Amon

Amon his son, and Josiah his son.

²⁰ And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

²¹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

²² And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

²³ but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

²⁴ Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

²⁵ But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

¹⁸ And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

²³ Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

²⁴ But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

²⁵ As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

² The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

³ and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

¹⁰ Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,

¹¹ and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

¹ This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:

² “I will completely sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.