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2 Chronicles 33:9

2 Chronicles 33:9
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 33:1-10

We have here an account of the great wickedness of Manasseh. It is the same almost word for word with that which we had Kg2 21:1-9, and took a melancholy view of. It is no such pleasing subject that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

and to do worse than the heathen R.V. so that they did evil more than did the nations. Cp. Jer 15:4, where the captivity itself is referred back for its cause to the evil deeds of Manasseh.