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2Ki_21:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Hephzibah.
Ver. 1. Manasseh was twelve years old.] He was born three years after his father’s great recovery, {2Ki_20:6} and about twenty-four years after the ruin of the kingdom of Israel, {2Ki_18:2; 2Ki_18:10} till at length Ephraim was utterly broken from being a people; {Isa_7:8 Ezr_4:2; Ezr_4:10} much about the time that Manasseh was taken among the thorns, and carried captive to Babylon. {2Ch_33:11}
And reigned.] Hence some conclude that he was not long a prisoner, because no reckoning is made of his captivity, but he is said nevertheless to have reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Fifty and five years.] This is the longest reign we read of in the holy history. Length of days is no true rule of God’s favour.
And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.] {a} Who was daughter to the prophet Isaiah, say the Hebrews; but that is uncertain. She was a good woman, likely, because Hezekiah’s wife: and therefore Manasseh’s sin was the greater, because he came of so godly parents.
{a} See Isa_62:4.