2 Kings 23:6
the grove.Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte. 21:7; Jud 3:7; 1Ki 14:23; 16:33; Jer 17:2and burned.Ex 32:20; De 7:25; 9:21the graves.10:27; 2Ch 34:4the children.Probably the common people.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; 23:6God had said.4; 1Ki 8:29; Ps 132:13,14which I have.6:6; 1Ki 8:44,48; 11:13,32; Ps 78:682 Chronicles 33:15
he took.3-7; 2Ki 21:7; Isa 2:17-21; Eze 18:20-22; Ho 14:1-3; Mt 3:8
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