2 Chronicles 33:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. ”

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare 2 Kings 21:2 , note; 2 Kings 18:4 , note.
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the (h) LORD their God only. (h) Thus by ignorance they were deceived, thinking it nothing to keep the altars, so that they...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:1-20 . The Reign of Manasseh (see notes on 2 Kings 21:1-18 ). 2 Chronicles 33:1-10 is based upon 2 Kings 21:1-10 , which is fairly accurately followed; but 2 Chronicles 33:...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. The people did sacrifice - "Nevertheless the people did sacrifice on the high places, but only to t...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still, &c.— Rabbi Kimchi observes very well here, that though Manasseh's repentance might have been sincere, yet it was attended with a melancholy circumst...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. The people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only. Here it...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Reign of Manasseh This chapter repeats, with certain omissions, 2 Kings 21 but the section 2 Chronicles 33:11-17 , relating the captivity in Babylon, repentance, and release of Manasseh, is...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

MANASSEH’S CAPTIVITY AND REPENTANCE — HIS RESTORATION AND REFORMS ( 2 Chronicles 33:11-17 ). This section is peculiar to the Chronicle, and none has excited more scepticism among modern critics. T...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

MANASSEH: REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS 2 Chronicles 33:1-25 In telling the melancholy story of the wickedness of Manasseh in the first period of his reign, the chronicler reproduces the book of K...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Humbled Father, but Self-willed Son 2 Chronicles 33:14-25 Manasseh apparently did his best to undo the evil he had wrought in Jerusalem. So far as the idols and other symbols of idolatry were c...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, seems to have set himself to the most willful and persistent restoration of every form of abomination. All the things specifically forbidden were set up in the places s...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is a prayer among, the books of the apocrypha said to be this prayer of Manasseh. But the matter is questionable. Happy is it to observe, that a life which begun so unpromising, did yet find me...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nevertheless, the people did sacrifice still in the high places ,.... Not in those that were built for idols, at least did not sacrifice to them; for it follows: yet unto the Lord their God only ;...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the LORD their God only. Ver. 17. Nevertheless the people did sacrifice. ] Do Manasseh what he could to the contrary. Pl...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nevertheless, the people did sacrifice still , &c. “Rabbi Kimchi observes very well here, that though Manasseh's repentance might be sincere, yet it was attended with a melancholy circumstance,...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE REIGN OF MANASSEH (vv.1-9) Manasseh was only 12 years old at the time of his father's death, therefore he was born during the extra fifteen years that God had allowed Hezekiah. Manasseh was...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

11 Wherefore the L ORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 A...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 21 ., yet differs in omitting some things and adding new matter, especially in central part. Impiety of Man. ( 2 Chronicles 33:1-10 ); his capt...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:1-2 . Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: but did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, Yet who could h...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 33:3 . Made groves. This word should generally be rendered idols. Manasseh made images of Astartè, or Ashtaroth, and of all the idols of Ahaz. His ministers were idolaters, but concea...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The first twenty verses of this chapter are taken up with the account of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah and Hephzibah, who, beginning to reign at the early age of twelve years, reigned...
2 Chronicles 33:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Manasseh's Punishment and Repentance
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 22:43 ; 2 Chronicles 15:17 ; 2 Chronicles 32:12 ; 2 Kings 15:4
2 Chronicles 33:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Still — Manasseh could not carry the reformation so far as he had carried the corruption. It is an easy thing to debauch men's manners; but not so easy to reform them again.

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 33:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 33:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 33:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes