Amon

Amon, son of Manasseh, became king at twenty-two and reigned only two years in Jerusalem. 2 Kings 21:20-22 records that 'he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them. He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.' The Chronicler adds that 'he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more' (2 Chronicles 33:23). His servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house. The 'people of the land,' however — the broader populace of Judah, who repeatedly act as defenders of the Davidic line in these chapters — killed all who had conspired against the king and made his son Josiah king in his place (2 Kings 21:24). Amon was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza beside his father. He stands in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:10), but his reign is the brief unredeemed shadow between Manasseh's late repentance and Josiah's reform.