Prophets announce Jerusalem's judgment and bloodshed is named

Prophets compare Jerusalem to Samaria and to Ahab

The LORD speaks by his servants the prophets. Because Manasseh has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, and has made Judah sin with his idols, God is bringing evil upon Jerusalem and Judah such that whoever hears of it, both ears shall tingle. The LORD will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

The remnant of the inheritance will be forsaken and delivered to enemies as a prey, because they have done evil since the day the fathers came out of Egypt. The metaphor is judgment on this city, measured by earlier northern ruin and by Ahab's house. It is not a warrant for ethnic cleansing, mass killing, or later readers wiping a people as a dish.

Innocent blood is named before the burial notice

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin. The unnamed dead are placed inside the reason for coming disaster. Their blood is not a symbol that erases them. It is the narrator's charge against a king.

Manasseh sleeps with his fathers and is buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. Amon his son reigns. A royal garden grave does not settle the blood. Later exile must not be read as proof that every Judean, or every later Jew, personally deserved the violence of empires. The victims of Manasseh and the victims of Jerusalem's fall are not the same list, and neither list is a license for antisemitism.