2 Re 21:1

1 Manasse avea dodici anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò cinquantacinque anni a Gerusalemme. Sua madre si chiamava Heftsiba.

2 Re 21:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 21:1

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign
So that he was born three years after Hezekiah's recovery from his sickness, and in the seventeenth year of his reign:

and reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem:
among which must be reckoned the time of his captivity in Babylon; his reign was the longest of any of the kings of Judah: and his mother's name was Hephzibah; the name the church goes by, and signifies, "my delight or pleasure is in her", ( Isaiah 62:4 ) , no doubt she was a good woman, or Hezekiah would not have made choice of her for a wife; it is a tradition of the Jews ^F1, that she was the daughter of Isaiah, whose name, they say, is not mentioned, because so wicked a king was unworthy of such a grandfather.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. Paralipom. fol. 86. F.

2 Re 21:1 In-Context

1 Manasse avea dodici anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò cinquantacinque anni a Gerusalemme. Sua madre si chiamava Heftsiba.

2 Egli fece ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno, seguendo le abominazioni delle nazioni che l’Eterno avea cacciate d’innanzi ai figliuoli d’Israele.

3 Egli riedificò gli alti luoghi che Ezechia suo padre avea distrutti, eresse altari a Baal, fece un idolo d’Astarte, come avea fatto Achab re d’Israele, e adorò tutto l’esercito del cielo e lo servì.

4 Eresse pure degli altari ad altri dèi nella casa dell’Eterno, riguardo alla quale l’Eterno avea detto: "In Gerusalemme io porrò il mio nome".

5 Eresse altari a tutto l’esercito del cielo nei due cortili della casa dell’Eterno.