2 Chronicles 21

^{18 !} His miserable end.

^{20 l} That is, as some write he was not regarded, but deposed for his wickednes & idolatrie: so that his sonne reigned 22 yeres, (his father yet lyuing) without honour & after his fathers death he was confirmed to reigne stil, as {Chap. 23,2}

^{1 !} Jehoshaphat dyeth.

^{2 a} Read {chap. 15,17} how by Israel is ment Judah.

^{4 !} Which killeth his brethren.

^{4 c} Meaning, of Judah & Benjamin.

^{4 b} Because the wicked liue euer in feare & also are ambitious, they become cruel, & also are ambitious, they become cruel, & spare not to murther them, whome by nature they oght moste to cherish & defend.

^{6 d} So that we se how it can not be that we shulde joyne with the wicked & serue God.

^{6 !} He was broght to idolatrie.

^{10 e} Read {2 King. 8,22}

^{11 f} Meaning, idolatrie, because that the idolater breaketh promes with God, as doeth the adulteresse to her housband.

^{11 !} And seduceth the people.

^{12 g} Some thinke that this was Elisha, so called, because he had the Spirit in abundane, as had Eliah.

^{15 h} We se this example daily, practised vpon them that falin away from God, and become idolaters and murtherers, of their brethren.

^{16 !} He is oppressed of the Philstims.

^{16 i} There were other Arabians in Africa Southward toward Egypt.

^{17 k} Called also Ahaziah, as {Chap 22,1}, or Azariah, {ver. 6}