How Hieroboam infected his subiects with Idolatry: yet did God neuer faile them in Prophets, nor in keeping many from that infection. CHAP. 22.
BVt Hieroboam the King of Israell, fell peruersly from God (who had truely en∣throned him as he had promised) and fearing that the huge resort of all Israel to Hierusalem (for they came to worship & sacrifice in the Temple, according to the law) might be a mean to with-draw the from him vnto the line of Dauid (their old King) began to set vp Idols in his own Realme, and to seduce Gods people by this damnable and impious suttlety, yet God neuer ceased to reproue him for it by his Prophets, and the people also that obeied him and his successors in it for that time were the two great men of God, Helias and his disciple Heliseus. And when Helias said vnto GOD: LORD they haue staine thy Prophets, and digged