2 Chronicles 33:25

21-25 Amon's father did ill, but he did worse. Whatever warnings or convictions he had, he never humbled himself. He was soon cut off in his sins, and made a warning for all men not to abuse the example of God's patience and mercy to Manasseh, as an encouragement to continue in sin. May God help us to be honest to ourselves, and to think aright respecting our own character, before death fixes us in an unchangeable state....

Verse 2 Chronicles 33:25. _THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SLEW ALL THEM_] His murder was not a _popular_ act, for the people slew the regicides. They were as prone to idolatry as their king was. We may rest satisfied that idolatry was accompanied with great _licentiousness_ and sensual gratifications else it never, as a mere religious system, could have had any sway in the world. FOR an explanation of the term _groves_, 2 Chronicles 23:3; 2 Kings 21:26. I have referred to the _prayer_ attributed to _Manasseh_, and found in what is called the _Apocrypha_, just before the first book of _Maccabees_. It was anciently used as a form of con

EXPOSITION The first twenty verses of this chapter are taken up with the account of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah and Hephzibah, who, beginning to reign at the early age of twelve years, reigned in all fifty-five years; the remaining five verses with the account of the reign of his son Amon. The parallel to this chapter is 2 Kings 21:1. The repeated references in this chapter to Manasseh's neglect, and to his people's neglect, after his example, of injunction, promise, and threat of the Word of the Lord and of the Law, make it a prominent instance of the spirit of the compiler, and an indication of one of the main objects he had in view, and kept in view in writing these chronicles. 2 CHRONICLES 33:1 The parallel adds the name of Manasseh's mother, the

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7. DECLINE AND APOSTASY UNDER MANASSEH AND AMON CHAPTER 33 _ 1. Manasseh's wicked reign (2 Chronicles 33:1)_ 2. Manasseh's imprisonment and restoration (2 Chronicles 33:11) 3. His reign after restoration and his death (2 Chronicles 33:14) 4. The reign of Amon (2 Chronicles 33:21) Manasseh, the twelve year old son of Hezekiah, did not follow the ways of his father, but did evil in the sight of the LORD. He had no godly Jehoiada, like Joash, to stand by him and guide him. He was surrounded, no doubt, by counsellors, but they were evil counse

THE REIGN OF AMON (see notes on 2 Kings 21:19). 2 Chronicles 33:22. _Cf._ the words of this verse with 2 Kings 21:21; the Chronicler has modified the words of the latter, which would be inconsistent with the idea of Manasseh's repentance....

THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND. the commonalty. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:1....

_slew_ Render, SMOTE. The Hebrew word suggests perhaps that there was a conflict between the people and the conspirators....

16. THE REIGN OF AMON (2 Chronicles 33:20-25) TEXT 2 Chronicles 33:20. So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. 21. Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22. And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. 23. And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. 24. And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. 25. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against kin

THE REIGN OF MANASSEH This chapter repeats, with certain omissions, 2 Kings 21 but the section 2 Chronicles 33:11, relating the captivity in Babylon, repentance, and release of Manasseh, is supplementary to the account in 2 Ki....