2Ki 21:1-11, 20, 2Ch 33:1-10, Eze 20:18 | TSK | STEP | Manasseh's reign. His great idolatry. His wickedness causes prophecies against Judah. Amon succeeds him. Amon's wicked reign. He being slain by his servants, and those murderers slain by the people, Josiah is made king. A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 698-643. was twelve. Manasses. Hephzi-bah.

a grove.Rather, as we have before remarked, Asherah or Astarte. So Castel defines Asherah to be {Simulacrum ligneum Astartæ dicatum;} "A wooden image dedicated to Astarte."

Ahab.

8:18,27; Mic 6:16

and worshipped.

17:16; 23:4; De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ch 33:3-5; Job 31:26

he built.

16:10-16; Jer 32:34

In Jerusalem.

Ex 20:24; De 12:5; 2Sa 7:13; 1Ki 8:29; 9:3; Ps 78:68,69; 132:13,14

in the two courts.

23:4,6; 1Ki 6:36; 7:12; 2Ch 33:5,15; Eze 40:28,32,37,47; 42:3; 43:5

Eze 44:19

A.M. 3321. B.C. 683. he made.

16:3; 17:17; Le 18:21; 20:2,3; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Mic 6:7

observed times.

Le 19:26,31; De 18:10-14

familiar.

1Ch 10:13; Isa 8:19; 19:3; Ac 16:16

wrought.

24:3,4; Ge 13:13

A.M. 3306-3327. B.C. 698-677. he set.

23:6; 2Ch 33:7,15

In this house.

4; 23:27; 2Sa 7:13; 1Ki 8:29,44; 9:3,7; 2Ch 7:12,16,20; Ne 1:9

Ps 74:2; 78:68,69; 132:13,14; Jer 32:34

will I make.

18:11; 2Sa 7:10; 1Ch 17:9; 2Ch 33:8

only if they.

Le 26:3-13; De 5:28,29; 28:1-14; Jos 23:11-13; Ps 37:3; 81:11-16

Isa 1:19; Jer 7:3-7,23; 17:20-27; Eze 22:2-16; 33:25-29

they hearkened.

2Ch 36:16; Ezr 9:10,11; Ne 9:26,29,30; Ps 81:10; Da 9:6,10,11

Lu 13:34; Joh 15:22; Jas 4:17

seduced.

1Ki 14:16; 2Ch 33:9; Ps 12:8; Pr 29:12; Ho 5:11; Re 2:20

more evil.

Eze 16:47,51,52

2Ch 33:10; 36:15; Ne 9:26,30; Mt 23:34-37In the following verses the doom of Judah and Jerusalem is passed, and it is a heavy doom. The prophets were sent in the first place to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty, and direct them in it: if they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty: if in this they prevailed not, their next work was to foretell the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken to repentance those who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love; or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the divine mission of the prophets who foretold them. They were made judges to those who would not hear and receive them as teachers.--Henry.

Because.

23:26,27; 24:3,4; Jer 15:4

above all.

9; 1Ki 21:26; Eze 16:3,45

made Judah.

9; 1Ki 14:16; 15:30; 16:19

2 Kings 21:20

as his father.

2-7; Nu 32:14; 2Ch 33:22,23; Mt 23:32; Ac 7:51

2 Chronicles 33:1-10

1 Manasseh's wicked reign.

3 He sets up idolatry, and will not be admonished.

11 He is carried into Babylon.

12 Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry.

18 His acts.

20 He dying, Amon succeeds him;

21 who is slain by his servants.

25 The murderers being slain, Josiah succeeds him.

A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 693-643. Manasseh.

32:33; 2Ki 21:1-18; 1Ch 3:13; Mt 1:10

Manasses. twelve.

34:1,2; Ec 10:16; Isa 3:4,12

like unto.

28:3; 36:14; Le 18:24-30; 20:22,23; De 12:31; 18:9,14

2Ki 17:11,15; 21:2,9; Ezr 9:14; Ps 106:35-40; Eze 11:12

he built again. Heb. he returned and built.

Ec 2:19; 9:18

which Hezekiah.

30:14; 31:1; 32:12; 2Ki 18:4; 21:3

he reared.

28:2-4; Jud 2:11-13

made groves.

De 16:21; 1Ki 14:23; Jer 17:2

the host.

De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 23:5,6,11; Jer 8:2; 19:13; Zep 1:5; Ac 7:42

he built.

15; 34:3,4; 2Ki 21:4,5; Jer 7:30

In Jerusalem.

6:6; 7:16; 32:19; De 12:11; 1Ki 8:29; 9:3

in the two.

4:9; Jer 32:34,35; Eze 8:7-18

caused.

28:3; Le 18:21; 20:2; De 12:31; 18:10; 2Ki 21:6; 23:10; Jer 7:31,32

Eze 23:37,39

he observed.

Le 19:26; 20:6; De 18:10-14; 1Sa 15:23; 2Ki 17:17; Isa 47:9-12

Ga 5:20

dealt.

2Ki 21:6; 23:24; 1Ch 10:13; Isa 8:19; 19:3

he set a carved image.The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather, Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law, that he might practice it: a most prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety in this!

in the house.

2Ki 21:7,8; 23:6

God had said.

4; 1Ki 8:29; Ps 132:13,14

which I have.

6:6; 1Ki 8:44,48; 11:13,32; Ps 78:68

will I.

2Sa 7:10; 1Ch 17:9

so that they.

7:17-22; De 28:1-14; 30:15-20; Isa 1:19,20; Eze 33:25,26

to do all.

De 4:40; 5:1,31-33; 6:1; 8:1; 27:26; Lu 1:6; Ga 3:10-13