_Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign._
MANASSEH
The narratives of the Old Testament are not to be read as mere matters
of history, but as records of the providential dispensations of God in
the concerns of mankind, and as fraught with lessons of the most
valuable moral and religiou... [ Continue Reading ]
_Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign._
AMON
The brief reign of Amon is only a sort of unimportant and miserable
annex to that of his father. As he was twenty-two years old when he
began to reign, he must have witnessed the repentance and reforming
zeal of his father, if, in spi... [ Continue Reading ]