2 Kings 21:22

22 Amon rejected the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not follow the ways of the Lord.

2 Kings 21:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 21:22

And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers
Of David, Solomon

and walked not in the way of the Lord;
prescribed by him in his law for the worship of him.

2 Kings 21:22 In-Context

20 Amon did what the Lord said was wrong, as his father Manasseh had done.
21 He lived in the same way his father had lived: he worshiped the idols his father had worshiped, and he bowed down before them.
22 Amon rejected the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not follow the ways of the Lord.
23 Amon's officers made plans against him and killed him in his palace.
24 Then the people of the land killed all those who had made plans to kill King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
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