His prayer also,.... Was not only recorded in the above annals, but in the writings of another person after mentioned: and how God was entreated of him; heard his prayer, and showed him favour both in a temporal and spiritual way; for though the Jews would not allow that he was saved, or had a part in the world to come, eternal life (q), yet there appears no just reason why it should be so thought: and all his sin, and his trespass; his impieties, idolatries, and murders: and the places wherein he built high places; see Ch2 33:3. and set up groves; statues in groves: and graven images, before he was humbled; see Ch2 33:7, behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers; or of Hosea, the name of a prophet who wrote the history of his own times; so the Targrim and Vulgate Latin version; and, according to the Jewish chronology (r), there was a prophet of this name in the times of Amon the son of Manasseh. (q) Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 2. (r) Seder Olam Zuta, p. 105. Ed. Meyer.