2Ch 27:2, 28:2-4, 23-25, 33:3-7, Isa 57:5, Jer 2:28, 11:13, Eze 16:23-25 | TSK | STEP | And he did. he entered not.He copied his father's conduct as far as it was pious and constitutional; and avoided his transgression. the people.

For he sacrificed.This passage, says Mr. Hallet, greatly surprised me; for the sacred historian is here represented as saying, "The gods of Damascus had smitten Ahaz." But it is impossible to suppose that an inspired author should say this; for the Scripture every where represents the heathen idols as nothing and vanity, and as incapable of doing either good or hurt. All difficulty is avoided if we follow the old Hebrew copies, from which the Greek translation was made: "And king Ahaz said, I will seek to the gods of Damascus which have smitten me."

25:14; 2Ki 16:12,13

Damascus. Heb. Darmesek. Because the gods.

Hab 1:11

sacrifice to them.

Jer 10:5; 44:15-18

But they were.

Isa 1:28; Jer 44:20-28; Ho 13:9

cut in pieces.

2Ki 16:17,18; 25:13-17

shut up.

29:3,7

he made.

33:3-5; Jer 2:28; Ho 12:11; Ac 17:16,23

burn. or, offer.

3; *marg:

2 Chronicles 33:3-7

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