Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 33:3

"For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them." — 2 Chronicles 33:3 (ASV)

For. — And. (See margin.)

Broken down. — 2 Chronicles 23:17; 2 Chronicles 31:1 (threw down). Kings has destroyed (‘ibbad).

Baalim. — The Baals — i.e., the different images of Baal. Kings has the singular, both here and in the next word, groves, or rather Asheras (‘Ash ç rôth; Kings, ‘ Ash ç rah). The latter plural is rhetorical: Manasseh made such things as Asheras. (Compare also the use of the plural in 2 Chronicles 32:31, and the passages there referred to.) Kings adds: as Ahab king of Israel made.