Ezekiel 4:6

Ezekiel 4:6. Forty days— Reckon near fifteen years and six months in the reign of Manasseh, two years in that of Amon, three months in that of Jehoahaz, eleven years in that of Jehoiakim, three months and ten days in that of Jehoiachin, and eleven years in that of Zedekiah; and there arises a period of forty years, during which gross idolatry was practised in the kingdom of Judah. Manasseh's reformation, 2Ch 33:13 is supposed to have lasted during the remainder of his reign; and Josiah was uniformly a good king. Ib. Ezekiel 34:2. Forty days may have been employed in spoiling and desolating the city and temple.