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2 Chronicles 33:15

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He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

KJV

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 33

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

He took away the strange gods - He appears to have done every thing in his power to destroy the idolatry which he had set up, and to restore the pure worship of the true God. His repentance brought forth fruits meet for repentance. How long he was in captivity, and when or by whom he was delivered, we know not. The fact of his restoration is asserted; and we believe it on Divine testimony.

This site's exposition

he took away the strange gods

on 2 Chronicles 33:15-16

The strange gods and the carved idol come out of the house of the Lord, and the altars he raised there and across Jerusalem are thrown out of the city, undoing verses 4 through 7 one by one. He repairs the altar of the Lord and offers peace offerings and thank offerings, then commands Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel, the king now using his authority for the opposite end. None of this reform appears in 2 Kings 21, which ends Manasseh's account with the doom oracle and says nothing more of him.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

and he cast them outside but he neither broke them nor hid them from the eye.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 33:15:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
of Gihon in the valley beside the valley of Gihon, the name of a place.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 33:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
and he sacrificed upon it peace-offerings and thanksgiving offerings He brought a thanksgiving offering and thanked the Holy One, blessed be He, for restoring him to Jerusalem and to his kingdom.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 33:16:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַ֠יָּסַרand he removed

    vaiyasarH5493 →299 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֨י[the] gods of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • הַנֵּכָ֤ר<the> foreignness

    hanekharH5236 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַסֶּ֙מֶל֙the image

    hasemelH5566 →

  • מִבֵּ֣יתfrom [the] house of

    mibeitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַֽמִּזְבְּח֗וֹתthe altars

    hamizbechotH4196 →401 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בָּנָ֛הhe had built

    banahH1129 →376 times

  • בְּהַ֥רon [the] mountain of

    beharH2022 →546 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וּבִירוּשָׁלִָ֑םand in Jerusalem

    uvirushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וַיַּשְׁלֵ֖ךְand he threw [them]

    vaiyashlekhH7993 →125 times

  • ח֥וּצָה[the] outside towards

    chutzahH2351 →164 times

  • לָעִֽיר׃of the city

    lairH5892 →1090 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

13 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 33:3–7For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.4 works2 Kings 21:7Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.3 worksHosea 14:1–3Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.2 worksIsaiah 2:17–21So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,2 worksMatthew 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.2 worksEzekiel 18:20–22The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.2 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 33:7Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.2 works2 Kings 21:5In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.2 works2 Kings 23:12He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.2 worksJudges 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.2 worksJeremiah 32:34They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.2 works2 Chronicles 33:4Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”2 worksJeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 3:8

    Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

    it leads to

    • Luke 3:8

      Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up…

    • Acts 26:20

      First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of…

    • 2 Peter 1:4–8

      Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused…

    • Galatians 5:22–23

      But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

    • Philippians 1:11

      filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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