But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
You shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death.
And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his house.
And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.