2 Kings 21:23

23 Amon's officers made plans against him and killed him in his palace.

2 Kings 21:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 21:23

And the servants of Amon conspired against him
Some of his domestic servants, and perhaps his courtiers, not on account of his idolatry, but for some ill usage of them:

and slew the king in his own house:
which they had an opportunity to do, being his servants.

2 Kings 21:23 In-Context

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.

25 Everything else Amon did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah.