2Ki 21:4, 2Ch 33:4-7, Jer 23:11, Eze 23:38, 44:7 | TSK | STEP

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

Jeremiah 23:11

both.

15; 5:31; 6:13; 8:10; Eze 22:25,26; Zep 3:4

in.

7:10,11,30; 11:15; 32:34; 2Ch 33:5,7; 36:14; Eze 7:20

Eze 8:5,6,11,16; 23:39; Mt 21:12,13

Ezekiel 23:38

they have.

7:20; 8:5-16; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:11,12

and have.

20:13,24; 22:8; Ne 13:17,18; Jer 17:27

Ezekiel 44:7

ye have brought.

9; 7:20; 22:26; 43:7,8; Le 22:25; Ac 21:28

strangers. Heb. children of a stranger.

Isa 56:6,7

uncircumcised in heart.The introduction of uncircumcised persons to eat of the peace offerings and oblations, would have been a gross violation of the Mosaic law; but, as there was no law to exclude "the uncircumcised of heart," who were circumcised and ritually clean, this seems to point out a new and different constitution.

Le 26:41; De 10:16; 30:6; Jer 4:4; 9:26; Ac 7:51; Ro 2:28,29

Col 2:11-13

when.

Le 3:16; 21:6,8,17,21; 22:25; Mal 1:7,12-14; Joh 6:52-58

the fat.

Le 3:13-17; 17:11

broken.

Ge 17:14; Le 26:15; De 31:16,20; Isa 24:5; Jer 11:10; 31:32

Heb 8:9