2 Kings 21:18-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 21:10-18

Here is the doom of Judah and Jerusalem read, and it is heavy doom. The prophets were sent, in the first place, to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty and direct them in it. If they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty. If in this they prevailed not, but sinners went on frowardly, their next work was to foretel the judgments of God,... read more

Matthew Henry

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

Here is a short account of the short and inglorious reign of Amon, the son of Manasseh. Whether Manasseh, in his blind and brutish zeal for his idols, had sacrificed his other sons?or whether, having been dedicated to his idols, they were refused by the people?so it was that his successor was a son not born till he was forty-five years old. And of him we are here told, 1. That his reign was very wicked: He forsook the God of his fathers (2 Kgs. 21:22), disobeyed the commands given to his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:18

And Manasseh slept with his fathers ,.... Or died, after a reign of fifty five years, and a life of sixty seven: and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza ; whether the burial of him here was his own choice, judging himself unworthy to lie with the kings of Judah, who had been guilty of such great sins, or whether the will of others, on the same account, is not certain; and as much at a loss are we for the reason of this garden being called the garden of Uzza,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:19

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 Arabic writer F11 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67. says, he reigned twelve years, but according to the Jews only two: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:20

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 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:21

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 33:22 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:22

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. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:23

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. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:24

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 king, whose life these men ought not to have taken away: and the rather this may be thought to be the reason by what follows: and the people of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 21:25

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 Gill on 2 Kings 21:17 . read more

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