2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also ... of him. — And his prayer, and the hearing him. Literally, and the being propitious to him (the same verb as in 2 Chronicles 33:13 and Genesis 25:21).

All his sins, and his trespass. — All his sin and his unfaithfulness. 2 Kings 21:17 has, “And his sin that he sinned.” The chronicler, as usual, heightens the expression.

Groves. — The Ashçrim. (See Note on 2 Chronicles 33:3.)

Among the sayings of the seers. — In the history of Hozai. This work was, therefore, the source from which the chronicler derived his additional information about the reign of Manasseh. (See Introduction.) The LXX. has “the seers;” but the Vulg., “in sermonibus Hozai,” and the Syriac, “in the story of Hanan the prophet.” It is pretty clear that Hozai is simply a mutilated form of ha-hôzîm, “the seers,” a term which occurred in 2 Chronicles 33:17.