2Ch 33 | TSK | STEP | Manasseh's wicked reign. He sets up idolatry, and will not be admonished. He is carried into Babylon. Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry. His acts. He dying, Amon succeeds him; who is slain by his servants. The murderers being slain, Josiah succeeds him. A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 693-643. Manasseh. Manasses. twelve.

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

by the hand.

Le 8:36; 10:11

made Judah.

1Ki 14:16; 15:26; 2Ki 21:16; 23:26; 24:3,4; Pr 29:12; Mic 6:16

to do worse.

2; 2Ki 21:9-11; Eze 16:45-47

the heathen.

Le 18:24; De 2:21; Jos 24:8; 2Ki 17:8-11

36:15,16; Ne 9:29,30; Jer 25:4-7; 44:4,5; Zec 1:4; Ac 7:51,52

A.M. 3327. B.C. 677. the Lord.

De 28:36; Job 36:8

the captains.

Isa 10:8; 36:9

of the king. Heb. which were the king's.

Ne 9:32,37; Isa 5:26-30; 7:18-20

among the thorns.The word {bachochim} may possibly her signify with fetters or chains, as the kindred word {chachim} denotes, Eze 19:4, 9. The Syriac and Arabic have alive, probably reading {bechayim}.

1Sa 13:6; La 3:7

bound him.

2Ki 23:33; 25:6; Job 36:8-11; Ps 107:10-14

fetters. or, chains.

And when.

28:22; Le 26:39-42; De 4:30,31; Jer 31:18-20; Ho 5:15; Mic 6:9

Lu 15:16-18

he besought.

18,19; Ps 50:15; Ac 9:11

the Lord.

28:5

humbled.

19,23; 32:26; Ex 10:3; Lu 18:14,15; Jas 4:10; 1Pe 5:5,6

he was intreated.

1Ch 5:20; Ezr 8:23; Job 22:23,27; 33:16-30; Ps 32:3-5; 86:5

Isa 55:6-9; Jer 29:12,13; Mt 7:7,8; Lu 23:42,43; Joh 4:10

brought him.

Ezr 7:27; Pr 16:7; 21:1; Mt 6:33

knew.

De 29:6; Ps 9:16; 46:10; Jer 24:7; Da 4:25,34,35; Joh 17:3

Heb 8:11

A.M. 3327-3361. B.C. 677-643. he built.

32:5

Gihon.

32:30; 1Ki 1:33,45

fish gate.

Ne 3:3; 12:39; Zep 1:10

Ophel. or, the tower.

27:3; Ne 3:26,27

put.

11:11,12; 17:19

he took.

3-7; 2Ki 21:7; Isa 2:17-21; Eze 18:20-22; Ho 14:1-3; Mt 3:8

repaired.

peace.

thank.

commanded.

See on ch.

30:12; Ge 18:19; Lu 22:32

people.

15:17; 32:12; 1Ki 22:43; 2Ki 15:4

A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 698-643. the rest.

20:34; 32:32

See on

1Ki 11:41

his prayer.

12,13,19

the seers.

10; 1Sa 9:9; 2Ki 17:13; Isa 29:10; 30:10; Am 7:12; Mic 3:7

in the book.

1Ki 14:19; 15:31

his prayer also.

11,12,19; Pr 15:8; Ac 9:11; 1Jo 1:9

all his sins.

1-10; Ro 5:16

before he.

12; 30:11; 36:12; Ps 119:67,71,75; Jer 44:10; Da 5:22

the seers. or, Hosai.So the Targum and Vulgate: the Syraic has Hanun the prophet; and the Arabic, Saphan the prophet. This record is totally lost; for the captivity and repentance of Manasseh are related no where else; and the prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha was probably composed long afterwards: it is not acknowledged as canonical even by the Romish church, though it was anciently used as a form of confession, and as such still received by the Greek church.

Manasseh.

32:33; 2Ki 21:18

Amon.

2Ki 21:19-25; 1Ch 3:14; Mt 1:10

A.M. 3361-3363. B.C. 643-641. two years.

1; Lu 12:19,20; Jas 4:13-15

as did Manasseh.

1-10; 2Ki 21:1-11,20; Eze 20:18

for Amon sacrificed.Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh, in sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, but they forget how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view Manasseh was defective, although it cannot be supposed that it affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images, he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the law in De 7:5, which required, moreover, that the graven images should be burnt with fire. How necessary that law was, this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown aside, and not burnt, Amon knew where to find them, soon set them up, and sacrificed to them.

Isa 44:13-20

humbled.

1,12,19; Jer 8:12

trespassed more and more. Heb. multiplied trespass.

28:22; Jer 7:26; 2Ti 3:13

A.M. 3363. B.C. 641.

24:25,26; 25:27,28; 2Sa 4:5-12; 2Ki 21:23-26; Ps 55:23; Ro 11:22

slew.

Ge 9:5,6; Nu 35:31,33

the people.

26:1; 36:1

Josiah.

34:1