Deported to Babylon, Manasseh would repent and return to Jerusalem as a vassal king
(2 Chron 33:11-13). On one side of the six-sided Esarhaddon
Prism (column 5), Manasseh is listed on line 55 as "Menasi, king of Judah."
1) (their) gall eructating. I had no rival, my weapons were unopposed, 2) and
among the princes, my predecessors, not one was (my) equal. 3) Those who scoffed at the kings, my fathers,
and answered with hostility, 4) by the command of Ashur, my lord, were delivered into my hands: 5)
those (places) whereof the wall was difficult, I broke their stones as though they were a potter's vessel:
6) the corpses of their warriors unburied I gave to the wolf to eat: 7) the treasury of their goods
I carried off to Assyria, 8) the gods, their helpers, I counted as a spoil. 9) Like sheep I drove
their fat people. 10) He who to save his life had fled into the midst of the sea 11) did not escape
my net, and saved not his life: 12) the fleet of foot who took to the fastnesses (?) of the distant
mountains, 13) like a bird I hunted him from the mountain and bound his pinions: 14) their blood
like a broken (dam) I let flow on the slopes of the mountains. 15) The Sute, dwellers in tents, whose
dwelling is remote, 16) like the fierce shock of a hurricane I tore up their roots. 17) Of those
who made the sea their fortress, the mountain their stronghold, 18) not one did I let escape from my net;
19) not a fugitive fled away. 20) Those of the sea in the mountains, those of the mountains by the
sea I ordained as their dwelling. 21) By the command of Ashur, my lord, who is it who could be my rival
22) in royalty? Or among the kings, my fathers, 23) (who was there) whose rule was so great as mine?
24) From out of the sea my foes thus spake: 25) "Whither can the fox go in the sunlight?" 26)
The Elamites (and) Kutu, proud princes, 27) who had answered the kings, my fathers, with enmity; 28)
of the power of Ashur, my lord, which I had exercised over all my enemies, 29) they heard, and fear and
terror were showered on them. 30) So that there should be no encroachment on their boundaries 31)
their messengers for favour and peace 32) to Nineveh to my presence they sent and 33) in the name
of the great gods took an oath. After Ashur, Shamash, Bel, and Nabu, 34) Ishtar of Nineveh, Ishtar of
Arbela, over my foes 35) had made me stand in triumph and I had attained all my heart's desire, 36)
in the conquest of my numerous enemies 37) whom by the help of the great gods, my lords, my hands had
conquered, 38) the temples of the cities of Assyria and Akkad I caused to build and 39) sheathed
them with silver (and) gold and made them shine like the day. 40) In those days the Front Palace of
Nineveh 41) which the kings going before my fathers had built, 42) for the ordinance of the camp,
the maintenance of the stallions, 43) mules, chariots, weapons, equipment for war, 44) and the spoil
of the foe, of every kind, 45) which Ashur, king of the gods, as the due of my royalty gave, 46) for
the care of the horses (and) practice of the chariots; 47) that place was too small for me, and the people
of the countries, 48) the spoil of my bow—I made them bring the hoe (and) brick-mould, and 49) they
made (unburnt) bricks. That little palace 50) throughout I destroyed and much land 51) as an addition
from the fields I cut off and 52) added thereto with limestone, the solid stone from the mountains,
53) I laid its foundation and filled a terrace: 54) I assembled the kings of the Hittites and across
the river. 55) Ba'lu, king of Tyre, Menasi, king of Judah, 56) Kausgabri, king of Edom, Musuri,
king of Moab, 57) Sil-bel, king of Gaza, Metinti, king of Ascalon, 58) Ikausu, king of Ekron,
59) Milkiasapa, king of Gebal, 60) Matanba'al, king of Arvad, 61) Abiba'al, king of Samsimurruna,
62) Puduil, king of Beth-Ammon, Ahi-milki, king of Ashdod, 63) Twelve kings of the shore of the sea:
Ekistura, 64) king of Idalion, Pilagura, king of Chytrus, 65) Kisu, king of Soli, 66) Ituandar,
king of Paphos, 67) Erisu, king of Silli, Damasu, king of Curium 68) Atmesu, king of Tamesi,
69) Darmisi, king of Karti-hadasti, 70) Unasagusu, king of Ledra, 71) Bususu of Nuria, ten
kings of Iatnana 72) of the middle of the sea, total twenty-two kings of Hatti, the sea shore, 73)
and the middle of the sea, all of them I sent and 74) great beams, solid columns, dressed (?) planks,
75) of cedar (and) cypress, the product of Sirara and Lebanon, 76) whereof the stature from of old
had increased and become luxuriant, 77) winged bulls (and) colossi of ashnati-stone, 78) female
colossi (and) cow-colossi, slabs, burnt brick, 79) of marble, ashnan-stone, turmina-stone, 80)
breccia, alallu-stone, GI.RIN. ŠAR.GUB.BA-stone, 81) from the mountains, the place of their creation,
82) for the need of my palace, with difficulty and trouble.