KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Chronicles 33:20–21
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2 Chronicles 33:20
20¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
20¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his owne house: and Amon his sonne reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 33:21
21¶ Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
21¶ *Amon was two and twentie yeeres old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned two yeares in Ierusalem.
- 2.Kin. 21.19. &c.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Chronicles 33:20
Rested in sleep; or by figure lay in death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To reign: to rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Place or position; in the stead of means in the place of.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
DEFINED WORDS
2 Chronicles 33:21
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Advanced in age; having existed a long time; former or belonging to an earlier time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority; also the period or exercise of such rule.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To reign: to rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 20
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Open the full verse study10And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
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Open the full verse study14Amon his son, Josiah his son.
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Open the full verse study33And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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Open the full verse study18And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
19¶ Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.
21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
23¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24And 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.
25Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study1MANASSEH was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
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Open the full verse study19¶ Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.
21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
23¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24And 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.
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Open the full verse study13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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Open the full verse study19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
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