John Gill Commentary 2 Kings 21:19

"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." — 2 Kings 21:19 (ASV)

And Amon was twenty two years old when he began to reign ,
&c.] Being born in the forty fifth of his father's life, and in the thirty third of his reign:

and he reigned two years in Jerusalem ;
which, as Abarbinel observes, was the usual time the sons of wicked kings reigned, and instances in the son of Jeroboam, Baasha, and Ahab, (1 Kings 15:25) (16:8) (22:51) . An Arabic writer ^F11 says, he reigned twelve years, but according to the Jews only two:

and his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of
Jotbah ;
there was a place called Jotbath, which was one of the stations of the children of Israel in the wilderness, (Numbers 33:33) (Deuteronomy 10:7) but it can scarcely be thought to be the same place.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F11: Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 67.