2 Kings 21:23

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…

This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry which the young king had established.

The servants of Amon conspired - What their reason was for slaying their king we cannot tell. It does not seem to have been a popular act, for the people of the land rose up and slew the regicides. We…

Here is a short account of the short and inglorious reign of Amon, the son of Manasseh. Whether Manasseh, in his blind and brutish zeal for his idols, had sacrificed his other sons - or whether,…

the servants of Amon conspired against him The servants must be the court officers who were close about the king. The place where he was killed, -his own house", shews this, and the present…