23And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
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And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-25)We have little recorded concerning Amon, but enough unless it were better. Here is, I. His great wickedness. He did as Manasseh had done in the days of his apostasy, 2 Chron. 33:22. Those who think this an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent forget how many good kings had wicked sons. Only it should seem that Manasseh was in this defective, that, when he cast out the images , he did not ut…
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