2 Chronicles 33:18

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts 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 built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

19 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.