But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place. Sermons
I. THE POWER OF EVIL OFTEN COUNTERACTS THE GOOD. Manasseh had humbled himself before God. He obtained pardon. But he could not undo the guilty past. He could not undo the effects of his evil example and influence. We see how his sins were imitated and continued by his son Amen. How careful we should be what influence we exercise, what an example we leave behind us! Many a penitent sinner would give worlds if he could undo the consequences to others of his own past sins. II. THE LAW OF RETRIBUTION ONCE MORE. "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Every case of disobedience against God on the part of Israel and her kings brought its corresponding penalty. Amen was very defiant in his sin. "He humbled not himself before the Lord... but trespassed more and more" (2 Chronicles 33:23). He cast off the authority of God. The day came when his own servants rose in rebellion against his authority, and conspired against him, and slew him. The conspirators also met with their punishment. "The people of the land slew all them that had conspired against King Amen" (ver. 24). Amid all its corruptions, the nation had not yet utterly lost the sense of justice. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - C.H.I.
Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign. 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 must have witnessed the repentance and reforming zeal of his father, if, in spite of all difficulties, we assume that narrative to be historical. In that ease, however, the young man was wholly untouched by the latter phase of Manasseh's life, and flung himself headlong into the career of the king's earlier idolatries. "He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them" — which was the more extraordinary if Manasseh's last acts had been to dethrone and destroy these strange gods. He even "multiplied trespass," so that in his son's reign we find every form of abomination as triumphant as though Manasseh had never attempted to check the tide of evil. We know nothing more of Amon. Apparently he only reigned two years. He is the only Jewish king who bears the name of a foreign — an Egyptian — deity. For pictures of the state of things in this reign we may look to the prophets Zephaniah and Jeremiah, and they are forced to use the darkest colours.(Dexter Farrar.) People Ahab, Amon, Amorites, David, Haruz, Hephzibah, Hezekiah, Israelites, Josiah, Manasseh, Meshullemeth, Solomon, UzzaPlaces Egypt, Jerusalem, Jotbah, Samaria, UzzaTopics Amon, Cause, Conspired, Conspiring, Death, Design, Josiah, Josi'ah, Killed, Plotted, Reign, Slew, Smite, Smote, SteadOutline 1. Manasseh's reign.3. His great idolatry. 10. His wickedness causes prophecies against Judah. 17. Amon succeeds him. 19. Amon's wicked reign. 23. He being slain by his servants, and those murderers slain by the people, 26. Josiah is made king. Dictionary of Bible Themes 2 Kings 21:24Library The Medes and the Second Chaldaean EmpireTHE FALL OF NINEVEH AND THE RISE OF THE CHALDAEAN AND MEDIAN EMPIRES--THE XXVIth EGYPTIAN DYNASTY: CYAXARES, ALYATTES, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR. The legendary history of the kings of Media and the first contact of the Medes with the Assyrians: the alleged Iranian migrations of the Avesta--Media-proper, its fauna and flora; Phraortes and the beginning of the Median empire--Persia proper and the Persians; conquest of Persia by the Medes--The last monuments of Assur-bani-pal: the library of Kouyunjik--Phraortes … G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8 The Sins of Communities Noted and Punished. Josiah, a Pattern for the Ignorant. Kings Links 2 Kings 21:24 NIV2 Kings 21:24 NLT 2 Kings 21:24 ESV 2 Kings 21:24 NASB 2 Kings 21:24 KJV 2 Kings 21:24 Bible Apps 2 Kings 21:24 Parallel 2 Kings 21:24 Biblia Paralela 2 Kings 21:24 Chinese Bible 2 Kings 21:24 French Bible 2 Kings 21:24 German Bible 2 Kings 21:24 Commentaries Bible Hub |
    |