2 Kings 21:1
_Twelve. Being born three years after his father's recovery. --- Fifty. Including the years of captivity._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Twelve. Being born three years after his father's recovery. --- Fifty. Including the years of captivity._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Idols. Hebrew, "abominations," (Calmet) as their worship was attended with the greatest infamy and dissolution, and was in itself the source of God's chastisements. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Groves. Hebrew Ashera, "the grove," or the idol of Astarte, (Calmet) as both were worshipped. (Haydock) --- Achab, whom he imitated also in spilling the blood of the saints. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Altars, in honour of the sun, moon, and stars, (Haydock) in the courts of the priests and of the people, 2 Paralipomenon xxxiii. 4._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fire, for purification, or as a holocaust to Moloch. See chap. xvi. 3. --- Divination, or, "he observed times," Arabic. (Montanus) --- Omens. Protestants, "used enchantments," (Haydock) by means of brass or of serpents, &c. (Calmet) --- Septuagint agrees with the Vulgate, "he took notice of birds.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of the grove. Hebrew, "a graven thing of Ashera," the grove or Astarte, (Haydock) ver. 3. This was an engraving in sculpture of a sacred grove. (Sa) (Chap. xxiii. 6.) (Tirinus) --- My name. I alone will be adored, and there allow an altar to be erected. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_More, because they had received more favours and instructions from above. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Prophets, Joel, Osee, Amos, Nahum, Jonas, Abdias, Micheas, and particularly by Isaias, who was related to the king. (Tirinus) --- Tradition informs us, that Manasses was so irritated, that he ordered Isaias to be slain with a wooden saw, (St. Augustine, City of God xviii. 24.) for greater torment; ... [ Continue Reading ]
_Doings. Hebrew, "idols," ver. 2. See chap. xvii. 12. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tingle, through astonishment, as if he had been stunned with too loud a noise, 1 Kings iii. 11. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
The line, or rope, to pull down the walls, Lamentations ii. 8., (Calmet) and 2 Kings xvii. 13. Jerusalem, which has imitated Samaria in sinning, shall experience the same fate; the same weight of punishment shall fall upon the royal family, as upon the house of Achab. (Haydock) --- The prophets freq... [ Continue Reading ]
_Leave. Septuagint, "with horror," Greek: apeasomai (Haydock) "I will cast off." So Chaldean, Syriac, &c. --- Remnants. Juda, &c., who shall be treated like the ten tribes. (Calmet) --- All shared in the punishment, though some preserved the true religion, Psalm lxxxviii. 35. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mouth. Chaldean, "extremity." All was full of blood, and impure idols, ver. 11. --- Besides, ( absque) "without" mentioning his other scandalous sins of idolatry._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sinned. It is rather wonderful that his repentance is not here noticed; but we find it mentioned [in] 2 Paralipomenon xxxiii. 12. (Haydock) --- He was probably taken prisoner by Thartan, general of Sargon, or Asarhaddon, who had reunited the two kingdoms of Assyria and Babylon, Isaias xx. 1. In pri... [ Continue Reading ]
_Oza, a private man, to whom it had belonged; (Menochius) or the place where the Levite had been punished for touching the ark; (1 Kings vi. 8.) or, in fine, the garden to which king Ozias had retired after he became a leper. (Calmet) --- It is said, that Manasses chose this place for his tomb out o... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXI. _ Done, in his youth, flattering himself that he should also repent, when he had gratified his passions (Glycas) but God presently chastised this presumption, after suffering him to reign only two years. (Tirinus)_... [ Continue Reading ]