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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And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-20)We have seen Manasseh by his wickedness undoing the good that his father had done; here we have him by repentance undoing the evil that he himself had done. It is strange that this was not so much as mentioned in the book of Kings , nor does any thing appear there to the contrary but that he persisted and perished in his son. But perhaps the reason was because the design of that history was to sho…
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