³ Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron^(A) and had cruelly oppressed^(B) the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.

¹² In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled^(A) himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. ¹³ And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.

⁶ Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out^(A) to the Lord for help.

⁷ When the Israelites cried out^(B) to the Lord because of Midian, ⁸ he sent them a prophet,^(C) who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt,^(D) out of the land of slavery.^{(E) 9} I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors;^(F) I drove them out before you and gave you their land.^{(G) 10} I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship^(H) the gods of the Amorites,^(I) in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”