歴代誌Ⅱ 33:13-14 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 33:13

And prayed unto him . The apocryphal "Prayer of Manasses" is not at all likely to be authentic. And brought him again to Jerusalem . The Targum gives many mythical tales as to how this deliverance was effected. Then Manasseh knew that . Did he not know, well know, before ? So far as the mode of expression may in any degree warrant such a stretch of charity, what an idea it gives of the force with which grossest error will captivate even the taught; and with what force of a furious... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 33:14

The wall without ; or, Revised Version, the outer wall, is probably one with that of Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 32:5 ), which now Manasseh repairs, or rebuilds, and perhaps lengthens as well as heightens. The fish gate ( Nehemiah 13:16 ), left on the north of Jerusalem, and opened on the main road for the sea. The wall traversed the north and east sides to Ophel , "on the wall" of which, it is said ( 2 Chronicles 27:3 ), "Jotham built much." Hezekiah also built much there, and now... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 33:14

Rather, “he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west of Gihon-in-the-valley.” The wall intended seems to have been that toward the northeast, which ran from the vicinity of the modern Damascus gate across the valley of Gihon, to the “fish-gate” at the northeast corner of the “city of David.”We may gather from this verse that, late in his reign, Manasseh revolted from the Assyrians, and made preparations to resist them if they should attack him. Assyria began to decline in power... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 33:13

2 Chronicles 33:13. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God He was convinced, by his own experience, of God’s power, justice, and goodness; that Jehovah alone was the true God, and not those idols which he had worshipped, by which he had received great hurt and no good. He might have known this at a less expense, if he would have given due attention and credit to the word written and preached: but it was better to pay thus dear for the knowledge of God, than perish in ignorance and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 33:14

2 Chronicles 33:14. After this he built a wall without the city of David He repaired and strengthened that wall which Hezekiah had built, (2 Chronicles 32:5,) and which, possibly, the king of Assyria, or of Babylon rather, when he last took Jerusalem, had caused to be thrown down, either wholly or in part. On the west side of Gihon On the west side of the city of David, to which Hezekiah had brought the watercourse down, mentioned 2 Chronicles 32:30, into the great pool which he had... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 33:1-25

The evil of Manasseh and Amon (33:1-25)Manasseh receives the full blame for destroying all the good work that his father had done. Over his long reign of fifty-five years he dragged the nation down to its lowest spiritual condition ever. Although he made a brief attempt at reform towards the end of his life, he could not undo the damage of the previous half a century. Nor was any king after him able to reform Judah sufficiently to save it from judgment. Like Israel, Judah would go into... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 33:14

MANASSEH'S INEFFECTIVE REFORMS"Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Chronicles 33:13

2 Chronicles 33:13. And prayed unto him— We have a prayer which, it is pretended, he made in prison. The church does not receive it as canonical; but it has a place among the apocryphal pieces, and in our collection stands before the book of Maccabees. The Greek church has received it into its book of prayers; and it is there sometimes used as a devout form, and as containing nothing deserving of censure. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 33:14

14. he built a wall without the city . . . on the west side of Gihon . . . even to the entering in at the fish gate—"The well-ascertained position of the fish gate, shows that the valley of Gihon could be no other than that leading northwest of Damascus gate, and gently descending southward, uniting with the Tyropoeligon at the northeast corner of Mount Zion, where the latter turns at right angles and runs towards Siloam. The wall thus built by Manasseh on the west side of the valley of Gihon,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 33:1-20

N. Manasseh 33:1-20Manasseh was one of the few examples of an evil Judean king who became good. Nevertheless his many years of wickedness made captivity inevitable for Judah (2 Kings 23:26; Jeremiah 15:4)."Manasseh’s acts are . . . a calculated attempt to throw off the lordship of Yahweh, to claim independence from the Covenant, to drive him from the land which he had given Israel." [Note: McConville, p. 250.] "If Manasseh had searched the Scriptures for practices that would most anger the Lord... read more