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26And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 21:26

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

  • And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;

  • The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-26)

Here is a short account of the short and inglorious reign of Amon, the son of Manasseh. Whether Manasseh, in his blind and brutish zeal for his idols, had sacrificed his other sons—or whether, having been dedicated to his idols, they were refused by the people—so it was that his successor was a son not born till he was forty-five years old. And of him we are here told, 1. That his reign was very w…

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