2 Chronicles 33:11
So Yahweh brought in upon them, the captains of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks,—and bound him captive with a pair of bronze fetters, and took him away to Babylon.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10And Yahweh spake unto Manasseh and unto his people, but they did not give ear.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:36Yahweh will bring thee and thy king whom thou wilt set up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers,—and thou shalt serve there other gods of wood and of stone.
2 Kings 20:18and, of thy sons who shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away,—and they shall become eunuchs, in the palace of the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 25:6So they seized the king, and brought him up unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah,—and they pronounced upon him sentence of judgment.
2 Chronicles 36:6Against him, came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,—and bound him in fetters of bronze, to carry him to Babylon.
Nehemiah 9:37and, the increase thereof, aboundeth unto the kings whom thou hast set over us, for our sins,—and, over our bodies, are they bearing rule, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and, in great distress, we are.
Job 36:8But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:2-11
The Reign of Manasseh. ( b. c. 662.) 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 Also he built altars in the… Read the whole commentary →