2 Kings 21:18
Ver. 18. And Manasseh slept with his fathers,....] Or died, after a reign of fifty five years, and a life of sixty seven:
and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; whether the burial of him here was his own choice, judging himself unworthy to lie with the kings of Judah, who had been guilty of such great sins, or whether the will of others, on the same account, is not certain; and as much at a loss are we for the reason of this garden being called the garden of Uzza, whether from Uzzah that died for touching the ark, 2Sa 6:6 or from King Uzziah, 2Ki 15:7. The Jews buried in gardens in the times of Christ, who himself was buried in one, Joh 19:41. The Romans had sometimes sepulchres in their gardens {g}, Galba the emperor was buried in his gardens {h}; and so had other nations. Cyrus king of Persia was buried in a garden {i}:and Amon his son reigned in his stead; of whom we have the following account.{g} Vid. Kirchman. de Funer. Romas. l. 2. c. 22. p. 274. {h} Eutrop. Hist. Roman. l. 7. Sueton. Vit. Galb. c. 20. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. c. 49. {i} Strabo. Geograph l. 15. p. 502. 2 Kings 21:19Ver. 19. And Amon was twenty two years old when he began to reign,.... Being born in the forty fifth of his father's life, and in the thirty third of his reign:and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; which, as Abarbinel observes, was the usual time the sons of wicked kings reigned, and instances in the son of Jeroboam, Baasha, and Ahab, 1Ki 15:25. An Arabic writer {k} says, he reigned twelve years, but according to the Jews only two:and his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah; there was a place called Jotbath, which was one of the stations of the children of Israel in the wilderness, Nu 33:33 but it can scarcely be thought to be the same place.{k} Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67. 2 Kings 21:20Ver. 20. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... Committed idolatry:as his father Manasseh did: he imitated him in that, but not in his repentance and humiliation, 2Ch 33:23. 2 Kings 21:21Ver. 21. And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in,.... In his wicked way, his idolatry, witchcraft, and murders;and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them; Baal, Ashtoreth, and all the host of heaven, and all the carved images his father made, which it seems he only removed, but did not break in pieces, 2Ch 33:22. 2 Kings 21:22Ver. 22. And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers,.... Of David, Solomon, &c.and walked not in the way of the Lord; prescribed by him in his law for the worship of him. 2 Kings 21:23Ver. 23. And the servants of Amon conspired against him,.... Some of his domestic servants, and perhaps his courtiers, not on account of his idolatry, but for some ill usage of them:and slew the king in his own house: which they had an opportunity to do, being his servants. 2 Kings 21:24Ver. 24. And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against King Amon,.... On occasion of his death, there seems to have been an insurrection of the people in a body, to avenge the death of their king, who might be beloved on account of his idolatry, so depraved was the nation; or it may be only to avenge his death because he was their king, whose life these men ought not to have taken away: and the rather this may be thought to be the reason by what follows,and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead; who had been prophesied of by name above three hundred years before, see1Ki 13:2. 2 Kings 21:25Ver. 25. Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?]See Gill on "2Ki 21:17". 2 Kings 21:26Ver. 26. And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza,.... Where his father Manasseh was buried, 2Ki 21:18,and Josiah his son reigned in his stead; of whom many things are said in the two following chapters.
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