2 Chronicles 33:25
And the people of the land slew the men who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
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In Context
24And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his house.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.
Numbers 35:33So shall ye not pollute with murder the land in which ye dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.
2 Chronicles 26:1Then all the people of the land took Uzziah, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 36:1And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king over Jerusalem in the room 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 →