2 Chronik 34:4

4 und ließ vor sich abbrechen die Altäre der Baalim, und die Sonnensäulen obendrauf hieb er ab, und die Ascherabilder und Götzen und gegossenen Bilder zerbrach er und machte sie zu Staub und streute sie auf die Gräber derer, die ihnen geopfert hatten, {~}

2 Chronik 34:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 34:4

And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence
He not only ordered them to be broke down, but he went in person, and saw it done; these were the altars Manasseh had reared up to the idols; and though upon his humiliation he cast them out, they were rebuilt by Amon his son, see ( 2 Chronicles 33:3 2 Chronicles 33:15 2 Chronicles 33:22 ) ,

and the images that were above them he cut down;
sun images, as the word signifies; these Chamanim might be representatives of Cham or Ham, the son of Noah, the same with Jupiter Ammon; and there was another Heathen deity, Amanus, Strabo ^F23 speaks of, supposed to be the sun, (See Gill on Leviticus 26:30), these, as Jarchi says, were in the form of the sun, and were set above the altars, over against the sun, to whom worship was paid; though some think this respects not place, but time, and that these were images in times past; in the preceding age, as the Tigurine version:

and the groves, and the carved images and the molten images, he brake
in pieces;
ordered them to be broken; the groves were statues, or images in groves, and thereby distinguished from those made of wood, and were carved, and from those that were of molten metal, and were placed elsewhere:

and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that
had sacrificed unto them,
see ( 2 Kings 23:6 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Geograph l. 11. p. 352.

2 Chronik 34:4 In-Context

2 und tat, was dem HERRN wohl gefiel, und wandelte in den Wegen seines Vaters David und wich weder zur Rechten noch zur Linken.

3 Denn im achten Jahr seines Königreichs, da er noch jung war, fing er an zu suchen den Gott seines Vaters David, und im zwölften Jahr fing er an zu reinigen Juda und Jerusalem von den Höhen und Ascherabildern und Götzen und gegossenen Bildern

4 und ließ vor sich abbrechen die Altäre der Baalim, und die Sonnensäulen obendrauf hieb er ab, und die Ascherabilder und Götzen und gegossenen Bilder zerbrach er und machte sie zu Staub und streute sie auf die Gräber derer, die ihnen geopfert hatten, {~}

5 und verbrannte die Gebeine der Priester auf ihren Altären und reinigte also Juda und jerusalem,

6 dazu in den Städten Manasses, Ephraims, Simeons und bis an Naphthali in ihren Wüsten umher.