2Ki 21:4, 7, 23:4-6, 12, 2Ch 33:4-5, 7, 15, Jer 23:11, 32:34, Eze 7:20 | TSK | STEP

2 Kings 21:4

he built.

16:10-16; Jer 32:34

In Jerusalem.

Ex 20:24; De 12:5; 2Sa 7:13; 1Ki 8:29; 9:3; Ps 78:68,69; 132:13,14

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 Kings 23:4-6

priests of the second order.These were either such as occasionally supplied the high priest's office, or those of the second course or order established by David. See the References.

1Ch 24:4-19; Mt 26:3; 27:1

the keepers.

22:4; 1Ch 26:1-19

to bring.

21:3,7; 2Ch 33:3,7; 34:3,4

Baal.

17:16; Jud 2:13; 1Ki 16:31; 18:19,26,40; 19:18; Isa 27:9; Jer 7:9

Kidron.

2Sa 15:23; Joh 18:1

Cedron. Beth-el.

1Ki 12:29; Ho 4:15; Am 4:4

put down. Heb. caused to cease. the idolatrous priests.Heb. Chemarim.

Ho 10:5; *marg:"Foretold. Zep 1:4, 5."

planets. or, twelve signs, or constellations.So the Vulgate {duodecim signa,} "the twelve signs," i.e., the zodiac; which is the most probable meaning of the word {mazzaloth,} from the Arabic {manzeel,} a {caravanserai,} house, or dwelling, as being the apparent dwellings of the sun in his annual course; and the Targumists and Rabbins often employ the words {tereysar mazzalaya,} to denote the signs of the zodiac.

all the host.

21:3,4; Jer 8:1,2; 44:17-19

the grove.Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte.

21:7; Jud 3:7; 1Ki 14:23; 16:33; Jer 17:2

and burned.

Ex 32:20; De 7:25; 9:21

the graves.

10:27; 2Ch 34:4

the children.Probably the common people.

2 Kings 23:12

on the top.

De 22:8; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5

which Manasseh.

21:5,21,22; 2Ch 33:5,15

brake them down from thence. or, ran from thence. cast.

2 Chronicles 33:4-5

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

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