THE REIGN OF MANASSEH This chapter repeats, with certain omissions, 2 Kings 21 but the section 2 Chronicles 33:11, relating the captivity in Babylon, repentance, and release of Manasseh, is supplementary to the account in 2 Ki.... [ Continue Reading ]
OBSERVED TIMES] RV 'practised augury': perhaps, as the original suggests, by watching the motions of clouds.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT] RV 'if only': God's promises to Israel were conditional upon its obedience.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMONG THE THORNS] RM 'with hooks': a monument still exists which shows the Assyrian king Esarhaddon leading two captives by hooks or rings put through their lips. TO BABYLON] This city was for the most part subject to Assyria until the overthrow of the Assyrian power in 607 b.c. Shortly before 648... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT HIM AGAIN, etc.] i.e. by prompting the Assyrian king to restore him to his throne. Such leniency on the part of Asshurbanipal finds a parallel in his conduct towards Necho, an Egyptian feudatory prince, who was taken captive for intriguing against his suzerain, but was subsequently restored... [ Continue Reading ]
A WALL WITHOUT.. DAVID] RV 'an outer wall to the city of David.' THE FISH GATE] This was in the N. wall of the city; through it fish is supposed to have entered from Tyre.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDED.. TO SERVE THE LORD] In spite of Manasseh's reformation here related, Jeremiah subsequently declared that his sins had not been expiated, and that the nation was doomed to destruction in consequence: Jeremiah 15:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS PRAYER] What purports to be Manasseh's prayer is preserved in the Apocrypha, but is not considered genuine.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sayings OF the seers] This follows the LXX. The Heb. has 'the sayings of Hozai.'... [ Continue Reading ]
IN his OWN house] LXX has 'in the garden' (or 'park') 'of his own house': cp. 2 Kings 21:18.... [ Continue Reading ]