2 Chronicles 33:13

33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, the Lord responded to him and answered favorably his cry for mercy. The Lord brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

2 Chronicles 36:10

36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.


tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

tn Heb “heard.”

tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).