Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

The captains

Among the thorns

General references

Bible References

The captains

Isaiah 10:8
For he will say, Are not my chiefs united together kings?
Isaiah 36:9
And how wilt thou turn back the face of one prefect of the servants of my lord, the smallest of them, aid trust for thee upon Egypt for chariot and for horsemen I

Of the king

Nehemiah 9:32
And now our God, the great the mighty, and the terrible God, watching the covenant and the mercy, it shall not be little before thee all the distress which found us, to our kings, to our chiefs, to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.
Isaiah 5:26
And he lifted up a signal to the nations from far off, and he hissed to them from the extremity of the earth; and behold, they shall come swift from haste.
Isaiah 7:18
And it was in that day Jehovah shall hiss for the fly which is in the extremity of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assur.

Among the thorns

Lamentations 3:7
He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass.

General references

Job 12:18
He loosed the bonds of kings, and he will gird upon their loins a girdle.
Lamentations 3:55
I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath.