1 a That is, messenger or Prophet, as some think, Phinehas.
1 ! The Angel rebuketh the people because they had made peace with the Canaanites.
6 b After that he had deuided to euery man his porcion by lot, {Josh. 24,23}.
7 c Meaning, the wonders & miracles.
9 d Heres by turneing the letters backeward is Sereh, as {Josh. 24,30}.
11 ! The Israelites fel to idolatrie after Joshuas death.
11 e That is, all maner of idoles.
13 f These were idoles which had the forme of an ewe or shepe among the Sidonians.
14 ! Thei are deliuered into the enemies hands.
15 g In all their enterprises.
16 ! God deliuereth them by Judges.
17 i Meaning, from the true religion.
18 k Seing their crueltie.
19 / Ebr. corrupted themselues.
21 j As the Hittites, Amorites, Jebusites, &c.
22 m So that bothe outwarde enemies and false Prophets are but a trial to proue our faith, {Deut. 13,3}.
22 ! Why God suffred idolaters to remaine among them.