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Hozai
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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hō´zā̇ - ı̄ ( חוזי , ḥōzay , or as it stands at the close of the verse in question, 2 Chronicles 33:19 , חוזי , ḥōzāy ; Septuagint τῶν ὁρώντων , tō̇n horō̇ntōn ; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible , 390-405 ad) "Hozai"; the King James Version the seers; the King James Version margin "Hosai"; the American Standard Revised Version "Hozia," the American Revised Version margin "the seers." Septuagint not improbably reads החזים , ha -ḥōzı̄m , as in 2 Chronicles 33:18; an easy error, since there we find ודברי החזים , we -dhibherē ha -ḥōzı̄m , "the words of the seers," and here דּברי חוזי , dibherē ḥōzāy , "the words of Hozai." Kittel, following Budde, conjectures as the original reading חוזיו , ḥōzāyw , "his (Manasseh's) seers"): A historiographer of Manasseh, king of Judah. Thought by many of the Jews, incorrectly, to be the prophet Isaiah, who, as we learn from 2 Chronicles 26:22 , was historiographer of a preceding king, Uzziah. This "History of Hozai" has not come down to us. The prayer of Manasseh, mentioned in 2 Chronicles 33:12 f, 2 Chronicles 33:18 f and included in this history, suggested the apocryphal book, "The Prayer of Manasses," written, probably, in the 1st century bc. See APOCRYPHA .
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Hozai'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/h/hozai.html. 1915.
