2 Kings 21:23
And the servants of Amon, conspired against him,—and slew the king in his own house.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
In Context
22and forsook Yahweh the God of his fathers,—and walked not in the way of Yahweh.
Cross References
1 Kings 16:9Then conspired against him his servant Zimri, captain of half the chariots,—as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk, in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.
2 Kings 12:20And his servants arose and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash, in the house of Millo which teeth down to Silla.
2 Kings 15:25And there conspired against him—Pekah son of Remaliah, a hero of his, and smote him in Samaria, in the citadel of the house of a king, with Argob and with Arieh, and, with him, fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites,—and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 33:24And his servants conspired 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 →