Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Chronicles 21

2 Chronicles 21:18 ^! His miserable end.

2 Chronicles 21:20 ^l That is, as some write he was not regarded, but deposed for his wickednes & idolatrie: so that his sonne reigned 22 yeres, (his father yet lyuing) without honour & after his fathers death he was confirmed to reigne stil, as {Chap. 23,2}

2 Chronicles 21:1 ^! Jehoshaphat dyeth.

2 Chronicles 21:2 ^a Read {chap. 15,17} how by Israel is ment Judah.

2 Chronicles 21:4 ^! Which killeth his brethren.

2 Chronicles 21:4 ^c Meaning, of Judah & Benjamin.

2 Chronicles 21:4 ^b Because the wicked liue euer in feare & also are ambitious, they become cruel, & also are ambitious, they become cruel, & spare not to murther them, whome by nature they oght moste to cherish & defend.

2 Chronicles 21:6 ^d So that we se how it can not be that we shulde joyne with the wicked & serue God.

2 Chronicles 21:6 ^! He was broght to idolatrie.

2 Chronicles 21:10 ^e Read {2 King. 8,22}

2 Chronicles 21:11 ^f Meaning, idolatrie, because that the idolater breaketh promes with God, as doeth the adulteresse to her housband.

2 Chronicles 21:11 ^! And seduceth the people.

2 Chronicles 21:12 ^g Some thinke that this was Elisha, so called, because he had the Spirit in abundane, as had Eliah.

2 Chronicles 21:15 ^h We se this example daily, practised vpon them that falin away from God, and become idolaters and murtherers, of their brethren.

2 Chronicles 21:16 ^! He is oppressed of the Philstims.

2 Chronicles 21:16 ⁱ There were other Arabians in Africa Southward toward Egypt.

2 Chronicles 21:17 ^k Called also Ahaziah, as {Chap 22,1}, or Azariah, {ver. 6}