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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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Kings 21:5]
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Kings 21:6]
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Kings 21:7]
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Kings 21:8]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Kings 21:9]
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...