2 Kings 21:19-25

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Amon Reigns over Judah

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.^{(A) 20} He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done.^{(B) 21} He walked in all the way in which his father walked, served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them; ²² he abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.^{(C) 23} The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his house.^{(D) 24} But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in place of him. ²⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?