2 Kings 21:19

19 A son of twenty and two years [is] Amon in his reigning, and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz of Jotbah,

2 Kings 21:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 21:19

And Amon was twenty two years old when he began to reign,
&c.] Being born in the forty fifth of his father's life, and in the thirty third of his reign:

and he reigned two years in Jerusalem;
which, as Abarbinel observes, was the usual time the sons of wicked kings reigned, and instances in the son of Jeroboam, Baasha, and Ahab, ( 1 Kings 15:25 ) ( 16:8 ) ( 22:51 ) . An Arabic writer ^F11 says, he reigned twelve years, but according to the Jews only two:

and his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of
Jotbah;
there was a place called Jotbath, which was one of the stations of the children of Israel in the wilderness, ( Numbers 33:33 ) ( Deuteronomy 10:7 ) but it can scarcely be thought to be the same place.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67.

2 Kings 21:19 In-Context

17 And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

18 And Manasseh lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and reign doth Amon his son in his stead.

19 A son of twenty and two years [is] Amon in his reigning, and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz of Jotbah,

20 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father,

21 and walketh in all the way that his father walked in, and serveth the idols that his father served, and boweth himself to them,