Key Verse Spotlight
2 Chronicles 33:21 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Amon {was} two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 33:21
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
His prayer also, and {how God} was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they {are} written among the sayings of the seers. {the seers: or, Hosai}
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Amon {was} two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
But he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. {trespassed more and more: Heb. multiplied trespass}
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