2Ch 33:1-9 | Clarke | STEP | Manasseh reigns fifty-five years, and restores idolatry, pollutes the temple, and practises all kinds of abominations, . He and the people are warned in vain, . He is delivered into the hands of the Assyrians, bound with fetters, and carried to Babylon, . He humbles himself, and is restored, , . He destroys idolatry, and restores the worship of God, . The people keep the high places, but sacrifice to the Lord on them, . His acts, prayer, and death, . His son Amon succeeds him; and after a wicked idolatrous reign of two years, is slain by his own servants in his own house, . The people rise up, and slay his murderers, and make Josiah his son king in his stead, . Verse 1 Manasseh was twelve years old - We do not find that he had any godly director; his youth was therefore the more easily seduced. But surely he had a pious education; how then could the principles of it be so soon eradicated?

2 Chronicles 33:1-9

Introduction

Manasseh reigns fifty-five years, and restores idolatry, pollutes the temple, and practises all kinds of abominations, 2Chr 33:1-9. He and the people are warned in vain, 2Chr 33:10. He is delivered into the hands of the Assyrians, bound with fetters, and carried to Babylon, 2Chr 33:11. He humbles himself, and is restored, 2Chr 33:12, 2Chr 33:13. He destroys idolatry, and restores the worship of God, 2Chr 33:14-16. The people keep the high places, but sacrifice to the Lord on them, 2Chr 33:17. His acts, prayer, and death, 2Chr 33:18-20. His son Amon succeeds him; and after a wicked idolatrous reign of two years, is slain by his own servants in his own house, 2Chr 33:21-24. The people rise up, and slay his murderers, and make Josiah his son king in his stead, 2Chr 33:25.

Verse 1

Manasseh was twelve years old - We do not find that he had any godly director; his youth was therefore the more easily seduced. But surely he had a pious education; how then could the principles of it be so soon eradicated? Verse 3

Altars for Baalim - The Sun and Moon. And made groves, אשרות Asheroth, Astarte, Venus; the host of heaven, all the Planets and Stars. These were the general objects of his devotion. Verse 5

He built altars - See the principal facts in this chapter explained in the notes on 2 Kings 21:1-17 (note). Verse 7

A carved image - "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." The Targumist supposes he wished to procure himself Divine honors.