2 Kings 21:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

2 Kings 21:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry which the young king had established.
2 Kings 21:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Reigns of Manasseh and Amon. The fact that the reformation begun by Hezekiah was so thoroughly undone at his death, and that his son was able to reign undisturbed for fifty-five years, proves that...
2 Kings 21:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. The servants of Amon conspired - What their reason was for slaying their king we cannot tell. It does not seem to h...
2 Kings 21:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Reigns of Manasseh and Amon 3. The high places, etc.] Manasseh not only restored the country sanctuaries which had been destroyed by Hezekiah as seats of corruption (see 2 Kings 18:4 ; 2 Kin...
2 Kings 21:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The servants of Amon — i.e., according to the common use of the phrase, his courtiers or palace officials. Nothing further is known of the circumstances of the murder. For a conjecture, see 2 Ch...
2 Kings 21:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

AMON B.C. 641-639 2 Kings 21:19-26 THE brief reign of Amon is only a sort of unimportant and miserable annex to that of his father. As he was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, he mu...
2 Kings 21:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

like Father, like Son 2 Kings 21:16-26 Manasseh shed much innocent blood, and among others, tradition has it that Isaiah was sawn asunder at his command, Hebrews 11:37 . Amon followed in his f...
2 Kings 21:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the story of reaction. It manifested itself in two reigns, both utterly evil, Manasseh's, lasting fifty- five years, and Amon's, lasting two years. The story of Manasseh's sin was not m...
2 Kings 21:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here the short but distressing account of Amon's reign. And in the parallel passage in the 2d book of the Chronicles, there is nothing to soften it as in the instance of his father; but on th...
2 Kings 21:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
2 Kings 21:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. Ver. 23. And the servants of Amon conspired. ] Probably these had corrupted him as another Joash. 2Ki 12:20-21
2 Kings 21:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The servants of Amon conspired against him He having rebelled against God, his own servants rose up against him, and slew him when he had reigned only two years; and his own house, that should have...
2 Kings 21:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MANASSEH'S WICKED REIGN (vv.1-18) Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign, therefore he was born three years after Hezekiah's sickness and recovery. But in contrast to his father, he wa...
2 Kings 21:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amon's Reign and Death. B. C. 643. 19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began...
2 Kings 21:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Kings 21:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reign Of Amon, King Of Judah c. 642/1-640/39 BC ( 2 Kings 21:19-26 ). Amon continued in the way in which he had been brought up and reinstituted the idolatrous practises of the reign of his fa...
2 Kings 21:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS OF 2 Kings 21:19-26 THE CRIME OF ASSASSINATION I. Is but lightly regarded where religions principle is demoralized ( 2 Kings 21:20-22 ). When the bonds of religious obligations are...
2 Kings 21:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 21:1 . Manasseh was twelve years old. He was the sixteenth king of Judah, ruined in his education, it would seem, by some apostate priests. These tutors ruined the church also, and ruined...
2 Kings 21:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign. Amon The brief reign of Amon is only a sort of unimportant and miserable annex to that of his father. As he was twenty-two years old wh...
2 Kings 21:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 21:1-12 THE REIGNS OF MANASSEH AND AMON . 2 Kings 21:1-12 THE REIGN OF MANASSEH . Hezekiah's good and glorious reign was followed by one of exactl...
2 Kings 21:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amon's Reign
2 Kings 21:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 15:27 ; 1 Kings 16:9 ; 2 Chronicles 33:24 ; 2 Chronicles 33:25 ; 2 Kings 12:20 ; 2 Kings 14:19 ; 2 Kings 15:25 ; 2 Kings 15:30

2 Kings 21:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 21:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 21:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 21:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 21:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 21:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 21:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 21:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 21:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 21:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 21:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 21:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 21:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge