_MANASSEH WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND REIGNED FIFTY AND FIVE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS HEPHZIBAH._ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign. He must have been born three years after his father's recovery; and his minority, spent under the influen... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AFTER THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE HEATHEN, WHOM THE LORD CAST OUT BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BUILT ALTARS FOR ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN IN THE TWO COURTS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ The two courts of the house of the Lord - the court of the priests and the large court of the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE HIS SON PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, AND OBSERVED TIMES, AND USED ENCHANTMENTS, AND DEALT WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS AND WIZARDS: HE WROUGHT MUCH WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, TO PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER._ Made his son pass through the fire - (see the notes at 2 Kings 16:3.) observed times-fro... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SET A GRAVEN IMAGE OF THE GROVE THAT HE HAD MADE IN THE HOUSE, OF WHICH THE LORD SAID TO DAVID, AND TO SOLOMON HIS SON, IN THIS HOUSE, AND IN JERUSALEM, WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN OUT OF ALL TRIBES OF ISRAEL, WILL I PUT MY NAME FOR EVER:_ And he set a graven image, х_ PECEL_ (H6459) _ HAA-'ASHEERA... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER WILL I MAKE THE FEET OF ISRAEL MOVE ANY MORE OUT OF THE LAND WHICH I GAVE THEIR FATHERS; ONLY IF THEY WILL OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM, AND ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW THAT MY SERVANT MOSES COMMANDED THEM._ Neither will I make the feet of Israel move ... out of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT: AND MANASSEH SEDUCED THEM TO DO MORE EVIL THAN DID THE NATIONS WHOM THE LORD DESTROYED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE BY HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, SAYING,_ The Lord spake by his servants the prophets. These were Hoshea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Isaiah. Their counsels, admonitions, and prophetic warnings were put on record in the national chronicles (2 Chronicles 33:18), and now form part of... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE MANASSEH KING OF JUDAH HATH DONE THESE ABOMINATIONS, AND HATH DONE WICKEDLY ABOVE ALL THAT THE AMORITES DID, WHICH WERE BEFORE HIM, AND HATH MADE JUDAH ALSO TO SIN WITH HIS IDOLS:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, BEHOLD, I AM BRINGING SUCH EVIL UPON JERUSALEM AND JUDAH, THAT WHOSOEVER HEARETH OF IT, BOTH HIS EARS SHALL TINGLE._ Whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle - a strong metaphorical form of announcing an extraordinary and appalling event (see... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL STRETCH OVER JERUSALEM THE LINE OF SAMARIA, AND THE PLUMMET OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB: AND I WILL WIPE JERUSALEM AS A MAN WIPETH A DISH, WIPING IT, AND TURNING IT UPSIDE DOWN._ The line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab. Captives doomed to destruction were sometimes grouped to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL FORSAKE THE REMNANT OF MINE INHERITANCE, AND DELIVER THEM INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES; AND THEY SHALL BECOME A PREY AND A SPOIL TO ALL THEIR ENEMIES;_ I WILL FORSAKE THE REMNANT OF MINE INHERITANCE - the people of Judah, who of all the chosen people alone remained. The consequence of... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN MY SIGHT, AND HAVE PROVOKED ME TO ANGER, SINCE THE DAY THEIR FATHERS CAME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT, EVEN UNTO THIS DAY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER MANASSEH SHED INNOCENT BLOOD VERY MUCH, TILL HE HAD FILLED JERUSALEM FROM ONE END TO ANOTHER; BESIDE HIS SIN WHEREWITH HE MADE JUDAH TO SIN, IN DOING THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD._ Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood. Not content with the patronage and the practice of id... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF MANASSEH, AND ALL THAT HE DID, AND HIS SIN THAT HE SINNED, ARE THEY NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH?_ Now the rest of the acts of Mannseh - (see the notes at 2 Chronicles 33:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MANASSEH SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND WAS BURIED IN THE GARDEN OF HIS OWN HOUSE, IN THE GARDEN OF UZZA: AND AMON HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AMON WAS TWENTY AND TWO YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED TWO YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS MESHULLEMETH, THE DAUGHTER OF HARUZ OF JOTBAH._ Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign. Manasseh, having ascended the throne of Judah at 12 years of age and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AS HIS FATHER MANASSEH DID._ He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. This prince continued the idolatrous policy of his father, and after an inglorious reign of two years, was massacred by some of his own domestics. The people k... [ Continue Reading ]