Text: 2 Chronicles 33:1
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 25:7
Subject: rule of Manasseh
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 2 Kings 25:7, Zedekiah is captured, his sons are slaughtered before his eyes, and then his eyes are put out — the last thing the last Davidic king sees is the death of his royal line. The connection to 2 Chronicles 33:1 (Manasseh's reign) reflects the narrator's assessment that the seeds of this final catastrophe were sown during Manasseh's 55-year reign of idolatry. Kings explicitly states that the exile happened "because of the sins of Manasseh" (2 Kgs 24:3), making Manasseh's introduction in 2 Chronicles 33:1 the theological origin point for the horror that culminates in Zedekiah's blinding.