2 Kings 21:23

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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.
• 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 followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them. 22He forsook the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in obedience to him. Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace. 24Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place. 25As for the other events of Amon’s reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 21:23 word by word

וַיִּקְשְׁר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי־אָמ֖וֹן עָלָ֑יו וַיָּמִ֥יתוּ אֶת־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the servantsעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
• of Amonאָמוֹן'âmôn · AmonH526
• conspiredקָשַׁרqâshar · to conspireH7194
• against him, and slewמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• the kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• in his own houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004

Cross-references for 2 Kings 21:23

• 2 Kings 12:20His officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.
• 2 Kings 14:19They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.
• 2 Kings 15:25One of his chief officers, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him. Taking fifty men of Gilead with him, he assassinated Pekahiah, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the royal palace at Samaria. So Pekah killed Pekahiah and succeeded him as king.
• 1 Kings 15:27Baasha son of Ahijah from the tribe of Issachar plotted against him, and he struck him down at Gibbethon, a Philistine town, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging it.
• 1 Kings 16:9Zimri, one of his officials, who had command of half his chariots, plotted against him. Elah was in Tirzah at the time, getting drunk in the home of Arza, the palace administrator at Tirzah.
• 2 Chronicles 33:24Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.

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

Topics related to 2 Kings 21:23

• Amon
• Backsliders
• Citizens
• Conspiracy
• Homicide
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Servant

In the dictionaries

• Amon
• Kings, The Books of
• Prey
• Wipe
• Chronology of the Old Testament
• Judah, Kingdom of
• Kings, Books of
• Manasses, the Prayer of
• Shebna
• Zephaniah, Book of

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