Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Chronicles 33:1
CHAPTER XXXIII
Manasseh reigns fifty-five years, and restores idolatry,
pollutes the temple, and practises all kinds of abominations,
1-9.
He and the people are warned in vain, 10.
He is delivered into the hands of the Assyrians, bound with
fetters, and carried to Babylon, 11.
He humbles himself, and is restored, 12, 13.
He destroys idolatry, and restores the worship of God, 14-16.
The people keep the high places, but sacrifice to the Lord on
them, 17.
His acts, prayer, and death, 18-20.
His son Amon succeeds him; and after a wicked idolatrous reign
of two years, is slain by his own servants in his own house,
21-24.
The people rise up, and slay his murderers, and make Josiah his
son king in his stead, 25.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIII
Verse 2 Chronicles 33:1. Manasseh was twelve years old] We do not find that he had any godly director; his youth was therefore the more easily seduced. But surely he had a pious education; how then could the principles of it be so soon eradicated?