God accepted Manasseh's prayer and answered it by letting him go back to Jerusalem and rule again. This convinced Manasseh that the LORD was God.

The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented---the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped---are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.

They forced the poor to cry out to God, and he heard their calls for help.

I call to the LORD for help, and from his sacred hill he answers me.

Keep away from me, you evil people! The LORD hears my weeping;

he listens to my cry for help and will answer my prayer.

The helpless call to him, and he answers; he saves them from all their troubles.

But God has indeed heard me; he has listened to my prayer.

I love the LORD, because he hears me; he listens to my prayers.

He listens to me every time I call to him.

to go back to Hezekiah and say to him, "I, the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will let you live fifteen years longer.

Hear my prayer, O God; don't turn away from my plea!

LORD, I call to you for help; every morning I pray to you.

Why do you reject me, LORD? Why do you turn away from me?

In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express.