Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
Ver. 1. Manasseh was twelve years old.] See 2 Kings 21:1 .
And he reigned fifty and five years.] So long he reigned, (1.) For the punishment of the people's sins; (2.) That he might have time enough to amend his own life; (3.) That in him, as afterwards in Paul, "God might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them who should afterwards believe on him to life everlasting." 1Ti 1:16 Vide ubi supra.