2 Chronicles 33:13 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Chronicles 33:13

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.

16 He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings and ^athank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

17 ^aNevertheless the people still sacrificed on the¹ high places, but only to the Lord their God.

Death of Manasseh

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of ^athe seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, indeed they are written in the¹ book of the kings of Israel.

19 Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built¹ high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of² Hozai.

20 ^aSo Manasseh rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.

Amon’s Reign and Death

21 ^aAmon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

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when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God—In the solitude of exile or imprisonment, Manasseh had leisure for reflection. The calamities forced upon him a review of his past life, under a conviction that the miseries of his dethronement and captive condition were owing to his awful and unprecedented apostasy (II Chronicles 33:7) from the God of his fathers. He humbled himself, repented, and prayed for an opportunity of bringing forth the fruits of repentance. His prayer was heard; for his conqueror not only released him, but, after two years' exile, restored him, with honor and the full exercise of royal power, to a tributary and dependent kingdom. Some political motive, doubtless, prompted the Assyrian king to restore Manasseh, and that was most probably to have the kingdom of Judah as a barrier between Egypt and his Assyrian dominions. But God overruled this measure for higher purposes. Manasseh now showed himself, by the influence of sanctified affliction, a new and better man. He made a complete reversal of his former policy, by not only destroying all the idolatrous statues and altars he had formerly erected in Jerusalem, but displaying the most ardent zeal in restoring and encouraging the worship of God.

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