place_of_death amon of judah
Amon of Judah ( Hebrew :       ; Greek :  ; Latin : Amon ) was a 7th - century BC King of Judah who , according to the biblical account , succeeded his father Manasseh of Judah . Amon is ___MASK53___ remembered for his idolatrous practices while king , which led to a revolt against him and eventually his assassination in c . 641 BC . Manasseh (" Mnaššeh " ) was a king of the Kingdom of Judah . He was the only son of Hezekiah with Hephzibah . He became king at the age of 12 and reigned for 55 years . Edwin Thiele has concluded that he commenced his reign as co - regent with his father Hezekiah in 697 / 696 BC , with his sole reign beginning in 687 / 686 BC and continuing until his death in 643 / 642 BC . William F . Albright has dated his reign from 687  642 BC . The Kingdom of Judah (" Mamlekhet Yehudh ") was an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant . The Hebrew Bible depicts it as the successor to a United Monarchy , but historians are divided about the veracity of this account . In the 10th and early 9th centuries BCE the territory of Judah appears to have been sparsely populated , limited to small rural settlements , ___MASK53___ of them unfortified . ___MASK98___ , the kingdom ' s capital , likely did not emerge as a significant administrative centre until the end of the 8th century , prior to this archaeological evidence suggests its population was too small to sustain a viable kingdom . In the 7th century its population increased greatly , prospering under Assyrian vassalage ( despite Hezekiah ' s revolt against the Assyrian king Sennacherib ), but in 605 the Assyrian Empire was defeated , and the ensuing competition between the Twenty - sixth Dynasty of Egypt and the Neo - Babylonian Empire for control of the Eastern Mediterranean led to the destruction of the kingdom in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582 , the deportation of the elite of the community , and the incorporation of Judah into a province of the Neo - Babylonian Empire . Hezekiah was , according to the Hebrew Bible , the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah . Archaeologist Edwin Thiele has concluded that his reign was between c . 715 and 686 BC . He is considered a very righteous king by the author of the Book of Kings . He is also one of the ___MASK53___ prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew .