Verse 2 Chronicles 33:12. _AND WHEN HE WAS IN AFFLICTION_] Here is a very large addition in the Chaldee: "For the Chaldeans made a brazen mule, pierced full of small holes, and put him within it, and...
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
_affliction_ R.V. DISTRESS, as in 2 Chronicles 28:22....
_fathers, and prayed_ R.V. FATHERS. AND HE PRAYED....
DISCOURSE: 430 MANASSEH’S REPENTANCE 2 Chronicles 33:10. And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of...
WHEN HE WAS IN AFFLICTION, HE BESOUGHT THE LORD, &C.— The Jews have a tradition, that while Manasseh was at Babylon, by the direction of his conqueror, he was put in a large brazen vessel, full of hol...
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...
_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 e...
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...
WHEN HE WAS IN AFFLICTION. — See this phrase in 2 Chronicles 28:22. HE BESOUGHT. — Literally, _stroked the face,_ a curious realistic phrase occurring in Exodus 32:11. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS. — Whom...
MANASSEH’S CAPTIVITY AND REPENTANCE — HIS RESTORATION AND REFORMS (2 Chronicles 33:11). This section is peculiar to the Chronicle, and none has excited more scepticism among modern critics. The progr...
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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...
Distress. "When he had been conducted to Babylon, and cast into a brazen vessel full of holes, over a fire, he called upon all the names of the idols, which he was accustomed to adore; and, as he was...
The most remarkable circumstance here related is, that the change wrought upon Manasseh is not so much as mentioned in the parallel history in Kings. It hath afforded great comfort, and no doubt encou...
_GODLESS AND GODLY_ ‘Worse than the heathen.’ ‘In affliction he besought the Lord his God.’ 2 Chronicles 33:9; 2 Chronicles 33:12 I. IT IS FEARFUL TO THINK INTO WHAT DEPTHS OF WICKEDNESS IT IS POSS...
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...
AND WHEN HE WAS IN AFFLICTION,.... In prison; however, in fetters; according to the Targum, the Chaldeans made an instrument of brass with holes in it, and put him in it, and fire about it, something...
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, Ver. 12. _And when he was in affliction._] When the rod spake, he heard it Mic...
_When he was in affliction he besought the Lord his God_ Being “deprived of his authority and liberty, and secluded from his evil counsellors and companions, and from all his pleasures, in chains, and...
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...
And when he was in affliction, in this shameful captivity, HE BESOUGHT THE LORD, HIS GOD, in true sorrow over his apostasy, AND HUMBLED HIMSELF GREATLY BEFORE THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS,...
Manasseh's Punishment and Repentance...
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...
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...
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2 Chronicles 33:12 I. It deserves to be noticed that the fall of Manasseh was an exception to the general law respecting the history of children of a godly parentage. It is a fact which children in Ch...
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...
_And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God._ MANASSEH’S WICKEDNESS AND PENITENCE I. Manssseh’s career in crime. II. His return to and acceptance of God. III. The gracious results...
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 Peter 5:5; 1 Peter 5:6; 2 Chronicles 28:22; 2 Chronicles 28:5;...
Besought — It becomes sinners to humble themselves before that God, whom they have offended. It becomes sufferers to humble themselves before him that corrects them, and to accept of the punishment of...
Why is the repentance of Manasseh recorded here, but no mention is made of it in 2 Kings? PROBLEM: According to this text, upon his return, Manasseh repented of his earlier sin and reinstituted the w...