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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
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Lost Historical Sources
Commentators explain that the "book of the kings of Israel" mentioned here is not the biblical book of Kings, but a more detailed historical record that has since been lost. Similarly, they note that the famous "Prayer of Manasseh" found in the Apocrypha is likely a later composition and not the original prayer referenced by the Chronicler.
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2 Chronicles
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The “prayer of Manasseh,” preserved for us in some manuscripts of the Septuagint, has no claim to be considered the genuine utterance of the Jewish…
19th Century
Anglican
CONCLUSION OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 33:18–20).
His prayer to his God. —This prayer may or ma…
Baptist
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 the LORD God of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh Good and bad, what were done by him both before and after his conversion:
We have seen Manasseh's wickedness; here we have his repentance, and it is a memorable instance of the riches of God's pardoning mercy and the powe…
