2Ki 21:3, 7, 2Ch 33:3, 7, 34:3-4 | TSK | STEP | the high places. he reared. 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. and worshipped.

2 Kings 21:3

the high places.

he reared.

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

2 Kings 21:7

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

2 Chronicles 33:3

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

2 Chronicles 33:7

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