Son of Menashe; became king at 22 and reigned only 2 years (2 Kings 21:19)
2 Kings 21:20–21 — 'he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah, as his father Menashe did... and walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them'
2 Kings 21:22 — pointedly, 'he forsook Yah... and walked not in the way of Yah'; unlike his father in 2 Chronicles 33, scripture records no act of humbling for Amon — he inherited his father's idolatry without his father's eventual repentance, and 2 Chronicles 33:21–23 records no Chronicles-only repentance for him either
His own servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house (2 Kings 21:23, 2 Chronicles 33:24)
'The people of the land' (am ha'aretz) killed all the conspirators and made his young son Yoshiyahu king in his place (2 Kings 21:24) — the same phrase that will describe Yoshiyahu's own accession
Buried in the garden of Uzza, alongside his father Menashe (2 Kings 21:18, 26)
Named in Matthew 1:10 (as 'Amon')
“He did not humble himself before Yah, as Menashe his father had humbled himself — and his own servants struck him down within two years”
Traditional note: The meaning of 'Amon' is genuinely uncertain and this dataset does not resolve it: it may derive from the Hebrew root '-m-n ('to be firm, faithful'), or it may echo the Egyptian deity Amun (cf. the element in pharaonic names such as 'Tutankhamun') — a striking possibility, if so, given that this is the son of the most syncretistic king in Yehudah's history. 1 Kings 22:26 records an unrelated 'Amon, governor of the city' under Achav — a different person of the same name. The contrast between Menashe's eventual repentance (2 Chronicles 33:12–13) and Amon's complete absence of one is one of this dataset's clearest illustrations that scripture treats repentance as a real, individual choice even within one family line.
