2 Chronicles 33:3

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 has the singular, both here and in the next word, “groves,” or rather Asheras (‘Ashçrôth; Kings, ‘Ashçrah). The latter plural is rhetorical: Manasseh made such things as Asheras. (Comp. also the use of the plural in 2 Chronicles 32:31, and the passages there referred to.) Kings adds: “as Ahab king of Israel made.”