Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.
Ver. 10. Then Asa was wroth with the seer.] This might better have become an Ahab, a Joash, a Herod, a Cambyses, or Tiberius: but for Asa to be angry with the seer; Queen Elizabeth with the bishop that put her in mind of her great age and death; Tertullian to turn Montanist in his old age, and write bitterly against the orthodox party, for whom he had been so zealous; - this was very sad, and lets us see what are the best when left to themselves: how they may bristle and bustle against a just reproof, till they have better considered.
And put him in a prison house.] Heb., Into a house of subversion, in carcerem cippi, into the traitor's prison, whither the Lady Elizabeth was so loath to go, when landed prisoner at the Tower.
For he was in a rage with him.] Indignatione percitus erat. The Vulgate hath it, For the Lord was very angry for this matter, and slew very many of the people. Pellican also goeth the same way, being deceived by the Vulgate, and for want of looking into the Hebrew text.
And Asa oppressed some of the people.] Conquassavit, he crushed or trampled on such as spake against his tyranny toward the prophet: he took an order with them to teach them better manners. Thus he added sin to sin, as the best shall do if God restrain them not.