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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 Chronicles 33:1 - 33:1
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The reign of Manasseh; cf. 2 Kings 21:1-18. - The characteristics of this king's reign, and of the idolatry which he again introduced, and increased in a measure surpassing all his predecessors (2Ch 33:1-9), agrees almost verbally with 2Ki 21:1-9. Here and there an expression is rhetorically generalized and intensified, e.g., by the plurals לַבְּעָלִים and אֲשֵׁרֹות (2Ch 33:3) instead of the sing. לַבַּעַל and אֲשֵׁרָה (Kings), and בָּנָין (2Ch 33:6) instead of בְּנֹו (see on 2Ch 28:3); by the addition of וְכִשֵּׁף to וְנִחֵשׁ עֹונֵן, and of the name the Vale of Hinnom, 2Ch 33:6 (see on Jos 15:18, גֵּי for גֵּיא); by heaping up words for the law and its commandments (2Ch 33:8); and other small deviations, of which הַסֶּמֶל פֶּסֶל (2Ch 33:7) instead of הָאֲשֵׁרָה פֶּסֶל (Kings) is the most important. The word סֶמֶל, sculpture or statue, is derived from Deu 4:16, but has perhaps been taken by the author of the Chronicle from Eze 8:3, where סֶמֶל probably denotes the statue of Asherah. The form עֵילֹום for עֹולם (2Ch 33:7) is not elsewhere met with.