Is found six timos in piol. The prohibition gate (Nab. xiii. 16), left on the nmth 11f is found in Dout. xv iii. 10; the rendering Joruse.lem, and opened on the main road for of the word (Authori-zed Version) is by the the eea (Conder's 'Handbook,' etc., p. 343). terL'l "sorcery" throe times, e.nd "witch" The wall traversed the north and ea.at sides or "witohcre.ft" the other three times. to Ophel, "on the wall" of which, it is said Dealt with a familiar spirit, and with (eh. xxvii. 3), "Jotham built mnch." H ... ze- wizards. The prohibitions are in Lev. xix. kie.h e.leo built much there and now Manas- 31; xx. 6, 27; Deut. xviii. 11. See llB illus- seh raised it up e. very gre~t height. trations 1 Sam. xxviii. 3-21; e.nd notice Ver. 15.-It will be noted how the mount the language of Ise.. viii. 19, "the.t chirp of the house of the Lord is here differenced e.nd mutter; " and xix. 3. ' from the city. "The city" seems to have Vers. 7, 8.-(Comp. Ps. cxxxii. 13, 14; comprised the two hills east and west of 2 Se.m. vii. 10.) the Tyropcean valley, and the "fore" city Ver. 7.-A carved image, the idol; tre.ns- encloeed bf the new wall (see Dr. Murphy's lnte, a carved image of the idol; i.e. the valuable little • Handbook to Chronicles'). Asherah; for see the parallel (2 Kings xxi. The strange gods, the idol, and the altars 7). The idol; Hebrew, ~7?1?· 'fhie name ie have all been mentioned in vers. 3-7. found here e.nd in ver. 15; in Deut. iv. 16, Ver. 17.-Compare Hezekiah's good work translated (Authorized Version) "figure; " (eh. mi. 1) with his son's bad work (eh. e.nd Ezck. viii. 3, 5, translated (Authorized xxxiii. 3); the latter could nndo his father's Veraion) "image." good, but now could not undo bis own evil ! Ver. 10.-(See p1uallel, vers. 11-15.) The illegitimate worshi ppings and olferi n "'8 Ver. 11.-The contents of this e.nd the of high places, though they had re.:'n following six verses (to the seventeenth) a.re " winked at" from time to time by some of not in the pe.re.llel, though their place there even the better of the kings, were of course is pie.in. That pe.re.llel, however, supplies essentially counter to the one national wor- in its ver. 16 e. very forcible narration of ship in the one temple, and to the offerings the evil conduct of Manasseh in Jerusalem and sacrifices of the one national altar. itself, so that he" filled" it with "innocent Ver. 18.-The parallel again obtains (2 blood" from "one end to another." The Kings xxi. 17, 18), but in shorter form. Ris King of Assyria; i.e. either Ese.rhaddon, prayer. This is for the present, at any rate, B.0. 680, or (though it is not probable) his lost, the apocryphal and the Septuagint son, Assur-bani-pal, B.o. 667-647. Among manuscript version of it alike not genuine. the thome; i.e. with hooks or rings (so The words of the seers. So ,wain our 2 Kings xix. 28, where the ea.nee word is compiler shows undesigned correspondence used; e.e also in Exod. xxxv. 22 ; Isa. xxxvii. with the writer of the parallel, as above 29; Ezek. xix. 4, 9; xxix. 4; mviii. 4). quoted (2 Kings xxi. 10-15). As to the Ver. 13.-And pre.yed unto him. The original authorities quoted here, book of the apocryphal " Prayer of Mane.sees" is not e.t kings, etc., and next verse, "the sayings of all likely to be e.uthentio. And brought the seers," see Introduction, vul. i. § 5. him age.in to Jerusalem. The Te.rgum Ver. 20.-In his own house. The parallel g\ves many mythical tales as to how this has, " In the garden of his own house, in deliverance was effected. Then Manasseh the garden of Uzza;" i.e., with little doubt, knew that. Did he not know, well know, wbe.t had been formerly the garden of one be/ore? So far as the mode of expression Uzza. me.yin any degree warrant such a stretch Ver. 21.-The long reign of Manasseh of charity, what e.n idea it gives of the force of fifty-five years-a. signal e.nd merciful with which grossest error will captivate instance of space given for repenta.nce- even the taught; e.nd with what foroe of a ended, his death met him presumably at the furious wind did the contaminating influence age of sixty-seven. The son who succeeded of idolatries all around sweep betimes before him we.a twenty-two years old, born there- them-these very kings and chief men of fore not before hie father was forty-five years Judah and Jerusalem I It is evident that old. This may be an indicati0n that it we.a there WIIB always among the people a "rem- indeed not one son only whom Manasseh nant" who kept the faith. See here, e.g., "ea.used to pass through the fire" (ver. 6). the reference to the " innocent blood" shed He emulated the sins of tho former lire of in Jerusalem, no doubt blood of those who hie father, but did not, like him, repent. H would not ooneent io idolatry-blood of will be noted that in var. 19 of the pe.rallel noble martyrs. hie mother's name is given e.s "Meshulle- Ver. 14.-The we.11 without; or, Revised meth, the daughter of Harnz, of Jotbe.h," of Version, the outer wall, is probably one with whom nothing is known. that of Hezekiah (oh. xxxii. 5), whioh now Ver. 24.-His ■ervants oonspired. So also Me.ne.seeh repnirs, or rubuilds, and perhaps Joe.sh a11J Amo.ziah he.d been punished, the lengthens 11-s well os lieigh tena. Tbe fish l~tter 1.weuc1ing the de~th of ~ father 011 404 THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. [on. xxxm.1-25,
t.hose servants who had caused it (2 Kings from very tender years, which could not xh-. 5; eh. n:iv. 25, 26 ; xxv. 27). have been entirely his own, but must he Ver. 25.-The people of the land. The credited in part to those who tRught cmd emphatic expression here used (as nlso in influenced him, throws the bafonce of pro- the pRmllel), with its repetition in same bability, perhaps, into this latter and moro verse making it more so, may either betray charitable view. The parallel contains two the unfortunate sympathy that the worse closing verses (25, 26) additional to what element of the nation felt with the bad king we have, giving the authority as the "book and his eYil ways, or it may mean that the of the c~hronicles of the kings of Judah," healthiPr element of the people insisted on and ste.tmg that Amon also " was buried in the right respect being observed to the his sepulclne, in the garden of Uzzo." proper succession. The oonduot of Josiah