2 Chronicles 33:1
_MANASSEH WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FIFTY AND FIVE YEARS IN JERUSALEM:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MANASSEH WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FIFTY AND FIVE YEARS IN JERUSALEM:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord - (see the notes at 2 Kings 21:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ The captains of the host of the king of Assyria. This king was Esarhaddon (Rawlinson's 'Ancient Monarchies,' 2:, p. 4... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE WAS IN AFFLICTION, HE BESOUGHT THE LORD HIS GOD, AND HUMBLED HIMSELF GREATLY BEFORE THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS,_ When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God. In the solitude of exile or imprisonment, Manasseh had leisure for reflection. The calamities forced upon him a review o... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ He built a wall without the cit... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS THE PEOPLE DID SACRIFICE STILL IN THE HIGH PLACES, YET UNTO THE LORD THEIR GOD ONLY._ The people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only. Here it appears that the worship upon high places, though it originated in a great measure from the practice of pa... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO MANASSEH SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND THEY BURIED HIM IN HIS OWN HOUSE: AND AMON HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ Manasseh slept with his fathers ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AMON WAS TWO AND TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND REIGNED TWO YEARS IN JERUSALEM._ Amon ... began to reign - (see the notes at 2 Kings 21:17.)... [ Continue Reading ]