2 Chronicles 33:18-2

(cp. 2 Kings 21:17-18). The Epilogue of Manasseh's Reign

18. his prayer A Prayer of Manassesis given in a collection of hymns appended to the Psalter in the Alexandrine MS. (A) of the LXX.; it is also found in the Latin Vulgate, though the translation is not by Jerome. In the English editions of the Apocrypha it occurs just before 1 Maccabees. Though widely current, it has no claim to be considered authentic, but it is worth reading. Our present Greek text seems to be an original work, and not a translation from the Hebrew (cp. Westcott in Smith's Dict. of the Bible, s.v. Manasses).

in the book of the kings R.V. among the acts of the kings.