* as did Manasseh.
1-10 2Ki 21:1-11,20 Eze 20:18
* for Amon sacrificed.
Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh, in
sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an
evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, but they forget
how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view
Manasseh was defective, although it cannot be supposed that it
affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images,
he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the
law in De 7:5, which required, moreover, that the graven
images should be burnt with fire. How necessary that law was,
this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown
aside, and not burnt, Amon knew where to find them, soon set
them up, and sacrificed to them.
Isa 44:13-20
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