John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 33:11

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, etc.] Who was Esarhaddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib; this, according to the Jewish chronology f141, was in the twenty second year of Manasseh’s reign: 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: and bound him with fetters; hands and feet; with chains of brass, as the Targum, such as Zedekiah was bound with, (<122507>2 Kings 25:7), not chains of gold, with which Mark Antony bound a king of Armenia, for the sake of honour f142: 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 f143 , it was he that took Manasseh; and by an Arabic writer f144, he is said to be carried to Nineveh.

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