2 Kings 21:23
And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
In Context
22and forsakes YHWH, God of his fathers, and has not walked in the way of YHWH.
Cross References
1 Kings 16:9and his servant Zimri conspires against him (head of the half of the chariots) and he [is] in Tirzah drinking—a drunkard in the house of Arza, who [is] over the house in Tirzah.
2 Kings 12:20And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and strike Joash in the house of Millo, that is going down to Silla.
2 Kings 15:25And Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspires against him, and strikes him in Samaria, in the high place of the house of the king with Argob and Arieh; and fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites [were] with him, and he puts him to death, and reigns in his stead.
2 Chronicles 33:24And his servants conspire against him and put him to death in his own 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 →