2Ki 21 | TSK | STEP | Manasseh's reign. His great idolatry. His wickedness causes prophecies against Judah. Amon succeeds him. Amon's wicked reign. He being slain by his servants, and those murderers slain by the people, Josiah is made king. A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 698-643. was twelve. Manasses. Hephzi-bah.

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

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

in the two courts.

23:4,6; 1Ki 6:36; 7:12; 2Ch 33:5,15; Eze 40:28,32,37,47; 42:3; 43:5

Eze 44:19

A.M. 3321. B.C. 683. he made.

16:3; 17:17; Le 18:21; 20:2,3; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Mic 6:7

observed times.

Le 19:26,31; De 18:10-14

familiar.

1Ch 10:13; Isa 8:19; 19:3; Ac 16:16

wrought.

24:3,4; Ge 13:13

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

will I make.

18:11; 2Sa 7:10; 1Ch 17:9; 2Ch 33:8

only if they.

Le 26:3-13; De 5:28,29; 28:1-14; Jos 23:11-13; Ps 37:3; 81:11-16

Isa 1:19; Jer 7:3-7,23; 17:20-27; Eze 22:2-16; 33:25-29

they hearkened.

2Ch 36:16; Ezr 9:10,11; Ne 9:26,29,30; Ps 81:10; Da 9:6,10,11

Lu 13:34; Joh 15:22; Jas 4:17

seduced.

1Ki 14:16; 2Ch 33:9; Ps 12:8; Pr 29:12; Ho 5:11; Re 2:20

more evil.

Eze 16:47,51,52

2Ch 33:10; 36:15; Ne 9:26,30; Mt 23:34-37In the following verses the doom of Judah and Jerusalem is passed, and it is a heavy doom. The prophets were sent in the first place to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty, and direct them in it: if they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty: if in this they prevailed not, their next work was to foretell the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken to repentance those who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love; or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the divine mission of the prophets who foretold them. They were made judges to those who would not hear and receive them as teachers.--Henry.

Because.

23:26,27; 24:3,4; Jer 15:4

above all.

9; 1Ki 21:26; Eze 16:3,45

made Judah.

9; 1Ki 14:16; 15:30; 16:19

I am bringing.

22:16; Da 9:12; Mic 3:12

whosoever.

1Sa 3:11; Isa 28:16; Jer 19:3; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21,22; Lu 23:28,29

Re 6:15-17

I will stretch.This metaphor is taken from the custom of using a line in measuring land, and in dividing portions of it among several persons. Samaria was taken, pillaged, and ruined, and its inhabitants carried into captivity: Jerusalem shall have the same measure.

17:6; Isa 10:22; 28:17; 34:11; La 2:8; Eze 23:31-34; Am 7:7,8

Zec 1:16

the plummet.

10:11; 1Ki 21:21-24

I will wipe.I will empty Jerusalem of all its wealth and inhabitants, as truly as a dish turned up and wiped is emptied of its contents.

1Ki 14:10; Isa 14:23; Jer 25:9; Eze 24:10,11; Re 18:21-23

wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth andturneth it upon the face thereof.

And I will.

De 31:17; 2Ch 15:2; Ps 37:28; 89:38-45; Jer 12:7; 23:33; La 5:20

Am 5:2

the remnant.

19:4,30,31; 24:2; 2Ch 36:16,17; Jer 23:33