Amon

Amon was king of Judah for only two years, and the verdict on him is short: he “did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,” following his father Manasseh into idols. Second Chronicles adds a sharp contrast between the two men. Manasseh had humbled himself, but Amon “humbled not himself before the LORD” and “trespassed more and more.” His own servants conspired against him and killed him in his house, and the people of the land put his son Josiah on the throne. A different Amon, a governor of a city, appears once in 1 Kings 22:26. The main story is in 2 Kings 21:19-26.

17 verses

1 Kings

1 Kings 22:26

And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

2 Kings

2 Kings 21:18

And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 21:19

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

2 Kings 21:20

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

2 Kings 21:21

And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

2 Kings 21:22

And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

2 Kings 21:23

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

2 Kings 21:24

And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

2 Kings 21:25

Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 21:26

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 33:21

Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:22

But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

2 Chronicles 33:23

And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

Ezra

Ezra 2:57

The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.

Zephaniah

Zephaniah 1:1

The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25).

(2.) The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down. Zephaniah (1:4; 3:4, 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king’s reign.

He was assassinated (2 Kings 21:18-26: 2 Chr. 33:20-25) by his own servants, who conspired against him.

(3.) An Egyptian god, usually depicted with a human body and the head of a ram, referred to in Jer. 46:25, where the word “multitudes” in the Authorized Version is more appropriately rendered “Amon” in the Revised Version. In Nah. 3:8 the expression “populous No” of the Authorized version is rendered in the Revised Version “No-amon.” Amon is identified with Ra, the sun-god of Heliopolis.

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(4.) Neh. 7:59.

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

Amon

(builder).

(1.) One of Ahab’s governors. (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25)

(2.) King of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh, reigned two years, from B.C. 642 to 640. Amon devoted himself wholly to the service of false gods, but was killed in a conspiracy, and was succeeded by his son Josiah.

Amon

(the mysterious), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in that of No-amon. (Nahum 3:8) Amen was one of the eight gods of the first order and chief of the triad of Thebes. He was worshipped at that city as Amen-Ra, or "Amen the Sun."