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.
19 g And vexe me no longer.
22 / Or, made a proclamation.
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.