2 Chronicles 33:19

19 The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented - the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped - are all recorded in [The History of the Prophets.]

2 Chronicles 33:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also
Was not only recorded in the above annals, but in the writings of another person after mentioned:

and how God was entreated of him;
heard his prayer, and showed him favour both in a temporal and spiritual way; for though the Jews would not allow that he was saved, or had a part in the world to come, eternal life ^F17, yet there appears no just reason why it should be so thought:

and all his sin, and his trespass;
his impieties, idolatries, and murders: and the places wherein he built high places; see ( 2 Chronicles 33:3 )

and set up groves;
statues in groves:

and graven images, before he was humbled;
see ( 2 Chronicles 33:7 2 Chronicles 33:22 ) ,

behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers;
or of Hosea, the name of a prophet who wrote the history of his own times; so the Targrim and Vulgate Latin version; and, according to the Jewish chronology ^F18, there was a prophet of this name in the times of Amon the son of Manasseh.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 2.
F18 Seder Olam Zuta, p. 105. Ed. Meyer.

2 Chronicles 33:19 In-Context

17 Although the people continued to offer sacrifices at other places of worship, they offered them only to the Lord.

18 Everything else that Manasseh did, the prayer he made to his God, and the messages of the prophets who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are all recorded in [The History of the Kings of Israel.]

19 The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented - the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped - are all recorded in [The History of the Prophets.]

20 Manasseh died and was buried at the palace, and his son Amon succeeded him as king.

21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.