CONCLUSION OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 33:18-20).
(18) His prayer unto his God. — This prayer may or may not have been the basis of the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses, preserved in the LXX.
The words of the seers that spake to him. — See Note on 2 Chronicles 33:10, supr. These “words of the seers” were incorporated in the great history of the kings, which is mentioned at the end of the verse, and which was one of the chronicler’s principal authorities.
Written. — This word, though wanting in our present Hebrew text, is read in some MSS., and in the Syriac, Targum, and Arabic.
The book. — The history, literally, words. 2 Kings 21:17 refers, as usual, to the “Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.”