 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822
...Such were the effects which, under the influence of God's good Spirit, were produced upon Manasseh. "When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his...the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him ; and Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God." The scales fall from his eyes ; his illusions are dissipated... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 291 pages
...for." God forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Ps. ix, 12. x, 17. Even when the wicked king Manasseh " humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him ;" we read that God was intreated of him. 2 Chron. xxxiii, 12, 13. The Saviour himself says, not my... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 291 pages
...God forgettetk not the cry of the humble. Ps. ix, 12. x, 17. Even when the wicked king Man;»sseh " humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him j" we read that God ions intreated of him. 2 Chron. xxxiii, 12, 13. The Saviour himself says, not my... | |
 | John Scott (A.M.) - Theology - 1823
...faith in the promised Saviour. The first intimation of any thing hopeful in his case is thus given : " When he was in affliction " he besought the Lord his...of his fathers, " and prayed unto him ; and he was intreated of " him, and heard his supplication." In the subsequent narrative, " his prayer" is repeatedly... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823
...height, oh the depth, of divine mercy ! After all these prodigies of sin, Manasseh is a convert; ' When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his...humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.' How true is that word of the prophet, ' Vexation gives understanding!' The viper, when he is lashed,... | |
 | John Scott (A.M.) - Theology - 1823
...; he had used his authority to induce his people to comply with his abominations ; and, yet, when " in affliction he besought " the Lord his God, and...humbled himself greatly " before the God of his fathers ; he was intreated " of him, and heard his supplication." But the parable, in this chapter, of the... | |
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 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh, &c. bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his...humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, &c. And God brought him again unto his kingdom, &c. He then took away the strange gods, &c. — 2Chron.... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh, &c. bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his...humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, &c. And God brought him again unto his kingdom, &c. He then took away the strange gods, &c. — 2Chron.... | |
 | Christian life - 1839
...height, oh the depth of Divine mercy ! After all these prodigies of sin, Manasseh is a convert : " When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his...humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers." How true is that word of the prophet, " Vexation gives understanding !" And, Manasseh! even thine iron... | |
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And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him : and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.... 
