1 ! Jehoshaphat & Ahab fight against the King of Syria.
3 c The Kings of Syria kept Ramoth before this league was made by Ben-hadad: therefore he thoght not him selfe bounde thereby to restore it.
5 e He semed that he wolde not go to the warre, except God approued it, yet when Michah counseled the contrarie, he wolde not obey.
6 f Meaning, the false prophetes, which were flatters & serued for lucre, whome Jezebel had assembled and kept after the death of those whome Elias slewe.
7 g Jehoshaphat did not acknowledge the false Prophetes to be Gods ministers, but did contemne them.
8 h Whereby we se that the wicked can not abide to heare the trueth but hate the Prophetes of God & molest them.
11 l The true Prophetes of God were accustomed to vse signes for the comfirmacion of their doctrine, {Isa. 20, 2). {jere 7,2}. Wherein the false Prophetes did imitate them, thinking whereby to make their doctrine more commendable.
13 m That is the commune argument of the wicked, who thinke that none shulde speake against a thing, if the greater parte approue it, be they neuer so vngodlie.
13 / Ebr mouthe.
15 n He speaketh this in derision because the King attributed so muche to the false prophetes, meaning that by experience he shulde trye that thei were but flatteres.
17 o It is better thei returne home, then to be punished and scattered, because thei take warre in hand without Gods counsel & approbacion.
21 q Here we se that thogh they deuil be euer readie to bring vs to destruction yet he hathe no further power then God giueth him.
24 s Thus, the wicked wolde seme that none were in the fauour of God, but they, and that God hathe giuen his graces to none so muche as to them.
28 u That when ye shal se these things come to passe, ye nay giue God the glorie & knowe that I am his true Prophet.
34 / Or, in his simplicitie & ignorantly.
34 ! Ahab is slaine.
34 / Ebr. & betwene the brigandine.
43 a Meaning, that he was led with an error, thinking that they might stil sacrifice to the Lord in those places, aswel as thei did before the Temple was buylt.
47 b In the time of this King Idumea was subject to Judah & was gouerned, by whome thei of Judah appointed.
48 d Josephus writeth that Ophir is in India, where the Egyptians & Arabians trffike for golde.