SEV Biblia, Chapter 33:11
¶ por lo cual el SEÑOR trajo contra ellos los príncipes del ejército del rey de los asirios, los cuales aprisionaron con grillos a Manasés, y atado con dos cadenas lo llevaron a Babilonia.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. 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, ( 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-20 - We have seen Manasseh's wickedness; here we have his repentance, and memorable instance it is of the riches of God's pardoning mercy, an the power of his renewing grace. Deprived of his liberty, separate from his evil counsellors and companions, without any prospect but of ending his days in a wretched prison, Manasseh thought upon what ha passed; he began to cry for mercy and deliverance. He confessed his sins, condemned himself, was humbled before God, loathing himself as monster of impiety and wickedness. Yet he hoped to be pardoned throug the abundant mercy of the Lord. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah wa God, able to deliver. He knew him as a God of salvation; he learned to fear, trust in, love, and obey him. From this time he bore a ne character, and walked in newness of life. Who can tell what tortures of conscience, what pangs of grief, what fears of wrath, what agonizin remorse he endured, when he looked back on his many years of apostac and rebellion against God; on his having led thousands into sin an perdition; and on his blood-guiltiness in the persecution of a numbe of God's children? And who can complain that the way of heaven i blocked up, when he sees such a sinner enter? Say the worst agains thyself, here is one as bad who finds the way to repentance. Deny no to thyself that which God hath not denied to thee; it is not thy sin but thy impenitence, that bars heaven against thee. (2Ch 33:21-25)
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 יהוה 3068 עליהם 5921 את 853 שׂרי 8269 הצבא 6635 אשׁר 834 למלך 4428 אשׁור 804 וילכדו 3920 את 853 מנשׁה 4519 בחחים 2336 ויאסרהו 631 בנחשׁתים 5178 ויוליכהו 1980 בבלה׃ 894
