And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
Amon of Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the same evil course as his father Manasseh. That evil was Manasseh's rebuilding of the high places, rearing up altars for Baal, worshiping all the host of heaven, making his son pass through the fire, observing times, using enchantments, dealing with familiar spirits and wizards, seducing Judah to do more evil than the nations the LORD destroyed, and shedding innocent blood very much until Jerusalem was filled from one end to another. Both son and father were wicked, yet despite his evil Manasseh also received God's mercy. Amon became king after his father Manasseh died, after Manasseh had been seized by the captains of the king of Assyria and carried bound to Babylon and afterward released.
He stands in the succession of the kings of Judah after Manasseh and before the good reformer Josiah, with Manasseh as Josiah's grandfather and Amon as his father, in the longer succession from Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah or Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah to Jehoahaz. His servants conspired against him and slew him in his own house, and the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against him and made his son Josiah king in his stead. His reign is one of the wicked and weak reigns of the kings of Judah that close the books of Kings, standing in contrast to the one bright chapter of the reformation conducted under the good king Josiah. Manasseh and Amon led Judah into heathenism, and Josiah's piety arose despite that idolatrous family and national setting.
The verse belongs to the nearly 300-year period covered by 2 Kings 7-23, contemporary with the prophesying in Judah of Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah and Nahum. It exhibits Judah's spotted record in which after prosperity under righteous faithful rulers the kingdom prospered, yet rulers turned from God to the grossest idolatry and brought calamity upon themselves and their people.
Amon of Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the same evil course as his father Manasseh. That evil was Manasseh's rebuilding of the high places, rearing up altars for Baal, worshiping all the host of heaven, making his son pass through the fire, observing times, using enchantments, dealing with familiar spirits and wizards, seducing Judah to do more evil than the nations the LORD destroyed, and shedding innocent blood very much until Jerusalem was filled from one end to another. Both son and father were wicked, yet despite his evil Manasseh also received God's mercy. Amon became king after his father Manasseh died, after Manasseh had been seized by the captains of the king of Assyria and carried bound to Babylon and afterward released.
He stands in the succession of the kings of Judah after Manasseh and before the good reformer Josiah, with Manasseh as Josiah's grandfather and Amon as his father, in the longer succession from Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah or Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah to Jehoahaz. His servants conspired against him and slew him in his own house, and the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against him and made his son Josiah king in his stead. His reign is one of the wicked and weak reigns of the kings of Judah that close the books of Kings, standing in contrast to the one bright chapter of the reformation conducted under the good king Josiah. Manasseh and Amon led Judah into heathenism, and Josiah's piety arose despite that idolatrous family and national setting.
The verse belongs to the nearly 300-year period covered by 2 Kings 7-23, contemporary with the prophesying in Judah of Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah and Nahum. It exhibits Judah's spotted record in which after prosperity under righteous faithful rulers the kingdom prospered, yet rulers turned from God to the grossest idolatry and brought calamity upon themselves and their people.