2 Chronicles 33:13

33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, ¹  the Lord ²  responded to him ³  and answered favorably ⁴  his cry for mercy. The Lord ⁵  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 ⁶  to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ⁷  Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

[33:13]  ¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ³ tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

[33:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “heard.”

[33:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[36:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

[36:10]  ⁷ 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”).