Fifteen verses of profound contrition. The penitential prayer attributes to King Manasseh — the most idolatrous of Judah's kings — confessing his sins, appealing to God's patience with the patriarchs, and pleading for mercy. One of the most beloved prayers of confession in the Christian tradition, included in many liturgies as a model of penitence.
Composed as the prayer 2 Chronicles 33:18–19 says Manasseh prayed during his Assyrian captivity but does not record. Sometimes called the "Prayer of Manasses."
Prayer of Manasseh is part of the Apocrypha, so the reader opens in KJVA by default — KJV doesn't include it.
Our cross-reference dataset comes from OpenBible.info (CC-BY) — a community-curated resource that covers the Old and New Testaments only. The Apocrypha isn't yet in their dataset, so we don't have an arc-map for Prayer of Manasseh on this page.
Prayer of Manasseh is still richly connected to the rest of Scripture — the early church quoted it, later writers built on it, and scholarly cross-reference editions (e.g. the Jerusalem Bible, the Nova Vulgata) catalogue those links. We're tracking the gap and will add Apocrypha cross-references when a permissive open dataset becomes available.