2 Kings 21:24
Then the people of the land smote all who had conspired against King Amon,—and the people of the land made, Josiah his son, king, in his stead.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the servants of Amon, conspired against him,—and slew the king in his own house.
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:3So all the elders of Israel came unto the king, in Hebron, and King David solemnised to them a covenant in Hebron, before Yahweh, —and they anointed David to be king over Israel.
1 Kings 12:20And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him into the assembly, and made him king over all Israel,—there were none that followed the house of David, saving the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 14:5And it came to pass that, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he smote his servants who smote the king his father;
2 Kings 22:1Eight years old, was Josiah when he began to reign, and, thirty-one years, reigned he in Jerusalem,—and, this mother’s name, was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah, of Bozkath.
2 Chronicles 26:1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, when, he, was sixteen years old,—and made him king, instead 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 →