He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed : Manasseh opposed the reforms of his father Hezekiah and he brought Judah back into terrible idolatry. This shows us that repentance, reform, and revival are not permanent standing conditions. What is accomplished at one time can be opposed and turned back at another time. He raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image : Manasseh did not want to imitate his godly father.
Instead, he imitated one of the very worst kings of Israel: Ahab. He embraced the same state-sponsored worship of Baal and Asherah honored with a wooden image that marked the reign of Ahab. He worshiped all the host of heaven and served them : Manasseh did not only bring back old forms of idolatry; he also brought new forms of idolatry to Judah. At this time the Babylonian Empire was rising in influence, and they had a special attraction to astrological worship.
Manasseh probably imitated this. Worse, he corrupted the worship of the true God at the temple, and made the temple a place of idol altars, including those dedicated to his cult of astrological worship he built altars for all the host of heaven. He made his son pass through the fire : Manasseh sacrificed his own son to the Canaanite god Molech, who was worshipped with the burning of children. Practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums : Manasseh invited direct Satanic influence by his approval and introduction of these occult arts.
He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of… the LORD : Asherah was the Canaanite goddess of fertility, and worshipped through ritual prostitution. This means that Manasseh made the temple into an idolatrous brothel, dedicated to Asherah.
But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil : This describes the basic attitude of the people of Judah during the year reign of Manasseh. They paid no attention to the generous promises of God, promising protection to His obedient people. He was indeed a wicked king, but perhaps the greater sin was on the part of the people who accepted this seduction willingly.
God spoke to both the people and the leader, but they rejected His word. Without a strong spiritual leader, the sinful people quickly turned to their own evil machinations.
The judgment of God could not be far away. This was a transformation of the culture from something generally God-honoring to a culture that glorified idolatry and immorality. In general, we can say this happened because the people wanted it to happen. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day. He spoke by the prophets to His disobedient people. These five following verses contain the sum of what these prophets spoke. He has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him : This was a remarkable achievement of evil.
The Amorites were among the Canaanite tribes who populated the Promised Land before Israel captured it, and they were infamous for their violent, immoral, and depraved culture. Both his ears will tingle : In other places in the Old Testament, tingling ears are a sign that an especially severe judgment was coming 1 Samuel , Jeremiah If Judah insisted on imitating the sins of the Northern Kingdom, then God would answer their similar sins with a similar judgment.
Genesis And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him…. Genesis ,5,13,14,20 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession….
Numbers Of the children of Joseph, namely , of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ….
Genesis ,50 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt…. Context Crossref Comm Hebrew. Find out more now! His mother was Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, an Egyptian priest of the sun god.
The Pharaoh had given her to Joseph as his wife. From Manasseh, the Jewish tribe of Manasseh was descended. In 1 Chronicles , Manasseh had a son Machir, by his Aramean concubine and he was the grandfather of Gilead. Matthew 1 v 3 and Luke 3 verse Genesis 41 v tells how he was born in Egypt before the arrival of his Canaanite family.
He established altars for the worship of the Baals. He made Asherahs and worshiped a whole host of heaven. He placed altars to the host of heaven in the temple of Yahweh. He also put a carved image of idols in the temple — the very place where God told David to keep his name forever.
Manasseh even made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He used soothsayers, sorcerers, mediums, and wizards.
It is thought, however, that Manasseh might simply have been following the wishes of the people. Times were tough. The Assyrians had imposed a heavy tax on them years earlier during the reforms of Hezekiah.
The people obviously had lost faith in Yahweh and might have thought that by doing what would appease the Assyrians, they might get some relief. At the ripe old age of twelve, Manasseh was no match for those who believed the way to prosperity was to capitulate to the Assyrians.
Under his supervision, a deliberate attempt was made to banish the worship of Yahweh. Needless to say, the prophetic voices of Isaiah, and possibly Micah, cried out in protest. But the louder they cried, the more the people responded with hatred. Eventually, Manasseh systematically went after the prophets and all those who were faithful to Yahweh. Most of the reformers were put to death. Rabbinic legend has it that Manasseh is responsible for killing Isaiah around this time by cutting him in half in the trunk of a tree.
These people had done nothing but provoke the Lord ever since. Therefore, they would have the same fate as Samaria and Ahab the northern kingdom and king that had already been destroyed by the Assyrians. In 2 Kings , the author attributes the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem to the idolatry of Manasseh. Manasseh was the worst of all the evil kings. It ends, however, with Yahweh warning the king and the people, but neither would listen.
Then 2 Chronicles continues by saying that Yahweh raised up the captains of the troops of the king of Assyria to come after Manasseh. They took him to Babylon, purportedly to stand before the Assyrian king, Esarhaddon.
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