Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
Ver. 26. Notwithstanding the Lord, &c.] See on 2 Kings 23:22 .
Because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.] His sin was pardoned upon his repentance, but his reproach was not altogether wiped away, as Proverbs 6:33. The stain of it was like iron mould, which nothing can fetch out. His posterity also, yea, and the generality of the people, persisting in Manasseh's sins, were justly punishable for the same. The Corinthians were accessory to the sin of the incestuous person, because they bewailed it not; 1Co 5:2 and shall not we of this age smart for those bloody Marian days, if we lament not, and so disclaim them?