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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 33:19
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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His prayer also, etc.] Was not only recorded in the above annals, but in the writings of another person after mentioned: and how God was entreated of him; heard his prayer, and showed him favour both in a temporal and spiritual way; for though the Jews would not allow that he was saved, or had a part in the world to come, eternal life f151, yet there appears no just reason why it should be so thought: and all his sin, and his trespass; his impieties, idolatries, and murders: and the places wherein he built high places; (see <143303>2 Chronicles 33:3) and set up groves; statues in groves: and graven images, before he was humbled; (see <143307>2 Chronicles 33:7,22), behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers; or of Hosea, the name of a prophet who wrote the history of his own times; so the Targrim and Vulgate Latin version; and, according to the Jewish chronology f152, there was a prophet of this name in the times of Amon the son of Manasseh. Ver. 20-25. So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house, etc.] That is, in the garden of his house, (See Gill on “<122118>2 Kings 21:18”); there; to which may be added, that the Jews f153 in later times buried in a garden; though it was the custom of the ancients, both Greeks f154 and Romans f155, to bury the dead in their own houses; hence sprung the worship of the Lares and Penates, the household gods: from hence to the end of the chapter is the same with (<122118>2 Kings 21:18-26).
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