2 Chronicles 15

^{1 !} The exhortation of Azariah.

^{1 a} Who was called Obed, as his father was, {vers. 8}

^{3 b} For the space of twelue yeres vnder Rohoboam, and thr yeres vnder Abiiah, religion was neglected and idolatrie planted.

^{4 c} He sheweth, that notwithstanding the wickednes of tyrants & their rage, yet God hath his, whome he heareth in their tribulacion, as he deliuered his from Zerah King of the Ethiopians, & out of all other dangers, when thei called vpon the Lord.

^{8 !} Asa purgeth his countrey of idolatrie.

^{10 e} Called Shiuan conteining parte of May and parte of June.

^{11 !} He sacrificeth with the people.

^{11 f} Which they had taken of the Ethiopians.

^{13 g} These were the wordes of their couenant, which commanded all idolaters to be put to death according to the Lawe of God, {Deut 13}.

^{14 !} Thei sweare together to serue the Lord.

^{15 h} So long as thei serued him aright so long did he preserue & prosper them.

^{16 i} Or grandmother: & herein he shewed that he lacked zeal: for she oght to haue dyed bothe by the couenant, and by the Lawe of God: but he gaue place to foolish piti, & wolde also seme after a sorte to satisfie the Lawe.

^{16 !} He deposeth his ther for her idolatrie.

^{17 k} Which partely came through lacke of zeale in him, partely through the negligence of his officers, & partely by the superstition of the people, that all were not taken away.

^{17 l} Because that God was called the God of Israel by reason of his promes to Jaakob: therefore Israel is sometime taken for Judah, because Judah, was his chief people.

^{17 m} In respect of his predecessors.