1 Manasseh's reign.
3 His great idolatry.
10 His wickedness causes prophecies against Judah.
17 Amon succeeds him.
19 Amon's wicked reign.
23 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. 20:21 1Ch 3:13 2Ch 32:33 33:1-9 Mt 1:10

Manasses.
Hephzi-bah. Pr 5:19 Isa 62:4 *marg:

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

the high places. 18:4,22 2Ch 32:12 34:3

he reared. 10:18-20 1Ki 16:31-33 18:21,26

a grove. Rather, as we have before remarked, Asherah or Astarte. So Castel defines Asherah to be {Simulacrum ligneum Astart? 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

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

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

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

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

6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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

7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

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

8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

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

9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

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

10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

2Ch 33:10 36:15 Ne 9:26,30 Mt 23:34-37 In 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.

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

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

12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

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

13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

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 and turneth it upon the face thereof.

14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

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

deliver. Le 26:17,36-38 De 4:26,27 28:25,31-33,48 Jud 2:14,15 Ne 9:27-37 Ps 71:1-7 106:40-43 Isa 10:6 La 1:5,10

15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

since the day. De 9:21 31:27,29 Jud 2:11-13 Ps 106:34-40 Eze 16:15-22 Eze 20:4,13,21,30 23:3,8-21 Da 9:5-11

16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Manasseh. 24:3,4 Nu 35:33 De 21:8,9 Jer 2:34 7:6 15:4 19:4 Mt 23:30,31 Mt 27:6 Lu 13:34 Heb 11:37

one end to another. Heb. mouth to mouth. beside his sin. 7,11 Ex 32:21 1Ki 14:15,16 2Ch 33:9

17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

the rest. See on ch. 20:20,21 2Ch 33:1-20

18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

A.M. 3361. B.C. 643. and was buried. 2Ch 21:20 24:16,25 28:27 32:33 33:20 Jer 22:19

19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

A.M. 3361-3363. B.C. 643-641. Amon. 1Ch 3:14 2Ch 33:21-23 Mt 1:10

two years. 15:23 1Ki 15:25 16:8 22:51

20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

as his father. 2-7 Nu 32:14 2Ch 33:22,23 Mt 23:32 Ac 7:51

21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

22:17 De 32:15 1Ki 11:33 1Ch 28:9 Jer 2:13 Jon 2:8

23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

A.M. 3363. B.C. 641. 12:20 14:19 15:25,30 1Ki 15:27 16:9 2Ch 33:24,25

24 And 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.

the people of the land slew. 14:5

made Josiah. 11:17 14:21 1Sa 11:15 2Sa 5:3 1Ki 12:1,20 2Ch 22:1 26:1 33:25

25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

17 20:20

26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

in the garden. See on ver. 18

Josiah. 1Ki 13:5 Mt 1:10