Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Chronicles 33:3
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Verse 2 Chronicles 33:3. _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 hi...
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 rest...
2 Chronicles 33:1. THE REIGN OF MANASSEH (see notes on 2 Kings 21:1). 2 Chronicles 33:1 is based upon 2 Kings
GROVES _= 'Asheroth._ See App-42. THE HOST OF HEAVEN. Compare Deuteronomy 17:3....
_Baalim_ R.V. THE BAALIM. Baal was the title of the supreme God of the Canaanites, who was worshipped in different places under somewhat different aspects; hence the plural ("Baalim") here. The altars...
15. THE REIGN OF MANASSEH. (2 Chronicles 33:1-19) TEXT 2 Chronicles 33:1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. 2. And he did that wh...
_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 com...
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 supplemen...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 33 MANASSEH – 2 CHRONICLES 33:1-20 V1 Manasseh was 12 years old when h...
FOR. — _And._ (See margin.) BROKEN DOWN. — 2 Chronicles 23:17; 2 Chronicles 31:1 (“threw down”). Kings has “destroyed” (_‘ibbad_). BAALIM. — _The Baals_ — _i.e.,_ the different images of Baal. Kings...
וַ יָּ֗שָׁב וַ יִּ֨בֶן֙ אֶת ־הַ בָּמֹ֔ות
MANASSEH: REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS 2 Chronicles 33:1 In telling the melancholy story of the wickedness of Manasseh in the first period of his reign, the chronicler reproduces the book of Kings, wit...
AFFLICTION TEACHES HUMILITY 2 Chronicles 33:1 Because of his youth Manasseh was probably the more easily influenced by the reactionary party, who came back to power on Hezekiah's death; but afterward...
Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, seems to have set himself to the most willful and persistent restoration of every form of abomination. All the things specifically forbidden were set up in the places sa...
_The host of heaven. The sun, moon, and stars, (Ch.) in imitation of the Ph\'9cnicians and ancient Chanaanites._...
We had this history of Manasseh before, and with so little variety, that I think it unnecessary to dwell upon it. See 2 Kings 21:1. Never, surely, was there a record more painful to go over. What an a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 THROUGH 36. Manasseh, his son, who gave himself up to iniquity in spite of the warnings of the prophets, brought desolation and ruin upon himself and after...
2 Kings 21:3...
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. Ver. 3. _For...
1 Manasseh his wicked reigne. 3 Hee setteth vp idolatry, and would not be admonished. 11 He is caried into Babylon. 12 Vpon his prayer to God hee is released, and putteth downe idolatry. 18 His ac...
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah, his father, had broken down, his purpose being to make them sanctuaries of idolatry; AND HE REARED UP ALTARS FOR BAALIM, a great many of them, AND MA...
Manasseh's Wickedness...
THE REIGN OF MANASSEH (vv.1-9) Manasseh was only 12 years old at the time of his father's death, therefore he was born during the extra fifteen years that God had allowed Hezekiah. Manasseh was give...
HE BUILT AGAIN: _ Heb._ he returned and built...
1-20 We have seen Manasseh's wickedness; here we have his repentance, and a memorable instance it is of the riches of God's pardoning mercy, and the power of his renewing grace. Deprived of his liber...
2 Chronicles 33:3 rebuilt H1129 (H8799) H7725 (H8799) places H1116 Hezekiah H3169 father H1 down H5422 ...
2 Chronicles 33:1. _Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,_ He was, therefore, born after the time when Hezekiah was raised up from the bed of sickness. That prolongation of life was n...
2 Chronicles 33:1. _Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: but did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,_ Yet who could have h...
CONTENTS: Manassah's accession and evil ways. Reign and death of Amon. Accession of Josiah. CHARACTERS: God, Manasseh, Assyrian king, Amon, Josiah. CONCLUSION: In prosperity men forget God, but in a...
2 Chronicles 33:3. _Made groves._ This word should generally be rendered idols. Manasseh made images of Astartè, or Ashtaroth, and of all the idols of Ahaz. His ministers were idolaters, but concealed...
2 CHRONICLES 33:1 Manasseh. Compare 2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:17. Kings presents Manasseh as the worst of Judah’s kings,
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 33:2 These verses largely reproduce 2 Kings 21:2 (see notes)....
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 21., yet differs in omitting some things and adding new matter, especially in central part. Impiety of Man. (2 Chronicles 33:1); his captivity an...
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 al...
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, he reigned for fifty-five years (2 Chronicles 33:1) One of the longest. His was the longest reign of any king. He did that which was evil in the...
1 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 28:2; 2 Chronicles 30:14; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...