2 Kings 21:18

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16 ^aMoreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

17 Now ^athe rest of the acts of ^bManasseh—all that he did, and the sin that he committed—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

18 So ^aManasseh rested with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.

Amon’s Reign and Death

19 ^aAmon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

20 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, ^aas his father Manasseh had done.

21 So he walked in all the ways that his father had walked; and he served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.

22 He ^aforsook the Lord God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.

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2 Kings 21:18

Was buried - The catacomb of David was probably full, and the later kings, from Ahaz downward, had to find sepulture elsewhere. Ahaz was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the sepulchres of the kings II Chronicles 28:27. Hezekiah found a resting place on the way that led up to David' s catacomb II Chronicles 32:33. Manasseh and Amon were interred in "the garden of Uzza," a portion (apparently) of the royal palace-garden; perhaps so called after the name of the previous owner. Josiah was buried in "his own sepulchre" II Kings 23:30.

Amon his son - This name, which occurs only at this time and in the reign of the idolatrous Ahab I Kings 22:26, is identical in form with the Hebrew representative of the great Egyptian god, Amen or Amun (Nahum 3:8 margin); and it is therefore probable that Manasseh selected it and gave it to his son in compliment to the Egyptians.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 21:18:**

1 Samuel 25:1
2 Chronicles 32:33
Ezekiel 43:7-8
Luke 7:12
Acts 2:29

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