But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
Now all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Then his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house.
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.