2 Kings 21:14-24

14 'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;

15 because * they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.' "

16 ¹Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until * he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides * his sin ²with which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

17 ³Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?

18 ⁴And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, ⁵in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son became king in his place.

Amon Succeeds Manasseh

19 ⁶Amon was twenty-two * years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

20 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, ⁷as Manasseh his father had done.

21 For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.

22 So ⁸he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

23 ⁹The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.

24 Then ¹⁰the people of the land killed 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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2 Kings 21:14-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 21

In this chapter a short history is given of the two wicked reigns of Manasseh and Amon; Manasseh is charged with great idolatry, with enchantments and witchcrafts, and seducing the children of Israel, 2Ki 21:1-9 and a prophecy is given out of the destruction of Jerusalem for his sins, 2Ki 21:10-16, and an account is given of his death and burial, 2Ki 21:17,18, and of his son and successor Amon, and the evils committed by him, 2Ki 21:19-22 and of the conspiracy against his life, which succeeded, and Josiah his son reigned in his stead, 2Ki 21:23-26.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. 2 Kings 24:4
2. 2 Kings 21:11
3. 2 Chronicles 33:11-19
4. 2 Chronicles 33:20
5. 2 Kings 21:26
6. 2 Chronicles 33:21-23
7. 2 Kin 21:2-6, 11, 16
8. 2 Kings 22:17; 1 Chronicles 28:9
9. 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 14:19
10. 2 Kings 14:5

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "sinned"
[b]. Lit "smote"