2 Chronicles 33:15

15 He also ¹removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

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2 Chronicles 33:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:15

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the
house of the Lord
Which he had set there, ( 2 Chronicles 33:7 )

and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the
Lord, and in Jerusalem;
see ( 2 Chronicles 33:4 2 Chronicles 33:5 ) ,

and cast them out of the city;
perhaps into the brook Kidron; all this he did to show the sincerity of his repentance for his idolatry, and his abhorrence of it.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Chronicles 33:15 In-Context

13 When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

14 Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD , as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

16 He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the LORD their God.

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