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Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.

But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.

He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.