2 Chronicles 33:7-8
he set a carved image The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather, Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law, that he might practice it. A most prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety in this! in the house 2Kgs 21:7-8, 2Kgs 23:6 God had said 2Chr 33:4; 1Kgs 8:29; Ps 132:13-14 which I have 2Chr 6:6; 1Kgs 8:44, 1Kgs 8:48, 1Kgs 11:13, 1Kgs 11:32; Ps 78:68 will I 2Sam 7:10; 1Chr 17:9 so that they 2Chr 7:17-22; Deut 28:1-14, Deut 30:15-20; Isa 1:19-20; Ezek 33:25-26 to do all Deut 4:40, Deut 5:1, Deut 5:31-33, Deut 6:1, Deut 8:1, Deut 27:26; Luke 1:6; Gal 3:10-13 by the hand Lev 8:36, Lev 10:11
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