2 Chronicles 33:12

12 qui postquam coangustatus est oravit Dominum Deum suum et egit paenitentiam valde coram Deo patrum suorum

2 Chronicles 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.)

2 Chronicles 33:12 In-Context

10 locutusque est Dominus ad eum et ad populum illius et adtendere noluerunt

11 idcirco superinduxit eis principes exercitus regis Assyriorum ceperuntque Manassen et vinctum catenis atque conpedibus duxerunt Babylonem

12 qui postquam coangustatus est oravit Dominum Deum suum et egit paenitentiam valde coram Deo patrum suorum

13 deprecatusque est eum et obsecravit intente et exaudivit orationem eius reduxitque eum Hierusalem in regnum suum et cognovit Manasses quod Dominus ipse esset Deus

14 post haec aedificavit murum extra civitatem David ad occidentem Gion in convalle ab introitu portae Piscium per circuitum usque ad Ophel et exaltavit illum vehementer constituitque principes exercitus in cunctis civitatibus Iuda munitis