Verse 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 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 F7 Vell. Patercul. Hist. Roman. l. 2. :
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 F8 In voce μανασσης . , it was he that took Manasseh; and by an Arabic writer F9 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67. So Suidas, ib. , he is said to be carried to Nineveh.
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