1 ! Jehoshaphat maketh affinitie with Ahab.
2 b That is, the third yere, {1 King. 22,2}
5 e Which were the Prophetes of Baal, signifying that the wicked esteme not but flatterers and suche as wil beare with their inordinate affections.
7 f Yet the true ministers of God, obht not to cease to do their duetie, thogh the wicked magistrates can not abide them to speake the trueth.
7 g Meaning, that he oght not to refse to heare anie that was of God.
10 ! Foure Hundreth Prophetes counsel Ahab to go to warre.
12 k Thinking, that where as foure hundreth Prophetes had agreed in onething, that he being but one man, and in least estimation durst not gaine say it.
16 ! Michaiah is against them.
22 p So they that wil not beleue the trueth, God sendeth strong delusion, that they shulde beleue lyes, {2 Thess. 2, 10}
23 q By this crueltie his ambicion and hypocrisie was discouered: ??? thehypocrites boast of the Spirit which they haue not, and declare their malice against them, in whome the true Spirit is.
29 s Thus the wicked thinke by their owne subtiltie to escape Gods judgements, which he threateneth by his worde.
29 ! The effect of his prophecie.
31 t He cryed to the Lord by acknowledging his faut in going with this wicked King to warre against the worde of the Lord by his Prophet, and also by desiring mercie for the same.
33 / Ebr. in his simplicitie, or ignorantly.