shew me a penie. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and sayd, Cesars.

(Luk 20:25) Then he sayd vnto them, Giue then vnto Cesar the things which are Cesars, and to God those which are Gods.

(Luk 20:26) And they could not reproue his saying before the people: but they marueiled at his answere, and helde their peace.

(Luk 20:27) Then came to him certaine of the Sadduces (which denie that there is any resurrection) and they asked him,

(Notes Reference) (4) Then came to [him] certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

(4) The resurrection of the flesh is affirmed against the Sadducees.

(Luk 20:28) Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.

(Luk 20:29) Now there were seuen brethren, and the first tooke a wife, and he dyed without children.

(Luk 20:30) And the second tooke the wife, and he dyed childelesse.

(Luk 20:31) Then the third tooke her: and so likewise the seuen dyed, and left no children.

(Luk 20:32) And last of all the woman dyed also.

(Luk 20:33) Therefore at the resurrection, whose wife of them shall she be? for seuen had her to wife.

(Luk 20:34) Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, The children of this world marry wiues, and are married.

(Notes Reference) And Jesus answering said unto them, The (g) children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

(g) "The children of this world" refers here to those who live in this world, and not those that are wholly given to the world (and therefore contrary to the children of light), as above in (Luk 16:8).

(Luk 20:35) But they which shalbe counted worthy to enioy that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry wiues, neither are married.

(Luk 20:36) For they can die no more, forasmuch as they are equall vnto the Angels, and are the sonnes of God, since they are the children of the resurrection.

(Notes Reference) Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the (h) children of the resurrection.

(h) That is, men who partake in the resurrection: for as we truly say that they will indeed live who will enjoy everlasting bliss, so do those indeed rise who rise to life; though if this word "resurrection" is taken generally, it refers also to the wicked, who will rise to condemnation, which is not properly life, but death.

(Luk 20:37) And that the dead shall rise againe, euen Moses shewed it besides the bush, when he said, The Lord is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob.

(Luk 20:38) For he is not the God of the dead, but of them which liue: for all liue vnto him.

(Notes Reference) For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all (i) live unto him.

(i) That is, before him: a saying to take note of, for the godly do not die, though they die here on earth.

(Luk 20:39) Then certaine of the Scribes answered, and sayd, Master, thou hast well sayd.

(Luk 20:40) And after that, durst they not aske him any thing at all.

(Luk 20:41) Then sayd he vnto them, Howe say they that Christ is Dauids sonne?

(Notes Reference) (5) And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?

(5) Even though Christ is the son of David according to the flesh he is also his Lord (because he is the everlasting Son of God) according to the spirit.

(Luk 20:42) And Dauid himselfe sayth in the booke of the Psalmes, The Lord sayd vnto my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

(Luk 20:43) Till I shall make thine enemies thy footestoole.

(Luk 20:44) Seeing Dauid called him Lord, howe is he then his sonne?

(Luk 20:45) Then in the audience of all the people he sayd vnto his disciples,

(Luk 20:46) Beware of the Scribes, which willingly go in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets, and the highest seates in the assemblies, and the chiefe roomes at feastes:

(Notes Reference) (6) Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

(6) We must avoid the example of the glory-seeking and covetous pastors.

(Luk 20:47) Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.

(Notes Reference) Which devour widows' (k) houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

(k) By the figure of speech metonymy, "houses" is understood to mean the goods and substance.