פירוש על מלכים ב 21:29

Through His servants the prophets. Nachum and Chavakuk, but because Menashe was wicked, they were not referred to with his name to explain that they were [prophesying] in his time.

Will ring. An expression of cymbals,¹See Rashi in I Shmuel 3:11. tintiner, in O. F.

that whosoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle: This means that because of the great outcry and excitement that will happen to him as a result, the terrible rumor will seem like an echoing voice in his ears.

And the plumb line. That is the string to which the builders of a wall tie a lead weight to make the wall straight.²I.e., so that the following rows of bricks or stones will all be directly above one another.

And I will stretch over Jerusalem... : This means that Jerusalem will be given into the hand of an enemy, just as Samaria was given into the hand of the King of Assyria.

As one wipes a dish. As one wipes a dish.³Just as one wipes a dish and turns it over so that it should not become soiled or be eaten from any more, so will Yerusholayim be cleaned out of its habitants and then it will destroyed so that it would no longer be habitable.—Radak

and the plummet of the house of Ahab: This is a leaden stone used in construction, and it says this as part of a parable to the matter of the destruction of the house of Ahab and its ceasing. Thus it says that the inhabitants of Jerusalem will likewise cease.

and I will wipe: and I will strike

as a man wipes a dish: This means, like a man strikes a bowl full of food, such that his blow overturns it and nothing remains of the dish that was in it.

And I will cast off the remnant of Mine inheritance: Behold, the kingship of Judah is called the remnant of God's inheritance because it alone remains of God's inheritance which is the nation of Israel, because the king of Assyria exiled the rest.

Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much: It seems that he would kill anyone who did not agree to worship idols as well as the prophets who rebuked him, as did Jezebel who killed the prophets of God.

And he forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord: This means that he had already altogether separated from the way of the Lord.