2 Chronicles 33

The wound is not so broad as the plaster of Christ's blood. The sea covers great rocks: the sea of God's compassion can drown your great sins; therefore be not discouraged, go to God, resolve to cast yourself upon his fatherly compassion; God may be entreated of you, as he was o…

As God makes use of all the seasons of the year for harvest, so all his various providences are to bring on the harvest of obedience. 1. Afflictions are to make us do God's will; (2 Chronicles 33:12) When Manasseh was in affliction, he besought the Lord, and humbled himself grea…

This appears, by vouchsafing mercy to Rahab a notable harlot: and as he dealeth with Rahab here, so hath he showed like mercy to other notorious sinners. King Manasseh had sold himself to Idolatry and witchcraft, and had shed innocent blood exceeding much, and caused Judah to si…

Who would not be willing to have a bone out of joint, so he might have a sight of God? King Manasseh was bound in Chains, this was sad to see a Crown of Gold changed into Fetters; but it wrought for his good, for, When he was in affliction he besought the Lord, and humbled himse…

It is not enough to eschew false objects of worship, but we must also take heed of false means of worship. Hence the people are blamed for sacrificing in the high places, though to the Lord their God only (2 Chronicles 33:17). 3. Although none but the grossest kind of idolatry,…

Though men that have no fear of God they may seem to have bold spirits, and it seems to come through the greatness of their spirits, that they will not fear God, yet these men in the time of danger are the most base cowardly men in the world. I'll give you a notable instance for…

The LXX renders this word variously: by a term meaning "carved things," Leviticus 26:1; Deuteronomy 4:16. Also in the same sense, by a term meaning "carved works," Isaiah 45:20; by a term for "images," Exodus 20:4; 2 Chronicles 33:22. Also by a term meaning "likenesses" or "idol…

The Epicureans held that every one had his proper star, as a peculiar Daemon or [illegible] Numen. And not only the Gentiles but Jews polluted themselves with the worship of the host of heaven, Manasses being their chief perverter herein (2 Chronicles 33:3). But if some who pret…

גיא (Ge) is the Hebrew word for a valley. Now, “the valley of Hinnom” was infamous for the detestable superstition which was committed in it, because there they sacrificed their children to idols, (2 Chronicles 33:6.) The consequence was, that holy men, in order to excite strong…

The Lord stops not Manasseh's outrage when he enters first upon his kingdom (as he easily could have done) but suffers him to fill up the measure of his iniquity, so that the bottom of hell could not afford abominations more or worse than were practiced by him, he filled Jerusal…

Upon this condition it is obtained (Matthew 18:3): Unless you be converted, and become as little children, you can in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven. 2 Chronicles 33:12: It is said of Manasseh, he humbled himself greatly, and made supplication, and the Lord was entreate…

Abraham was upon his seventy-fifth year when God called him (Genesis 12:5, compared with Joshua 24:2). Manasseh was converted near upon his death, about sixty years of age (2 Chronicles 33:19). But in the case of old age, the matter is so difficult, and so unusual, that there ar…

We think God is going to destroy us, but he only lays us a-whitening: some birds will not hatch but in time of thunder. Christians are commonly best in affliction; God will make his children at last bless him for sufferings; the eyes that sin shuts, affliction opens; when Manass…

Second, we should endeavor to have our sorrow rise up to the same height and proportion as our sin. Manasseh was a great sinner and a great mourner (2 Chronicles 33:12): he humbled himself greatly. Manasseh made the streets run with blood, and he made the prison in Babylon run w…

There is a Covenant made to keep all the Testimonies and Statutes of God, and the people are made to stand to it. From (2 Kings 23:8, 9) compared with (2 Chronicles 14:3, 5), (2 Chronicles 15:17), (2 Chronicles 33:17), it is evident there were in Judah two sorts of high places,…

Jehosaphat, Asa, Hezekiah, Josiah, those excellent Princes made use of their power and the authority of their places in their kingdoms and territories, to put down and suppress false worships and ways, to punish false Prophets, idolatrous Priests, and the people who went after t…

And for the finding out of this, we will first set before you the examples of those who have humbled themselves and have been humbled in Scripture, and from there gather what it is. For this you shall find Manasseh in 2 Chronicles 33 — in his affliction humbling himself greatly,…

And the scriptures were written not by such as were men of God only, but by such as were holy men of God. Peter denied Christ knowingly against his own conscience, and that with cursing and banning, and yet came to repentance afterward, as appears by the testimony of Christ: I h…

Example of Manasseh: and when he was in tribulation he prayed to the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly. And David says: It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn your statutes (Genesis 42:21; Hosea 5:15; Lamentations 3:20; 2 Chronicles 33:12; Psalm…

Of the thief: he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come to your kingdom. Then Jesus said to him, truly I say to you, today shall you be with me in paradise (2 Samuel 12:12; 2 Chronicles 33:12; Luke 18:13; Luke 23:42-43). Having such notable promises made to repentance, n…

Let him speak to men that know him not so much as the donkey his owner, such as rebelled more and more when he chastised them, such whose hands were full of blood; yet let but such as these come and wash themselves, cease to do evil, and learn to do well, and then all these scar…

For a particular proof of this, take the example of Manasseh, who (I think) went the furthest in sin that ever any did since Adam's time, and received pardon. Of his original corruption no question can be made; that his actual transgressions were many, and those most heinous, bl…

No doubt but he had heard the word of God before: for Paul had been sometime in that city, so as that judgment was but as a hammer to drive into his heart the nails of God's word: for it is the proper use of God's judgments to beat down the hard and stout heart of man, and so to…

We have also a scripture example for punishing Sectaries who are not Heretics. It is agreed among interpreters, there were in Judah two sorts of high places, some on which God was worshipped, others on which idols were worshipped, and it is most manifest from 2 Chronicles 33:17,…