2 Cronache 33:11

11 Allora l’Eterno fece venire contro di loro i capi dell’esercito del re d’Assiria, che misero Manasse nei ferri; e, legatolo con catene di rame, lo menarono a Babilonia.

2 Cronache 33:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:11

Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host
of the king of Assyria
Who was Esarhaddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib; this, according to the Jewish chronology ^F6, was in the twenty second year of Manasseh's reign:

which took Manasseh among the thorns;
in a thicket of briers and thorns, where, upon his defeat, he had hid himself; a fit emblem of the afflictions and troubles his sins brought him into:

and bound him with fetters;
hands and feet; with chains of brass, as the Targum, such as Zedekiah was bound with, ( 2 Kings 25:7 ) , not chains of gold, with which Mark Antony bound a king of Armenia, for the sake of honour ^F7:

and carried him to Babylon;
for now the king of Assyria was become master of that city, and added it to his monarchy, and made it the seat of his residence; at least some times that and sometimes Nineveh, Merodachbaladan being dead, or conquered; though, according to Suidas {h}, it was he that took Manasseh; and by an Arabic writer ^F9, he is said to be carried to Nineveh.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 24. p. 67.
F7 Vell. Patercul. Hist. Roman. l. 2.
F8 In voce (manasshv) .
F9 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67. So Suidas, ib.

2 Cronache 33:11 In-Context

9 Ma Manasse indusse Giuda e gli abitanti di Gerusalemme a sviarsi, e a far peggio delle nazioni che l’Eterno avea distrutte d’innanzi ai figliuoli d’Israele.

10 L’Eterno parlò a Manasse e al suo popolo, ma essi non ne fecero caso.

11 Allora l’Eterno fece venire contro di loro i capi dell’esercito del re d’Assiria, che misero Manasse nei ferri; e, legatolo con catene di rame, lo menarono a Babilonia.

12 E quand’ei fu in distretta, implorò l’Eterno, il suo Dio, e s’umiliò profondamente davanti all’Iddio de’ suoi padri.

13 A lui rivolse le sue preghiere ed egli s’arrese ad esse, esaudì le sue supplicazioni, e lo ricondusse a Gerusalemme nel suo regno. Allora Manasse riconobbe che l’Eterno Dio.