2 Kings 21:24
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the common people executed all those who had conspired against King Amon and made his son Josiah king in his place.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But afterward, the people of the land executed everyone who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land installed his son Josiah to be king in his place.

NET Bible (©2006)
The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the people of the land killed everyone who had plotted against King Amon. They made his son Josiah king in his place.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And 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.

American King James Version
And 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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.

Darby Bible Translation
But the people of the land smote all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And 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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead.

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 24. - And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against King Amon. We certainly, therefore, cannot attribute Amon's murder to a popular reaction against his idolatries. Everything unites to prove that the foreign worships were in favor with the people at this period, and that the kings who patronized them were more generally popular than those who pursued the opposite course. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. The prestige of the house of David was still strong. The conspirators may have intended a change of dynasty; but the mass of the people could not contemplate with equanimity the occupation of the throne by a stranger - one not of David's house. They there, in a tumultuary manner, having punished the conspirators with death, sought out the true heir, and, having found him, though he was a boy of but eight years of age, placed him upon his father's throne (comp. 2 Chronicles 33:25).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against King Amon,.... On occasion of his death, there seems to have been an insurrection of the people in a body, to avenge the death of their king, who might be beloved on account of his idolatry, so depraved was the nation; or it may be only to avenge his death because he was their king, whose life these men ought not to have taken away: and the rather this may be thought to be the reason by what follows:

and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead; who had been prophesied of by name above three hundred years before, see 1 Kings 13:2.

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Amon's Evil Reign in Judah
…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. 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?

2 Kings 14:5 After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
2 Kings 21:25 As for the other events of Amon's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
Jeremiah 1:2 The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,