2 Chronicles 33:18-25
rest <03499> [A.M. 3306-3361. B.C. 698-643. the rest.]
[See on]
prayer <08605> [his prayer.]
prophets <02374> [the seers.]
events ............. words .................... Annals <01697> [in the book.]
prayer give an account of how .... responded <08605 06279> [his prayer also.]
[all his sins.]
before ... humbled <06440 03665> [before he.]
<02374> [the seers. or, Hosai.]
So the Targum and Vulgate: the Syraic has Hanun the prophet; and the Arabic, Saphan the prophet. This record is totally lost; for the captivity and repentance of Manasseh are related no where else; and the prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha was probably composed long afterwards: it is not acknowledged as canonical even by the Romish church, though it was anciently used as a form of confession, and as such still received by the Greek church.
Manasseh <04519> [Manasseh.]
Amon <0526> [Amon.]
twenty-two years ........... two years <08141 08147> [A.M. 3361-3363. B.C. 643-641. two years.]
did ............. Manasseh ... done ........... Manasseh <06213 04519> [as did Manasseh.]
sacrifices ...... his <0526 02076> [for Amon sacrificed.]
Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh, in sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, but they forget how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view Manasseh was defective, although it cannot be supposed that it affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images, he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the law in De 7:5, which required, moreover, that the graven images should be burnt with fire. How necessary that law was, this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown aside, and not burnt, Amon knew where to find them, soon set them up, and sacrificed to them.
humble <03665> [humbled.]
[trespassed more and more. Heb. multiplied trespass.]
[A.M. 3363. B.C. 641.]
executed <05221> [slew.]
people .............. they <05971> [the people.]
Josiah <02977> [Josiah.]
