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 saith, 'Are not my princes altogether kings?
Isaiah 36:9
And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?

Of the king

Nehemiah 9:32
And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;
Isaiah 5:26
And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.
Isaiah 7:18
And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah doth hiss for a fly that is in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt, And for a bee that is in the land of Asshur.

Among the thorns

Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

General references

Job 12:18
The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
Lamentations 3:55
I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.