Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 33:18

"Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel." — 2 Chronicles 33:18 (ASV)

CONCLUSION OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 33:18–20).

His prayer to his God. —This prayer may or may not have been the basis of the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses, preserved in the Septuagint.

The words of the seers that spoke to him. —See Note on 2 Chronicles 33:10, above. These “words of the seers” were incorporated in the great history of the kings, which is mentioned at the end of the verse, and which was one of the chronicler’s principal authorities.

Written. —This word, though missing in our present Hebrew text, is read in some MSS., and in the Syriac, Targum, and Arabic.

The book. — The history, literally, words. 2 Kings 21:17 refers, as usual, to the “Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.”