2 Kings 21:24
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
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In Context
23The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel.
1 Kings 12:20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 14:5As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,
2 Kings 22:1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
2 Chronicles 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of 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 →