Verse 21
XIV. AMON (642-640 B.C.)
THE SHORT AND EVIL REIGN OF AMON
"Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Anton sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. And his servants conspired against him and put him to death 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."
As Ellison remarked, "There are only minor variations here from the parallel in 2Kings. No motivation for the assassination is given. Amon may have been the vicious son of a bad father, or it may have been out of disgust for his following a discredited policy."[7]
"Amon was the unhappy product of his father's pagan life, not of his pious death."[8]
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