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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, These high places were at first built for the worship of God, the true God; but then the law of Jehovah was that there should be only one altar, namely, that at Jerusalem. This was not Popery, but Ritualism; it was adding something to the simple worship of God, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. Manasseh was worse than an ordinary idolater, for he polluted the very place which was dedicated to the service of the only living and true God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. There was plenty of room elsewhere for them if Manasseh wanted them; but; nothing would do for him but that in the house of God itself must be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: Perhaps he gave some of them actually to be burned in honour of his false gods; or if not some of his children were made to pass through the fire and were thus dedicated...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. You cannot imagine, I think, a worse character than this Manasseh was. He seems to have raked the foulest kennels of superstition to find all manner of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: All which is imitated, nowadays, by certain persons who try to break through the vail which parts us from the spiritual world. Manasseh did...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 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...
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. This was all that was necessary to fill up the measure of his guilt. He and his people were warned of God, but they would not hearken.
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet unto the LORD their God only. So far, it was well; but it would have been better if they had given up all those altars.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel, His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses. And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD, And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. This was a very remarkable find. Of all...