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, which ought to sound in the ear of every one invested with power, His example and authority easily seduced his people to idolatry; but his royal mandate was unable to reclaim them.” Dodd. He 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.