Manasseh

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Manasseh may refer to:

• Manasseh, a son of Joseph, according to the Torah
• the Tribe of Manasseh, an Israelite tribe
• Manasseh of Judah, a king of the kingdom of Judah.
• The ancestor of a priest named Jonathan, mentioned in the Book of Judges as being the son of Gershom, son of Manasseh; there is a scribal oddity in the text which means it may actually state Moses rather than Manasseh.
• The Bnei Menashe ("Children of Menasseh"), a group from northeast India who claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
• Manasseh A Jewish-born priest who married a Samaritan and withdrew from Jerusalem to Mount Gerizim
• Hebrew Protestant leader Herbert W. Armstrong of the World Wide Church of God 1940s to 1980s in a book call “The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy” claimed the United States were ruminates of Tribe of Manasseh of Israel. His evidence was that of the blessings from Jacob to Ephraim and Manasseh and a Princess of the Northern kingdom of Israel, who fled to the Isles of the north with two tribesmen of Ephraim and Manasseh.

• Menasseh or Manasseh was the name of two Khazar rulers of the Bulanid dynasty:
  • Menasseh I, mid to late 9th century CE or A.D.
  • Menasseh II, late 9th century CE or A.D.

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