Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.

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Title: Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.
Author: Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.
Publication: Cambridge :: Printed by Roger Daniel,; 1646.
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CHAP. XXXIII.

Vers. 1. MAnasseh was twelve years old when he began to reigne.] See 2. Kings 21.1. &c. many severall notes for the explanation of this chapter.

Vers. 6. And he caused his children to passe through the fire, in the valley of the sonne of Hinnom,] See 2. Kings 16.3.

Vers. 10. And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people.] To wit, by his servants the prophets: the summe of their prophesies is expressed, 2. Kings 21.11—15.

Vers. 11. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns.] It seems he thought to hide himself in some woods and thickets, and therefore it is said here, that he was taken among the thorns. The like is said concerning the Israelites, when they were affraid of the Philistines that were come into their land, 1. Sam. 13.6. When the men of Israel saw they were in a strait, then they did hide themselves in caves and in thickets.

Vers. 14. Even to the entring in of the fish-gate, &c.] So called, because there they used to sell fish.

Vers. 15. And he took away the strange gods, and the idols out of the house of the Lord.] That idol mentioned vers. 7.

Vers. 20. And they buried him in his own house.] To wit, in the garden of his house, called the garden of Ʋzza, 2. Kings 21.18.