Relations with Australia were, until recently, strained, with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare accusing Australia of " heavy-handed " interference in Solomon Islands ' domestic affairs, subsequently expelling Australia's High Commissioner to the country Patrick Cole.

The pesharim are the main source for the history of the Teacher of Righteousness and his rival the Wicked Priest, but the texts also refer to a number of other individuals, such as the Liar ( or ' Scoffer '), and groups, including the Kittim, Ephraim and Manasseh, who it is suggested refer to the Romans, Pharisees and Sadducees respectively.

Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of Hezekiah ( who died 698 BC ), and may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh.

* Manasseh ( tribal patriarch ), a son of Joseph, according to the Torah

These additional books are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah ( which later became chapter 6 of Baruch in the Vulgate ), additions to Daniel ( The Prayer of Azarias, the Song of the Three Children, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon ), additions to Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, Odes, including the Prayer of Manasseh, the Psalms of Solomon, and Psalm 151.

One of them, ( Judges 18: 30 ), is due to an alteration of the original out of reverence for Moses ; rather than say that Moses ' grandson became an idolatrous priest, a suspended letter nun ( נ ) was inserted to turn Mosheh into Menasheh ( Manasseh ).

When the Israelites entered the land, Zelophehad's daughters appeared before Eleazer the priest, Joshua ( who by then had assumed leadership from Moses ), and the chieftains, reminding them that God had commanded Moses to grant them a portion among their kinsmen, and Zelophehad's daughters received a portion in the holdings of Manasseh on the west side of the Jordan River.

After the reign of Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel was divided in two, the house of Joseph in the north made up of ten tribes ( Gad, Zebulun, Ashur, Issachar, Simeon, Naphtali, Joseph ( Ephraim and Manasseh ), Dan, Reuben, Levi ) and the Kingdom of Judah in the south made up of two tribes ( Judah and Benjamin ) ().

* British Israelism: Armstrong taught a form of British Israelism, which is the belief that those of Western European descent, notably England ( Ephraim ) and the United States ( Manasseh ), are direct descendants of the ancient northern Kingdom of Israel.

The accounts of Micah's idol also include reference to a Jonathan son of Gershom as being a priest, and although the masoretic text seems to avoid the implication that non-Aaronim could be priests by describing this particular Gershom as a son of Manasseh ( מנשה ), this appears to have been distorted ; the letter nun ( נ ) appears here in superscript, suggesting that the text originally described this Gershom as the one that was a son of Moses ( משה ).

The Tribe of Joseph was one of the Tribes of Israel, though since Ephraim and Manasseh together traditionally constituted the tribe of Joseph, it was often not listed as one of the tribes, in favour of Ephraim and Manasseh being listed in its place ; consequently it was often termed the House of Joseph ( Beit Yosef, בית יוסף ), to avoid the use of the term tribe.

Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormons ) believe themselves to be descended from Manasseh and Ephraim ( in a " grafted in " sense of ancestry ), believing that the lost tribes are being restored in the latter days ( meaning now ) as prophesied by Isaiah ; some believe that this would be the fulfillment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall with the interpretation that the wall is the ocean.

Jair ( Hebrew יאיר Ya ' ir ) was a man from Gilead ( Tribe of Manasseh, east of the River Jordan ), who judged Israel for twenty-two years, after the death of Tola.

* Manasseh, Sara ( 2004 ) " An Iraqi samai of Salim Al-Nur " in Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance ( London: Arts and Humanities Research Board ), Newsletter 3, pp 7 – 8.

According to one of the two Biblical accounts ( does not have the account of Manasseh's captivity or repentance ), Manasseh was restored to the throne, () and abandoned idolatry, removing foreign idols () and enjoining the people to worship in the traditional Israelite manner.

* Die Gesetzgebung Moses im Lande Moab ( 1854 ), in which the Deuteronomic law book is assigned to the second half of the reign of Manasseh

13: 26, 30 ), and after the conquest, it became the boundary between Machir ( the eastern half-tribe of Manasseh ) and Gilead ( later known as Gad ).

Some of those families carry surnames such as Youhanna ( John ), Hanania ( Ananias ), Sahyoun ( Zion ), Eliyya / Elias ( Elijah ), Chamoun / Shamoun ( Simeon / Simon ), Semaan / Simaan ( Simeon / Simon ), Menassa ( Manasseh ), Salamoun / Suleiman ( Solomon ), Youwakim ( Joachim ), Zakariya ( Zacharias ) and others.

* A grandson of Manasseh, ancestor of the Iezerites and Helekites.

* Manasseh, a Jewish-born priest who married a Samaritan and withdrew from Jerusalem to Mount Gerizim

The daughter of Potipherah, a priest of On, she bore Joseph two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, who became the patriarchs of the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim.

The Samaritans, who in the classic times comprised a comparatively large group, now count 745 people, who live in two communities in Israel and the West Bank, and still regard themselves as descendants of the tribes of Ephraim ( named by them as Aphrime ) and Manasseh ( named by them as Manatch ).

( Tradition regards these as region names with the region Gilead being named so, long before the grandson of Manasseh.

Likewise, Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh ( Hebrew: " causing to forget ") as a gesture of forgiveness to his brothers for selling him into slavery.

The ' College Green ', is the central university campus and is the location of historically significant campus buildings: Manasseh Cutler Hall, the Office of the President ; Wilson Hall, the College of Arts and Sciences ; McGuffey Hall, named for William McGuffey ; and the College Gateway.

His real name was probably Manasseh or Jethro, and Latin translators named him Messahala ( with many variants, as Messahalla, Messala, Macellama, Macelarma, Messahalah ).

The " Paul Manasseh Press Box " has been named for and dedicated to the memory of the long-time and popular sports information director.

When Manasseh takes over, and Isaiah's warning proves true, Isaiah and a group of fellow prophets head into the desert, and a demon named Beliar inspires a false prophet named Belkira to accuse Isaiah of treason.

in other places where his genealogy is mentioned, he is listed as a son of Hepher, who was the son of Gilead, and therefore merely a descendant of Manasseh.

The daughters are mentioned a third time, in the Book of Joshua, where they are simply portrayed as being given land in the territory of Manasseh, to which their inheritance entitled them ; the text is unclear in regards to which part of Manasseh's territory they were granted land, except that it wasn't in Gilead.

Thus there were in reality thirteen tribes ; but the number twelve was preserved by excluding that of Levi when Ephraim and Manasseh are mentioned separately.

) and Additionally, Manasseh is absent from the poem ; in the Elohist and Jahwist texts Manasseh is also frequently absent, while Machir is mentioned.

Shechem () or Sichem (; Hebrew: ש ְׁ כ ֶ ם ‎ / ש ְׁ כ ָ ם,, " shoulder ") was a Canaanite city mentioned in the Amarna letters, and is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as an Israelite city of the tribe of Manasseh and the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel.

It is also mentioned in 1 Chronicles 5: 26: " Tiglath Pileser ... took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh into exile.

Manasseh is mentioned in Assyrian records as a contemporary and loyal vassal of Sennacherib's son and successor, Esarhaddon.

Both of these tribes were descendants of Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who are both first mentioned in.

Endor was first mentioned in, when Endor fell within the tribal allotments of Manasseh.

According to the Books of Chronicles chapter 9 line 2, the Israelites, who took part in The Return to Zion are from the Tribe of Judah alongside the Tribe of Simeon that was absorbed into it, the Tribe of Benjamin, the Tribe of Levi ( Levites and Priests ) alongside the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, which according to the Book of Kings 2 Chapter 7 were exiled by the Assyrians ( The Biblical scholars Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim these two tribes ' names to be a reference to the remant of all Ten Tribes that was not exiled and absorbed into the Judean population ).

Two genealogies are given for Zelophehad by the Bible ; in the Book of Chronicles, he is listed as a son of Manasseh.

Later in the narrative of the Book of Numbers, the elders of the clan of Gilead petitioned Moses and the tribal chieftains for advice, because they were concerned that if Zelophehad's daughters married men from another Israelite tribe, the property that the daughters had inherited the right to would become the property of the other tribe, and would be lost from the tribe of Manasseh, to which Zelophehad had belonged.

According to the Book of Chronicles, during the reign of King Saul Reuben instigated a war with the Hagarites, and was victorious ; in another portion of the same text, Reuben is said to have been assisted in this war by Gad and the eastern half of Manasseh.

( see the Book of Judges ) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Manasseh joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king.

Lehi was an Israelite of the Tribe of Manasseh, and father to Nephi, another prominent prophet in the Book of Mormon.

Latter-day Saints believe that this prophecy was fulfilled by Joseph Smith through translating the Book of Mormon, organizing the restored Church of Jesus Christ, and doing missionary work among latter-day descendants of the tribes of Israel, particularly Ephraim and Manasseh.

He then went to London, where he became known to Baron Petre, who enabled him to proceed with a new translation of the Bible for English Roman Catholics, which he carried on as far as the Book of Second Chronicles and the Prayer of Manasseh which was published in 2 volumes ( 1792 – 1797 ).

Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists of the Book of Chronicles, but according to cuneiform inscriptions a variant form of the same, " Ẓil-Bêl ," was borne by a king of Gaza who was a contemporary of Hezekiah and Manasseh.