列王纪下 21:26

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他葬在烏撒園裡他自己的墳墓中；他的兒子約西亞接續他作王。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
亚 们 葬 在 乌 撒 的 园 内 自 己 的 坟 墓 里 。 他 儿 子 约 西 亚 接 续 他 作 王 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was king for two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz, who was from Jotbah. ²⁰ Amon did what the Lord said was wrong, as his father Manasseh had done. ²¹ He lived in the same way his father had lived: he worshiped the idols his father had worshiped, and he bowed down before them. ²² Amon rejected the Lord , the God of his ancestors, and did not follow the ways of the Lord . ²³ Amon's officers made plans against him and killed him in his palace. ²⁴ Then the people of the land killed all those who had made plans to kill King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place. ²⁵ Everything else Amon did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah. ²⁶ He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the garden: 2 Kings 21:18

Josiah: 1 Kings 13:5, Matthew 1:10

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:43 - buried 2 Kings 16:20 - buried Jeremiah 1:2 - in the days

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
so Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen began to argue. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at this time.

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy as he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became an archer.

Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, "I promise."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza,.... Where his father Manasseh was buried, 2 Kings 21:18,

and Josiah his son reigned in his stead; of whom many things are said in the two following chapters.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. The garden of Uzza — The family sepulchre or burying-place.

IT is said 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 21:7, that "Manasseh made a grove; and he set a graven image of the grove," c. וישם את פסל האשרה אשר עשה vaiyasem eth pesel haasherah, asher asah: "And he put the graven image of Asherah, which he had made," into the house.

Asherah, which we translate grove, is undoubtedly the name of an idol and probably of one which was carved out of wood.

R. S. Jarchi, on Genesis 12:3, says, "that אשרה asherah means a tree which was worshipped by the Gentiles;" like as the oak was worshipped by the ancient Druids in Britain.

Castel, in Lex. Hept. sub voce אשר, defines אשרה asherah thus, Simulacrum ligneum Astartae dicatum; "A wooden image dedicated to Astrate or Venus."

The Septuagint render the words by αλσος; and Flamminius Nobilis, on 2 Kings 23:4, says Rursus notat Theodoretus τοαλσος esse Astartem et Venerem, et ab aliis interpretibus dictum Ashatroth; i.e. "Again Theodoret observes, αλσος is Astarte and Venus; and by other interpreters called Ashtaroth."

The Targum of Ben Uzziel, on Deuteronomy 7:5, ואשירהם תגדעון vaasheyrehem tegaddeun; i.e., "Their groves shall ye cut down" - translates the place thus, ואילני סיגדיהון תקצצון veilaney sigedeyhon tekatsetsun; "And the oaks of their adoration shall ye cut down."

From the above it is pretty evident that idols, not groves, are generally intended where אשרה asherah and its derivatives are used.

Here follow proofs: -

In 2 Kings 23:6, it is said that "Josiah brought out the grove from the house of the Lord." This translation seems very absurd; for what grove could there be in the temple? There was none planted there, nor was there room for any. The plain meaning of ויצא את השרה מבית יהוה vaiyotse eth haasherah mibbeyth Jehovah, is, "And he brought out the (goddess) Asherah from the house of the Lord, and burnt it," c.

That this is the true meaning of the place appears farther from 2 Kings 23:7, where it is said, "He broke down the houses of the sodomites," (הקדשים hakkedeshim, of the whoremongers,) "where the women wove hangings for the grove" (בתים לאשרה bottim laasherah, "houses or shrines for Asherah.") Similar perhaps to those which the silversmiths made for Diana, Acts 19:24. It is rather absurd to suppose that the women were employed in making curtains to encompass a grove.

The Syriac and Arabic versions countenance the interpretation I have given above. In 2 Kings 23:6, the former says, "He cast out the idol, [Syriac] dechlotho, from the house of the Lord" and in 2 Kings 23:7: "He threw down the houses, [Syriac] dazoine, of the prostitutes; and the women who wove garments, [Syriac] ledechlotho, for the idols which were there." The Arabic is exactly the same.

From the whole it is evident that Asherah was no other than Venus; the nature of whose worship is plain enough from the mention of whoremongers and prostitutes.

I deny not that there were groves consecrated to idolatrous worship among the Gentiles, but I am sure that such are not intended in the above-cited passages; and the text, in most places, reads better when understood in this way.