John Gill 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)

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 to 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 spoke 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 spoke 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.