Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 21:23
This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry which the young king had established.
This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry which the young king had established.
Verse 2 Kings 21:23. _THE 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...
4. MANASSEH AND AMON CHAPTER 21 _ 1. Manasseh's reign of wickedness (2 Kings 21:1; 2 Chronicles 33:1)_ 2. The word of the LORD against it (2 Kings 21:10) 3. Manasseh's end ...
REIGNS OF MANASSEH AND AMON. The fact that the reformation begun by Hezekiah was so thoroughly undone at his death, and that his son was able to reign undisturbed for fifty-five years, proves that his...
_the servants of Amon conspired against him_ The servants must be the court officers who were close about the king. The place where he was killed, -his own house", shews this, and the present destruct...
II. THE ACCESSION AND ASSASSINATION OF AMON 21:19-26 TRANSLATION (19) Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and two years he reigned in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Meshu...
THE REIGNS OF MANASSEH AND AMON 3. The high places, etc.] Manasseh not only restored the country sanctuaries which had been destroyed by Hezekiah as seats of corruption (see 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 18:2...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 21 MANASSEH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Manasseh was 12 years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for 55 y...
THE SERVANTS OF AMON — _i.e.,_ according to the common use of the phrase, his courtiers or palace officials. Nothing further is known of the circumstances of the murder. For a conjecture, see 2 Chroni...
וַ יִּקְשְׁר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי ־אָמֹ֖ון עָלָ֑יו וַ...
AMON B.C. 641-639 2 Kings 21:19 THE brief reign of Amon is only a sort of unimportant and miserable annex to that of his father. As he was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, he must have w...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON 2 Kings 21:16 Manasseh shed much innocent blood, and among others, tradition has it that Isaiah was sawn asunder at his command, Hebrews 11:37. Amon followed in his father's ste...
Here we have the story of reaction. It manifested itself in two reigns, both utterly evil, Manasseh's, lasting fifty- five years, and Amon's, lasting two years. The story of Manasseh's sin was not mer...
We have here the short but distressing account of Amon's reign. And in the parallel passage in the 2d book of the Chronicles, there is nothing to soften it as in the instance of his father; but on the...
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
When Hezekiah died at the age of fifty-four, his son was but twelve years old. Beguiled himself, Manasseh seduced the people, who were but too willing to commit greater iniquity than the nations who k...
AND THE SERVANTS OF AMON CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM,.... Some of his domestic servants, and perhaps his courtiers, not on account of his idolatry, but for some ill usage of them: AND SLEW THE KING IN HIS...
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. Ver. 23. _And the servants of Amon conspired._] Probably these had corrupted him as another Joash. 2Ki 12:20-21...
_The servants of Amon conspired against him_ He having rebelled against God, his own servants rose up against him, and slew him when he had reigned only two years; and his own house, that should have...
[MANASSEH WICKED.] 1 Manasseh his reigne. 3 His great idolatrie. 10 His wickednesse causeth prophecies against Iudah. 17 Amon succeedeth him. 19 Amons wicked reigne. 23 Hee being slaine by his s...
And the servants of Amon, evidently his attendants, since it was a conspiracy in the palace only, CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, AND SLEW THE KING IN HIS OWN HOUSE....
Amon's Reign...
MANASSEH'S WICKED REIGN (vv.1-18) Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign, therefore he was born three years after Hezekiah's sickness and recovery. But in contrast to his father, he was th...
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. No...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 21:23 servants H5650 Amon H526 conspired H7194 (H8799) killed H4191 (H8686) king H4428 house H1004...
THE REIGN OF AMON, KING OF JUDAH C. 642/1-640/39 BC (2 KINGS 21:19). Amon continued in the way in which he had been brought up and reinstituted the idolatrous practises of the reign of his father prio...
CONTENTS: Evil reigns of Manasseh and Amon in Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Manasseh, Amon. CONCLUSION: Those have much to answer for who not only are wicked themselves but help to make others so. 2 Kings...
2 Kings 21:1. _Manasseh was twelve years old._ He was the sixteenth king of Judah, ruined in his education, it would seem, by some apostate priests. These tutors ruined the church also, and ruined the...
_Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign._ AMON The brief reign of Amon is only a sort of unimportant and miserable annex to that of his father. As he was twenty-two years old when h...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 21:1 Manasseh and Amon. Even through the bad times, the Lord has been faithful to Judah because of his promise to David. Throughout chs. 2 Kings 16:1
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 21:19 AMON. See note on 2 Chron. 33:21–25. ⇐...
_HOMILETICS OF 2 Kings 21:19_ THE CRIME OF ASSASSINATION I. IS BUT LIGHTLY REGARDED WHERE RELIGIONS PRINCIPLE IS DEMORALIZED (2 Kings 21:20). When the bonds of religious obligations are relaxed, the...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 21:1 THE REIGNS OF MANASSEH AND AMON. 2 KINGS 21:1 THE REIGN OF MA
Now Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign (2 Kings 21:1), Manasseh was the son of Hezekiah, and here is something that I think is interesting for speculation. Would it have been better...
1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 16:9; 2 Chronicles 33:24; 2 Chronicles 33:25;...