There is a prayer among, the books of the apocrypha said to be this prayer of Manasseh. But the matter is questionable. Happy is it to observe, that a life which begun so unpromising, did yet find mercy from the Lord.
Verse 2 Chronicles 33:15. _HE TOOK AWAY THE STRANGE GODS_] He appears to have done every thing in his power to destroy the idolatry which he had set up, and to restore the pure worship of the true Go...
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
ISRAEL. See note on 1 Kings 12:17....
_the idol_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 33:7....
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 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 CI...
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...
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...
TOOK AWAY THE STRANGE GODS. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 33:3. For the phrase “strange gods” (_ĕlôhê nçkâr_)_,_ see Genesis 35:2. THE IDOL. — That is, the Asherah (2 Chronicles 33:3;...
וַ֠ יָּסַר אֶת ־אֱלֹהֵ֨י הַ נֵּכָ֤ר וְ
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...
HUMBLED FATHER, BUT SELF-WILLED SON 2 Chronicles 33:14 Manasseh apparently did his best to undo the evil he had wrought in Jerusalem. So far as the idols and other symbols of idolatry were concerned,...
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 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 HE TOOK AWAY THE STRANGE GODS, AND THE IDOL OUT OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... Which he had set there, 2 Chronicles 33:7 AND ALL THE ALTARS THAT HE HAD BUILT IN THE MOUNT OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,...
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 c...
_He took away the strange gods_ The images of them, and that _idol_, whatever it was, which he had set up with so much solemnity _in the house of the Lord. And all the altars_ The idolatrous altars, a...
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 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, v. 4-5:7, AND CAST THEM OUT O...
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 33:15 away H5493 (H8686) foreign H5236 gods H430 idol H5566 house H1004 LORD H3068 altars H4196
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 33:15 Manasseh’s reform involved removing the pagan religious symbols that he himself had put in place (vv. 2 Chronicles 33:3,...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Kings 21:7; Ezekiel 18:20; Hosea 14:1;...
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...