2 Kings 21:22 - Exposition

And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers. Other kings, as Ahaz, had made a sort of compromise between the worship of Jehovah and idolatry ( 2 Kings 16:10-15 ). Manasseh and Amen forsook the worship of Jehovah altogether. And walked not in the way of the Lord ; i.e. did not even maintain an outward observance of the Law of Moses, but set it wholly aside.