2 Chronicles 28:22-25
time <06256> [in the.]
King <04428> [this is.]
offered sacrifices ........................... sacrifice <02076> [For he sacrificed.]
This passage, says Mr. Hallet, greatly surprised me; for the sacred historian is here represented as saying, "The gods of Damascus had smitten Ahaz." But it is impossible to suppose that an inspired author should say this; for the Scripture every where represents the heathen idols as nothing and vanity, and as incapable of doing either good or hurt. All difficulty is avoided if we follow the old Hebrew copies, from which the Greek translation was made: "And king Ahaz said, I will seek to the gods of Damascus which have smitten me."
Damascus <01834> [Damascus. Heb. Darmesek. Because the gods.]
offered sacrifices ....................... helped ..... sacrifice ....... help <02076 05826> [sacrifice to them.]
stumble <03782> [But they were.]
removed <07112> [cut in pieces.]
shut <05462> [shut up.]
erected <06213> [he made.]
offer <06999> [burn. or, offer.]
2 Chronicles 33:4-10
built <01129> [he built.]
Jerusalem <03389> [In Jerusalem.]
two <08147> [in the two.]
passed <05674> [caused.]
divination <06049> [he observed.]
reading .... He ................... did <06213> [dealt.]
put .... image <06459 07760> [he set a carved image.]
The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather, Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law, that he might practice it: a most prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety in this!
temple ............... temple <01004> [in the house.]
God's ..... God ... said <0559 0430> [God had said.]
<0977> [which I have.]
again <03254> [will I.]
carefully <0518 08104> [so that they.]
obey .... commanded <06213 06680> [to do all.]
given <03027> [by the hand.]
misled ..... Judah <08582 03063> [made Judah.]
so .... sinned <07451 06213> [to do worse.]
nations <01471> [the heathen.]
2 Chronicles 33:22-23
did ............. Manasseh ... done ........... Manasseh <06213 04519> [as did Manasseh.]
sacrifices ...... his <0526 02076> [for Amon sacrificed.]
Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh, in sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, but they forget how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view Manasseh was defective, although it cannot be supposed that it affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images, he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the law in De 7:5, which required, moreover, that the graven images should be burnt with fire. How necessary that law was, this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown aside, and not burnt, Amon knew where to find them, soon set them up, and sacrificed to them.
humble <03665> [humbled.]
[trespassed more and more. Heb. multiplied trespass.]
