2 ! Thogh he inuented no new idolatrie or impietie as others did, yet he foght for helpe at the Egyptians which God had forbidden.
7 d He setteth forth at length the cause of this great plague & perpetual captiuitie, to admonish all people and nacions to cleane to the Lord God, and onely worship him for feare of like judgement.
14 f So that to alledge the autoritie of our fathers or great antiquitie, except we can proue that they were godlie, is that to declare that we are the children of the wicked.
17 i Read of this phrase, {1 King 21,20 & 25}
18 k No whole tribe was left but Judah, & thei of Benjamin & Leui, which remained, were counted with Judah.
18 ! For their idolatrie.
24 n Of these peoples came the Samaritans, whereof mencion is so muche made in the Gospel, & with whome the jewes wolde haue nothing to do, {Joh. 4,9}
25 o That is, thei serued him not: therefore, lest they shuld blaspheme him, as thogh there were no God, because he chastised the Israelites, he sheweth his mightie power among them by this strange punishment.
27 p That is, how to worship him: thus the wicked rather then to lose their commodities wil change to all religions.
30 q Meaning, that euery countrey serued that idole, which was moste estemed in that place whence they came.