2. The 13th king of Judah, succeeded his father Hezekiah when a child in 697. In the course of a long reign he restored the heathen worship and was carried captive to Babylon.
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Manasseh (Heb. = "causing to forget"). 1. Elder son of the patriarch Joseph; territory on both sides of the Jordan was awarded his tribe.