English Standard Version
2 Kings 21:23
23And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.
2 Kings 21:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
- New International Version (NIV)Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Then Amon’s own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
Context of 2 Kings 21:23
21He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them. 22He abandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord. And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house. 24But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 25Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Read all of 2 Kings 212 Kings 21:23 word by word
וַיִּקְשְׁר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי־אָמ֖וֹן עָלָ֑יו וַיָּמִ֥יתוּ אֶת־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Kings 21:23
- 2 Kings 12:20His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
- 2 Kings 14:19And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
- 2 Kings 15:25And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:27Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
- 1 Kings 16:9But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,
- 2 Chronicles 33:24And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 21:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23The servants of Amon conspired - What their reason was for slaying their king we cannot tell. It does not seem to have been a popular act, for the people of the land rose up and slew the regicides. We hear enough of this man when we hear that he was as bad as his father was in the beginning of his reign, but did not copy his father's repentance.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry which the young king had established.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-26Verses 19-26 Amon profaned God's house with his idols; and God suffered his house to be polluted with his blood. How unrighteous soever they were that did it, God was righteous who suffered it to be done. Now was a happy change from one of the worst, to one of the best of the kings of Judah. Once more Judah was tried with a reformation. Whether the Lord bears long with presumptuous offenders, or speedily cuts them off in their sins, all must perish who…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2419-24. Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign--This prince continued the idolatrous policy of his father; and, after an inglorious reign of two years, he was massacred by some of his own domestics. The people slew the regicide conspirators and placed his son Josiah on the throne.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Kings 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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