Amon's Reign and Death
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j Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images k that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
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And he did not humble himself before the Lord, l as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
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And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.
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But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:21 - 25
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 21:19 - 24
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:7
And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
2 Chronicles 34:3 - 4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
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