2 Chronicles 33:12-18 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,… We will connect the important change which took place in the mind of Manasseh — I. WITH HIS EARLY ADVANTAGES. John Newton states somewhere, "When I was in the deepest misery, and when I was committing the most atrocious sin, I always seemed to feel the hand of my sainted mother pressing my head." II. WITH THE AFFLICTIONS BY WHICH IT WAS PRODUCED. III. WITH THE EFFECTS WHICH IT UNFOLDED. IV. WITH THE SOVEREIGNTY OF DIVINE GRACE. (A. E. Farrar.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, |
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