📖WEB · 2 Kings 21:24
What does 2 Kings 21:24 mean?
"But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place."
— 2 Kings 21:24 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;
and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.
The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
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