2 Chronicles 33:20-24
Manasseh <04519> [Manasseh.]
Amon <0526> [Amon.]
twenty-two years ........... two years <08141 08147> [A.M. 3361-3363. B.C. 643-641. two years.]
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.]
[A.M. 3363. B.C. 641.]
