Concluding Comments (2 Kings 21:17-18).
The account of Manasseh's life ends with the usual concluding comments, referring us to the annals of the kings of Judah, and describing his death and burial along with information about the succession. But there is added to it the unique phrase for an epitaph, ‘the sins that he sinned'.
‘Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?'
In contrast with earlier kings the main factor about Manasseh was not his might but ‘the sin that he sinned' (he was the only king to have this epitaph, but compare 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 16:19), the details of which, along with his other acts, could be found in the royal annals of Judah.
‘And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned instead of him.'
And Manasseh died peacefully and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzzah, possibly because there was no room in the sepulchres of the kings. Its proximity to the Temple, along with that of his son's, were probably in mind in Ezekiel 43:7, And his son Amon reigned instead of him.