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2 Kings 23:26
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records this statement immediately after praising Josiah’s reforms, explaining why Judah’s temporary relief did not halt impending judgment. The words — אַ֣ךְ ('akh) translates "nevertheless," and שָׁ֣ב (shav) means "he turned back," marking God’s deliberate refusal to withdraw His wrath. The thread — The verse connects directly to the declared judgment in 2 Kings 22:16 and 2 Kings 23:27, where God states He will remove Judah and Jerusalem from His sight. Why it lands — It forces the reader to recognize that a king’s religious reforms cannot override the accumulated guilt that has already triggered irreversible divine action.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 21:11 “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
- 2 Kings 24:4 and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
- 2 Kings 22:16 that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
- 2 Kings 24:2 And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- Jeremiah 3:7 I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
- Jeremiah 15:1 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!