But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amon: and made Josias his son king in his stead.
Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.
Josias was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.
And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.
Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent. Neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.
You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood: but he shall die forthwith.
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.