John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 33:11
Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria ,.... Who was Esarhaddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib; this, according to the Jewish chronology F6 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 24. p. 67. , 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... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 33:11-20
We have seen Manasseh by his wickedness undoing the good that his father had done; here we have him by repentance undoing the evil that he himself had done. It is strange that this was not so much as mentioned in the book of Kings, nor does any thing appear there to the contrary but that he persisted and perished in his son. But perhaps the reason was because the design of that history was to show the wickedness of the nation which brought destruction upon them; and this repentance of Manasseh... read more