2 Kings 21 · Verse 23

2 Kings 21:23

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
2 Kings 21:23, King James Version

2 Kings 21:23 in other translations

BSBThen the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
WEBThe servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
ASVAnd the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
YLTAnd the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house,
DARBYAnd the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
BBEAnd the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.
WebsterAnd the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

What does 2 Kings 21:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 21:19-24

19-24. 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.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 21:19-26

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…

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2 Kings 21:23 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּקְשְׁר֥וּvai.yik.she.Ruand they conspiredH7194
עַבְדֵֽי\־'av.dei-[the] servants ofH5650
אָמ֖וֹן'a.MonAmonH526
עָלָ֑יו'a.Lavon himH5921
וַיָּמִ֥יתוּvai.ya.Mi.tuand they killedH4191
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
בְּבֵיתֽוֹ\׃be.vei.Toin own house hisH1004

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Cross references for 2 Kings 21:23

  • 2 Kings 12:20

    And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:24-25

    And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 14:19

    Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

  • 1 Kings 16:9

    And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

  • 2 Kings 15:30

    And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

  • 2 Kings 15:25

    But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

  • 1 Kings 15:27

    And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A.M. 3363. B.C. 641.
12:20; 14:19; 15:25,30; 1Ki 15:27; 16:9; 2Ch 33:24,25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 2 Kings 21:22

    And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

  • 2 Kings 21:23

    And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

  • 2 Kings 21:24

    And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

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2 Kings 21:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y los siervos de Amón conspiraron contra él, y mataron al rey en su casa.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et les serviteurs d’Amon conspirèrent contre lui, et mirent à mort le roi dans sa maison.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Knechte Amons machten eine Verschwörung wider ihn und töteten den König in seinem Hause.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Tetenderuntque ei insidias servi sui, et interfecerunt regem in domo sua.