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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...
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...
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...
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...
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.''
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.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh,.... Good and bad, what were done by him both before and after his conversion: and his prayer unto his God; which it seems was taken and recorded, but now lost; for as for that which is among the apocryphal writings, there is no reason to believe it to be his, though it is thought to be so by many (o): and the...
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
His prayer also,.... Was not only recorded in the above annals, but in the writings of another person after mentioned: and how God was entreated of him; heard his prayer, and showed him favour both in a temporal and spiritual way; for though the Jews would not allow that he was saved, or had a part in the world to come, eternal life (q), yet there...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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, [See comments on 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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 33:20]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 33:20]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 33:20]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 33:20]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 33:20]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 34 This chapter begins with the good reign of Josiah, the reformation he made in the land, purging it from idolatry, 2 Chronicles 34:1, relates the orders he gave to repair the house of the Lord, which was accordingly done, 2 Chronicles 34:8, when the book of the law was found and brought to him, which greatly affected...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 1,2. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign,.... Of these two verses, [See comments on 2 Kings 22:1], [See comments on 2 Kings 22:2].