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2 Chronicles 33:7-9

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your...

2 Chronicles 33:10

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people,.... By his servants the prophets, see 2 Kings 21:10, where what was said to them is recorded: but they would not hearken; to what was said, to reproofs, admonitions, and exhortations to repent and reform.

2 Chronicles 33:11

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria,.... Who was Esarhaddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib; this, according to the Jewish chronology (f), was in the twenty second year of Manasseh's reign: which took Manasseh among the thorns; in a thicket of briers and thorns, where, upon his defeat, he had...

2 Chronicles 33:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Wherefore- Since words were not sufficient, and God intended to save him, he came to blows: “Wherefore” — 2Ch_33:11. The LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. They very likely chastened him with thorns, for the kings of...

2 Chronicles 33:12

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And when he was in affliction,.... In prison; however, in fetters; according to the Targum, the Chaldeans made an instrument of brass with holes in it, and put him in it, and fire about it, something like the brasen bull of Perillus; and the above Arabian writer (k) calls it a tower of brass: he besought the Lord his God; by prayer and...

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. There surely can be no person in this assembly who...

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. He had set up Baal and Ashtaroth; but now he knows...

2 Chronicles 33:13

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And prayed unto him,.... To have mercy on him, and forgive him his sins: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication; and granted his request, showed favour to him, and forgave him his sins: and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom; so wrought upon the heart of the king of Assyria, as to give him his liberty, and restore him...

2 Chronicles 33:14

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David,.... Which perhaps had been broken down by the Assyrian army, when it came and took him; Vitringa (l) thinks this is the wall of the pool of Siloah, Ne 3:15 which seems to be the first and oldest wall, as Josephus (m); for that turning to the north bent towards the pool of Siloam; an Arabic...

2 Chronicles 33:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. This is not of very much importance, but what else did he do?

2 Chronicles 33:14-17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and...

2 Chronicles 33:15

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord,.... Which he had set there, 2 Chronicles 33:7 and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 33:4, and cast them out of the city; perhaps into the brook Kidron; all this he did to show the sincerity of his...

2 Chronicles 33:16

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And he repaired the altar of the Lord,.... Which was fallen to ruin, being neglected and disused in his times of idolatry: or, according to the Keri, or marginal reading, and so the Targum, "he built it"; which perhaps he had before pulled down and destroyed: and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings; to the Lord, for bringing him...

2 Chronicles 33:16

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he took away the strange gods,- When grace comes into any man’s heart, there is sure to be a change in his action. Manasseh “took away the strange gods,” — 2Ch_33:16. And the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. Sins which...

2 Chronicles 33:17

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Nevertheless, the people did sacrifice still in the high places,.... Not in those that were built for idols, at least did not sacrifice to them; for it follows: yet unto the Lord their God only; the Targum is, "to the name of the Word of the Lord their God.''

2 Chronicles 33:17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only. The work of reformation is slow; you can lead men to sin as rapidly as you like, that is down-hill work; but to get them to toil with you up-hill toward the right is not so easy.

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