John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 21:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, etc.] So that he was born three years after Hezekiah’s recovery from his sickness, and in the seventeenth year of his reign: and reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem: among which must be reckoned the time of his captivity in Babylon; his reign was the longest of any of the kings of Judah: and his mother’s name was Hephzibah; the name the church goes by, and signifies, “my delight or pleasure is in her”, (<236204>Isaiah 62:4), no doubt she was a good woman, or Hezekiah would not have made choice of her for a wife; it is a tradition of the Jews f245, that she was the daughter of Isaiah, whose name, they say, is not mentioned, because so wicked a king was unworthy of such a grandfather.

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