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Therefore the LORD brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
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Verse 11. Captains; probably Tharthan. A. 3328. About five years before, Asarhaddon had made himself master of Babylon, to which place the captive king was brought, in the 22d year of his reign. 4 Kennicott. 20:10. and so forth Isaiah 22.—And carried. Hebrew “among the thorns, and bound him with fetters (Prot.) of brass; (Jun. and so forth) or, “they took Manasses with a hook,” insidiously. He might have retired to some desert place, as the Israelites did, to avoid the fury of the Philistines. 1 Kennicott. 13:6. Calmet.—Chains. Vatable says, “two.” Menochius.
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