2 Kings 21:24
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:3The ancients also of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel.
1 Kings 12:20And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Juda only.
2 Kings 14:5And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king his father:
2 Kings 22:1Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.
2 Chronicles 26:1And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.
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 →