| II Chronicles 33:11
| Therefore, he brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.
| Captains; probably Tharthan. ([Salien?], the year of the world 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 Kings 20:10., etc., and Isaias xxii.) --- And carried. Hebrew, "among the thorns, and bound him with fetters (Protestants) of brass; (Junius; etc.) 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 Kings 13:6. (Calmet) --- Chains. Vatable says, "two." (Menochius)
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