2 Kings 21:23
And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
In Context
22Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.
Cross References
1 Kings 16:9And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.
2 Kings 12:20And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.
2 Kings 15:25And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place.
2 Chronicles 33:24And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:20-26
Amon's Reign and Death. ( b. c. 643.) 19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , as his father Manasseh did. 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: 22 And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord . 23 And… Read the whole commentary →