21:6 And he made his son a pass through the fire, and observed
times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.
21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of
the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will b
observe to do according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses
commanded them.
(b) Therefore seeing they did not obey the commandment of
God, they were justly cast from the land which they had
only on condition.
21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I
[am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall c tingle.
(c) Meaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will
be astonished.
21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line d of Samaria,
and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe
Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and
turning [it] upside down.
(d) As I have destroyed Samaria and the house of Ahab so
will I destroy Judah.
21:14 And I will forsake the e remnant of mine inheritance,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they
shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
(e) Meaning, Judah and Benjamin, which were the only ones
left of the rest of the tribes.
21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed s innocent blood very much, till
he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside
his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
(s) The Hebrews write that he slew Isaiah the prophet, who
was his father-in-law.
21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not
in the g way of the LORD.
