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Commentary for English Readers</a></div><span class= "bld">MANASSEH’S CAPTIVITY AND REPENTANCE—HIS RESTORATION AND REFORMS</span> (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/33-11.htm" title="Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.">2Chronicles 33:11-17</a>).<p>This section is peculiar to the Chronicle, and none has excited more scepticism among modern critics. The progress of cuneiform research, however, has proved the perfect possibility of the facts most disputed, viz., the captivity and subsequent restoration of Manasseh.<p>(11) <span class= "bld">Wherefore.</span>—<span class= "ital">And.</span><p><span class= "bld">The captains of the host of the king of Assyria.</span>—The generals of Esarhaddon, or rather, perhaps, of Assurbanipal. The former, who reigned from 681-668 B.C. , has recorded the fact that Manasseh was his vassal. He says: “And I assembled the kings of the land of Hatti, and the marge of the sea, Baal king of Tyre, Me-na-si-e (or Mi-in-si-e) king of Ya-u-di (<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> Judah), Qa-us-gabri, king of Edom,” &c. “Altogether, twenty-two kings of the land of Hatti [Syria], the coast of the sea, and the middle of the sea, all of them, I caused to hasten,” &c. Assurbanipal has left a list which is identical with that of Esarhaddon, except that it gives different names for the kings of Arvad and Ammon. It thus appears that Manasseh paid tribute to him as well as to his father. Schrader (<span class= "ital">K.A.T.,</span> p. 367, <span class= "ital">seq.</span>) thinks that Manasseh was at least suspected of being implicated along with the other princes of Phoenicia-Palestine in the revolt of Assurbanipars brother <span class= "ital">Samar-sum-ukin</span> (circ. 648-647 B.C. ) in which Elam, Gutium, and Meroë also participated; and that he was carried to Babylon, to clear himself of suspicion, and to give assurances of his fidelity to the great king.<p><span class= "bld">Which took Manasseh among the thorns.</span>—<span class= "ital">And they took Manasseh prisoner with the hooks</span> (<span class= "ital">ba-ḫôḫîm</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span> The <span class= "ital">hooks</span> might be such as the Assyrian kings were wont to pass through the nostrils and lips of their more distinguished prisoners. Comp. <a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm" title="Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.">Isaiah 37:29</a>, “I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips;” and comp. <a href="/amos/4-2.htm" title="The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, see, the days shall come on you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.">Amos 4:2</a>, “He will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks.” Comp. also <a href="/job/41-2.htm" title="Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?">Job 41:2</a>, “Canst thou bore his jaw with a hook?” [The LXX., Vulg., Targ. render the word “chains.” Syriac confuses the word with <span class= "ital">chayyîm,</span> “life,” and renders “took Manasseh in his life.”] Perhaps, however, the meaning is, <span class= "ital">and they took Manasseh prisoner at Hohim.</span> There is no reason why Hohim should not be a local name, as well as Coz (<a href="/1_chronicles/4-8.htm" title="And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.">1Chronicles 4:8</a>).<p><span class= "bld">And bound him with fetters.</span>—<span class= "ital">With the double chain of bronze,</span> as the Philistines bound Samson (<a href="/judges/16-21.htm" title="But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.">Judges 16:21</a>). So Sennacherib relates: “Suzubu king of Babylon, in the battle alive their hands took him; in fetters of bronze they put him, and to my presence brought him. In the great gate in the midst of the city of Nineveh I bound him fast.” This happened in 695 B.C., only a few years before the similar captivity of Manasseh.<p><span class= "bld">And carried him.</span>—<span class= "ital">Caused him to go,</span> or <span class= "ital">led him away.</span><p><span class= "bld">To Babylon.</span>—Where Assurbanipal was holding his court at the time, as he appears to have done after achieving the overthrow of his brother the rebellious viceroy, and assuming the title of king of Babylon himself.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/2_chronicles/33.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/2_chronicles/33-11.htm" title="Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.">2 Chronicles 33:11</a></span>. <span class="ital">The Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria — </span>Some suppose that Esar-haddon, the successor of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, is here meant, and that, in consequence of the royal family failing in Babylon, he found means to bring that kingdom under his yoke again; or that, by force of arms, or some other means, he recovered it from Merodach-Baladan. They say that he held it thirteen years, and that it was during this time that Manasseh was taken and carried captive to Babylon. Others think it more probable that the king of Babylon is here called <span class="ital">the king of Assyria, </span>because he had added Assyria to his empire, and that having been informed by his ambassadors of the great riches which were in Hezekiah’s treasures at Jerusalem, and being assured of Manasseh’s degeneracy from the piety of his father, and from that God whose power alone made Hezekiah formidable, he thought this a fit season to invade Manasseh’s kingdom, which the Jews say he did, in the twenty- second year of his reign. <span class="ital">Which took Manasseh among the thorns — </span>In some thicket where he thought to have hid himself from the Assyrians till he could make an escape: or, as the Hebrew <span class="greekheb">בחוחים</span>, <span class="ital">bachochim, </span>may be rendered, <span class="ital">with hooks, </span>metaphorically speaking; or, <span class="ital">in his forts, </span>that is, in one of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_chronicles/33.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>33:1-20 We have seen Manasseh's wickedness; here we have his repentance, and a memorable instance it is of the riches of God's pardoning mercy, and the power of his renewing grace. Deprived of his liberty, separated from his evil counsellors and companions, without any prospect but of ending his days in a wretched prison, Manasseh thought upon what had passed; he began to cry for mercy and deliverance. He confessed his sins, condemned himself, was humbled before God, loathing himself as a monster of impiety and wickedness. Yet he hoped to be pardoned through the abundant mercy of the Lord. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah was God, able to deliver. He knew him as a God of salvation; he learned to fear, trust in, love, and obey him. From this time he bore a new character, and walked in newness of life. Who can tell what tortures of conscience, what pangs of grief, what fears of wrath, what agonizing remorse he endured, when he looked back on his many years of apostacy and rebellion against God; on his having led thousands into sin and perdition; and on his blood-guiltiness in the persecution of a number of God's children? And who can complain that the way of heaven is blocked up, when he sees such a sinner enter? Say the worst against thyself, here is one as bad who finds the way to repentance. Deny not to thyself that which God hath not denied to thee; it is not thy sin, but thy impenitence, that bars heaven against thee.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_chronicles/33.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The Assyrian monuments contain no record of this expedition; but there can be little doubt that it fell into the reign of Esarhaddon (<a href="/2_kings/19-37.htm">2 Kings 19:37</a> note), who reigned at least thirteen years. Esarhaddon mentions Manasseh among his tributaries; and he was the only king of Assyria who, from time to time, held his court at Babylon.<p>Among the thorns - Translate - " with rings;" and see <a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm">2 Kings 19:28</a> note. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>2Ch 33:11-19. He Is Carried unto Babylon, Where He Humbles Himself before God, and Is Restored to His Kingdom.<p>11. the captains of the host of the king of Assyria—This king was Esar-haddon. After having devoted the first years of his reign to the consolidation of his government at home, he turned his attention to repair the loss of the tributary provinces west of the Euphrates, which, on the disaster and death of Sennacherib, had taken the opportunity of shaking off the Assyrian yoke. Having overrun Palestine and removed the remnant that were left in the kingdom of Israel, he despatched his generals, the chief of whom was Tartan (Isa 20:1), with a portion of his army for the reduction of Judah also. In a successful attack upon Jerusalem, they took multitudes of captives, and got a great prize, including the king himself, among the prisoners.<p>took Manasseh among the thorns—This may mean, as is commonly supposed, that he had hid himself among a thicket of briers and brambles. We know that the Hebrews sometimes took refuge from their enemies in thickets (1Sa 13:6). But, instead of the Hebrew, Bacochim, "among the thorns", some versions read Bechayim, "among the living", and so the passage would be "took him alive."<p>bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon—The Hebrew word rendered "fetters" denotes properly two chains of brass. The humiliating state in which Manasseh appeared before the Assyrian monarch may be judged of by a picture on a tablet in the Khorsabad palace, representing prisoners led bound into the king's presence. "The captives represented appear to be inhabitants of Palestine. Behind the prisoners stand four persons with inscriptions on the lower part of their tunics; the first two are bearded, and seem to be accusers; the remaining two are nearly defaced; but behind the last appears the eunuch, whose office it seems to be to usher into the presence of the king those who are permitted to appear before him. He is followed by another person of the same race as those under punishment; his hands are manacled, and on his ankles are strong rings fastened together by a heavy bar" [Nineveh and Its Palaces]. No name is given, and, therefore, no conclusion can be drawn that the figure represents Manasseh. But the people appear to be Hebrews, and this pictorial scene will enable us to imagine the manner in which the royal captive from Judah was received in the court of Babylon. Esar-haddon had established his residence there; for though from the many revolts that followed the death of his father, he succeeded at first only to the throne of Assyria, yet having some time previous to his conquest of Judah, recovered possession of Babylon, this enterprising king had united under his sway the two empires of Babylon and Chaldea and transferred the seat of his government to Babylon.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/2_chronicles/33.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Among the thorns; </span> in some thicket where he thought to hide himself from the Assyrians till he could make an escape, as the Israelites formerly used to do, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_samuel/13-6.htm" title="When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.">1 Samuel 13:6</a></span>. Or, <span class="ital">with hooks</span>; a metaphorical expression. Or, <span class="ital">in his forts</span>, i.e. in one of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Carried him to Babylon; </span> either therefore Esar-haddon, Sennacherib’s successor, had recovered Babylon from Merodach-baladan; or rather, the king of Babylon is here called <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">the king of Assyria, </span> because at this time he had added Assyria to his empire; who having been informed by his ambassadors of the great riches which were in Hezekiah’s treasures at Jerusalem, which he was desirous to enjoy; and withal, being assured of Manasseh’s degeneracy from the piety and virtue of his father, and from that God whose power alone made Hezekiah formidable, he thought this a fit season to invade Manasseh’s kingdom; which he did with success. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/2_chronicles/33.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria,.... Who was Esarhaddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib; this, according to the Jewish chronology (f), was in the twenty second year of Manasseh's reign: <p>which took Manasseh among the thorns; in a thicket of briers and thorns, where, upon his defeat, he had hid himself; a fit emblem of the afflictions and troubles his sins brought him into: <p>and bound him with fetters; hands and feet; with chains of brass, as the Targum, such as Zedekiah was bound with, <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/25-7.htm">2 Kings 25:7</a>, not chains of gold, with which Mark Antony bound a king of Armenia, for the sake of honour (g): <p>and carried him to Babylon; for now the king of Assyria was become master of that city, and added it to his monarchy, and made it the seat of his residence; at least some times that and sometimes Nineveh, Merodachbaladan being dead, or conquered; though, according to Suidas (h), it was he that took Manasseh; and by an Arabic writer (i), he is said to be carried to Nineveh. <p>(f) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 24. p. 67. (g) Vell. Patercul. Hist. Roman. l. 2.((h) In voce (i) Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67. So Suidas, ib. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_chronicles/33.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">11</span>. <span class="ital">Assyria</span>] No Assyrian inscription at present known speaks of the captivity of Manasseh, but we have monumental evidence that there was a great insurrection against Asshur-bani-pal, the grandson of Sennacherib, in which Western Asia (and <span class="ital">perhaps</span> Manasseh) was involved. The restoration of Manasseh after this to his kingdom is not incredible, for Neco I. of Egypt was first put in fetters and afterwards sent back to Egypt. (Schrader, <span class="ital">Keilinschriften und das AT.</span>, pp. 366 ff.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">among the thorns</span>] R.V., <span class="bld">in chains</span>, but better, <span class="bld">with hooks</span> (as R.V. mg.); cp. <a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm" title="Because your rage against me and your tumult is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.">2 Kings 19:28</a> (= <a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm" title="Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.">Isaiah 37:29</a>). Assyrian kings sometimes thrust a book into the nostrils of their captives and so led them about. The practice is illustrated on many Assyrian reliefs in the British Museum. The same mistranslation (“thorn” for “hook”) occurs in <a href="/job/41-2.htm" title="Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?">Job 41:2</a> [40:26, Heb.], cp. R.V.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">to Babylon</span>] <span class="ital">Nineveh</span>, not Babylon, was the capital of Assyria, but as Asshur-bani-pal at times resided in Babylon, there is nothing improbable in any important prisoner of his being carried thither.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>11–13 (not in 2 Kin.). The Punishment of Manasseh, and his Repentance<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>For a discussion of the historical probabilities of this account see the Introduction, § 8.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_chronicles/33.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - The contents of this and the following six verses (to the seventeenth) are not in the parallel, though their place there is plain. That parallel, however, supplies in its ver. 16 a very forcible narration of the evil conduct of Manasseh in Jerusalem itself, so that he "filled" it with "innocent blood" from "one end to another." <span class="cmt_word">The King of Assyria</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> either Esarhaddon, <span class="date">B.C. 680</span>, or (though it is not probable) his <span class="accented">son</span>, Assur-banipal, <span class="date">B.C. 667-647</span>. <span class="cmt_word">Among the thorns;</span> <span class="accented">i.e.</span> with hooks or rings (so <a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm">2 Kings 19:28</a>, where the same word is used; as also in <a href="/exodus/35-22.htm">Exodus 35:22</a>; <a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm">Isaiah 37:29</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/19-4.htm">Ezekiel 19:4, 9</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/29-4.htm">Ezekiel 29:4</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/38-4.htm">Ezekiel 38:4</a>). 2 Chronicles 33:11<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/2_chronicles/33.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>As Manasseh would not hear the words of the prophets, the Lord brought upon him the captains of the host of the king of Assyria. These "took him with hooks, and bound him with double chains of brass, and brought him to Babylon." בחוחים ילכּדוּ signifies neither, they took him prisoner in thorns (hid in the thorns), nor in a place called Chochim (which is not elsewhere found), but they took him with hooks. חוח denotes the hook or ring which was drawn through the gills of large fish when taken (<a href="/job/41-2.htm">Job 41:2</a>), and is synonymous with חח (<a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm">2 Kings 19:28</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/19-4.htm">Ezekiel 19:4</a>), a ring which was passed through the noses of wild beasts to subdue and lead them. The expression is figurative, as in the passages quoted from the prophets. Manasseh is represented as an unmanageable beast, which the Assyrian generals took and subdued by a ring in the nose. The figurative expression is explained by the succeeding clause: they bound him with double chains. נחשׁתּים are double fetters of brass, with which the feet of prisoners were bound (<a href="/2_samuel/3-34.htm">2 Samuel 3:34</a>; <a href="/judges/16-21.htm">Judges 16:21</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/36-6.htm">2 Chronicles 36:6</a>, etc.). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/33-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 33:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 33:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/33-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 33:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 33:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>