1 Kings 15

^{1 !} Abiiam reigneth ouer Judah.

^{2 a} Some thinke that this was Absalom Salomons sonne.

^{4 b} Meaning, a sonne to reigne ouer Judah.

^{9 !} Asa succedeth in his roume.

^{10 c} That is, his grand mother, as Dauid is oft times called father of them whose grand father he was.

^{13 d} Nether kinred nor autoritie oght to be regarded, when they blaspheme God & become idolaters, but must be punished.

^{14 e} For in that that he suffred them to worship God in other places,then he had appointed, it came of ignorance and not malice.

^{16 !} The battel betwene Asa and Baasha.

^{17 f} Of the same purpose that Jerobaom did because the people shulde not go vp to Jerusalem lest they shulde followe Asa.

^{18 /} Or, Syria.

^{19 g} And vexe me no longer.

^{22 /} Or, made a proclamation.

^{22 /} Ebr. non innocent.

^{23 h} He had the goute & put his trust rather in phisitians then the Lord {2 Chro. 16,2}.

^{24 !} Jehoshaphat succedeth Asa.

^{24 i} His great grande father.

^{25 !} Nadab succedeth Jeroboam.

^{29 k} So God ??? vp one tyrant to punish the wickednes of another.

^{30 l} By causing the people to commit idolatrie with his calues, & so prouoking God to angre.

^{33 m} Which was the place where the Kings of Israel remained.