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2 Chronicles 33
25 verses with commentary
Manasseh's Reign in Judah
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
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<strong>Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who forsake Him f...
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CHAPTER 16
2Ch 16:1-14. Asa, by a League with the Syrians, Diverts Baasha from Building Ramah.
**1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up against Judah--**Baasha had died several years before this date (1Ki 15:33), and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the six...
Read full commentary →But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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<strong>But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings ...
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CHAPTER 16
2Ch 16:1-14. Asa, by a League with the Syrians, Diverts Baasha from Building Ramah.
**1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up against Judah--**Baasha had died several years before this date (1Ki 15:33), and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the six...
Read full commentary →For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. he built: Heb. he returned and built
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<strong>For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes imm...
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(3) **For.**—*And.* (See margin.)
**Broken down.**—2Chronicles 23:17; 2Chronicles 31:1 (“threw down”). Kings has “destroyed” (*‘ibbad*)*.*
**Baalim.**—*The Baals*—*i.e.,* the different images of Baal. Kings has the singular, both here and in the next word, “groves,” or rather *Asheras* (*‘Ash*ē*rôth;* Kings, ‘*Ash*ē*rah*)*.* The latter plural is rhetorical: Manasseh made *such things as Asheras.* ...
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CHAPTER 16
2Ch 16:1-14. Asa, by a League with the Syrians, Diverts Baasha from Building Ramah.
**1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up against Judah--**Baasha had died several years before this date (1Ki 15:33), and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the six...
Read full commentary →Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
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<strong>Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who for...
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(4) **Also he built . . . In Jerusalem.**—Literally as Kings. Manasseh built altars in the Temple, as Ahaz had done (2Kings 16:10, *seq.*)*.*
**Shall my name be for ever.**—A heightening of the phrase in Kings, “I will set mv name.”
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CHAPTER 16
2Ch 16:1-14. Asa, by a League with the Syrians, Diverts Baasha from Building Ramah.
**1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up against Judah--**Baasha had died several years before this date (1Ki 15:33), and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the six...
Read full commentary →And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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<strong>And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who forsake Him face judgment....
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CHAPTER 16
2Ch 16:1-14. Asa, by a League with the Syrians, Diverts Baasha from Building Ramah.
**1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up against Judah--**Baasha had died several years before this date (1Ki 15:33), and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the six...
Read full commentary →And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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<strong>And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even t...
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(6) **He.**—Emphatic. Not in Kings.
**Caused his children** **. . .** **fire.**—The plural, as in 2Chronicles 28:3, is rhetorical. Kings, “his son.”
**In the valley of the son of Hinnom.**—Explanatory addition by the chronicler.
**Also he observed times, and used enchantments.**—*And he practised augury and divination.* Forbidden, Leviticus 19:26. The first words seem strictly to mean “observed cl...
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CHAPTER 16
2Ch 16:1-14. Asa, by a League with the Syrians, Diverts Baasha from Building Ramah.
**1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up against Judah--**Baasha had died several years before this date (1Ki 15:33), and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the six...
Read full commentary →And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
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<strong>And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repen...
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(7) **And he set** **. . .** **had made.**—*And he set the carven image of the idol which he had made. “*Idol” (*sèmel*) explains “Asherah,” the term used in Kings. Both “carven image “and “idol” (Authorised Version, *figure*) occur in Deuteronomy 4:16.
**The house of God.**—Chronicles has added, *of God,* by way of explanation. The Temple proper is meant, as distinct from the courts.
**Before all...
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**7-10. Hanani the seer came to Asa ... and said--**His object was to show the king his error in forming his recent league with Ben-hadad. The prophet represented the appropriation of the temple treasures to purchase the services of the Syrian mercenaries, as indicating a distrust in God most blameable with the king's experience. He added, that in consequence of this want of faith, Asa had lost th...
Read full commentary →Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
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<strong>Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinne...
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(8) **Remove.**—Kings has a less common expression, “cause to wander.”
**From out of **(*upon*) **the** **land** (*ground*) **which I have appointed.**—Kings, with which the versions agree, has the certainly original “from the ground which I gave.”
**So that.**—*If only.*
**And the statutes and the ordinances.**—An explanatory addition. Kings has, “And according to all the Torah that Moses *my* se...
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**7-10. Hanani the seer came to Asa ... and said--**His object was to show the king his error in forming his recent league with Ben-hadad. The prophet represented the appropriation of the temple treasures to purchase the services of the Syrian mercenaries, as indicating a distrust in God most blameable with the king's experience. He added, that in consequence of this want of faith, Asa had lost th...
Read full commentary →So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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<strong>So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—king...
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(9) **So Manasseh . . . heathen.**—Literally, *And Manasseh led* *Judah* *and the inhabitants of* *Jerusalem astray, to do evil more than the nations.* Thenius thinks that the words *and Manasseh. . . .* *astray,* followed in the primary document immediately upon *and he set the graven image in the house;* the intermediate words being an addition by the editor of Kings.
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**7-10. Hanani the seer came to Asa ... and said--**His object was to show the king his error in forming his recent league with Ben-hadad. The prophet represented the appropriation of the temple treasures to purchase the services of the Syrian mercenaries, as indicating a distrust in God most blameable with the king's experience. He added, that in consequence of this want of faith, Asa had lost th...
Read full commentary →And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
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<strong>And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who forsake Him face judgment. This patter...
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(10) **And the Lord spake to Manasseh.**—“By the hand of his servants the prophets.” See
2Kings 21:10-15, where the substance of the prophetic message is given; and it is added (2Chronicles 33:16) that Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood, “till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other.” The reaction against the reforms of Hezekiah ended in a bloody struggle, in which the party of ...
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**7-10. Hanani the seer came to Asa ... and said--**His object was to show the king his error in forming his recent league with Ben-hadad. The prophet represented the appropriation of the temple treasures to purchase the services of the Syrian mercenaries, as indicating a distrust in God most blameable with the king's experience. He added, that in consequence of this want of faith, Asa had lost th...
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Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. of the king: Heb. which were the king's fetters: or, chains
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<strong>Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate ...
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**MANASSEH’S CAPTIVITY AND REPENTANCE—HIS RESTORATION AND REFORMS** (2Chronicles 33:11-17).
This section is peculiar to the Chronicle, and none has excited more scepticism among modern critics. The progress of cuneiform research, however, has proved the perfect possibility of the facts most disputed, viz., the captivity and subsequent restoration of Manasseh.
(11) **Wherefore.**—*And.*
**The capta...
Read full commentary →And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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Wicked King Manasseh's repentance demonstrates amazing grace: 'And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.' Manasseh was Judah's worst king - promoting child sacrifice, occult practices, and temple desecration (33:2-9). Yet affliction (Assyrian captivity) drove him to repentance. The verb 'humbled himself greatly' (kana me...
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(12) **When he was in affliction.**—See this phrase in 2Chronicles 28:22.
**He besought.**—Literally, *stroked the face,* a curious realistic phrase occurring in Exodus 32:11.
**The God of his fathers.**—Whom he had forsaken for the gods of aliens. Some MSS., and the Syriac, Targum, and Arabic insert “Jehovah” before this phrase.
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**12. Asa ... was diseased in his feet--**probably the gout.
**yet his disease was exceeding great--**better, "moved upwards" in his body, which proves the violent and dangerous type of the malady.
**yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians--**most probably Egyptian physicians, who were anciently in high repute at foreign courts, and who pretended to expel diseases b...
Read full commentary →And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
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<strong>And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divi...
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(13) **He was intreated of him.**—1Chronicles 5:20.
**And brought him again to Jerusalem.**—The Assyrian monarch after a time saw fit to restore Manasseh to his throne as a vassal king. The case is exactly parallel to that of the Egyptian king *Nikû* (Necho I.), who was bound hand and foot, and sent to Nineveh; after which Assurbanipal extended his clemency to his captive, and restored him to his ...
Read full commentary →Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. Ophel: or, the tower
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<strong>Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst si...
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(14) **Now after this** **. . .** **valley.**—Rather, *And afterwards he built an outer wall to the city of David westward unto Gihon in the ravine.* Manasseh completed the wall begun by Hezekiah (2Chronicles 32:5). This highly circumstantial account of the public works undertaken by Manasseh after his restoration, is utterly unlike fiction, and almost compels the assumption of a real historical s...
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**14. they buried him in his own sepulchres--**The tombs in the neighborhood of Jerusalem were excavated in the side of a rock. One cave contained several tombs or sepulchres.
**laid him in the bed ... filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices--**It is evident that a sumptuous public funeral was given him as a tribute of respect and gratitude for his pious character and patriotic gover...
Read full commentary →And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
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<strong>And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspectiv...
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(15) **Took away the strange gods.**—Comp. 2Chronicles 33:3-7. For the phrase “strange gods” (*ĕlôhê nēkār*)*,* see Genesis 35:2.
**The idol.**—That is, the Asherah (2Chronicles 33:3; 2Chronicles 33:7; 2Kings 21:7; 2Kings 17:16).
**In the** **mount of the house.**—The temple hill. Thenius says: the courts with the altars in them (2 Kings xxi 4, 5).
**Cast them out.**—Comp. 2Chronicles 29:16; 2Chro...
Read full commentary →And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
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<strong>And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who...
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(16) **Repaired.**—Heb., *built, i.e.,* rebuilt. Ewald concludes from this that Manasseh had removed the altar of burnt offering; and from Jeremiah 3:16 that he destroyed the ark of the covenant. (Some Hebrew MSS., and many editions read *prepared* instead of *built;* but the Syriac and Arabic have the latter word, which is doubtless right.)
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CHAPTER 17
2Ch 17:1-6. Jehoshaphat Reigns Well and Prospers.
**1. Jehoshaphat ... strengthened himself against Israel--**The temper and proceedings of the kings of Israel rendered it necessary for him to prepare vigorous measures of defense on the northern frontier of his kingdom. These consisted in filling all the fortresses with their full complement of troops and establishing military stati...
Read full commentary →Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
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<strong>Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who forsake Him face ju...
Read full commentary →Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
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<strong>Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological p...
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**CONCLUSION OF THE REIGN** (2Chronicles 33:18-20).
(18) **His prayer unto his God.**—This prayer may or may not have been the basis of the Apocryphal *Prayer of Manasses,* preserved in the LXX.
**The words of the** **seers that spake to him.**—See Note on 2Chronicles 33:10, *supr.* These “words of the seers” were incorporated in the great history of the kings, which is mentioned at the end of the...
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**3-5. he walked in the first ways of his father David--**He imitated the piety of his great ancestor in the early part of his reign before he made those unhappy lapses which dishonored his character.
**and sought not unto Baalim--**a term used for idols generally in contradistinction to the Lord God of his father.
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers . the seers: or, Hosai
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<strong>His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly rep...
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(19) **His prayer also** **. . . of** **him.**—*And his prayer, and the hearing him.* Literally, *and the being propitious to him* (the same verb as in 2Chronicles 33:13 and Genesis 25:21).
**All his sins, and his trespass.**—*All his sin and his unfaithfulness.* 2Kings 21:17 has, “And his sin that he sinned.” The chronicler, as usual, heightens the expression.
**Groves.**—*The Ashērim.* (See Note...
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**3-5. he walked in the first ways of his father David--**He imitated the piety of his great ancestor in the early part of his reign before he made those unhappy lapses which dishonored his character.
**and sought not unto Baalim--**a term used for idols generally in contradistinction to the Lord God of his father.
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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<strong>So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who fors...
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(20) **In** **his own house.**—2Kings 21:18, “and he was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza.” The words, *in the garden of,* seem to have fallen out of our text. So LXX., ἐν παραδείσῳ οἴκου αὐτοῦ; Syriac, “in his house, in the garden of treasure.”
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**3-5. he walked in the first ways of his father David--**He imitated the piety of his great ancestor in the early part of his reign before he made those unhappy lapses which dishonored his character.
**and sought not unto Baalim--**a term used for idols generally in contradistinction to the Lord God of his father.
Amon's Reign in Judah
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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<strong>Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who forsake Him face judgme...
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**THE REIGN OF AMON** (2Chronicles 33:21-25. Comp. 2Kings 21:19-26).
(21) **Amon was two and twenty years old.**—So 2Kings 21:19, which adds his mother’s name and parentage.
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**6. his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord--**Full of faith and piety, he possessed zeal and courage to undertake the reformation of manners, to suppress all the works and objects of idolatry (see on 2Ch 20:33), and he held out public encouragement to the pure worship of God.
2Ch 17:7-11. He Sends Levites to Teach in Judah.
But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
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<strong>But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immed...
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(22) **For Amon sacrificed.**—Literally, *and to all the carven images which Manasseh his father had made did Amon sacrifice.* (Comp. 2Kings 21:21, “and he walked in all the way wherein his father had walked, and served the idols which his father had served, and worshipped them.” *Idols* in the above passage is *gillulîm, “*dunglings,” a term nowhere used by the chronicler.) The statement of our t...
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**7-11. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, ... to teach in the cities of Judah--**The ordinary work of teaching devolved on the priests. But extraordinary commissioners were appointed, probably to ascertain whether the work had been done or neglected. This deputation of five princes, assisted by two priests and nine Levites, was to make a circuit of the towns in Judah. It ...
Read full commentary →And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. trespassed more and more: Heb. multiplied trespass
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<strong>And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those w...
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(23) **And humbled not himself . . . more and more.**—This verse is added by the chronicler.
**But Amon trespassed more and more.**—Literally, *for he, Amon, multiplied trespass.*
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-11. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, ... to teach in the cities of Judah--**The ordinary work of teaching devolved on the priests. But extraordinary commissioners were appointed, probably to ascertain whether the work had been done or neglected. This deputation of five princes, assisted by two priests and nine Levites, was to make a circuit of the towns in Judah. It ...
Read full commentary →And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek God prosper, while those who forsake Him face judgment. This pattern provid...
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**7-11. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, ... to teach in the cities of Judah--**The ordinary work of teaching devolved on the priests. But extraordinary commissioners were appointed, probably to ascertain whether the work had been done or neglected. This deputation of five princes, assisted by two priests and nine Levites, was to make a circuit of the towns in Judah. It ...
Read full commentary →But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
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<strong>But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.</strong><br><br>This verse is part of the narrative of Judah's kings, specifically addressing God's mercy even to the worst sinner who truly repents. The Chronicler's theological perspective emphasizes immediate divine retribution—kings who seek G...
Read full commentary →Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(25) **Slew.**—*Smote.* The verse is identical with 2Kings 21:24, save that it has “smote” plural instead of singular, which latter is more correct. It may be that the facts thus briefly recorded represent a fierce conflict between the party of religious reform and that of religious reaction, in which the latter was for the time worsted and reduced to a state of suspended activity.
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**7-11. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, ... to teach in the cities of Judah--**The ordinary work of teaching devolved on the priests. But extraordinary commissioners were appointed, probably to ascertain whether the work had been done or neglected. This deputation of five princes, assisted by two priests and nine Levites, was to make a circuit of the towns in Judah. It ...
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