2 Chronicles 33:25
But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.
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24And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
Numbers 35:33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
2 Chronicles 26:1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 36:1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:22-25
The Reign and Death of Amon. ( b. c. 641.) 21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them; 23 And humbled not himself before the Lord , as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. 24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own… Read the whole commentary →