And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
We have here an account of the great wickedness of Manasseh. It is the same almost word for word with that which we had Kg2 21:1-9, and took a melancholy view of. It is no such pleasing subject that we should delight to dwell upon it again.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 33:1-10
Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria,.... Who was Esarhaddon, the son and successor of Sennacherib; this, according to the Jewish chronology (f), was in the twenty second year of Manasseh's reign: which took Manasseh among the thorns; in a thicket of briers and thorns, where, upon his defeat, he had hid himself; a fit emblem...
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. (c) Meaning by his prophets, but their hearts were not touched to believe and repent, without which the preaching of the word has no effect.