See also:MANASSEH (7th cent. B.C.)
, son of See also:Hezekiah, and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Judah (2 See also:Kings xxi
.
1–18)
.
His reign of fifty-five years was marked by a reaction against the reforming policy of his See also:father, and his persistent See also:idolatry and bloodshed were subsequently regarded as the cause of the destruction of See also:Jerusalem and of the See also:dispersion of the See also:people (2 Kings See also:xxiii
.
26 seq.; Jer. xv
.
4)
.
As a See also:vassal of See also:Assyria he was contemporary with See also:Sennacherib, Esar-haddon (68r–668 B.C.) and See also:Assur-bani-See also:pal (668–626 B.C.), and his name (Me-na-si-e) appears among the tributaries of the two latter
.
Little is known of his See also:history
.
The chronicler, however, relates that the See also:Assyrian See also:army took him in chains to See also:Babylon, and that after his repentance he returned, and distinguished himself by his piety, by See also:building operations in Jerusalem and by military organization (2 Chron, xxxiii
.
10 sqq.)
.
The See also:story of his penitence referred to in xxxiii
.
22, is untrustworthy, but the See also:historical See also:foundation may have been some See also:share in the revolt of the Babylonian Samas-sum-ukin (648 B.C.), on which occasion he may have been summoned before Assurbani-pal with other rebels and subsequently reinstated
.
See further See also:Driver, in See also:Hogarth, Authority and See also:Archaeology, pp
.
114 sqq
.
See also:Manasseh was succeeded by his son Amon, who after a brief reign of two years perished in a See also:conspiracy, his See also:place being taken by Amon's son (or See also:brother) See also:Josiah (q.v.)
.
A lament formerly ascribed to Manasseh (cf
.
2 Chron. xxxiii
.
18) is preserved in the
Apocrypha (see See also:MANASSES, See also:PRAYER OF; and APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE)
.
On Judg. xviii
.
30 (marg.), see See also:JONATHAN
.
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