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18 The rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the prophecies of the seers[a] who spoke to him, in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, can be found in the annals of the kings of Israel. 19 His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, all his sins and his infidelity, and the sites where he built high places and set up sacred poles and idols before he humbled himself, can be found recorded in the chronicles of the seers.[b] 20 Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and he was buried in the garden of his palace. His son Amon succeeded him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:18 The seers: the prophets.
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:19 Chronicles of the seers: most Hebrew manuscripts read “Hozai,” an unknown prophet. Perhaps the Uzza of 2 Ki 21:18 is meant. The prayer of Manasseh to his God is not the “prayer of Manasseh” that is contained in the extracanonical appendix to the Latin Bible.