This conspiracy may have been due to the popular reaction against the extreme idolatry that the young king had established.

The servants of Amon — that is, according to the common use of the phrase, his courtiers or palace officials. Nothing further is k…

And the servants of Amon conspired against him
Some of his domestic servants, and perhaps his courtiers, not on acco…

Amon profaned God's house with his idols; and God permitted his house to be polluted with his blood. However unrighteous those who did it were, God…