His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers .
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Gill's Exposition
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house,.... That is, in the garden of his house; see Gill on Kg2 21:18; there; to which may be added, that the Jews (s) in later times…
Barnes' Notes
The seers - Most moderns adopt the translation given in the margin of the Authorized Version, making Hosai (or rather, Chozai) a proper name. The point is a doubtful one.
Adam Clarke
His prayer also - What is called the Prayer of Manasseh, king of Judah, when he was holden captive in Babylon, being found among our apocryphal books, I have inserted it at the end of the chapter,…
We have seen Manasseh by his wickedness undoing the good that his father had done; here we have him by repentance undoing the evil that he himself had done. It is strange that this was not so much as…
Cambridge Bible
groves and graven images, before he was humbled R.V. the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself.
among the sayings of the seers Render, in the history of his seers; cp. R.V. mg. and…
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