Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 21:9
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
9. Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than &c. ] R.V. to do that which is evil more than, &c. The R.V. represents the Hebrew more closely. The phrase in Chronicles is ‘to err and to do worse than the heathen’. For Judah sinned against light and knowledge.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
During the long reign of Manasseh idolatry in all manner of varied forms took a hold upon the Jewish people such as had never been known before. Compare Jer 7:18, Jer 7:31; Eze 23:37; Zep 1:5. The corruption of morals kept pace with the degradation of religion. Compare 2Ki 23:7; Zep 3:1-3; Jer 2:8; Jer 5:1.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. Seduced them to do more evil] He did all he could to pervert the national character, and totally destroy the worship of the true God; and he succeeded.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Partly because they were not contented with those idols which the Canaanites worshipped, but either themselves invented, or they borrowed from other nations, many new idols and kinds of idolatry; and partly because as their light was far more clear, their obligations to God infinitely higher, and their helps and antidotes against idolatry much stronger than the Canaanites had; so their sins, though the same in kind, were unspeakably worse in respect of these dreadful aggravations.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
But they hearkened not,…. To the voice of God in his law by Moses, and were not obedient to it:
and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel: he set up more idols, and drew the people into more and greater idolatries, than the old Canaanites; and these were the more aggravated by having a law given to them, and prophets sent to instruct them in it, and by the benefits and blessings bestowed upon them by the lawgiver, which laid them under greater obligations to him; see Jer 2:11.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(9) Seduced them.Led them astray. Chronicles renders the same verb made them to err.
To do more evil.To do the evil more . . . The LXX. adds: in the eyes of Jehovah. The idolatry of Judah was worse than that of the Canaanites, because they worshipped only their national gods, whereas Judah forsook its own God and was ready to adopt almost any foreign cultus with which it was brought into contact (Jer. 2:11).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
9. More evil than did the nations Because the worship of their own false gods by nations who knew not the true God, was far less condemnatory than for Israel, who had received so many revelations of Jehovah, to turn aside to the worship of idols.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Ver. 9. But they hearkened not. ] Nothing is more stupid than idolaters; they have ears but hear not, &c.
To do more evil than did the nations.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
seduced. Not said of any previous king. Compare Jer 15:4.
do more evil = do the evil more.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
they hearkened: 2Ch 36:16, Ezr 9:10, Ezr 9:11, Neh 9:26, Neh 9:29, Neh 9:30, Psa 81:10, Dan 9:6, Dan 9:10, Dan 9:11, Luk 13:34, Joh 15:22, Jam 4:17
seduced: 1Ki 14:16, 2Ch 33:9, Psa 12:8, Pro 29:12, Hos 5:11, Rev 2:20
more evil: Eze 16:47, Eze 16:51, Eze 16:52
Reciprocal: Exo 32:21 – General 2Ki 21:11 – above all 2Ch 33:2 – like unto Job 34:30 – General Eze 5:7 – neither have done Eze 13:10 – seduced Eze 16:29 – in the land Eze 16:44 – As is
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 21:9-10. Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations, &c. Partly, because they were not contented with those idols which the Canaanites worshipped, but either invented, or borrowed from other nations, many new idols; and partly, because as their light was far more clear, their obligations to God infinitely higher, and their helps against idolatry much stronger than the Canaanites had; so that their sins, though the same in kind, were unspeakably worse in respect of these dreadful aggravations. The Lord spake by his servants the prophets Abarbinel says, that Hosea, Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk, all prophesied in his days: and some think Obadiah also, and Isaiah.