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Rh and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the, as did Manasseh his father: and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. And he humbled not himself before the, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

19. in the history of Hozai] Render, in the history of the seers; cp. mg. and LXX., slightly emending the Hebrew text. To take the Heb. word (ḥōzai) as a proper name is unsuitable, since the same word occurs as a common noun ("seers") in the preceding verse.

20. in his own house] i.e. as in 2 Kin. "in the garden of his own house."

21—25 (= 2 Kin. xxi. 19—26).&emsp;

21. in Jerusalem] The Chronicler omits here the name of Amon's mother; cp. ver. 1.

23. And he humbled not himself] This verse is not in Kings.

trespassed] Render, became guilty (so mg.); cp. xix. 10, xxiv. 18, xxviii. 10, 13.

25. slew] Render, smote. The Hebrew word suggests that there was a conflict between the people and the conspirators.

XXXIV. 1, 2 (= 2 Kin. xxii. 1, 2).&emsp;

Of Josiah only good is recorded in Kings: "he did that which was right in the eyes of the, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left" (2 Kin.