2 Kings 21:24

24 and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead.

2 Kings 21:24 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 21:24

And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
against King Amon
On occasion of his death, there seems to have been an insurrection of the people in a body, to avenge the death of their king, who might be beloved on account of his idolatry, so depraved was the nation; or it may be only to avenge his death because he was their king, whose life these men ought not to have taken away: and the rather this may be thought to be the reason by what follows,

and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead;
who had been prophesied of by name above three hundred years before, see ( 1 Kings 13:2 ) .

2 Kings 21:24 In-Context

22 and forsaketh Jehovah, God of his fathers, and hath not walked in the way of Jehovah.

23 And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house,

24 and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead.

25 And the rest of the matters of Amon that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

26 and [one] burieth him in his burying-place in the garden of Uzza, and reign doth Josiah his son in his stead.