The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 12. Upper chamber, to be nearer the host of heaven, which they adored. Bible.—We are assured that the Arabs also adored the sun, and offered incense to it on the tops of their houses. The prophets often upbraid the people with this practice. Jeremiah 19:13. Zephaniah 1:5. Calmet.—It is wonderful that Ezechias had not before removed these remnants of his father’s infidelity; and still more that Manasses, after his repentance, had not destroyed what he had unlawfully erected in the courts of the priests and of the people. But Amon might have restored them.—Ran. This shews the zeal of the king. Hebrew and Septuagint “and thence he broke or tore them.”