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2 Chronicles 33:22
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The chronicler records King Amon’s actions immediately after noting his age of twenty-two and his two-year reign in Jerusalem. This account follows the detailed chronicle of his father Manasseh’s fifty-five year rule and the establishment of idolatrous worship.
The words — The phrase וַיַּעַשׂ הָרַע (va.ya‘as ha-ra‘) literally renders “he did the evil,” paired with בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה (be‘enei Yahweh) meaning “in the eyes of Yahweh.” This construction explicitly frames Amon’s conduct as a direct violation of divine standard rather than a mere political or cultural deviation.
The thread — The identical formula “he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done” appears in 2 Kings 21:20 and echoes the opening description of Manasseh’s reign in 2 Chronicles 33:1. This phrasing links Amon’s short rule directly to his father’s established pattern of idolatry.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that Amon’s reign continued his father’s covenant violations without the later repentance noted in Manasseh’s final years. It requires the reader to track how inherited religious failure compounds when unrepented.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
- 2 Kings 21:20 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
- 2 Chronicles 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- Isaiah 44:13 The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
- Ezekiel 20:18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.