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1 With Being conquered by them. Thus the Ephraimites were conquered by the Gilea∣dites, because (as the text saith) they said (in derision) Yee Gileadites are fugitives to Ephraim, among the Ephraemites, and among the Manassites, Jud. 12. 4. this jeere cost them the lives of two and forty thousand men, vers. 6. And the Ammonites by David.
for Hanun their King, having abused his Embassadours (whom he sent in a friendly way, to comfort him after the death of his father,) by cutting their beards halfe way off▪ and their garments up to their buttocks; and so turning them along, 2 Sam. 10. 4. when Abishai was sent to fight with them, they fled before him, vers. 14. and were after∣ward, (upon the taking of their royall city Rabbah chap. 12, 29) for cutting other mens beards, and clothes, made to suffer the cut∣ting of their owne bodies with sawes, and har∣rowes and axes of iron; and to passe thorougha 1.1 the brick kilne, v. 31. By Mocking their ene∣mies, (then which nothing is more provo∣king,) men doe but whet their courage with anger: and so make them fight more despe∣rately; not regarding their lives, so they may be revenged. You have an example hereof in the Jebusites. For (as the more b 1.2 received interpretation of that place will have it in contempt of David's weakenesse, (when he besieged them at Jerusalem) they placed blind men, and lame men in the fort, to defend i; and in a mockery told him, Ex∣cept thou take away the blind and the lame,
thou shalt not come in hither, 2 Sam. 5. 6. But David herewith was so enragedc 1.3, and his souldiers made so despe∣rate; that they presently fell on, & tooke the fort the same day, vers. 7. 8. Another example you have in the Philistins, who having gotten Samp∣son into the temple of Dagon, to make sport of him; were kill'd thousands of them by the fall of the house, when Sampson had pulled away the pillers, Judg. 16. 25. 30.
2. Barrennesse of womb. Thus was Mi∣chal (Davids wise) punish'd for jeering at her husband, when she saw him dancing be∣fore the Ark, with a linnen Ephod about him: as if he had done a thing unbeseeming the state of a King, (as indee•• most godly, & virtuous actions, seem either absurd, or ridi∣culous, or disgracefull, to ungodly men) Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death, 2 Sam. 6. 23. The daughter of Saul] as if she were no lon∣ger worthy, to bee called the wife of King David: and accordingly some say* 1.4, that David never after that time us'd her as his
wife. Had no child] For those five sons spo∣ken of ch. 21. 8. which ou•• Hebrew saies shee brought forth; she only brought up, and adop∣ted them for her own. And therefore our English renders, brought up. And the Chaldee Paraphrase (me thinks very well) thus saies upon that place, the five sonnes (viz: of Me∣rob) which Michal the daughter of Saul brought up.
3 God's Hearing the prayer of the godly a∣gainst them. I am as one mocked of his neigh∣bour, who called upon God and hee answered him, Job. 12, 4.
4. God's not pardoning them: at least, as to this worlds punishment, (if not also that which is to come) For when Sanballat and Tobiah jeered the Jewes, (as they were buil∣ding the new wall at Jerusalem:) Sanballat thus, What doe these feeble Jewes? Will they fortifie themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? W••ll they revive the stones out of the heapes of rubbish which are burnt Neh. 4. 2. Tobiah thus* 1.5, Even that which they build, if a fox goe up, he shall even breake downe their stone wall, vers 3: Ne∣hemiah praied to this purpose against them. If his prayer were not propheticall (as most such mens prayers in Scripture are) yet it was the fervent prayer of a righteous man▪ & that we know, availeth much* 1.6; especially at
such a time, as he is mocked: for then (as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 said in the former punishment) he calleth on God, and he answereth him. Nehemi•• words were these. Heare, O our God, for•• are despised; and turn their reproach upon th•• own head, and give them for a prey in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of captivity, and cover not their iniquity, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 let not their sin be blotted out from before 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for they have provoked* 1.7 thee to anger bef•••• the builders, Neh. 4. 4.
The men of the world, who so often com¦mit this sinne, and make use of it to ma•• themselves and others merry, thinke b•• slightly of it; because it steales no goods, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 makes no scarre in the flesh, and does a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 no visible hurt. But doubtlesse, it is not slightly accounted of by God; and he w•• severely punish it. In the Epistle to th•• Hebrews ch: 11. mockings are put in the Ca¦talogue of the Saints persecutions; & joyn•• with scourgings, vers. 36. and justly aggrav••¦ted by our translation (for it is not in the o¦riginall) with the epithete, Cruell. Othe•• had triall of cruell mockings, and scourges. In the Epistle to the Galatians, it is said that Ishmael persecuted Isaack; and therefore w•• cast out. ch: 4. 29. and yet in Genesis, we rea•• of nothing but mocking, chap. 21. 9. I wi•• conclude with one punishment more, an•• that no small one (which, though I have 〈◊〉〈◊〉
••ut of the Apocrypha, yet I believe for truth) ••nd that is the vexation and sorrow, which ••ey shall have hereafter, when they shall ••e those whom they despised, in honour with God. And they repenting, and groaning for ••••nguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometime in derision, ••nd a proverb of reproach. Wee fooles accoun∣••ed his life madnesse, and his end to be without ••onour, &c. Wisd▪ 5. 3, 4, 5, 6.
With the aggravating of those judge∣ments. Now therefore be yee not mockers, lest your bands be made strong* 1.8, Isa 28. 22.
With, Being mocked in the same manner. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and hee shall also be in derision. For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Jer. 48. 26, 27. And not onely the Moabites; but the rest of the Hea∣then, for mocking at the Jewes in their cala∣mity, Ezek. 36. 3. were thus threatened, Because yee have borne the shame of the Hea∣then, therefore thus saith the Lord God, I have lifted up mine hand, surely the Heathen that are about you, they shall beare their shame, vers. 6. 7. Beare their SHAME] better so, then
ignominy, which will signifie both actively and passively; whereas shame will not. F•• though these words may seeme to signifi•• (according to the use of the word, bea•••• in other places, as when it is said, beare th•• iniquity, &c. and likewise the use of the He∣brew word for, shame, in the verse next be∣fore) that the heathen should certainly r•• it, for reproaching God's people (luerent co••∣tumeliam suam:) yet I rather thinke, tha•• which is mainly intimated in this place, to be retaliation in God's punishing of them that is, giving them like for like, or the sam•• that they gave others. For in the first sence, they might beare their ignominy, that is, that wherewith they reproached others, by ano∣ther way, as well as by suffering ignomin•• againe: for he that is punished for a sinne, may be said to beare it, though his punishment have no resemblance with his sinne. An•• this I say the rather, because the word for Shame* 1.9, or Reproach, with the pronoun•• affixed, is seldome or never used actively (as it is passively, ch. 15. 54. Psal. 44. 15, & Ps. 69. 20, &c.) and especially, because there is a separate pronoune also put on pur∣pose, for* 1.10 they; as if it were thus spoken▪ THEY who have reproached others, eve•• THEY, for all their confidence and prid•• shall be reproached THEMSELVES, and shall
beare THEIR shame also, as the Israelites have borne THEIRS. To say nothing how affixed possessive pronounes are many times superfluously added in such expressions, ac∣cording to the manner of other languages. We say in English, he shall have, or (he shall beare) HIS punishment: and that with a kind of Elegancie; as in Galat. 5. 6. where it is in the Greeke onely, he shall beare* 1.11 judge∣ment, we translate, he shall beare his Judge∣ment.
Vulg. tra∣duxit in typo late∣rum: by which is meant, cut∣ting them and chop∣ping them, either in the place where they made brick, or after the manner that they chopped that stuffe, of which they made it.
For some expound those blind and lame, the Images of their ••tutelary gods: and some otherwise.
It is said, v. 8. The lame and the blind, that are HATED OF DAVID'S SOVLE. Scorne an∣gers the very Soule of a man, Our SOVLE is exceedingly filled with the scorne of those that are at ease, Ps. 123. 4. The word for, are at ease, is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Septuagint render it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 here; but in Amos, ch. 6. 1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So that, for woe unto them that ARE AT EASE, ac∣cording to their translation, it shoul•• be, woe be unto them that SCORNE.
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Tobiah jeered in that maner as Rhe∣mus did his brother Romulus (when he built the wall at Rome) by leaping o∣ver it, whose ieer cost him his life.
Jam. 5. 16
Vulgar Translat: irriserunt aedifican∣tes▪ they MOCKED the buil∣ders.
Validio∣ra fiant, saith Va∣tablus.
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