Then the people of the land struck down all those who conspired against King Amon. The people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
As soon as the kingdom was firmly his, he killed his servants, those who struck down his father King Joash.
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah when he was sixteen years old.
And his servants plotted against him, and they killed him in his palace.
And Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he was king for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in the place of his father in Jerusalem.
And you will not take a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death.
So you will not defile the land which you are in, because blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.