OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 21:18

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Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

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Verse 18. Oza, a private man, to whom it had belonged; ( Menochius.) or the place where the Levite had been punished for touching the ark; (1 Kennicott. 6:8) or, in fine, the garden to which king Ozias had retired after he became a leper. Calmet.—It is said, that Manasses chose this place for his tomb out of humility. Grotius.

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