Chronicles II 33:12

12 And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

Chronicles II 33:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in affliction
In prison; however, in fetters; according to the Targum, the Chaldeans made an instrument of brass with holes in it, and put him in it, and fire about it, something like the brasen bull of Perillus; and the above Arabian writer ^F11 calls it a tower of brass:

he besought the Lord his God;
by prayer and supplication:

and humbled himself greatly before the Lord God of his fathers;
confessing his sins, expressing great sorrow and repentance for them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Abulph. & Suidas, ib. (Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67.)

Chronicles II 33:12 In-Context

10 And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they hearkened not.

11 And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

12 And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

13 and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

14 And afterward he built a wall without the city of David, from the southwest southward in the valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate, as men go out by the gate round about, even as far as Opel: and he raised it much, and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda.