2 Kings 21:19-25

New Century Version

Amon King of Judah

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was king for two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz, who was from Jotbah. ²⁰ Amon did what the Lord said was wrong, as his father Manasseh had done. 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.