2 Kings 21:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:20 : 20 And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.
  • 2 Kgs 14:19 : 19 Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
  • 2 Chr 33:24-25 : 24 And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house. 25 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.
  • 1 Kgs 15:27 : 27 And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.
  • 1 Kgs 16:9 : 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.
  • 2 Kgs 15:25 : 25 And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place.
  • 2 Kgs 15:30 : 30 And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.

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  • 2 Chr 33:20-25
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    20So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

    21Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.

    22He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

    23He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

    24And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

    25But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 21:24-26
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    24But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.

    25Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    26He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 21:18-22
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    75%

    18So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.

    19Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

    20He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

    21He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

    22Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21
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    75%

    20And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

    21And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 25:3
    72%

    3Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.

  • 2 Chr 24:25-27
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    72%

    25And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

    26Those who made designs against him were Zabad, the son of Shimeath, an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, the son of Shimrith, a Moabite woman.

    27Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    72%

    5Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

  • 2 Chr 25:27
    72%

    27Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.

  • 1 Chr 3:14
    70%

    14Amon his son, Josiah his son.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
    69%

    30And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    69%

    15So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.

  • 2 Kgs 14:19
    69%

    19Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.

  • 2 Chr 24:21-23
    3 verses
    69%

    21But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.

    22So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

    23Now in the spring, the army of the Aramaeans came up against him; they came against Judah and Jerusalem, putting to death all the great men of the people and sending all the goods they took from them to the king of Damascus.

  • 1 Sam 22:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.

    17Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

  • 2 Sam 13:28-29
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    68%

    28Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

    29So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.

  • 2 Chr 22:8
    67%

    8Now when Jehu was effecting the punishment of the family of Ahab, he came to the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, the servants of Ahaziah, and put them to death.

  • 2 Chr 23:20
    67%

    20Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 21:13
    67%

    13But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
    66%

    16So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    66%

    25And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.

  • 1 Kgs 16:10
    66%

    10And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 11:20
    66%

    20So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 35:24
    66%

    24So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

  • 2 Chr 21:4
    66%

    4Now when Jehoram had taken his place over his father's kingdom, and had made his position safe, he put all his brothers to death with the sword, as well as some of the princes of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
    65%

    4And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
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    17And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

  • 2 Chr 22:10
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    10Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom of Judah put to death.

  • Matt 22:6
    65%

    6And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

  • 1 Chr 19:1
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    1Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, and his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
    65%

    1And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

  • Jer 26:23
    65%

    23And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    65%

    32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.