What is the context?
The account refers to records of Manasseh’s acts, prayer, and the words spoken by seers. It remembers his earlier unfaithfulness and the places of false worship before his humbling.
This ending does not erase the evil after describing mercy, or erase mercy because the evil was severe. Both belong to the account’s assessment of the reign.
Manasseh dies and is buried at his palace, and Amon succeeds him. The next reign will test whether his son follows his earlier wrongdoing or his later humility.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley distinguishes the cited royal records from the present book of Kings, which does not narrate this prayer and return. 2 Kings 21:17–18 closes with the king’s acts, sin, death, and burial. Its shorter notice and Chronicles’ expanded ending preserve different emphases.
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