Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 23:26

26 ¶ Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah , because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal .

Because though the King was most hearty in his Repentance and acceptable to God, as was said before, and therefore the Judgment was delayed for his time; yet the people were generally corrupt, and secretly averse from Iosiah's pious and excellent Reformation, and inclined to their old Lusts and Idols; as appears from the complaints of the Prophets, especially Ieremiah, and Zephaniah, against them: and by the following History, wherein we see, that as soon as ever Iosiah was gone, his Children, and the Princes, and the People, suddenly and greedily returned to their former Abominations.

The Sine of Manasseh, and of the men of his Generation; who complied and concurred with him in his Idolatrous and cruel practises, Chap. 24. 3, 4. are justly punished in this Generation; partly, because of God's Soveraign Right of Punishing Sinners (such as these unquestionably were) when, and upon what occasion he sees sit: partly, because of that publick Warning and Declaration of God, That he would visit the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children: and principally, because these men had never sincerely Repented of their own, nor of their Fathers Sins; but their hearts still hankered after them; which, though not yet seen by men, was manifest to God, who therefore pronounced this Terrible Sentence against them.

Marginal references: Jer. 15. 4.; Heb. angers.