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neither chose.The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.

1Sa 10:24; 13:13,14; 15:23; 2Sa 7:15,16

But I have chosen Jerusalem.This clause is also not found in Kings. Jerusalem was expressly marked out, by the building of the temple, to be the centre of the worship of Israel; as Jehovah had before spoken by Moses: see the parallel passages.

12:13; Ps 48:1; 78:68-70; 132:13; Isa 14:32

chosen David.

1Sa 16:1; 1Ch 28:4; Ps 89:19,20

2 Chronicles 6:20

thine eyes.

16:9; 1Ki 8:29,30; 2Ki 19:16; Ne 1:6; Ps 34:15; 121:5

put thy name.

6; De 26:2; Col 2:9

toward this place. or, in this place.

Da 6:10

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

he built.

15; 34:3,4; 2Ki 21:4,5; Jer 7:30

In Jerusalem.

6:6; 7:16; 32:19; De 12:11; 1Ki 8:29; 9:3

in the two.

4:9; Jer 32:34,35; Eze 8:7-18

caused.

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

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.

4; 1Ki 8:29; Ps 132:13,14

which I have.

6:6; 1Ki 8:44,48; 11:13,32; Ps 78:68