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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Manasseh (/ məˈnæsə /; Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט מְנַשֶּׁה Ševet Mənašše, Tiberian: Šēḇeṭ Mănašše) [1] was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. After the catastrophic Assyrian invasion of 720 BCE, it is counted as one of the ten lost tribes.
Manasseh, one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel that in biblical times constituted the people of Israel. The tribe was named after the elder son of Joseph, himself a son of Jacob. In time the tribe of Manasseh was assimilated by other peoples and thus became known in legend as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Manasseh (/ m ə ˈ n æ s ə /; Hebrew: מְנַשֶּׁה Mənaššé, "Forgetter"; Akkadian: 𒈨𒈾𒋛𒄿 Menasî [me-na-si-i]; ‹See Tfd› Greek: Μανασσῆς Manasses; Latin: Manasses) was the fourteenth king of the Kingdom of Judah.
According to II Kings xxi. 1, Manasseh, the successor of Hezekiah upon the throne of Judah, was but a boy of twelve at his father's death. His reign of fifty-three years is the longest recorded in the annals of Judah.
According to the biblical account in Genesis 41:51, the name Manasseh (given to him by Joseph) means "God has made me forget". Jacob, Joseph 's father, adopted Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, to share in Jacob's inheritance equally with Jacob's own sons (Genesis 48:5).
The tribe of Manasseh was represented by Gaddi, son of Susi when Moses sent the twelve spies to survey the land of Canaan . Manasseh took an important part in the victories of Israel over her enemies.
The tribe of Manasseh was associated with that of Ephraim and Benjamin during the wanderings in the wilderness. They encamped on the west side of the tabernacle. According to the census taken at Sinai, this tribe then numbered 32,200 (Numbers 1:10, 35; 2:20, 21).
