King James Version
What Does 2 Chronicles 33:13 Mean?
“And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.”
Context
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Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. of the king: Heb. which were the king's fetters: or, chains
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And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
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Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. Ophel: or, the tower
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And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
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Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(13) **He was intreated of him.**—1Chronicles 5:20.
**And brought him again to Jerusalem.**—The Assyrian monarch after a time saw fit to restore Manasseh to his throne as a vassal king. The case is exactly parallel to that of the Egyptian king *Nikû* (Necho I.), who was bound hand and foot, and sent to Nineveh; after which Assurbanipal extended his clemency to his captive, and restored him to his former state in his own country. (See Schrader, p. 371.)
**Then.**—And.
**That the** **Lord he was God.**—*That Jehovah was the true God.* (Comp. 1Kings 18:39, where the same Hebrew words occur twice over.)
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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