2 Chronicles 33:19
What Manasseh prayed and how God pitied him because he pleaded to God, and also his sins and ways in which he disobeyed God, and the list of places where he built shrines and set up poles to honor the goddess Asherah and other idols before he humbled himself, are written in what the prophets wrote.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
20Manasseh died and was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the king of Judah.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was 12 years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.
Psalms 119:67Before you afflicted/punished me, I did things that were wrong, but now I obey ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
Psalms 119:75Yahweh, I know that ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► are right/fair and that you have afflicted/punished me because you faithfully do what you have promised.
Jeremiah 44:10Up until this day you have not humbled yourselves or revered me. You have not obeyed the laws and decrees [DOU] that I gave to you and your ancestors.’
Daniel 5:22Now, Belshazzar, you have become the king. You also knew all those things, but you have not made yourself humble.
Romans 5:16And there is another way in which God’s freely erasing the record of our sins is not like the results of Adam’s sinning. One person, Adam, sinned. As a result, God declared that all people deserve to be punished. Many people sinned. But what God did was that he erased the record of their sins without their earning it.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:12-21
11 Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God. 14 Now after this he built a wall… Read the whole commentary →