* he set a carved image.
   The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of
   himself, in the house of the sanctuary."  In the parallel
   passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather,
   Asherah or Astarte.  Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems
   to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law,
   that he might practice it:  a most prodigious change from the
   height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety
   in this!

 * in the house.
  2Ki 21:7,8  23:6 
 * God had said.
  4  1Ki 8:29  Ps 132:13,14 
 * which I have.
  6:6  1Ki 8:44,48  11:13,32  Ps 78:68