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^(C1)In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, ^(C2)Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah became king.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like his father David; he acted in accordance with everything that his father Joash had done.

Only ^(C1)the high places were not eliminated; ^(C2)the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he ^(F1)(C1)killed his servants who had ^(F1)killed the king, his father.

But he did not put the sons of ^(F1)the murderers to death, in ^(F2)obedience to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, "^(C1)The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but ^(C2)each shall be put to death for his own sin."

He ^(F1)killed ten thousand of the Edomites in ^(C1)the Valley of Salt, and took ^(C2)Sela by war, and named it ^(C3)Joktheel, as it is to this day.

^(C1)Then Amaziah sent messengers to ^(F1)Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "^(C2)Come, let's face each other in combat."