2 Chronicles 33:18

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, these are in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:18

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh
Good and bad, what were done by him both before and after his conversion:

and his prayer unto his God;
which it seems was taken and recorded, but now lost; for as for that which is among the apocryphal writings, there is no reason to believe it to be his, though it is thought to be so by many ^F15:

and the words of the seers;
or the prophets, as the Targum; and the prophets in his days, according to the Jewish chronology ^F16, were Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk:

that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel;
words of admonition and reproof before his humiliation, and words of comfort, advice, and instruction, after it; the Targum is,

``that spake to him in the name of the Word of the Lord God of Israel:''

behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel;
not in the canonical book so called, where none of the above things, namely, his prayer, and the speeches of the prophets, are to be found, at least not all; but in the annals of the kings of Israel, now lost.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Vid. Fabritii Bibliothec. Graec. l. 3. c. 31. p. 738, 739.
F16 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 20.

2 Chronicles 33:18 In-Context

16 He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of well-being and of thanksgiving; and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord the God of Israel.

17 The people, however, still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, these are in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

19 His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.

20 So Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in his house. His son Amon succeeded him.