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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 21:23 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 21:23 |
Strong Concordance |
And the servants [05650] of Amon [0526] conspired [07194] against him, and slew [04191] the king [04428] in his own house [01004]. |
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King James |
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry which the young king had established. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| His servants conspired against him and slew him in his palace; whereupon the people of the land, i.e., the population of Judah (הארץ עם = יהוּדה עם, Ch2 26:1), put the conspirators to death and made Josiah the son of Amon king, when he was only eight years old. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The servants of Amon conspired - What their reason was for slaying their king we cannot tell. It does not seem to have been a popular act, for the people of the land rose up and slew the regicides. We hear enough of this man when we hear that he was as bad as his father was in the beginning of his reign, but did not copy his father's repentance. |
1 Then all the people [05971] of Judah [03063] took [03947] Uzziah [05818], who was sixteen [08337] [06240] years [08141] old [01121], and made him king [04427] in the room of his father [01] Amaziah [0558].