2 Chronicles 12

^{1 !} Rehoboam forsaketh the Lord and is punished by Shishak.

^{1 /} Or, when the Lord has established Rehoboams kingdome.

^{1 a} For suche is the inconstancie of the people that for the moste part thei follow the vices of their gouernours.

^{3 /} Or, blacke Mores.

^{3 b} Which were a people of Africa called the Troglodites, because they dwelled in holes.

^{5 c} Signifying no calamitie can come vnto vs except we forsake God, & that he neuer leueth vs til we haue cast him of.

^{5 !} Shemaiah reproueth him.

^{6 !} He humbleth him selfe.

^{7 !} God sendeth him succour.

^{7 /} Ebr drop downe.

^{8 e} He sheweth that Gods punishments are not to destroy his vtterly, but to chastise them, to bring them to the knowledge of them selues & to knowe how much better it is to serue God then tyrants.

^{9 !} Shishak taketh his treasures.

^{12 f} Which declareth that God seketh not the death of a sinner, but his couersion, {Ezek. 18:32} & {33,11}

^{13 g} That is, twelue yeres after that he had bene ouercome by Shishak, {ver. 2}.

^{13 !} His reigne and death.

^{15 /} Ebr sayings.

^{16 /} Or, Abiam.

^{16 !} Abiiah his sonne succedeth him.