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2 Chronicles 33:19 Explained in Context
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Verse 19. 19His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
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Quick Meaning
Cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 33:18–33:20
Cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility. Read 2 Chronicles 33:19 within 33:18–33:20. The complete unit records: The narrator cites Manasseh's prayer, seers' words, sins, and humility in records no longer extant, then reports burial in his own house and Amon's succession.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The close preserves limits: the celebrated prayer is referenced but not supplied in the received Hebrew narrative. In this exact position, the line beginning “His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin,…” cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility.
Follow the Context
- The narrator cites Manasseh's prayer, seers' words, sins, and humility in records no longer extant, then reports burial in his own house and Amon's succession.
- The close preserves limits: the celebrated prayer is referenced but not supplied in the received Hebrew narrative.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin,…”
In plain language: Cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility.
The line beginning “His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin,…” cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
A missing source does not license inventing Manasseh's words, and private burial does not settle his final standing.
What Remains True
Cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility, keep it inside 33:18–33:20, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 33:19 cites seers for prayer, response, sins, sites, images, and prior humility. Use 33:18–33:20, paraphrase “His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin,…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 33:18–33:20 — Lost prayers and records frame Manasseh's burialSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 33:19 remains within this thought-unit limit: The Prayer of Manasseh in later tradition is not identical to the lost record named here by simple assertion; reception and source history must be distinguished.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 33:18–33:20, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 33:18–33:20
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 33:18–33:20, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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