# Manasseh, King of Judah

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/manasseh-king-of-judah (Enoch Archive).

Manasseh was the son of Hezekiah and king of Judah. The Ascension of Isaiah opens with Hezekiah summoning him, his only son, in the twenty-sixth year of his reign. After Hezekiah died Manasseh forgot his father's commands; Sammael abode in him and he turned his heart to serve Beliar. Witchcraft, magic and the persecution of the righteous increased in Jerusalem, and Isaiah withdrew to Bethlehem. When the false prophet Belchira accused Isaiah before him, Manasseh had the prophet sawn in sunder with a wooden saw.

The Cave of Treasures says Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, that he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem, and that his mother was Hephzibah. It adds that he repented after he had slain Isaiah, put sackcloth on his body, decreed a fast for himself and ate bread with tears all the days of his life. The Kebra Nagast sets its story of Karmin in his reign.

He is a different person from Manasseh the son of Joseph.

**books:** The Ascension of Isaiah; The Cave of Treasures; The Kebra Nagast