2 Kings 21:23

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 12:20 : 20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
  • 2 Kgs 14:19 : 19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
  • 2 Chr 33:24-25 : 24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. 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.
  • 1 Kgs 15:27 : 27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
  • 1 Kgs 16:9 : 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
  • 2 Kgs 15:25 : 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
  • 2 Kgs 15:30 : 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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  • 2 Chr 33:20-25
    6 verses
    93%

    20So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

    21Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

    22But 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;

    23And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

    24And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

    25But 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 Kgs 21:24-26
    3 verses
    86%

    24And 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.

    25Now 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?

    26And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 21:18-22
    5 verses
    75%

    18And 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.

    19Amon 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.

    20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

    21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

    22And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

    21For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Chr 25:3
    72%

    3Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

  • 2 Chr 24:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

    26And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

    27Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    72%

    5And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.

  • 2 Chr 25:27
    72%

    27Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.

  • 1 Chr 3:14
    70%

    14Amon his son, Josiah his son.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
    69%

    30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    69%

    15So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

  • 2 Kgs 14:19
    69%

    19Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

  • 2 Chr 24:21-23
    3 verses
    69%

    21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

    22Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

    23And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

  • 1 Sam 22:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

    17And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 13:28-29
    2 verses
    68%

    28Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

    29And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.

  • 2 Chr 22:8
    67%

    8And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.

  • 2 Chr 23:20
    67%

    20And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 21:13
    67%

    13But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
    66%

    16And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    66%

    25And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

  • 1 Kgs 16:10
    66%

    10And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 11:20
    66%

    20And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 35:24
    66%

    24His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

  • 2 Chr 21:4
    66%

    4Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
    65%

    4Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    65%

    17And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

  • 2 Chr 22:10
    65%

    10But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.

  • Matt 22:6
    65%

    6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

  • 1 Chr 19:1
    65%

    1Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
    65%

    1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

  • Jer 26:23
    65%

    23And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    65%

    32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.