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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Amon was twenty two years old when he began to reign,.... Being born in the forty fifth of his father's life, and in the thirty third of his reign: and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; which, as Abarbinel observes, was the usual time the sons of wicked kings reigned, and instances in the son of Jeroboam, Baasha, and Ahab, 1 Kings 15:25. An...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... Committed idolatry: as his father Manasseh did: he imitated him in that, but not in his repentance and humiliation, 2 Chronicles 33:23.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in,.... In his wicked way, his idolatry, witchcraft, and murders; and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them; Baal, Ashtoreth, and all the host of heaven, and all the carved images his father made, which it seems he only removed, but did not break in pieces, 2 Chronicles...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers,.... Of David, Solomon, c. and walked not in the way of the Lord prescribed by him in his law for the worship of him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 own house: which they had an opportunity to do, being his servants.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against King Amon,.... On occasion of his death, there seems to have been an insurrection of the people in a body, to avenge the death of their king, who might be beloved on account of his idolatry, so depraved was the nation; or it may be only to avenge his death because he was their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?] [See comments on 2 Kings 21:17].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza,.... Where his father Manasseh was buried, 2 Kings 21:18, and Josiah his son reigned in his stead; of whom many things are said in the two following chapters.