2 Chronicles 28:22-25
in the.33:12; Ps 50:15; Isa 1:5; Eze 21:13; Ho 5:15; Re 16:9-11this is.Es 7:6; Ps 52:7 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 16:12,13Damascus. Heb. Darmesek. Because the gods.Hab 1:11sacrifice to them.Jer 10:5; 44:15-18But they were.Isa 1:28; Jer 44:20-28; Ho 13:9 cut in pieces.2Ki 16:17,18; 25:13-17shut up.29:3,7he made.33:3-5; Jer 2:28; Ho 12:11; Ac 17:16,23 burn. or, offer.3; *marg:2 Chronicles 33:4-10
he built.15; 34:3,4; 2Ki 21:4,5; Jer 7:30In 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 7:31,32Eze 23:37,39he observed.Le 19:26; 20:6; De 18:10-14; 1Sa 15:23; 2Ki 17:17; Isa 47:9-12Ga 5:20dealt.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; 23:6God had said.4; 1Ki 8:29; Ps 132:13,14which I have.6:6; 1Ki 8:44,48; 11:13,32; Ps 78:68 will I.2Sa 7:10; 1Ch 17:9so that they.7:17-22; De 28:1-14; 30:15-20; Isa 1:19,20; Eze 33:25,26to do all.De 4:40; 5:1,31-33; 6:1; 8:1; 27:26; Lu 1:6; Ga 3:10-13by 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 6:16to do worse.2; 2Ki 21:9-11; Eze 16:45-47the 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 7:51,522 Chronicles 33:22-23
as did Manasseh.1-10; 2Ki 21:1-11,20; Eze 20:18for 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 8:12trespassed more and more. Heb. multiplied trespass.28:22; Jer 7:26; 2Ti 3:13
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