2 Chronicles 33:19
Good News Translation
The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented--the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped--are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.

New Revised Standard Version
His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.

Contemporary English Version
Hozai wrote a lot about Manasseh, including his prayer and God's answer. But Hozai also recorded the evil things Manasseh did before turning back to God, as well as a list of places where Manasseh set up idols, and where he built local shrines and places to worship Asherah.

New American Bible
His prayer and how his supplication was heard, all his sins and his treachery, the sites where he built high places and set up asherahs and carved images before he humbled himself, all this is recorded in the chronicles of his seers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.

his prayer also

2 Chronicles 33:11,12,19 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon. . . .

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Acts 9:11 And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is called Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold he prayeth.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

all his sins

2 Chronicles 33:1-10 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. . . .

Romans 5:16 And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment indeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto justification.

before he

2 Chronicles 33:12 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon, yielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:12 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not reverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the mouth of the Lord.

Psalm 119:67,71,75 Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word. . . .

Jeremiah 44:10 They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set before you and your fathers.

Daniel 5:22 Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things:

the seers.

Context
Manasseh's Repentance and Restoration
18But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel. 19His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.20And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

2 Chronicles 33:3
And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.

2 Chronicles 33:13
And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God.

2 Chronicles 33:20
And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 33:23
And he did not humble himself before the lord, as Manasses his father had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.

Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

2 Chronicles 33:18
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