2 Kings 21:19-23

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 21:19

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 21:19

He reigned two years in Jerusalem - The remark of the rabbins is not wholly without foundation, that the sons of those kings who were idolaters, and who succeeded their fathers, seldom reigned more than two years. So Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, 1 Kings 15:25 ; Elah, the son of Baasha, 1 Kings 16:8 ; Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, 1 Kings 22:51 ; and Amon, the son of Manasseh, as mentioned here, 2 Kings 21:19 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 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 more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 21:1-26

THE REIGNS OF MANASSEH AND AMON . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 21:19

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign. So Josephus ('Ant. Jud.,' 10.4. § 1), and the author of Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 33:21 ). He must have been born in B.C. 664, early in the reign of Asshur-bani-pal, probably in the year of that monarch's expedition against Tyro. And he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The "twelve years" assigned to Amen By the Duke of Manchester ('Times of Daniel') are wholly devoid of foundation, and would throw the entire chronology into... read more

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