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Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;
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A Shocking Comparison
Commentators explain that the "Amorites" are used here as a representative term for all the wicked Canaanite nations that God had previously judged. The charge against Manasseh is shocking: his evil was considered even greater than that of the people whose sin had led to their expulsion from the land.
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19th Century
Anglican
And has done. —The and is not in the Hebrew, though the Syriac and Arabic supply it. It is not needed, for the sense is, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, &c. Before named, (2 Kings 21:3–7).
Presbyterian
Here is the doom of Judah and Jerusalem. The words used represent the city emptied and utterly desolate. Yet it was not destroyed by this; instead,…
