1599 Geneva Bible: “The Melting Heart of the King"

2 Kings 22:19 But because thine heart did (i)melt, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same, to wit, that it should be destroyed and accursed, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I have also heard it, saith the Lord.
2 Kings 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy grave in (ii) peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. Thus they brought the king word again.

i. Meaning, that he did truly repent, unlike those who don't it is said that they harden their heart, Ps. 95:8.
ii. This shows us that the anger of God is ready to be released against the wicked, when God takes his servants out of this world.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “God Bows our Hearts"

1 Kings 8:58 That he may (i)bow our hearts unto him, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his laws, which he commanded our fathers.

i. Solomon concludes that man of himself is at heart an enemy unto God, and that all obedience to God's Law proceeds out of God's mere mercy


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Why was the Law given?"

Galatians 3:19 (i)Wherefore then serveth the Law? It was added because of the (ii)transgressions, (iii)till the seed came,unto the which the promise was made: (iv)and it was (v)ordained by (vi)Angels in the hand of a Mediator.

i. An objection which some might say from what was previously said (In the previous verses, Galatians 3:6-18 Paul said that the inheritance we get is a fulfillment of the promise God gave to Abraham): If the inheritance we get isn't earned by obeying the Law (and not even in part) then why was the Law given (to Moses), after the promise was given (to Abraham)?The Apostle answers: it is given to rebuke and convict men of sin, and so teaches them to look unto a Savior, Christ, in whom the promise of saving all people together should be fulfilled. So the the Law was never given to justify men.
ii. That men might understand, by the revealing of men's sins, that men are only saved by only the grace of God, which God revealed to Abraham, and that through Christ.
iii. Until the separation between God and man is broken down, and that full seed sprang up, which is made of two people (Gentiles and Jews): for by this word Seed, it means not only Christ by himself, but coupled and joined together with his people who are found in Him by faith.
iv. A confirmation of the previously stated answer using the example of the giving of the Law: for the Law was given by Angels, and when it was done it struck great terror into all, and Moses was a Mediator coming between God's people and God. Now they that are one (God and His people), they need no Mediator, except those who are separated from God, and that are at odds with one another. Therefore the Law itself and the Mediator, were witnesses of the wrath of God, and not that God would by the means of the Law to reconcile men to himself, and abolish the promise, or add the Law unto the promise.
v. Commanded and given, or proclaimed.
vi. By the service and ministry.



[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]