2 Kings 21:24
But then the people of the land killed everyone who had plotted against King Amon, and they chose his son Josiah king to succeed him.
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23Amon's officials plotted against him and murdered him in his royal palace.
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:3All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made an agreement with them in the Lord's presence. Then they anointed him king of Israel.
1 Kings 12:20When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him, summoning him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah was left to the house of David.
2 Kings 14:5Once he was secure on the throne he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
2 Kings 22:1Josiah was eight when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah. She came from Bozkath.
2 Chronicles 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, sixteen years old, and made him king in succession to his father Amaziah.
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 →