1,2 Manasseh's wicked reign 3-10 He sets up idolatry, and will not be admonished 11 He is carried into Babylon 12-17 Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry 18,19 His acts 20 He dying, Amon succeeds him 21-24 who is slain by his servants 25 The murderers being slain, Josiah succeeds him

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Manasseh 2Ch 32:33 2Ki 21:1 1Ch 3:13 Mt 1:10

Manasses
twelve 2Ch 34:1,2 Ec 10:16 Isa 3:4,12

2 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.

like unto 2Ch 28:3 36:14 Le 18:24-30 20:22,23 De 12:31 18:9,14 2Ki 17:11,15 21:2,9 Ezr 9:14 Ps 106:35-40 Eze 11:12

3 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 again [heb] he returned and built Ec 2:19 9:18

which Hezekiah 2Ch 30:14 31:1 32:12 2Ki 18:4 21:3

he reared 2Ch 28:2-4 Jud 2:11-13

made groves De 16:21 1Ki 14:23 Jer 17:2

the host De 4:19 17:3 2Ki 23:5,6,11 Jer 8:2 19:13 Zep 1:5 Ac 7:42

4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

he built 2Ch 33:15 34:3,4 2Ki 21:4,5 Jer 7:30

In Jerusalem 2Ch 6:6 7:16 32:19 De 12:11 1Ki 8:29 9:3

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

in the two 2Ch 4:9 Jer 32:34,35 Eze 8:7-18

6 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.

caused 2Ch 28:3 Le 18:21 20:2 De 12:31 18:10 2Ki 21:6 23:10 Jer 7:31,32 Eze 23:37,39

he observed Le 19:26 20:6 De 18:10-14 1Sa 15:23 2Ki 17:17 Isa 47:9-12 Ga 5:20

dealt 2Ki 21:6 23:24 1Ch 10:13 Isa 8:19 19:3

7 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:

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 2Ch 33:4 1Ki 8:29 Ps 132:13,14

which I have 2Ch 6:6 1Ki 8:44,48 11:13,32 Ps 78:68

8 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.

will I 2Sa 7:10 1Ch 17:9

so that they 2Ch 7:17-22 De 28:1-14 30:15-20 Isa 1:19,20 Eze 33:25,26

to do all De 4:40 5:1,31-33 6:1 8:1 27:26 Lu 1:6 Ga 3:10-13

by the hand Le 8:36 10:11

9 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.

made Judah 1Ki 14:16 15:26 2Ki 21:16 23:26 24:3,4 Pr 29:12 Mic 6:16

to do worse 2Ch 33:2 2Ki 21:9-11 Eze 16:45-47

the heathen Le 18:24 De 2:21 Jos 24:8 2Ki 17:8-11

10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

2Ch 36:15,16 Ne 9:29,30 Jer 25:4-7 44:4,5 Zec 1:4 Ac 7:51,52

11 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.

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the Lord De 28:36 Job 36:8

the captains Isa 10:8 36:9

of the king [heb] which were the king's Ne 9:32,37 Isa 5:26-30 7:18-20

among the thorns The word bachochim may possibly her signify with fetters or chains as the kindred word chachim denotes Eze 19:4,9

The Syriac and Arabic have {alive}, probably reading {bechayim}. 1Sa 13:6 La 3:7

bound him 2Ki 23:33 25:6 Job 36:8-11 Ps 107:10-14

fetters. or, chains

12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

And when 2Ch 28:22 Le 26:39-42 De 4:30,31 Jer 31:18-20 Ho 5:15 Mic 6:9 Lu 15:16-18

he besought 2Ch 33:18,19 Ps 50:15 Ac 9:11

the Lord 2Ch 28:5

humbled 2Ch 33:19,23 32:26 Ex 10:3 Lu 18:14,15 Jas 4:10 1Pe 5:5,6

13 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.

he was entreated 1Ch 5:20 Ezr 8:23 Job 22:23,27 33:16-30 Ps 32:3-5 86:5 Isa 55:6-9 Jer 29:12,13 Mt 7:7,8 Lu 23:42,43 Joh 4:10

brought him Ezr 7:27 Pr 16:7 21:1 Mt 6:33

knew De 29:6 Ps 9:16 46:10 Jer 24:7 Da 4:25,34,35 Joh 17:3 Heb 8:11

14 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.

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he built 2Ch 32:5

Gihon 2Ch 32:30 1Ki 1:33,45

fish gate Ne 3:3 12:39 Zep 1:10

Ophel. or, the tower 2Ch 27:3 Ne 3:26,27

put 2Ch 11:11,12 17:19

15 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.

he took 2Ch 33:3-7 2Ki 21:7 Isa 2:17-21 Eze 18:20-22 Ho 14:1-3 Mt 3:8

16 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.

repaired 2Ch 29:18 1Ki 18:30

peace Le 3:1

thank Le 7:12-18

commanded 2Ch 33:9 14:4 30:12 Ge 18:19 Lu 22:32

17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

people 2Ch 15:17 32:12 1Ki 22:43 2Ki 15:4

18 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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the rest 2Ch 20:34 32:32 1Ki 11:41

his prayer 2Ch 33:12,12,19

the seers 2Ch 33:10 1Sa 9:9 2Ki 17:13 Isa 29:10 30:10 Am 7:12 Mic 3:7

in the book 1Ki 14:19 15:31

19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, 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.

his prayer also 2Ch 33:11,12,19 Pr 15:8 Ac 9:11 1Jo 1:9

all his sins 2Ch 33:1-10 Ro 5:16

before he 2Ch 33:12 30:11 36:12 Ps 119:67,71,75 Jer 44:10 Da 5:22

the seers. or, Hosai So the Targum and Vulgate: the Syraic has {Hanum the Prophet}; and the Arabic, Saphan the prophet. This record is totally lost, for the captivity and repentance are related no where else; and the prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha was probably composed long afterwards: it is not acknowledged as canonical even by the Romish church, though it was anciently used as a form of confession, and as such still received by the Greek church.

20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Manasseh 2Ch 32:33 2Ki 21:18

Amon 2Ki 21:19-25 1Ch 3:14 Mt 1:10

21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

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two years 2Ch 33:1 Lu 12:19,20 Jas 4:13-15

22 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;

as did Manasseh 2Ch 33:1-10 2Ki 21:1-11,20

for Amon sacrificed Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh, in sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, but they forget how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view Manasseh was defective, although it cannot be supposed that it affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images, he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the law in De 7:5, which required, moreover, that the graven images should be burnt with fire. How necessary that law was, this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown aside, and not burnt, Amon knew where to find them, soon set them up, and sacrificed to them. Isa 44:13

23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

humbled 2Ch 33:1,12,19 Jer 8:12

trespassed more and more. [heb] multiplied trespass 2Ch 28:22 Jer 7:26 2Ti 3:13

24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

A.M. 3363 B.C. 641 2Ch 24:25,26 25:27,28 2Sa 4:5-12 2Ki 21:23-26 Ps 55:23 Ro 11:22

25 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.

slew Ge 9:5,6 Nu 35:31,33

the people 2Ch 26:1 36:1

Josiah 2Ch 34:1