2 Kings 21:23
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New International Version (©2011)
Amon's officials conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Amon's own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Amon's servants conspired against the king and killed him in his own house.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Later on, Amon's staff conspired against him and killed the king inside his own home.

NET Bible (©2006)
Amon's servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Amon's officials plotted against him and killed him in his palace.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

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

American Standard Version
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.

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

English Revised Version
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

World English Bible
The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

Young's Literal Translation
And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:19-26 Amon profaned God's house with his idols; and God suffered his house to be polluted with his blood. How unrighteous soever they were that did it, God was righteous who suffered it to be done. Now was a happy change from one of the worst, to one of the best of the kings of Judah. Once more Judah was tried with a reformation. Whether the Lord bears long with presumptuous offenders, or speedily cuts them off in their sins, all must perish who persist in refusing to walk in his ways.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - And the servants of Amon - i.e. his attendants, the officers of his court - conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. Conspiracies in the palace, frequent in Israel (see 1 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 9:32-37; 2 Kings 11:10, 25, 30), were not unknown in Judah (see 2 Kings 12:21). They naturally arose from various causes, as insults, injuries, hopes of advantage, ambition, etc. Where, as in the present case, no clue is given, it is idle to conjecture the motives by which the conspirators were actuated. Religious motives can scarcely have come into play.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the servants of Amon conspired against him,.... Some of his domestic servants, and perhaps his courtiers, not on account of his idolatry, but for some ill usage of them:

and slew the king in his own house: which they had an opportunity to do, being his servants.

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Amon's Evil Reign in Judah
…22And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. 23And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. 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. …

2 Kings 12:20 His officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.
2 Kings 14:19 They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.