2 Chronicles 33:22

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He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, just as Manasseh, his father, had done. And to all the idols that Manasseh his father made, Amon sacrificed, and he served them.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    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,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    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,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    But he did euill in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the images, which Manasseh his father had made, and serued them,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done: and he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had made, and served them.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father, and to all the graven images that Manasseh his father had made hath Amon sacrificed, and serveth them,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, as his father Manasseh did, and Amon has sacrificed to all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made, and serves them,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh, his father, had done. Amon sacrificed to all the carved figures that Manasseh his father had made, and he worshiped them.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, just as Manasseh, his father, had done. And to all the idols that Manasseh his father made, Amon sacrificed, and he served them.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He did evil in the Lord's sight just as his father Manasseh had. Amon worshiped and sacrificed to all the idols his father Manasseh had made.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

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אָמ֖וֹן
ʼÂmôwn
H526
“Amon”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H525

TWOT: None

Amon = "skilled workman" or " master workman" - a king of Judah, son of Manasseh - a governor of Samaria - a descendant of a servant of Solomon
  1. וַיַּ֤עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. הָרַע֙ raʻ H7451 “the · evil” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. בְּעֵינֵ֣י ʻayin H5869 “in/at · eyes of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct
  4. יְהוָ֔ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  5. כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “like/as · which” Preposition + Particle, Relative
  6. עָשָׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה Mᵉnashsheh H4519 “Manasseh” Noun, Proper
  8. אָבִ֑יו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. וּֽלְכָל kôl H3605 “and · to/for · all of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  10. הַפְּסִילִ֗ים pᵉçîyl H6456 “the · idols” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  11. אֲשֶׁ֤ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  12. עָשָׂה֙ ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  13. מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה Mᵉnashsheh H4519 “Manasseh” Noun, Proper
  14. אָבִ֔יו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  15. זִבַּ֥ח zâbach H2076 “to sacrifice” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  16. וַיַּֽעַבְדֵֽם ʻâbad H5647 “and · to serve · them” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

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17
words
12
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אָמ֖וֹן Amon H526 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אָמ֖וֹן Amon H526 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 9 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיַּ֤עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect
  • עָשָׂה֙ Qal · Perfect
  • זִבַּ֥ח Piel · Perfect
  • וַיַּֽעַבְדֵֽם Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וַיַּ֤עַשׂ to do H6213 ×3
  • מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה Manasseh H4519 ×2
  • אָבִ֑יו father H1 ×2
  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 33 words from the Hebrew and 34 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 17 Hebrew tokens and 27 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 33:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 2 Kings 21:1–11 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
  • 2 Kings 21:20 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father.
  • 2 Chronicles 33:1–10 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chronicles 34:3–4 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.
  • Isaiah 44:13–20 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
  • Ezekiel 20:18 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 33:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ הָרַע֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה אָבִ֑יו וּֽלְכָל הַפְּסִילִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשָׂה֙ מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה אָבִ֔יו זִבַּ֥ח אָמ֖וֹן וַיַּֽעַבְדֵֽם

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 33:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ὁ πονηρός ἐνώπιον κύριος ὡς ποιέω μανασσής ὁ πατήρ αὐτός καί πᾶς ὁ εἴδωλον ὅς ποιέω μανασσής ὁ πατήρ αὐτός θύω αμων καί δουλεύω αὐτός

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasses did: and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasses had made, and served them.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 33:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 33:22 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;

Ver. 22. Which Manasseh his father had made.] But not burnt, as he ought. {Deu 7:5} See 2Ki 21:20.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 33:22. He did that which was evil, as did Manasseh his father — That is, as Manasseh had done in the days of his apostacy. They who think the wickedness of Amon an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, forget how many good kings had wicked sons. Manasseh, however, seems to have been very deficient in this after his repentance, that when he cast out the images, he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the law, which required them to burn the images with fire, Deu 7:5. How necessary that law was, this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown by, and not burned, Amon, knowing where to find them, soon set them up, and sacrificed to them.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 22. Sacrificed unto all the carved images] How astonishing is this! with his father's example before his eyes, he copies his father's vices, but not his repentance.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(22) For Amon sacrificed.—Literally, and to all the carven images which Manasseh his father had made did Amon sacrifice. (Comp. 2Ki_21:21, “and he walked in all the way wherein his father had walked, and served the idols which his father had served, and worshipped them.” Idols in the above passage is gillulîm, “dunglings,” a term nowhere used by the chronicler.) The statement of our text seems to imply that the “carven images” made by Manasseh had not been destroyed, but only cast aside. (See Note on 2Ch_33:15.) It argues a defect of judgment to say with Reuss that the reforms of Manasseh are rendered doubtful by it. The whole history is a succession of reforms followed by relapses; and the words of the sacred writer need not be supposed to mean that the images which Amon worshipped were the very ones which his penitent father had discarded, but only images of the same imaginary gods.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

22. But he did] R.V. And he did.

for Amon … carved images] R.V. and Amon … graven images (as in 2Ch_33:19).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Made, though he had afterwards destroyed them. Amon endeavoured to restore their worship, (C.) adoring the same idols, and making other statues in their honour. D.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 17 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÂmôwn (“Amon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Amon” (ʼÂmôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. 1 Kings 22:26 shares the word «Amon» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to do” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «וַיַּ֤עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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