2 Chronicles 33:9-16

33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of ¹  Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

33:10 The Lord confronted ²  Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. 33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, ³  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon. 33:12 In his pain ⁴  Manasseh ⁵  asked the Lord his God for mercy ⁶  and truly ⁷  humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. ⁸  33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, ⁹  the Lord ¹⁰  responded to him ¹¹  and answered favorably ¹²  his cry for mercy. The Lord ¹³  brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

33:14 After this Manasseh ¹⁴  built up the outer wall of the City of David ¹⁵  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 of ¹⁶  Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

[33:9]  ¹ tn Heb “misled 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.

[33:10]  ² tn Heb “spoke to.”

[33:11]  ³ tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”

[33:12]  ⁴ tn Or “distress.”

[33:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”

[33:12]  ⁷ tn Or “greatly.”

[33:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathers.”

[33:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

[33:13]  ¹² tn Heb “heard.”

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

[33:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:14]  ¹⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[33:16]  ¹⁶ tn 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.