13 And he kept praying to Him, so that He let himself be entreated+ by him and He heard his request for favor and restored him to Jerusalem to his kingship;+ and Ma·nasʹseh came to know that Jehovah is the [true] God.+

9 During all their distress it was distressing to him.*+ And his own personal messenger* saved them.+ In his love and in his compassion he himself repurchased them,+ and he proceeded to lift them up and carry them all the days of long ago.+

20 “Is Eʹphra·im a precious son to me, or a fondly treated child?+ For to the extent of my speaking against him I shall without fail remember him further.+ That is why my intestines have become boisterous for him.+ By all means I shall have pity upon him,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.