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he set a carved image: The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather, Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law, that he might practice it. a most prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety in this! in the house: Kg2 21:7, Kg2 21:8, Kg2 23:6 God had said: Ch2 33:4; Kg1 8:29; Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14 which I have: Ch2 6:6; Kg1 8:44, Kg1 8:48, Kg1 11:13, Kg1 11:32; Psa 78:68 2 Chronicles 33:8
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