2 Chronicles 33:13-19

33:13 When he prayed to the Lord,¹ the Lord² responded to him³ and answered favorably⁴ his cry for mercy. The Lord⁵ brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

33:14 After this Manasseh⁶ built up the outer wall of the City of David⁷ on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city. 33:16 He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of⁸ Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel. 33:17 The people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

33:18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets⁹ spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded¹⁰ in the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.¹¹

¹tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

⁴tn Heb “heard.”

⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁸tn Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

⁹tn Or “seers.”

¹⁰tn Heb “look, they are.”

¹¹tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”