Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 33:19

"His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai." — 2 Chronicles 33:19 (ASV)

His prayer also ... of him. — And his prayer, and the hearing him. Literally, and the being propitious to him (the same verb as in 2 Chronicles 33:13 and Genesis 25:21).

All his sins, and his trespass. — All his sin and his unfaithfulness. 2 Kings 21:17 has, And his sin that he sinned. The chronicler, as usual, heightens the expression.

Groves. — The Ashçrim. (See Note on 2 Chronicles 33:3.)

Among the sayings of the seers. — In the history of Hozai. This work was, therefore, the source from which the chronicler derived his additional information about the reign of Manasseh. (See Introduction.) The Septuagint has “the seers;” but the Vulgate, “in sermonibus Hozai,” and the Syriac, “in the story of Hanan the prophet.” It is pretty clear that Hozai is simply a mutilated form of ha-hôzîm, “the seers,” a term which occurred in 2 Chronicles 33:17.