2 Chronicles 33:11 - Exposition

The contents of this and the following six verses (to the seventeenth) are not in the parallel, though their place there is plain. That parallel, however, supplies in its 2 Chronicles 33:16 a very forcible narration of the evil conduct of Manasseh in Jerusalem itself, so that he "filled" it with "innocent blood" from "one end to another." The King of Assyria ; i.e. either Esarhaddon, B.C. 680, or (though it is not probable) his son, Assur-banipal, B.C. 667-647. Among the thorns; i.e. with hooks or rings (so 2 Kings 19:28 , where the same word is used; as also in Exodus 35:22 ; Isaiah 37:29 ; Ezekiel 19:4 , Ezekiel 19:9 ; Ezekiel 29:4 ; Ezekiel 38:4 ).