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 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.
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.
12 f Which declareth that God seketh not the death of a sinner, but his couersion, {Ezek. 18:32} & {33,11}
13 ! His reigne and death.
16 ! Abiiah his sonne succedeth him.