2 Cronache 34:4

4 E in presenza sua furono disfatti gli altari de’ Baali; ed egli troncò i simulacri ch’erano al disopra di essi; e spezzò, e tritò i boschi e le sculture, e le statue di getto, e ne sparse la polvere sopra le sepolture di coloro che aveano loro sacrificato.

2 Cronache 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 Cronache 34:4 In-Context

2 E fece ciò che piace al Signore, e camminò nelle vie di Davide, suo padre, e non se ne rivolse, nè a destra, nè a sinistra.

3 E l’anno ottavo del suo regno, essendo egli ancora giovanetto, cominciò a ricercar l’Iddio di Davide, suo padre; e l’anno duodecimo cominciò a nettar Giuda e Gerusalemme degli alti luoghi, e de’ boschi, e delle sculture, e delle statue di getto.

4 E in presenza sua furono disfatti gli altari de’ Baali; ed egli troncò i simulacri ch’erano al disopra di essi; e spezzò, e tritò i boschi e le sculture, e le statue di getto, e ne sparse la polvere sopra le sepolture di coloro che aveano loro sacrificato.

5 Ed arse le ossa de’ sacerdoti sopra gli altari loro; e nettò Gerusalemme e Giuda.

6 Egli fece lo stesso ancora nelle città di Manasse, e di Efraim, e di Simeone, e fino in Neftali, ne’ lor luoghi desolati d’ogn’intorno.