Ver. 20-25. So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house,.... That is, in the garden of his house,

2 Kings 21:18; there; to which may be added, that the Jews s in later times buried in a garden; though it was the custom of the ancients, both Greeks t and Romans u, to bury the dead in their own houses; hence sprung the worship of the Lares and Penates, the household gods: from hence to the end of the chapter is the same with

2 Kings 21:18.

2 Kings 21:18 2 Kings 21:19 2 Kings 21:20 2 Kings 21:21 2 Kings 21:22 2 Kings 21:23 2 Kings 21:24 2 Kings 21:25 2 Kings 21:26

s Cippi Heb. p. 43. t Plato in Minoe. u Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. 5. "praeterea si nova", in l. 6. "sedibus hunc refer", c.

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