John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 33:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, etc.] Good and bad, what were done by him both before and after his conversion: and his prayer unto his God; which it seems was taken and recorded, but now lost; for as for that which is among the apocryphal writings, there is no reason to believe it to be his, though it is thought to be so by many f149: and the words of the seers; or the prophets, as the Targum; and the prophets in his days, according to the Jewish chronology f150, were Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk: that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel; words of admonition and reproof before his humiliation, and words of comfort, advice, and instruction, after it; the Targum is, “that spake to him in the name of the Word of the Lord God of Israel:” behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel; not in the canonical book so called, where none of the above things, namely, his prayer, and the speeches of the prophets, are to be found, at least not all; but in the annals of the kings of Israel, now lost.

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