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2 Kings 21:23 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 23. 23And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Amon repeats evil and is assassinated.”
Amon copies the way and lasts two years
This verse is one part of that explanation in 2 Kings 21:19–26. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 2 Kings 21:19–26
Read 2 Kings 21:23 with 21:19–26. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Amon continues Manasseh's practices, is killed by palace servants, the people execute the conspirators, and Josiah succeeds him.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Amon repeats evil and is assassinated,” 2 Kings 21:23 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Kings 21:10–18 establishes this prior movement: Prophets compare Jerusalem's coming wiping to Samaria and Ahab, while Manasseh sheds extensive innocent blood before his death. 2 Kings 21:19–26 brings the preceding movement toward its narrated result or transition; that evidenced relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 2 Kings 21:19–26 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 21:19–26 forms one scene or regnal notice: Amon continues Manasseh's practices, is killed by palace servants, the people execute the conspirators, and Josiah succeeds him.
Verse 19. 19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
Verse 20. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
Verse 21. 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
Verse 22. 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
Verse 23. 23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
Verse 24. 24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Verse 25. 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Verse 26. 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
What Remains True
Power remains accountable for every person exposed, coerced, displaced, injured, or killed even when the narrative also reports judgment, fulfillment, or victory. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Amon continues Manasseh's practices, is killed by palace servants, the people execute the conspirators, and Josiah succeeds him. In 2 Kings 21:23, the concrete line “And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 21:19–26 — Amon repeats evil and is assassinatedSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 21:19–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 21:19–26
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 660–662, translation and translator notes for 21:19–26
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