And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza ,.... Where his father Manasseh was buried, 2 Kings 21:18 , and Josiah his son reigned in his stead ; of whom many things are said in the two following chapters. read more
The garden of Uzza - The family sepulcher or burying-place. It is said 2 Kings 21:3 , 2 Kings 21:7 , that "Manasseh made a grove; and he set a graven image of the grove," etc. עשה אשר האשרה פסל את וישם vaiyasem eth pesel haasherah , asher asah : "And he put the graven image of Asherah, which he had made," into the house. Asherah, which we translate grove, is undoubtedly the name of an idol; and probably of one which was carved out of wood. R. S. Jarchi, on Genesis 12:3... read more
THE REIGNS OF MANASSEH AND AMON . read more
REIGN OF AMON . The short reign of Amen, the son and successor of Manasseh, was distinguished by only two events: read more
Amon. "Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem." This is a short account of the brief and wicked reign of Amon the son of Manasseh. I. HIS REIGN WAS VERY SHORT . "He reigned two years," etc. The wonder is that such a man should have been permitted to breathe the breath of life. The sooner a bad king dies the better. 1. The better for his own sake . It restrains his own responsibilities and the aggravation of his... read more
The reign of Amen. In this king we have— I. A PALER COPY OF HIS FATHER . The only noteworthy facts about Amen, during his brief two years' reign, are: 1. His imitation of Manasseh ' s wickedness . His father, during the greater part of his reign, had set an evil example, but towards its close he had repented. Amen did not imitate the repentance, but imitated the sin. He walked in all the ways his father had walked in, apparently setting up again the idols which his... read more
And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza— i.e. in the same place as his father (see 2 Kings 21:18 )— and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. So the writer of Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 33:25 ), and Josephus ( l.s.c. ) read more
Manasseh’s evil reign (21:1-26)Hezekiah’s reformation had cleansed Judah of the outward forms of foreign religion, but the inward spiritual condition of most people had not changed. The faithful remnant was still small (see 19:30-31). Possibly under pressure from Assyria, Manasseh reversed his father’s religious policy and with almost fanatical zeal reintroduced foreign religious ideas of every kind. Fifty-five years under his rule left Judah in a worse spiritual condition than that for which... read more
he was buried = one buried him. But some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and they buried him". sepulchre. Hebrew. keber, a (not "the") grave, or tomb. Compare 2 Kings 22:20 . read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 21:19-26
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 wicked: He forsook the God of his fathers (2 Kgs. 21:22), disobeyed the commands given to his... read more