2 Chronicles 33:1-14
Manasseh <04519> [A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 693-643. Manasseh.]
[Manasses. twelve.]
horrible <08441> [like unto.]
rebuilt <07725 01129> [he built again. Heb. he returned and built.]
<03169> [which Hezekiah.]
set <06965> [he reared.]
made Asherah poles <0842 06213> [made groves.]
stars <06635> [the host.]
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.]
Lord <03068> [A.M. 3327. B.C. 677. the Lord.]
commanders <08269> [the captains.]
[of the king. Heb. which were the king's.]
hooks <02336> [among the thorns.]
The word {bachochim} may possibly her signify with fetters or chains, as the kindred word {chachim} denotes, Eze 19:4, 9. The Syriac and Arabic have alive, probably reading {bechayim}.
bound <0631> [bound him.]
bronze chains <05178> [fetters. or, chains.]
pain <06887> [And when.]
Manasseh <02470> [he besought.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
humbled <03665> [humbled.]
responded <06279> [he was intreated.]
back <07725> [brought him.]
realized <03045> [knew.]
built up <01129> [A.M. 3327-3361. B.C. 677-643. he built.]
Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
Fish Gate <08179 01709> [fish gate.]
terrace <06077> [Ophel. or, the tower.]
placed <07760> [put.]
