I wonder what biographies of your life and mine would be like, my friends? Probably for all of us there would be some pages, maybe some chapters which would not be very flattering and perhaps we all have some life events we hope would be omitted from our life story.
The last few lines summarizing King Manasseh’s long life in Jerusalem are these: “The other events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are written in the annals of the kings of Israel. His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – all these are written in the records of the seers.” (2 Chronicles 33:18,19)