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Manasseh Restored After Repentance

10 And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not1 listen.  
11 aTherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bbound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.  
12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and ahumbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,  
13 and prayed to Him; and He areceived his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh bknew that the Lord was God.  
14 After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of aGihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it benclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.  
15 He took away athe foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city.  
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I & II Chronicles

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF CHRONICLES were also considered as one by the ancient Jews, who called them "words of days," that is, diaries or journals, being probably compiled from those registers that were kept by the king's historiographers of passing occurrences. In the Septuagint the title given them is Paraleipomenon, "of things omitted," that is, the books are supplementary because many things unnoticed in the former books are here recorded; and not only the omissions are supplied, but some narratives extended while others are added. The authorship is commonly ascribed to Ezra, whose leading object seems to have been to show the division of families, possessions, etc., before the captivity, with a view to the exact restoration of the same order after the return from Babylon. Although many things are restated and others are exact repetitions of what is contained in Kings, there is so much new and important information that, as JEROME has well said, the Chronicles furnish the means of comprehending parts of the New Testament, which must have been unintelligible without them. They are frequently referred to by Christ and the Apostles as forming part of "the Word of God" (see the genealogies in Mat. 1:1-16; Luk. 3:23-38; compare II Chronicles 19:7 with I Peter 1:17; II Chronicles 24:19-21 with Matthew 23:32-35).

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