2 Chronicles 33:11

Assyria No Assyrian inscription at present known speaks of the captivity of Manasseh, but we have monumental evidence that there was a great insurrection against Asshur-bani-pal, the grandson of Sennacherib, in which Western Asia (and perhapsManasseh) was involved. The restoration of Manasseh after this to his kingdom is not incredible, for Neco I. of Egypt was first put in fetters and afterwards sent back to Egypt. (Schrader, Keilinschriften und das AT., pp. 366 ff.)

among the thorns R.V., in chains, but better, with hooks (as R.V. mg.); cp. 2 Kings 19:28 (Isaiah 37:29). Assyrian kings sometimes thrust a book into the nostrils of their captives and so led them about. The practice is illustrated on many Assyrian reliefs in the British Museum. The same mistranslation ("thorn" for "hook") occurs in Job 41:2 [40:26, Heb.], cp. R.V.

to Babylon Nineveh, not Babylon, was the capital of Assyria, but as Asshur-bani-pal at times resided in Babylon, there is nothing improbable in any important prisoner of his being carried thither.