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Manasseh Restored after Repentance

10 The Lord spoke to Manas′seh and to his people, but they gave no heed. 11 Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manas′seh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon.[a] 12 And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. 33.11 There is no record of this captivity of Manasseh in Babylon or of his subsequent repentance, either in 2 Kings or in the Assyrian records, though he is known from the latter to have been a vassal of Assyria.

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