2 Chronicles 33:24

Conspired against him. Amon seems to have been slain in a general uprising. Some think that the facts thus briefly recorded reflect a bitter conflict between a party of religious reform and one of religious reaction, in which the latter was worsted for the time being. Others believe that the murder of Amon was inspired by an anti-Assyrian group. The province of Samaria seems to have participated in an anti-Assyrian revolt at some time during the reign of Ashurbanipal (called “Asnaper” in Ezra 4:10), and to have been punished in the usual Assyrian manner by a transfer of citizens of rebellious states to other localities.