26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. …
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-29)In these verses we may observe, I. The very bad character that is given of Ahab ( 1 Kgs. 21:25 , 26 ), which comes in here to justify God in the heavy sentence passed upon him, and to show that though it was passed upon occasion of his sin in the matter of Naboth (which David’s sin in the matter of Uriah did too much resemble), yet God would not have punished him so severely if he had not been gui…
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