2 Chronicles 33:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:19-24 : 19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. 21 He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant; 22 Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways. 23 And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house. 24 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.
  • 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Jas 4:13-15 : 13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. 15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:18-26
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    18So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.

    19Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

    20He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

    21He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

    22Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

    23And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.

    24But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.

    25Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    26He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 33:22-25
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    83%

    22He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

    23He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

    24And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

    25But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 33:20
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    20So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 21:5
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    5Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Kgs 14:1-2
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    74%

    1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

    2He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:1
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    1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 27:8
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    8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

  • 2 Chr 25:1
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    1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 3:14
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    14Amon his son, Josiah his son.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51
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    51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

  • 2 Chr 22:1-2
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    1And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

    2Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

  • 2 Chr 36:5
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    5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

  • 2 Chr 34:1
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    1Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:17
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    17He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:25-26
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    25In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

    26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 21:20
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    20He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

  • 2 Chr 36:2
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    2Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

  • 2 Chr 36:11
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    11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:1-2
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    1In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

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  • 2 Kgs 11:21
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  • 1 Kgs 16:29
    70%

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  • 2 Kgs 21:1-2
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    69%

    1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 28:1
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  • 2 Kgs 14:23
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  • 2 Chr 25:25
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  • 2 Kgs 3:1
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  • 2 Kgs 16:2
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  • 2 Kgs 15:33
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  • 2 Kgs 14:17
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  • 2 Kgs 23:31-32
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