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In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz the king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash the king of Judah reigned.

He was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not like his father David; he did according to all that his father Joash did;

however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.

And it happened, when the kingdom was strong in his hand, he struck his servants, those who struck his father, the king.

But he did not cause to die the sons of those who struck him , as it is written in the book of the Law of Moses that Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers are not to be caused to die for thesons, and the sons are not to be caused to die for the fathers, but each shall be caused to die for his own sin.