Manasseh (III)

Judith viii. 2, 3.III. MANASSEH. The Husband of Judith, who lived but a little while with her. He had been dead three Years, when Holofernes’s War began. Manasseh was of the Tribe of Simeon, and died in the Time of Barley-harvest, of a Disease caused by the too great Heat of the Sun, which had shined upon his Head. He left all his Estate to his Wife Judith, and was buried in his own Countrey in Bethulia.

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