Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Chronicles 12

2 Chronicles 12:1 (!) Rehoboam forsaketh the Lord and is punished by Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12:1 (/) Or, when the Lord has established Rehoboams kingdome.

2 Chronicles 12:1 (a) For suche is the inconstancie of the people that for the moste part thei follow the vices of their gouernours.

2 Chronicles 12:3 (/) Or, blacke Mores.

2 Chronicles 12:3 (b) Which were a people of Africa called the Troglodites, because they dwelled in holes.

2 Chronicles 12:5 (c) Signifying no calamitie can come vnto vs except we forsake God, & that he neuer leueth vs til we haue cast him of.

2 Chronicles 12:5 (!) Shemaiah reproueth him.

2 Chronicles 12:6 (!) He humbleth him selfe.

2 Chronicles 12:7 (!) God sendeth him succour.

2 Chronicles 12:7 (/) Ebr drop downe.

2 Chronicles 12:8 (e) He sheweth that Gods punishments are not to destroy his vtterly, but to chastise them, to bring them to the knowledge of them selues & to knowe how much better it is to serue God then tyrants.

2 Chronicles 12:9 (!) Shishak taketh his treasures.

2 Chronicles 12:12 (f) Which declareth that God seketh not the death of a sinner, but his couersion, {Ezek. 18:32} & {33,11}

2 Chronicles 12:13 (g) That is, twelue yeres after that he had bene ouercome by Shishak, {ver. 2}.

2 Chronicles 12:13 (!) His reigne and death.

2 Chronicles 12:15 (/) Ebr sayings.

2 Chronicles 12:16 (/) Or, Abiam.

2 Chronicles 12:16 (!) Abiiah his sonne succedeth him.