2 Chr 33:7
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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; 2Kgs 21:8; 2Kgs 23:6
God had said.
2Chr 33:4; 1Kgs 8:29; Ps 132:13; Ps 132:14
which I have.
2Chr 6:6; 1Kgs 8:44; 1Kgs 8:48; 1Kgs 11:13; 1Kgs 11:32; Ps 78:68