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Manasseh, Amon and Josiah (16th century print) Amon of Judah [a] was the fifteenth King of Judah who, according to the biblical account, succeeded his father Manasseh of Judah. Amon is most remembered for his idolatrous practices during his short two-year reign, which led to a revolt against him and eventually to his assassination in c. 641 BC.
The genealogy of the kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel.. The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930 BCE, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel rejecting Rehoboam as their monarch, leaving him as solely the King of Judah.
Common/biblical NameAlbrightThieleGalilRehoboam Reigned for 17 years.922–915931–913931–914AbijahReigned for 3 years.915–913913–911914–911AsaReigned for 41 years.913–873911–870911–870JehoshaphatReigned for 25 years.873–849870–848870–845Josiah. Josiah ( / dʒoʊˈsaɪ.ə /) [1] [2] or Yoshiyahu [a] was the 16th King of Judah ( c. 640 –609 BCE). According to the Hebrew Bible, he instituted major religious reforms by removing official worship of gods other than Yahweh. Until the 1990s, the biblical description of Josiah’s reforms were usually considered to be more or less ...
AMON ăm’ ən ( אָמֹ֣ון or אָמֹ֣ן, Αμων, meaning true or faithful ). 1. The fifteenth king of Judah and successor of his father Manasseh. (Cf. 1 Chron 3:14; Matt 1:10 .) The brief accounts of this monarch’s short reign are in 2 Kings 21:18-26 and 2 Chronicles 33:20-25. His father Manasseh had been an exceptionally wicked ...
The Biblical accounts of Amon are found in 2 Kings, 21:18-26 and in 2 Chronicles 33:20-25; and he is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 3:14 among the descendants of King David. Elsewhere he is spoken of merely as the father of Josiah. He was the son of King Manasseh and of Meshullemeth, daughter of Haruz of Jotbah, and at the age of twenty-two ...
2 Chronicles 33:21-25. Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem. Nave's Topical Index. Zephaniah 1:1. The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
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