King Amon (Judah)

Amon son of Manasseh became king of Judah at 22 and reigned two years in Jerusalem (2 Kings 21:19–26). He continued the idol worship of his father's long reign; 2 Chronicles 33:23 adds pointedly that, unlike Manasseh, "he did not humble himself before the Lord." His own servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

Then "the people of the land," the landowning citizens of Judah who more than once stepped in to protect the house of David, executed the conspirators and crowned his eight-year-old son Josiah. Amon was buried, like his father, in the garden of Uzza. The coup that might have ended the dynasty instead brought to the throne the king who would carry out the most sweeping religious reform in Judah's history.