2 Chronicles 33:21

Amon Becomes King in Judah

21 1Amon was twenty-two * years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:21

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 33:20)

2 Chronicles 33:21 In-Context

19 His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his place.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22 He did evil in the sight of the LORD as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
23 Moreover, he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done, but Amon multiplied guilt.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 2 Kings 21:19-24
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