his prayer also: 2 Chronicles 33:11-12, 2 Chronicles 33:19; Proverbs 15:8; Acts 9:11; 1 John 1:9
all his sins: 2 Chronicles 33:1-10; Romans 5:16
before he: 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 30:11, 2 Chronicles 36:12; Psalms 119:67, Psalms 119:71, Psalms 119:75; Jeremiah 44:10; Daniel 5:22
the seers: or, Hosai, So the Targum and Vulgate. The Syraic has Hanun the prophet; and the Arabic, Saphan the prophet. This record is totally lost; for the captivity and repentance of Manasseh are related no where else; and the prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha was probably composed long afterwards. It is not acknowledged as canonical even by the Romish church, though it was anciently used as a form of confession, and as such still received by the Greek church.